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Dr. Stephen Vail
Using Macromedia Dreamwever, a popular web editor that is available and supported for faculty use on campus, Professor Stephen Vail, of the Biology department, has created an informative web site about tick-borne diseases that demonstrates how technology can enable us to more effectively convey important information to the public. This site contains important information about tick-borne diseases that can help educate not only the visitors of the Morristown National Historical Park, which the site was created for, but anyone who likes to spend time outdoors in this region. Check it this great web site at: http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/tickinfo/.
And to learn more about Dreamweaver, and find out how you can create your own web sites, please refer to IRT's Faculty Technology Curriculum web site: http://www.wpunj.edu/irt/ftc.
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Dr. Maria Tajes
Also making use of web pages to convey and market information to the public is Maria Tajes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures. Visitors to her department's web site who might be interested in learning foreign languages abroad can view pictures from the Summer 2007 trip and find out how to reach Maria and her department's Chair, Dr. Octavio Delasuaree, to learn more about the program in time for next summer's upcoming Span Abroad trip.
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Dr. Rajiv Kashyap
Rajiv Kashyap, Associate Professor and Chair of the Marketing and Management Sciences department, recently purchased an additional license for Tegrity Classroom 2.0, offering his department even greater and more ready access to this multimedia streaming tool than they already had through IRT's licensing of the software. With Tegrity, faculty members can easily create audio and video presentations that can be streamed to students wherever they have access to the internet.
To learn more about Tegrity, and about how it can help make your classes more interactive and engaging, contact IRT 973-720-2659 or at irtinfo@wpunj.edu
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Dr. Joan Fry
Joan Fry, of the Department of Exercise and Movement Sciences, also made use of multimedia clips in her classes, including videos that helped illustrate the teaching of such physical education activities as volleyball and basketball. But rather than use Tegrity, Joan visited the Center for Instruction and Research Technology, in room 113 of the Atrium, and was assisted in using iMovie to capture short clips from instructional DVDs and to convert them to a format that could easily be uploaded to Blackboard and shared with the students in her classes.
To learn more about how you could make such use of iMovie, you can either check out the Faculty Technology Curriculum web site, at http://www.wpunj.edu/irt/ftc, or come by and visit us in the newly-opened Center for Instruction and Research Technology (http://www.wpunj.edu/irt/cirt/). Feel free to stop by during our open house (October 1 - 5, 2007) or whenever else you might have time to learn about the various technologies we in IRT can assist you with.
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Dr. Terry Finnegan
Offering up a third way in which multimedia clips can be used to enhance our teaching efforts, Professor Terry Finnegan, of the History department, used a multimedia encoding program called Audacity to take existing sound files and compress them into MP3s that could be easily uploaded and shared with his students via Blackboard. Using this method, he was able to convert what had been prohibitively large sound files into much more manageable sizes with little-to-no loss of quality.
To learn more about how you, too, can make used of such technologies to enhance your classes, contact IRT 973-720-2659 or at irtinfo@wpunj.edu.
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Dr. Stephen Marcone
Stephen Marcone, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Communication, had a different, but equally important, kind of technological need that many of us are familiar with: assessment. Faced with the need to gather data from his college's faculty members regarding their evaluation of the job of the dean's office, Dr. Marcone made use of Zoomerang, an online surveying tool that made it easy to disseminate the questions, gather anonymous responses, and collect the resulting data. And while the response rate was already pretty good, he came away from the experience with some thoughts on how to improve upon that rate even further should another opportunity arise to use this method of conducting online surveys.
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Dr. Kate Makarec
Kate Makarec, Chair of the Psychology Department, was elected to that position using another surveying tool: the one built into Blackboard. Not needing quite so robust a survey tool as Zoomerang, but equally concerned about the anonymity of the results, the Psychology Department decided that Blackboard offered the easiest-to-use and most familiar environment in which to hold their election. And so with IRT's assistance, a Blackboard course shell was created that could be used specifically for the purposes of this departmental election.
To learn more about how to make similar use of Blackboard's assessment tools, whether it be for departmental use or in a more traditional classroom environment, contact any of IRT's Academic Technologists. Their contact information and availability information can be found by going to http://www.wpunj.edu/irt/atcalendar/.
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