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TAC Minigrant Recipients - 2006
	In the Spring of 2006, five faculty members were selected to participate in the Technology Across the Curriculum group's Technology-Integration Mini-Grant Program, each receiving a modest grant and the support of Instruction and Research Technology in taking on a technology-integration instructional project. Listed below are brief descriptions of each of their projects, with links to a brief Tegrity video presentation, in which each describes his or her project.
	Dr. Heejung An Heejung, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary/Early Childhood Education, took on the formidable challenge of envisioning and developing a web portal that would serve the needs of student teachers who are looking to incorporate educational technology in their teaching efforts, as well as the needs of faculty in the College of Education as they impart these technical skills upon future educators. With the assistance of some of her students, she has already come a long way toward making her vision a reality, as you'll see by viewing her tegrity presentation and browsing the WPU Ed-Tech Portal site.	(click here to view the presentation)


(click here to view the presentation)		Dr. Betty Kollia Betty, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders, worked with IRT's Broadcasting, Production, & Support Group to produce a DVD that will serve as an instructional aid in her courses, helping her students to understand communication deficits that can result from traumatic brain injuries.


	Dr. Dewar Macleod Dewar, an Assistant Professor in the History Department, used the TAC Minigrant as an opportunity to update and revamp his online American History courses, making the experience less linear and more interactive. By exploring more of Blackboard's functionality and seeking out additional online resources, he hopes to engender greater interest and more meaningful discussion with his online students.	(click here to view the presentation)


(click here to view the presentation)		Dr. Carole Sheffield A Professor in the departments of Political Science and Women's Studies, Carole Sheffield used the Tegrity video system to create a library of video clips of faculty members reading narratives, streaming them to her students and asking them to react and respond to those clips in subsequent writing assignments. This allows her to engage her students in a more effective and interactive manner than if she simply had them read the narratives, themselves. To learn more about Tegrity, the system that Carole used for her project and that all of the instructors in this article used to tell us about their individual TAC Minigrant projects, please contact Instructional Technologist Dr. Jaehyun Kim (kimj@wpunj.edu, x2937).


	Dr. Stanley Wollock For his TAC Minigrant, Professor Stanley Wollock took on the challenge of taking his extensive syllabus and course information packet, which he has developed and perfected over the years, and creating an interactive version of it that can be distributed to students through the Blackboard course management system. And in his efforts to further his knowledge of the Blackboard system, which he had not previously used to teach his courses, and to learn more about interactive syllabi, he attended the Spring 2006 Blackboard Institute. For more about this two-day Blackboard institute, just click here.	(click here to view the presentation)