2009 projects and presenters
Apple, Inc.
iPhone and iPod Touch
Come see Apple showcase iPhone and iPod Touch applications built by various Universities. Discover educational apps that could be used by your students as well as development tools for building your own custom Apple handheld applications.
Blanton Museum
New York Graphic Workshop
New York Graphic Workshop online interactive—this site was created for visitors to the Blanton’s exhibition New York Graphic Workshop to review in advance or extend their experience after spending time in the exhibition. It includes interviews with two of the three artists represented in the show, a selection of zoomable works from the exhibition, views of the gallery space, and additional contextual information and artists’ biographies.
Learning from the Past
Learning from the Past online interactive—this site supports visitors learning about the Greek vases collection at the Blanton. It includes videos of art history and classics scholars talking about the vases production, use, trade, and display, zoomable images of the vases, a timeline and interactive map of the objects, and contextual information.
Matto
Matto online interactive—this site allows visitors to the Blanton’s Matto: The Modern and the Mythic exhibition to learn about the artist and his unique style and influences through zoomable images of works from the exhibition, video of curators, scholars, and the artist himself, side by side comparisons of his work, and contextual information.
College of Education Learning Technology Center (Ken Tothero and Karen French)
Open Websites
Open Websites is a Web 2.0-based collaborative website creation tool. Utilizing the open-source content management system Drupal, OWS empowers faculty and supervised students to easily create websites that are open to the public. Each site within OWS permits site owners to invite others to contribute to the development of the site, and each member of the system can contribute to an unlimited number of created sites. To safeguard individuals' work, OWS stores revisions of pages, much like a wiki, as they are edited for painless retrieval of lost information. In order to accomodate both beginner and advanced users, OWS has a wide range of themes for quick deployment, permitting users to simply create a site by copying and pasting content into a web browser, but, on the other end of the spectrum, OWS also makes more advanced features available for fine-tuning a site, including advanced theming, HTML editing, Javascript slideshows, RSS feeds, and page sharing between multiple sites.
Team-based Testing Environment
Team-based learning has been shown to positively affect student engagement, achievement, and attendance across many disciplines. This project provides an online system that supports the creation and administration of both individual and team tests in a team-based learning environment. Using the system, students first take an individual test, followed by a team test that displays students’ responses on the individual test and provides immediate, item-based feedback to facilitate team building.
College of Engineering Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) (Kathy Schmidt)
Texas Interactive Power Simulator (TIPS)
Texas generates and consumes more electricity than any other state in the United States. In 2006, power plants in Texas generated more than 400 terawatt-hours of electricity, with 49% from natural gas as a fuel source. Also, emissions from Texas’ electric power generation were higher than any other state at 257,552,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and 260,000 metric tons of nitrogen oxide during 2006.Texas, however, is and has been incorporating more renewable electricity generation including wind and solar power. In order to education and share information about the tradeoffs of electricity generation, The Texas Interactive Power Simulator (TIPS), was designed. Target audiences include students, state legislators and their staff, as well as the general public. The Texas Interactive Power Simulator accomplishes the project goals by allowing the user to manipulate the electricity generation mix in the state of Texas and immediately view the economic and environmental impacts of these changes.
Computer Writing and Research Lab (CWRL) (Diane Davis and Hampton Finger)
FreeBSD Jails and Vitualization for the Humanities
In the CWRL starting in the summer of 2007 we were approached to support the ecomma (ecomma.cwrl.utexas.edu) project with server support and basic systems administration. At the time we didn't have such a support system for a developer, so we setup a FreeBSD system with a Jail (Virtual machine) for the developer to get down to business. In the following two years we have added 4 more VMs to our system and supported several web application development projects for the Humanities. The project has been a rousing success for administration and the developers.
Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment (DIIA)
See and Touch
DIIA will be showcasing a "See and Touch" display highlighting examples of mobile, geospatial and cloud computing technologies.
These are examples from The New Media Consortium's Horizon Report and provide a glimpse at the types of hardware and technologies we may see in use by students within the next couple of years.
Information Technology Services
EUREKA Web Services
The EUREKA (Enhancing Undergraduate Research Experience, Knowledge, and
Access) Web application has long served as an online repository of faculty
research interests and projects. Faculty create and update their own
research profiles in a central location. In an effort to make this valuable
data available to other campus developers as a repository of research
knowledge, we are developing a Web Services API. Come see how you can access
the data in EUREKA with a simple HTTP request!
https://www.utexas.edu/research/eureka/
John Slatin Captioning Project
Funded by an ITAC Grant, the John Slatin Captioning Project works with the
UT Services for Students with Disabilities, to identify multimedia that can
be transcribed and/or captioned for the benefit of UT students.
Have something that needs to be captioned or transcribed? Talk to Glenda Sims.
- If your media has a clear benefit to UT Students, we may be able to cover the costs.
- We can also help you get any content (regardless of who it benefits) captioned/transcribed at reasonable rates.
The funds for this grant expire on 8/31/2009.
https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/access/John+Slatin+Captioning+Project
Web Standards InterAct Curriculum Framework: Educating the Next Generation of Web Professionals
WaSP InterAct is a living, open curriculum based upon web standards and best
practices, designed to teach students the skills of the web professional.
This curriculum framework has been developed by industry and education
experts and is comprised of six learning tracks. Each course includes
essential learning competencies and evaluation methods. The curriculum is
modular to complement and strengthen existing curricula. Adapt and reuse
these resources. Contribute your own content and ideas.
http://interact.webstandards.org
Texas Language Technology Center (Carl Blyth)
Rockin' Russian (Thomas Garza)
Based on Russian music videos from MTV Russia, Rockin' Russian is supplemented with exercise materials focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary development, grammar and cultural features. Parts of the videos are embedded into exercises in each category that students can revisit, strengthening their language skills.
Technology: HTML / PHP / MySQL db / Javascript(script.aculo.us) / AS3 flash video.
Brazilpod
This project is the convergence point for different Spanish and Portuguese websites, blogs, or other social networks.
Technology: PHP / MySQL.
Conversa Brasileira (Orlando Kelm)
Brazilian Conversations, is part of the Brazilpod project, provides learners of Brazilian Portuguese with videos of conversations with subtitle commentary pop-ups emphasizing grammar, usage, culture expressions. Users can download PDF transcripts and participate in weblog discussions for clarification of questions.
Technology: PHP / MySQL / AS3 flash video/.
Deutsch im Blick (Zsuzsanna Abrams)
Focus on German is a multimedia 1st-year German language program in development, based on videos of native speakers and the UT Summer Program in Würzburg, Germany. The online textbook will include recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, online comparative polls, and Internet writing activities. The grammar component, Grimm Grammar, will feature zany post-modern versions of Grimm fairy tale characters.
Technology: PHP / MySQL / JW player.
Français interactif (Carl Blyth, Karen Kelton, and Nancy Guilloteau)
A multimedia 1st French language course based on UT Summer program in Lyon, France. The website is accompanied by an online textbook published on demand by qoop.com.
Technology: PHP/MySQL/QuickTime.