SBC/TAG Summer Leadership Forum Showcases Technology In Teaching

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA — IU faculty will showcase the innovative ways they are integrating technologies into their teaching at the third annual SBC/TAG Summer Leadership Forum, Friday, June 6, 2003, 1:00-3:00pm, Lilly Auditorium, University Library, IUPUI. Faculty recipients of SBC (formerly Ameritech) Fellow and Technology Assessment Grant (TAG) awards will demonstrate their funded projects and discuss their work with colleagues. The featured presenter, Glenn Gass of the IUB School of Music, will discuss his project, “Creation of a Multimedia Beatles Companion.”

Projects represent a variety of disciplines and topics, including: Using the Internet for Chinese language learning, a CD-ROM to help pre-service teachers learn how to teach students who display disruptive classroom behavior, Web-based resources for the study of human intelligence, teaching a class in more than one country, assessing the impact of technology on student learning, tracking nursing students' clinical experiences, individualized instruction in English pronunciation for foreign students, using simulations to teach pharmacology, and online quzzing to help students come to class better prepared.

IU established the Ameritech Fellows Program in the fall of 1999, with a gift of $1,000,000 from SBC (formerly Ameritech) to support a five-year program of innovation in teaching and learning with technology. Since 1999, four rounds of funding and awards averaging $15,000 have made possible 42 innovative projects that span the IU campuses and represent diverse areas of teaching. The fifth request for proposals was issued in May, 2003.

The Technology Assessment Grant (TAG) Program was established by the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology to encourage faculty to study the impact of educational technology on their practices and on student, course, or program outcomes. Funded proposals answer questions about the use of instructional technology and discover how pedagogy influences the use of technology.

"The role of faculty innovators as mentors is essential," said Brad Wheeler, associate dean for teaching & learning information technologies. "SBC Fellows and TAG recipients partner with the campus teaching and learning centers in advising other faculty about incorporating technology into teaching and learning. They also contribute to an online repository of good practices, which faculty across the university can use as a resource for their own work." Wheeler directs the program for the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and the Division for Teaching and Learning Information Technologies for University Information Technology Services (UITS). The repository can be found at sbcf.iu.edu/goodpract/.

"These projects have the potential to significantly affect the lives of Indiana residents," Wheeler said, "not only through the quality and accessibility of education, but also through technological advances that could improve the way they do business, enjoy the arts, and receive medical care."

Details about the forum are available at sbcf.iu.edu/events.html. Questions should be directed to fellows@iu.edu.

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Posted 28 May 2003
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