Five new Ameritech Fellow Awards support faculty innovation

By Christine Fitzpatrick

Lafuze

Liu

O'Loughlin

Plucker

Five IU faculty members have been chosen to receive Ameritech Fellow Awards for innovation in the application of information technology (IT) to teaching and learning.

“The awarded projects met the primary program criterion,” explained Gary Wittlich, program director and IU Distinguished Consulting Technologist, “namely, to develop applications that support teaching and learning with electronic technology that could not be served as effectively with traditional methods.” Wittlich directs the program for the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and UITS Division for Teaching and Learning Information Technologies, in cooperation with the IU Office of Distributed Education.

Faculty receiving awards are:

• Glenn Gass, “Creation of a Multimedia Beatles Companion,” IU Bloomington, School of Music, $15,000. View Gass’s prior work in this area at “The Music of the Beatles” course Web site:

http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rock/beatles.html

• Joan Lafuze, “Engaging Students in Learning Human Anatomy and Physiology Through an Interactive Multimedia,” IU East, Department of Biology, $14,500

• Jennifer Liu, “Distributed Chinese Language Learning: A Model for Foreign Language Education,” IU Bloomington, College of Arts and Sciences, $15,000. For a preview of the project, see a mini-prototype lesson:

http://www.indiana.edu/~tltl2/lesson9/text.htm

• Valerie O’Loughlin, “Cardiovascular Embryology Modules for Medical Students and Medical Professionals,” IU Bloomington, School of Medicine, $15,000. Preview some animation examples that will be used in the project:

http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/cvanim/

• Jonathan A. Plucker, “Creating a Web-based Resource on Intelligence to Support Learning and Instruction,” IUB, School of Education, $15,000.

http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/

The Ameritech Fellows program was created in 1999 with a $1,000,000 grant from Ameritech to support faculty in their efforts to effectively integrate the use of technology for campus and distance education.

http://www.amfellow.iu.edu/.