2007 projects and presenters
ITS Applications
Telling Stories with Enterprise Web Tools
You've invested a lot in making your Web resources engaging, effective, and accessible. What stories can you tell about your Web site and whether you were successful? See examples of enterprise web tools and the stories they tell about your well crafted Web resources.
https://www.utexas.edu/web/analytics/
https://www.utexas.edu/web/qa/
Jackson School of Geosciences
UTCT and DigiMorp
The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility is a world-famous laboratory for capturing 3D imagery showing the interiors of solid objects, including rare, one of a kind natural history specimens like fossils, meteorites and artifacts. UTCT also maintains an active research program in developing new ways to visualize and take measurements from volumetric data. DigiMorph, a National Science Foundation Digital Library, is a dynamic, on-line archive of CT data and expert commentary on fossil and Recent biological specimens. Since its establishment in 2002 it has been accessed by over a million unique visitors from around the world. We will show examples of unique 3D visualizations and 3D printouts.
http://www.ctlab.geo.utexas.edu/
http://www.digimorph.org/
McCombs School of Business
Homegrown VOD
McCombs Media demonstrates low cost mp4 video delivery with off-the-shelf technology - consumer cameras, .net, and a whole lot of duct tape!
College of Pharmacy LRC
Flash-based video streaming and audio downloading at the College of Pharmacy
Pharmacy students in nearly all core courses can view their classes as videostreams, or download an audio-only file if they prefer. We will demonstrate the Flash interface and home-grown delivery system behind the scenes. http://www.utexas.edu/pharmacy/resources/lrc/
Blanton Museum, College of Fine Arts
Immersive Museum Technology
How and when should you use technology in museums? Learn how the Blanton Museum has used podcasting and rich interactive modules to connect people, art and ideas both inside and outside the museum walls. Featured projects include: Geometry of Hope Interactive Exhibit (built using the open source CMS pachyderm.org) and Blanton Podcasts: Museum in Your Pocket
http://blantonmuseum.org/goh/
http://blantonmuseum.org/experience_the_blanton/elounge/podcasts.cfm
College of Communication (Web site)
College of Communication's Information Kiosks and Media Wall (Technology Services)
The Kiosk project includes multimedia applications which act as the “who” “what” “when” and “where” of the college site. This directory information will be accessible via the web, or directly through one of the interactive kiosks in the building. The Media Wall is a collection of eight 52” LCD panels that showcase different aspects of the College. The content is delivered by Mac Minis and screensaver program IdleWeb. The content is produced in Flash and covers a variety of subjects– Student Life, College History, Faculty Research, News, Events, etc.
http://usher.communication.utexas.edu/
Content Management (CoComm Creative)
We work with the University’s Stellent Web Content Management Server allowing us to service the college, departments, units, and individuals through managing their web sites. This is a demonstration of how this CMS works with our clients web sites.
http://communication.utexas.edu/
Faculty Websites from the College of Communication (CoComm Creative)
Various WordPress and Flash-based websites featuring faculty activities include the online journal FlowTV, Andrew Garrison’s summer course experiences in Prague http://praguestories.org, Joshua Gunn’s human voice recording investigations, and Nancy Schiesari’s WWII documentary project.
College of Education Learning Technology Center (LTC) (Web site)
Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century
The Presidential Timeline provides access to resources from the nation’s twelve Presidential Libraries via a powerful and intuitive web-based interface. The goal of the project is to make an ever-growing store of primary source materials freely available to learners worldwide. At launch the project contained nearly 700 high quality documents, images, audio recordings, and videos, along with related learning activities, and an effort is currently underway to more than double the number of included resources.
http://www.presidentialtimeline.org
Difficult Concepts Learning Modules
This customized CMS configuration allows students in a cognitive theory class to read a brief definition, read or hear an explanation, or view examples and non-examples of a number of the concepts covered during each week of the semester. Additional features give students opportunities to use an interactive “test yourself” tool, pose a question to the professor, or read peers’ questions in an emerging FAQ list. By subscribing to the class podcast, students receive just-in-time explanations of new concepts as they are presented in class.
College of Engineering Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) (Web site)
Project Network Dynamics Simulation
This project is an online web-based simulation which helps students to visualize and understand how the productivity of project organizational networks changes with respect to organizational complexity, team interdependency, effectiveness of communication. The student may select the inputs and then examine how the overall and individual productivity of a team of firms might be as the number of projects increases.
What Starts Here - Recruiting Video
Taking the motto of the University as its theme, the FIC has created a new student recruiting video for the College of Engineering. “What Starts Here” features innovative research being done by faculty of the College of Engineering. The video is a “living document” that will be updated periodically to feature a variety of faculty and their work. These faculty spotlights show how UT Engineering work of today is helping to shape the world of tomorrow.
An Integrated Learning Environment for Construction Engineers
The construction industry is beginning to utilize the intelligent job site (IJS), which encompasses sensors, mobile computing, and wireless networking to provide both localized and project-wide decision support. This project is an integrated learning environment that incorporates IJS pedagogy into a unified learning environment that is easily replicable and customizable to local conditions. We center this learning environment around the tenets of problem-centered learning to provide as near a real-world experience as possible.
ECAC Podcast
The FIC was approached by the Director of the Engineering Career Assistance Center to create podcasts to assist Engineering students in the job search process. Primarily utilizing video and "enhanced" media, the ECAC podcast has seen over 5,000 downloads by students within six months of the September 2006 launch. Each of the fourteen current episodes have been created with a variety of applications, including but not limited to; Final Cut Pro, Digital Performer, GarageBand, Sorenson Squeeze, and Motion. Due to the overwhelming success and high demand of the previous video podcasts, a new ECAC video podcast series is underway for the Fall semester.
http://ecac.engr.utexas.edu/students/podcast/index.cfm
Texas Language Technology Center (Web site)
Tá Falado
Tá Falado, as part of the Brazilpod project, provides learners of Brazilian Portuguese with podcast lessons showing pronunciation differences between Spanish and Portuguese. Podcasts are built around dialogs that illustrate specific sound differences. Users can download PDF transcripts and participate in weblog discussions for clarification of questions. Additionally, all dialogs present cultural scenarios designed to show some of the differences between the U.S. and Brazil. Faculty developer: Orlando Kelm.
http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/brazilpod/tafalado/
Radio Arlecchino
Radio Arlecchino is a selection of aural Italian grammar lessons (podcasts) in development. Grammar examples and dialogs are built upon the escapades of Arlecchino, Pulcinella, and other masks of the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Lessons feature topical grammar discussions, dramatic readings, pdf grammar notes, and general audio zaniness. Faculty developers: Eric Edwards and Antonella Olson.
http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/ra/
Francais Interactif / Tex's French Grammar
Tex's French Grammar (la grammaire de l'absurde) is a globally popular pedagogical reference grammar that combines explanations with surreal dialogues and cartoon images. Français Interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum designed to complement University of Texas "smart" classrooms. With digital video technology, students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real UT students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. Online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, diagnostic grammar quizzes (testez-vous), a workbook of classroom activities and homework assignments, online polls, and Internet writing activities. Faculty developers: Carl Blyth, Karen Kelton, Nancy Guilloteau.
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/
Cantar de mio Cid
The Cantar de mio Cid (Cid) web project is conceived as an educational tool that will allow students of the Spanish epic to understand and appreciate the oral essence of the genre and to recognize the enormous conceptual distance between an oral narrative poem and the modern textual editions used in the classroom. The website presents the Spanish epic poem in various multimedia formats, in order to facilitate alternate learning styles. Faculty developer: Matthew Bailey.
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/cid/
College of Liberal Arts ITS (LAITS) (Web site)
Texas Politics (Liberal Arts ITS)
Texas Politics is a multimedia online textbook employing text, graphics, presentations, and high quality video features researched and written by field experts and designed by LAITS artists and multimedia developers. The Texas Politics features a core of institutional chapters on the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Justice System, and also covers basic topics such as voting, the political economy, and political culture. The units and features can be used sequentially or as stand alone case studies, granting maximum flexibility to Government instructors at UT and across the state. http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu
Texas German Dialect Project (Germanic Studies, Liberal Arts ITS)
The Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) supports a website to carrying out research in representative Texas German speech communities in central Texas. Directed by Hans Boas, the primary goal of the TGDP is to preserve the Texas German dialect as it reflects the rich cultural and linguistic traditions of its residents. http://www.tgdp.org/
Danteworlds (French and Italian, Liberal Arts ITS)
This website is a rich and integrated multimedia journey combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings to explore the three realms of afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy. A companion printed text by Dr. Guy Raffa has recently been published by the University of Chicago Press. http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index.html
TIGER (Government, Liberal Arts ITS)
The use of suicide terrorism and similar conflict tactics has grown dramatically in recent years. Dr. Ami Pedahzur (Government) with colleagues at the University of Haifa has built a large archive of data on suicide terrorism and guerrilla warfare. The TIGER Web site - Terrorists, Insurgencies, & Guerrillas in Education & Research - makes this data archive accessible to students in Pedahzur's courses, other courses at UT, and to scholars around the world. http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/movabletype/blogs/tiger/
The Daily Intelligencer (Classics, Liberal Arts ITS)
Developed by Dr. Steve Freisen, this web-based learning environment is designed to help beginning students in Religious Studies learn to understand new methods of textual interpretation. Built around the metaphor of a newspaper, each student learns to use a different method then applies their chosen method on an assigned gospel text. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/di/
Liberal Arts ITS Student Technology Assistants (STA) Program (Liberal Arts ITS)
The STA program employs UT students and connects them with faculty members to support the development of technology-enhanced teaching. Since the program's inception in 2003, students and faculty members have collaborated on dozens of projects. A selection of representative work created by STA's will be demonstrated during the showcase. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/sta/
Divison of Instructional Innovation and Assessment (DIIA) (Web site)
Digital Media Services
This new initiative is designed for faculty and students interested in creating digital media projects and provides a range of services and resources, such as expert consulting, face-to-face and Web-based training, video equipment lending, and access to audio and video recording facilities and workstations in the DIIA Digital Media Lab (GSB 2.130).
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/dms/
Using Flash Media Server for Online Oral Assessments (DIIA and LAITS)
SOPE: Spanish Oral Proficiency Exam is an online application that allows professors to administer and evaluate oral exams quickly and easily. Flash Media Server is used to record and playback all of the streaming audio in the application. Other technologies used include Flex, mySQL, WebOrbPHP.
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/test/sopev3/
The House of the Vettii, Pompeii: An Interactive Visit (DIIA and College of Fine Arts)
This interactive CD-ROM was developed entirely in Flash. The main features include an interactive tour with over 200 detailed photographs, video walk-throughs, and a 3D rendering of what the house might have looked like in ancient times.
Project highlights from ~FAST Tex and IITAP
Outstanding projects from the 2007 Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (IITAP) and Faculty and Student Teams for Technology (~FAST Tex) feature creative examples of teaching with technology and resource development. Projects include assistive technology for foreign language instruction, and instructional technology scaffolding for reinforcing learning.
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/teaching/fasttex_iitap/index.php
Second Life
Second Life is a multi-user virtual environment - 3D virtual world built and owned by its residents, whose numbers have grown to exceed millions from around the globe. DIIA has a customized presence in Second Life which allows it to share, offer instruction, and explore possibilities utilizing digital frontiers.
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/secondlife/index.php
Blackboard Building Blocks
Blackboard Building Blocks are institution-built functional pieces that can be added onto the Blackboard course management system. DIIA, and others, have created several Building Blocks (Scheduler, Podcasting, Download for Final Grade Submission, Import DIIA Scanned Results) to enhance the product for the UT community.
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/blackboard/about/blocks.html