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2004 Exemplars

Français Interactif and Virgil
Named Gold Award Winners at IITAP 2004 Showcase

Karen Kelton, Dr. Carl Blyth, and Dr. Nancy Guilloteau, with collaborator Eric Eubank won the Gold Award for Teaching with Technology for their project Français Interactif, and Dr. Lester Faigley and his Team Virgil won the Gold Award for Resource Development for Virgil: An Interactive Tutorial for Writers. Each award, worth $2000, was presented during UT Austin’s annual IITAP awards ceremony on November 10.

The IITAP judges this year decided to create a new category, the Best of IT Collaborative Award, for a project that began at MIT and then moved to the UT Austin campus with Dr. Anne Beamish: ArchNet.

Awards totaling $8500 were presented by Executive Vice President and Provost Sheldon Ekland-Olson to ten faculty members during the 2004 Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program showcase, celebrating their accomplishments on behalf of enhancing teaching and learning for their students. Special guest judge Dr. Joan Huntley, a state- and national-level consultant in instructional technologies, spoke about the influence of new technologies on education.

Apple Computer, Inc., a longtime supporter of instructional technologies at UT Austin, donated five iPods for the leading exemplars in this year's IITAP.

The IITAP 2004 exemplars are:

Gold Award for Teaching with Technology — $2000
Français Interactif
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/
Karen Kelton, Dr. Carl Blyth, and Dr. Nancy Guilloteau, French and Italian
with Eric Eubank

Gold Award for Resource Development — $2000
Virgil: An Interactive Tutorial for Writers
http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/virgil/
Dr. Lester Faigley and Team Virgil, Rhetoric and Composition
Team Virgil: Sully Ross, Shawn Rice, Nathan Baran, Katie Rush, Lauren Schultz, Stephen Robinson, Laura Speck, Joey Seiler, and Peter Siegesmund

Best of IT Collaborative Award — $1000
ArchNet: Collaborative Group Workspaces
http://archnet.org
Dr. Anne Beamish, Community and Regional Planning Program, School of Architecture
with Dr. Larry Speck, Patrick McCook, and Jeremiah Petersen

Silver Award for Teaching with Technology — $1000
Pressure Volume Temperature Simulation
Dr. Steven L. Bryant, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
with Emee Ermel, Mary Crawford, Matt Mangum, Amar Mabbu, Dan Peters, Bruce Mitchell, and Erik Zumalt

Silver Award for Resource Development — $1000
Polaris: The Online Portfolio Center
http://pf.engr.utexas.edu/
Dr. Matthew Campbell, Mechanical Engineering
with Dr. Kathy Schmidt, Dan Peters, and Matt Mangum

Bronze Award for Teaching with Technology — tie, with $500 to each
Flash-Based Tutorials in Drug Metabolism
http://www.utexas.edu/pharmacy/courses/phr452d/Main_Page.html
Dr. Patrick Davis, Division of Medicinal Chemistry
with Justin Briggle and Wayne Yeo
and
Interactive Laboratory Modules: Methodological Approaches to the Study of Primate Anatomy and Locomotion
Dr. Liza Shapiro, Anthropology
with Dr. David Raichlen

Bronze Award for Resource Development — $500
Virtual Consumer Research Group Participant Panel
http://adresearch.advertising.utexas.edu/survey/online_panel/main.html
Dr. Wei-Na Lee, Advertising
with Dr. Terry Daugherty

In the showcase category, Sharing What Works, three faculty members and development teams were recognized for teaching effectiveness through technology experimentation:

Ecology Courses (Biology 213 and 357) Web Pages
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio213/
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio357/
Eric Pianka, Integrative Biology

Managerial Accounting Ethics Project
Louise Single, Accounting
with William O'Hara

Technology Meets Business Education:
Teaching Students Marketing Research Techniques Through Online Interactive Interfaces
Frenkel Ter Hofstede, Marketing
with Satya Ramanathan and Prahlad Rao Enuganti

UT Austin faculty and faculty-student/staff teams were invited to enter innovative instructional experiences and/or materials that were developed specifically for UT Austin courses using emerging technologies. Submitted materials were judged by a panel of experts including faculty winners from previous IITAPs, experts in instructional design, and members of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

IITAP is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Instructional Technologies, part of the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment (DIIA).