Acentuacion

Faculty Member: George Blanco

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Anuj Nanavati

Project Description:Acentuacion is a self-paced and self-correcting tutorial on the written accent in Spanish. This Vision Award project was designed to enhance the current version of the tutorial program by adding an assessment component and score reporting capabilities. These features allow instructors to gain a better sense of each student's progress and thereby provide more immediate feedback.

Spanish Language Translation of Math and Science Educational Video

Faculty Members: Diane Bryant, Haydee Rodriguez, and Melisssa Tothero with Arturo Guajardo, Jeff Meyer, and Susan Monahan of AISD

Department: Special Education/Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description:The College has been aware for some time of a dearth of Spanish language instructional video in math and science, especially for the lower grade levels. The proposers of this project have worked with United Streaming, a major distributor of educational video content, to secure permission to overdub selected titles from their catalog into Spanish. The goal of the project will be to overdub these titles and create a web-based interface through which the resulting products will be made available.

Website to Support the Use of iSight Cameras in Foreign ans Second Language Tutorials

Faculty Members: David Schwarzer

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: Development of a web-based training resource to assist students with the methodological and technical aspects of designing tutorial sessions that utilize desktop video conferencing. By using the iSight cameras or any other camera available with their supportive software, we'll be able to pair students with second and foreign language educators and their students from around the country or around the world.

iSight Cameras in Foreign and Second Language Tutorials

Faculty Member: David Schwarzer

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Tan-wen Hou

Project Description: This project was created for use by students in foreign and second language teaching methods courses. Using the iSight cameras and iChat AV, the graduate students in the courses develop and conduct tutorial sessions with a student or group of students in ESL or FLE. Using the cameras and software allows them to teach at a distance and work with learners from around the world. Tutorils are recorded for later use by students for reflection and professional development.

Enhancements to STELLAR Literacy Tutoring Website

Faculty Members: James Hoffman

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: The Supportive Technology for the Education of Literacy Learners and Reading (STELLAR) website offers a highly interactive environment designed to develop effective teaching skills in the area of literacy education using a tutorial setting. The guides and videos are based on an understanding of effective teaching as responsive to the interests and needs of the learner. Instruction builds from the known to the new, extending into new levels of literacy activity. This Vision Award project provides additional tutorial videos.

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Reading Tutorials through Video Cases

Faculty Members: James Hoffman and Beth Maloch

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: The goal of this project is to develop a set of video cases to complement the Longhorn Tutoring Handbook used in the Reading Specialization/Concentration program. Two short video cases will illustrate each of the major components of the handbook. The video clips will be annotated with comments from the instructors and will include a running transcript of the interactions between teacher and student. The video cases will be implemented within a website that will support threaded discussion between instructors and students.

Instructional Decision-making for Students with Reading Difficulties

Faculty Member: Carolyn Denton

Department: Special Education

Student Technologist: Ramsy Safadi

Project Description: This project provides an authentic and interactive environment in which preservice teachers evaluate students with reading difficulties. Users view a video of a student reading sample. The user can then request specific assessments and “consult with an expert” to gather additional information that they use to make a final assessment which is submitted electronically to the instructor.

3-D Digital Microscope Tutorial

Faculty Member: Julie Jackson

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Jaladhi Pujara

Project Description: Dr. Jackson's project involved developing a 3-D virtual tutorial to teach students in UT Austin science methods courses to use a Digiscope 150 digital microscope. Students then use the digital microscopes to observe,analyze, collect, record, and analyze data.

A Web Resource Supporting the Use of Digital Microscopes

Faculty Member: Julie Jackson

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologists: Brianne Kalmanowicz & Kate Estes

Project Description: The goal of this project was to develop and revise a series of activities that incorporate simple digital microscopes. These activities were then made available, via an attractive and useful series of web-pages, to the science education community at large.

An Online Guide to Innovative Methods in Mathematics Education

Faculty Members: Linda Voges

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: Expansion of an existing Web-based resource containing video vignettes demonstrating selected teaching moments in innovative elementary mathematics lessons. The resource will also contain lesson plans and reflections on the lessons by UT interns and apprentice teachers.

Integrating Video Data into a Pre-service Course for Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers

Faculty Members: Jennifer Smith and Julie Luft

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologists: Steve Fletcher and Peter Cormas

Project Description: The goal of this project was to create a library of video cases for use in the Uteach Natural Sciences teacher preparation program. As part of a Classroom Interactions course, students film themselves teaching. The project's student technologists collected the videos and excerpted clips that illustrate scenarios aligned with the course objectives. The excerpts were then compiled onto a set of CDs for use in instruction.

Legacy Cycle Development and Display Website

Faculty Members: Anthony Petrosino

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: The Legacy Cycle uses challenges as anchors for learning. The challenges are designed to create an increasing depth of knowledge in a specific subject, with each challenge presented as one cycle of the Legacy shell. The combination of well-designed challenges and meaningful learning activities provides a rich environment for both the students and the instructor. This project provides a web-based environment through which students can quickly and easily create and share online Legacy Cycle challenges without becoming bogged down with the technology of web-development.

Streaming Video in Support of Innovative Instruction in Elementary Mathematics

Faculty Member: Linda Voges

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Zhi Liu

Project Description: This iscontinuation of a project begun as a 2003 Vision Award. In the original project, Dr. Voges and her student technologists produced a series of CD-based videos used in conjunction with lesson plans demonstrating innovative teaching techniques for elementary mathematics. The new project provides additional lesson plans with digital movies and makes the modules accessible online to preservice and graduate teachers via streaming video.

Video in Support of Innovative Instruction in Elementary Mathematics

Faculty Member: Linda Voges

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologists: Kate Estes & Brianne Kalmanowicz

Project Description: The goal of this project was to produce a series of CD-ROM-based videos that demonstrate innovative techniques in teaching concepts in elementary mathematics.The lessons are based on specific TEKS and incorporate literature,role-play and hands-on activities. They also support aural, visual and kinesthetic learning styles. Detailed lesson plans are included with the product.

A Generalized System for Online Self-, Peer- and Product-Assessment

Faculty Member: Paul Resta

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Kartik Sankar

Project Description: Dr. Resta'sproject was developed to enhance an existing online feedback system,used in two of his online courses, that supports self-, peer-, andproduct-assessments based on norms identified by class members. Theresulting assessment data are collected and represented graphically.The updated version of the application allows the instructor to revisethese norms every semester and customize the access and presentation ofthe collected data.

Implementation of a User-Friendly System of Providing Feedback on Formative Assessment for Apprentice Teachers

Faculty Member: Jill Marshall

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Tyler Hamm

Project Description: The goal of thisproject was to update the UTeach Math and Science Apprentice TeacherObservation website to make it more useful for formative assessment,providing students an opportunity to reflect on their performance andallowing instructors to identify the kinds of support needed. Featuresinclude secure file uploading, a function that permits users to enterand edit information entry by entry in an online rubric, and a link to"help" resources.

TEKS Website

Faculty Member: Mary Claire Gerwels

Department: Educational Psychology

Student Technologist: Bindi Shah

Project Description: This websiteallows anyone to access activities for the TEKS in grades K-5 inLanguage Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. The activities areprovided by UT students in the Professional Development Sequence. Thewebsite also provides a checklist that allows teachers to keep track ofthe TEKS they have covered each year.

Technology Standards, Integration, and Assessment Online Training Using RAT Framework

Faculty Members: Joan Hughes

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: The Replacement, Amplification, Transformation (RAT) online assessment modules lead learners through a series of online and offline activities that acquaint them to the concept of the National Educational Technology Standards, "technology integration," technology integration assessment, and then RAT.

Texas Beginning Teacher Technology Competencies Assessment

Faculty Member: Anne Fuller

Department: Special Education

Student Technologist: Ramsey Safadi

Project Description: This project wasdesigned to create a series of individualized assessment and trainingopportunities for students who will be required to pass the TexasTechnology Competencies for teacher certification. The applicationassesses students' skills based on a series of benchmarks. If they donot show mastery on one of the skills, they are directed to acollection of online tutorials. Face to face tutorials are also madeavailable for students who need additional support.

A Digital Video Scaffold for Learning Movement Patterns

Faculty Member: Dixie Stanforth

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Student Technologist: Hoa Mai

Project Description: The goal of this project was to expand the scope of an existing development effort. The initial project was designed to support students in three Kinesiology courses as they learned to assess movement patterns. This called for the creation of real-time movement screens collected on a DVD and/or website. The 2004 Vision Award project links the movement screens to a series of remedial exercises that target areas in which a student evidences a need for improvement.

Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement

Faculty Members: Lawrence Abraham and Jonathan Dingwell

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Student Technologist: Hyung-Gu Kang

Project Description: The goal of this project was to create a web-based instructional model to support instruction of human biomechanics, biomechanics data collection and display techniques for use in teaching, sport, or clinical rehabilitation settings. Products include instructional modules in which users can view and analyze digital video clips and dynamic simulations of the human body that allow students to manipulate factors and see the relationships between body, movement, and environment.

DVD Resource for Techniques of Fitness Leadership

Faculty Member: Dixie Stanforth

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Student Technologist: Jay Holzer

Project Description: The project goal was the creation of a video resource for students in Kinesiology 352,part of the course series that leads to certification as a personal trainer. The course has a significant lab component that meets in the open weight room, a setting in which students’ ability to see and hear is compromised. This resource provides students with high-quality examples and descriptions of specific exercises that students can study before and after the gym-based demonstrations.

Human Anatomy and Sports Injuries Video Clips for Lectures and Presentations

Faculty Members: Roger Farrar and Brian Farr

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Student Technologist: Lucas Horton

Project Description: The primary goal for this project was to provide instructional PowerPoint presentations that include still video images, written text, and video clips, to be archived on CDs for use in class lectures and laboratory presentations for students who take Applied Human Anatomy. The video segments and virtual movement clips have been extracted from a commercial CD series and are embedded in presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint) to be shown to an entire group.

Team Sports Skills Demonstration Videos

Faculty Members: Amanda Gammage

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Project Description: Teacher certification students in Kinesiology 219T prepare a short video of themselves teaching a skill from one of the five team sports that are focused on in this class. Grading points include the proper introduction of the skill, cues, and demonstrations, as well as the ability to use the video camera and iMovie editing tools. These instructional videos are now available on the web for viewing by students and others interested in teaching these sports.

Using PDAs for Fitness Testing

Faculty Members: Phil Stanforth

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Project Description: About ninety students each year learn to conduct fitness evaluations as part of KIN 352K Diagnosis and Fitness. The goal of this project is to develop a system for using PDAs to conduct Posture and Movement screens. These screens have traditionally been conducted using pencil and paper. Recording this data directly to a PDA and then uploading it to a database will eliminate recording errors and allow advanced processing of the data.

Using PDAs for Fitness Testing

Faculty Members: Phil Stanforth

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Project Description: About ninety students each year learn to conduct fitness evaluations as part of KIN 352K Diagnosis and Fitness. The goal of this project is to develop a system for using PDAs to conduct Posture and Movement screens. These screens have traditionally been conducted using pencil and paper. Recording this data directly to a PDA and then uploading it to a database will eliminate recording errors and allow advanced processing of the data.

Volleyball Developmental Sequences

Faculty Member: Amanda Gammage

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Student Technologist: Owen Lin

Project Description: The goal of this project was to create web- and CD-ROM-based resources that demonstrate developmental sequences for volleyball skills. The precontrol, control, utilization,and proficiency levels are illustrated. In an accompanying assignment,students analyze videos in order to identify flaws in technique. Slow motion and text overlays are used to help the viewer focus on basic fundamental movements.

Web Resource for KIN 312

Faculty Member: Carla Costa

Department: Kinesiology and Health Education

Student Technologist: Owen Lin

Project Description: The goal of this project was to develop a set of web-based tools to support and enhance the recipient's Structure and Organization of Sport Programs Gagateway course for sports management majors. Resources include a set of interviews with professionals in the field of sports management, an exhibition feature with a catalogued collection of student projects, a web event area in which students could engage in scheduled discussions with professionals, and a set of course management tools (providing access to grades, shared documents, and a discussion area).

Sociocultural Influences Case-Based Video Website

Faculty Members: Keffrelyn Brown

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: This website showcases case-based video projects created by students in ALD 327 Sociocultural Influences in Learning. Their video projects narrate a situation that illustrates key terms and concepts related to sociocultural factors (e.g., race, social class, gender, sexuality) and schooling.

"Students as Historians" Web Project

Faculty Members: Anthony Brown

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: This project illustrates how various people, events, and institutions have been excluded, misrepresented and/or over-generalized in the formal curriculum. Students create a web-based visual, historical narrative that presents multiple perspectives and prompts others, through document-based questions, to engage in historical reasoning. The Students as Historians website showcases the students' projects and provides resources for teachers and curriculum developers interested in using the projects in their classrooms.

"Readiness Assurance Technology" for Team-Based Learning

Faculty Members: Daniel H. Robinson

Department: Educational Psychology

Project Description: Team-based learning (TBL) is a well-documented instructional strategy whose popularity is spreading across the nation. At the college level, it has been shown to generate greater student engagement, achievement and even attendance across many disciplines. This project will lead to the development of a system that will support the use of Readiness Assurance Testing (RAT) in a team-based learning environment. The online system will support the creation and administration of individual tests followed by immediately by a team test and manage the scoring and relationships between the two.

Handheld Active Learning in Statistical Instruction

Faculty Members: Daniel H. Robinson and Brandon Vaughn

Department: Educational Psychology

Project Description: Students often consider Statistics the "worst" course they take. As an alternative to traditional lectures, in which students passively learn, this project provides interactive hands-on statistics tutorials on handheld devices. The tutorials focus on direct manipulation of data and visual aspects of introductory statistics. Students are able to interact with the graphs, data, and concepts, making changes dynamically and seeing the results of their modifications.

R Statistical Language Tutorial Videos

Faculty Members: Brandon Vaughn

Department: Educational Psychology

Project Description: Popular statistical software is costly, making it difficult for educators to obtain and use. The statistical language R is freely available for PCs and Macs, however, has a command-based rather than "point & click" user interface. To help with the ease-of-use issues, this project provides short tutorial videos that help educators and students get started using the R language to perform a variety of common statistical functions.

Standardized Patient Methodology to Enhance Teacher Training in Working with Parents

Faculty Members: Cindy Carlson

Department: Educational Psychology

Project Description: Beginning teachers cite relationships with parents as their greatest source of stress and anxiety, and find working with the families of their students to be more challenging than getting sufficient resources, maintaining order and discipline in the classroom, preparing students for testing, or getting guidance and support. The purpose of this Vision Award will be the development of a prototype for training in relationship building communication skills with parents. Two unique aspects of the project include the use of standardized patient methodology in the development of the prototype and the use of motivational interviewing as the basis of skill development.

Teaching Practice Case Conceptualization Skills Through Simulated Video Cases

Faculty Member: Aaron Rochlen

Department: Educational Psychology

Student Technologist: Alicia Cho

Project Description: This Vision Award supported the creation of an interactive website used in graduate and undergraduate counseling theory courses. The online tool allows students to review simulated case material in video as well as written formats. After completing a case, users are then asked to submit conceptualization answers; if they wish, they can also view experts' responses to these questions. Other features include a discussion board and a collection of web resources.

Video Cases to Support Diagnosis of Mental Health Disorders

Faculty Members: Stephanie Rude and Aaron Rochlen

Department: Educational Psychology

Project Description: Development of a set of three professional quality videos clips that will portray patients with various mental health disorders. The resulting product will be used in an interactive diagnostic website for use by psychologists, students interested in psychology, and other mental health providers. Through this website, users will have the opportunity to apply their diagnostic skills to simulated case material in an interactive and dynamic format.

Enhancing Qualitative Data with Digital Video

Faculty Member: Todd Reimer

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Mike Mann

Project Description: The goal of thisproject was to create a set of digital video vignettes to illustrate best practices of a high school political community of learners. After suitable excerpts from an existing collection of videos are identified,the audio and video quality are enhanced and subtitles added. The final product is a DVD with the vignettes for use in presentations of theresearch and as illustrations for instruction.

Life History and Documentary Approaches to Inquiry - Training Materials

Faculty Member: Ricardo Ainslie

Department: Educational Psychology

Student Technologist: Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon

Project Description: This project generated training materials to promote the effective use of digital media for video production. The content of the training includes filming and production techniques as well as integrating other media into documentary projects. In addition to the technical aspects of the training, the materials were aimed at providing students with experiential models for using digital media and insight intodocumentary research as a form of inquiry.

An Online Graphic Organizer

Faculty Member: Dan Robinson

Department: Educational Psychology

Student Technologist: Bill Pang

Project Description: Professor Brooks introduced an ambitious multimedia project in her Socio-cultural Influences on Learning course. The goal of this project was to develop a set of resources designed to support students as they strive to effectively create, revise and present video, audio, images and text in an interactive digital environment.

Audio Captioning for "Alien Rescue"

Faculty Members: Min Liu

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Project Description: This Vision Award project adds audio captioning to Alien Rescue, an innovative and award-winning multimedia program. Currently, Alien Rescue is being used as part of science curriculum in may schools in Texas as well as schools in eight other states, and two foreign countries. Research studies have shown students' science knowledge and problem-solving skills have significantly increased, and their attitude toward science has been enhanced as a result of using Alien Rescue. The audio captioning benefits all students, specifically poor readers, ESL, and bilingual students in Texas and nationwide.

Database of Exemplary and Commonly Used Instructional Software

Faculty Members: Jenny Burson, Todd Reimer & Susan Williams

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Rebekah Stone

Project Description: The initial goal of this project was to identify exemplary instructional software titles as well as titles in common use in K-16 settings. These titles were then reviewed regarding their appropriateness as a subject of study within the curriculum of the College of Education. Findings were then made available to the College at large.

Electronic Showcase Portfolios

Faculty Member: Judy Fuentes

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Rui Li

Project Description: The goal of the project was to create a series of templates for a user friendly and easily modified Electronic Student Showcase Portfolio. This portfoliocan then serve as an electronic visual and auditory employment application that can be made easily available to distant school districts as well as serving as a follow-up to a face-to-face interview.

Using Multimedia to Enhance Instruction

Faculty Member: Annie Brooks

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: Will Mangum

Project Description: Professor Brooksintroduced an ambitious multimedia project in her Socio-cultural Influences on Learning course. The goal of this project was to develop a set of resources designed to support students as they strive to effectively create, revise and present video, audio, images and text in an interactive digital environment.

We've Always Used Technology, But...

Faculty Member: Nancy Roser

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Student Technologist: To be assigned

Project Description: This project was designed to collect, digitize, and archive instructional materials stored on outdated media. The materials from an extensive collection include slides, analog video, written units of instruction saved on outdated computer disks, and out-of-print children's picture books.Once prepared, materials are transferred to CDs and made easily available for use by Dr. Roser and other instructors.