2008 Exemplars
Ta Falado: Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation and
Expanding the Classroom: Mobile Technologies for Construction Education
Named Gold Award Winners at IITAP 2008 Showcase
Dr. Orlando Kelm, with collabortors Valdo Oliveira, Michelle Lima, and Jose Luis Montiel won the Gold Award for Web-Based and Multimedia Learning. Dr. William O'Brien, with collaborators Christine Julien, Kathy Schmidt, Randall Hennig, and Thuy Nguyen won the Gold Award for Innovative Learning Environment for his project Expanding the Classroom: Mobile Technologies for Construction Education. Each award, worth $3000, was presented during UT Austin’s eleventh annual IITAP awards ceremony on April 23.
Awards totaling $10,000 were presented by Executive Vice President and Provost Steven Leslie to seven faculty members during the 2008 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 eight MacBook Pros and four MacBook Airs for use during the showcase.
The IITAP 2008 exemplars are:
Gold Award for Web-Based and Multimedia Learning — $3000
Ta Falado: Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation
http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/brazilpod/tafalado/
Dr. Orlando Kelm, Spanish and Portuguese
with Valdo Oliveira, Michelle Lima, and Jose Luis Montiel
Gold Award for Innovative Learning Environment — $3000
Expanding the Classroom: Mobile Technologies for Construction Education
Dr. William O'Brien, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
with Christine Julien, Kathy Schmidt, Randall Hennig, and Thuy Nguyen
Silver Award for Web-Based and Multimedia Learning — $2000
Reading Between the Lines/Lyre entre les lignes
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/rbtl/
Dr. Marc Bizer, French and Italian
with Sabrina Parent, Michael Heidenreich, John Leong, and Katharine Fields
Bronze Award for Web-Based and Multimedia Learning— $1000
Psychopathology in Action: A clinical diagnostic tool for students
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/psychopathologypractice/
Drs. Stephanie Rude and Aaron Rochlen, Educational Psychology
with Eric Beckinger, Zachary Bowman, and Derek Carlin
Bronze Award for Web-Based and Multimedia Learning— $1000
Sandstone Petrology: A Tutorial Petrographic Image Atlas
Dr. Kitty Milliken, Geosciences
with Suk-Joo Choh, Earle McBride, Petro Papazis, Luis Crespo, Tom Wiles, Ted Macrini, Lance Christian, and Kathleen Marsaglia
Special Recognition for Community Engagement in a Virtual World — $1000 Linden Dollars (in Second Life)
Raising the Bar: Using Second Life in an Interdisciplinary Communication Course
http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdce/grs/GRS390P.html
Dr. Leslie Jarmon, Graduate Studies
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).