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IITAP entries

The Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program, sponsored by CIT and the Office of the Provost, has attracted a rich and diverse array of entries. Below is a sampling of award winners and worthy contenders.

“Cantar de mio Cid” Web Site
IITAP 2002 award winners Drs. Matthew Bailey and Jabier Elorrieta from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese developed the Cid Web site, which includes an original, oral rendition of the 3,735-verse Spanish epic poem in twelfth-century Castilian, digitized images of the Cid’s unique manuscript, paleographic and normative transcriptions, and an English translation. This site provides an interactive educational tool that allows students to experience the poem orally, in its traditional medium.

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung
Prof. John Weinstock of the Department of Germanic Studies won a 2002 IITAP award for "Making the Unwieldy Manageable: Teaching Wagner’s Ring Motives Via the Web & CD-ROM." Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is indeed a monumental work of art. Students can listen to all 200 motives again and again and learn how they fit together into larger families of motives. A copy of the CD-ROM version is available in the CIT lab.

Biochemistry in Hand
An IITAP 2002 award winner, Prof. G. Barrie Kitto of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has provided interactive materials on inexpensive, high-capacity CD-ROM. The CD “Biochemistry in Hand”, which he and his team have developed, allows for direct manipulation of 3D molecular models of biomolecules in near-real time, using data sets that are often several megabytes in size. A copy of this CD-ROM is available in the CIT lab.

Computers and Programming
Prof. Billy Koen of the Mechanical Engineering Department and his collaborator Kathy Schmidt from the College of Engineering's Faculty Innovation Center won an IITAP 2001 award for ME 205, Computers and Programming, a Web-based implementation of the classic Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) in a freshman computer course.

Elementary Mechanics of Fluids
An IITAP 2001 award winner, Dr. Spyros Kinnas of the Department of Civil Engineering guided a group of students to produce a large collection of interactive Java applets for CE 319F, Elementary Mechanics of Fluids, which expose students to to realistic simulations of various fluid phenomena.

Worlds Fair
The IITAP 2000 award-winning Worlds Fair from Peg Syverson of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition engages students in a collaborative construction of the site itself, with factual and fictional components not bound to a single course, instructor, semester, or even single institution.

Tex's French Grammar
An engaging resource for French grammar, Texas-style, complete with beret-sporting armadillo named Tex and his girlfriend Tammy—and Bette, the sex kitten bent on destroying their love. In addition to this menage á trois, the cast of characters include Edouard, a pretentious French snail, Joe-Bob, a dim-witted squirrel from College Station, and Corey, a cockroach who prefers getting high and watching the X-Files on TV to doing his French homework. Bon voyage! through this user-friendly reference with interactive excercises.

An Interactive Web Site for Jazz Appreciation
One of three winners of the 1999 IITAP awards, the site provides a context for materials which cannot be presented in class. Explore with the username jazz and the password bebop.

The Renaissance Muse
This interactive Web site for practicing the analysis of French Renaissance verse offers rich resources to related cultural material, the opportunity to build an analysis through responses to specific questions, streaming audio so students can hear the effects of rhythm and alliteration, and finally the opportunity to revise the analysis.

The eSkeletons Project
Enabling you to view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon and gather data from an osteology database, this Web site also offers joint animations and a self-testing area, as well as auxillary instructional resources.

Hebrew Language at the University of Texas at Austin
Another winner of the 1999 IITAP awards. The instructional package integrates textbooks, computer tutorials, short movies, and interviews with a wide variety of Hebrew speakers, all of them original and authentic.

Tornadoes Module
This media-rich Web site is best viewed on a computer with a UT campus network or other high-bandwidth connection. Produced by Daniel Benner with weatherman and UT Geography Department instructor Troy Kimmel, it provides an introduction to the basic principles of radar and satellite used as remote sensing tools in meteorology, and to the atmospheric conditions important in tornado production. Included are two well-known tornado case studies, complete with dramatic streaming video.

First Year French @UT Austin
First-place winner of 1997 IITAP awards. Includes interactive Web grammar drills, Web exercises, description of course CD, RealAudio resources, and course syllabi.