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Here is a collection of sample work by some of the participants from TIDE.

 

Naomi Ludman (TIDE '02)

I have just started my second semester with Blackboard. It is so much fun! My favorite part has been the on-line discussions my students have when we read To Kill A Mockingbird. So many more people participate. I just put a topic up there and off they go. Then I also let them add topics and ask questions. It is so much fun to see students who have hardly used a computer before (and who have to do hunt and peck at the key board) get on line and put up a comment.

I took your suggestion and am having them do homepages this semester, also.

My writing students didn't really figure out the advantages of Blackboard last semester, but I learned from the experience and this semester, I think we are off to a much better start. In the fall, our campus will be implementing Pipeline--with at least some faculty, with full implementation to come in winter 04. I hope to be one of the first in line for this fall!

I also wanted to tell you about the webquest results from my reading classes last semester. I was really excited the way some of the students really began to focus on themselves as learners and to become aware of how the various strategies they found out on the web meshed with what we did in class, and more importantly, with what they had learned about becoming more active learners. I felt as though some of them really caught on!

I also had students who caught the idea of mapping; some used Inspiration and some didn't, but they did some neat stuff. We have purchased a COW (computers on wheels, I think that's the acronym). 24 laptops that we can move around to various classrooms. This means that we will be able to provide in-class writing labs for more of our developmental reading and writing students, so I am planning to ask for Inspiration on all of these computers.

I'm hooked as you can see. Forgive my babbling on. I was just reading student comments on line tonight and wanted you to know how things are going.

 

Karen Anglin (TIDE '00)

Karen's Homepage with video

Example of how Karen created a homepage and added video to welcome the students.

Why on Earth am I taking Statistics?

An example of my online course webquest.

 

Ann Schlumberger (TIDE '99)

I set up email groups, and we're using worldcrossing for a discussion forum. It's been fun. At the end of the semester, I will ask for feedback as to their perceptions on the value-added to the class.

I did get a mini-grant from my college this summer for a workshop so that seven faculty could learn to use
Powerpoint by developing their own presentations. We are putting these presentations on-line so that the entire college can have access to them. I am applying to do a similar project to help my colleagues to develop course Web sites this summer.

 

Maggie Miller (TIDE '99)

House on Mango Street: My Name

Writing exercise to enhance the teaching of entomology.

 


  

  
Jackie Parker (TIDE '00)

  
 
    

      
 
         
          
I have used PowerPoint in a writing class 
            composed mainly of learning disabled college students. Our objective 
            was to engage each student in the writing process (topic/outline development) 
            in a non-threatening way. Each student created his own presentation. 
            It went really well.

          
Also, We are using World Crossing with 
            the same class hoping to increase their comfort levels, and skills, 
            when writing in a more informal format.

        		
      

    

  

  


    Annette Williams (TIDE '00)

  
 
    

      

        
          
I am presently using a Blackboard CourseInfo 
            Web site to enhance my Elementary and Intermediate Algebra courses. 
            This software enables an instructor to communicate with students through 
            announcements and grades easily posted on the Web site as well as 
            through a ready-made email distribution list. The software also allows 
            HTML files to be published with little effort. I place worksheets, 
            lecture notes, and HyperStudio files on the site for my students. 
            My students can use the HyperStudio stacks by downloading the 
            player from the HyperStudio Web site. I am also converting 
            some of my HyperStudio files to HTML documents viewable on 
            the site. However, these do not retain the bells and whistles of the 
            original stacks.

          
I use MathWriter to create worksheets and 
            convert them to HTML files by coping each page as a picture, an 8K 
            to 16K GIF image, and pasting them into a document created in Adobe 
            PageMill. Using this technique, I can publish a document loaded 
            with math symbols but only having one image per original page. Look 
            at this webpage 
            for examples of these worksheets. In my view, this is much simpler 
            than using software in which every equation is a different image (as 
            in a Microsoft Word document using Equation Editor). 
            To check out my Web site go to http://www.mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11016/ 
            at Middle Tennessee State University.