The 2005 ~FAST Tex projects
College of Education

Title:
Developing Design Learning Activities

Faculty Client:
Liu Min, mliu@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developers:
Lucas Horton
Hyeseung Chang

Project Description:
Lacing Web-based instructional products to use for a class in which students examine and understand the designs and strategies for new media to develop better products for teaching and learning, Dr. Liu sought to create a product to show examples of excellent design. After she sent her class to Central Market, a well-designed grocery store, to film areas in the store that embody the characteristics of good design, ~FAST Tex helped her put the videos online.

Title:
Interactive Website for Learning to Teach Elementary Mathematics

Faculty Client:
Susan Empson, empson@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developer:
Peter Siegesmund

Project Description:
To solve the problem of supporting rich, evidence-based discussions among groups of 20-25 students who are learning to teach math to elementary students, the project developed an Interactive Student Work Gallery that facilitates discussion by aggregating and displaying detailed examples of children's problem solving. The technology is necessary to help manage, display, and store children's work and other course ideas.

Title:
Digital Microscope Tutorial Web Page

Faculty Client:
Julie Jackson, Julie_Jackson@teachnet.edb.utexas.edu

Student Developer:
Jaladhi Pujara

Project Description:
Continued from 2004, the project enhances instruction in science methods courses by creating illustrated, detailed tutorials to support learning how to use a Digiscope 150 digital microscope.

Title:
Graphical Results Display and Custom Feedback for Self/Peer/Project Assessment System

Faculty Client:
Paul Resta, resta@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developers:
Kartik Sankar
David Kim

Project Description:
The project added two significant features to an existing peer assessment system also supported by the College of Education’s IDEA Studio.

The first feature is a graphical display of assessment results compiled from self- and peer-assessment data in the form of bar graphs that show students how their performance, as perceived by themselves and by others, stacks up with the other members of the class.

The second feature is an automatic display of standard feedback messages designed by the instructor. For example, a student who receives low scores on “Delivers work on time” from teammates might receive a feedback message with advice on time management and links to online resources on the topic.

Title:
Incorporating Learning Tools and Adding Resources to Instructor Web Sites

Faculty Client:
Daniel Robinson, dan.robinson@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developer:
Alex Games

Project Description:
The project provided assistance with developing course Web pages that incorporate learning tools and resources so that students can access links to content via one Web site for the course. The project is a follow-up to a project funded in 2000: Creating Course Web Pages for EDP 371 and ALD 320. ~FAST Tex added an Excel-based notetaking tool that was developed with the help of the College of Education’s IDEA Studio as well as other instructional resources.

Title:
Isight Cameras in Foreign and Second Language Tutorials

Faculty Client:
David Schwarzer, sdavid@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developer:
Tan-Wen Hou

Project Description:
In collaboration with the College of Education’s IDEA Studio, the project helped in developing online tutorials using iSight cameras, with the goal of providing a simple way to record tutorials and put together a Web resource of technical and pedagogical tools needed for the online tutorials.

Title:
Interactive Evaluation of Naval ROTC Training Program

Faculty Client:
M. Dixie Stanforth, d.stanforth@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developer:
Michael Werckle

Project Description:
In support of a Naval ROTC (NROTC) Program that performs a nationally mandated series of 14 exercises offering a platform for analysis in a structured setting, the project developed a highly interactive gaming- and learning theory-based assessment application that simulates the role kinesiology students will play as exercise instructors. Last season, ~FAST Tex completed a detailed design document and screen design examples for the first phase of this project.

Title:
Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement: Phase 2

Faculty Client:
Lawrence Abraham, l.abraham@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developer:
Ashot Petrosian

Project Description:
To enrich courses in biomechanical analysis of human movement by including real examples, an ideal approach is to use digital video clips, which students can study repeatedly at any speed, including stop-action. This project, also supported by the College of Education’s IDEA Studio, built on last season’s work to add features and functionality, the video library, and enhance usability.

Title:
Virtual Manipulatives for Mathematics Learning: Version 2

Faculty Client:
Helen Taylor Martin, taylormartin@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developers:
Ashot Petrosian
Aaron Russell

Project Description:
In elementary mathematics, using hands-on objects is a great way to model and develop ideas. Research has shown that virtual manipulatives are as useful as physical ones in allowing teachers to easily display their own and their students' mathematical problem solving. For this ongoing, multi-phased project, the ~FAST Tex students refined manipulatives for number operations and fractions.

Title:
The Development of Expertise in Science and Mathematics Education

Faculty Client:
Anthony Petrosino, ajpetrosino@mail.utexas.edu

Student Developers:
Michelle Green
Tarang Mittal

Project Description:
This project required collecting and editing video clips of experts and novices solving problems in mathematics and science to be streamed online, coupled with a quiz-builder tool developed in-house.