2007 Exemplars
Danteworlds: Purgatory and Paradise and
Building Mass and Energy Balances (BMEB): A Multi-Level Web-based Educational Tool
Named Gold Award Winners at IITAP 2007 Showcase
Dr. Guy Raffa, with collaborators Gary Dickerson and Suloni Robertson won the Gold Award for Teaching with Technology for his project Danteworlds: Purgatory and Paradise. Drs. Richard Corsi and Jeffrey Siegel, with collabortors Dinh David, Randy Henning, Matt Mangum, Kathy Schmidt, Michael Waring, Jeong-won Woo, Hyo-Jin Yoon, and Erik Zumalt won the Gold Award for Resource Development for Building Mass and Energy Balances (BMEB): A Multi-Level Web-based Educational Tool. Each award, worth $2500, was presented during UT Austin’s tenth annual IITAP awards ceremony on April 24.
Awards totaling $10,000 were presented by Executive Vice President and Provost Steven Leslie to seven faculty members during the 2007 Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program showcase, celebrating their accomplishments on behalf of enhancing teaching and learning for their students.
Apple Inc., a longtime supporter of instructional technologies at UT Austin, donated ten iPods for the finalists in this year's IITAP, as well as fifteen MacBook Pros for use during the showcase.
Other DIIA corporate partners and supporters have also offered incentives to IITAP winners. Each Gold Award winner received a Hewlett Packard Photosmart R727 digital camera, and all IITAP entrants received a free registration package from the New Media Consortium for their series of online conferences.
The IITAP 2007 exemplars are:
Gold Award for Teaching with Technology — $2500
Danteworlds: Purgatory and Paradise
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
Dr. Guy Raffa, French and Italian
with Suloni Robertson and Gary Dickerson
Gold Award for Resource Development — $2500
Building Mass and Energy Balances (BMEB): A Multi-Level Web-based Educational Tool
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/bmeb/
Drs. Richard Corsi and Jeffrey Siegel, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
with Dinh David, Randy Henning, Matt Mangum, Kathy Schmidt, Michael Waring, Jeong-won Woo, Hyo-Jin Yoon and Erik Zumalt
Silver Award for Teaching with Technology — $1500
An Instructional Technology Scaffold for Reinforcing Learning of Probability and Statistics
https://courses.utexas.edu/
Dr. Mia Markey, Biomedical Engineering
with James Byrne, Seth Hays, Steven Ma, Hyunjin Shin, and Kathy Schmidt
Silver Award for Resource Development — $1500
The Learning Record
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr
Dr. Margaret Syverson, Division of Rhetoric and Composition
with Bill Wolff
Bronze Award for Teaching with Technology — $1000
The Daily Intelligencer: Critical Thinking and Methods of Interpretation
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/di/
Dr. Steve Friesen, Classics
with Douglas Boin, Cristinia Escutia, Daniel Garza, Peter Keane, Theo Mills, Jose Luiz Olivares, Suloni Robertson, and Joe TenBarge
Bronze Award for Resource Development — $1000
French Verbs are Accessible!
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/jnl
Dr. Jane Lippmann, French and Italian
with Chris Lilly
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 Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment (DIIA).