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2000-2001 Project Descriptions || 2001-2002 Project Descriptions || Buffalo State College2001-2002 TIP Challenge Grants
The TIP Grant Review Committee (Transformative Technology Initiatives to Invigorate Instructional Practices) would like to announce the recipients of the 2001/2002 award. This grant provides funding for faculty and staff to support cross-disciplinary projects that employ an innovative use of technology, incorporate the campus-wide technology goals, and meet the college's mission. Following are executive summaries of the projects funded under the 2001-2002 TIP Challenge Grant program.
Project Title: "Computer Visualizations"
Project Coordinators: George T. Hole - Philosophy and Religious Studies
Project Title: "Digital Video Library of Teaching and Learning in an Urban Setting"
Project Coordinator: Diane Truscott - Excellence in Urban Education Center
The TIP project offers a unique and exceptional opportunity for a multidisciplinary, collaborative project for Buffalo State College involving six departments and the Center for Excellence in Urban and Rural Education (CEURE). The Digital Video Library of Teaching and Learning is a collection of digitalized video clips of instruction captured from urban classrooms of experienced teachers, teacher candidates and students in schools.
The library will offer both faculty and students to "experience" urban classrooms without being there. Similar to distance learning drop-ins without the live interactions, it allows faculty to utilize and build course activities around archive where the experiences are available upon demand. It also provides private time for all users to interact with and reflect upon what is viewed, shared, and written about. The library will be used in conjunction with other campus technology such as distance learning and/or blackboard and supports teacher education programs across elementary and secondary levels as well as instructors interested in the continued professional development of teachers. Instructors will be able to custom design the experiences by simply adding links in theirs web pages or blackboard materials. Unedited examples of this activity can be viewed at: http://math.buffalostate.edu/~pufem/ .
In addition, this grant provides students with the opportunity to create digital portfolios for NYSED licensure, NCATE assessment and career development.
Project Title: "Resistors, Conductors, and Televisual Panic: Technologies, Classrooms, and Human Intelligence after September 11."
Project Coordinator: Allen Shelton - Sociology Department
This grant was included in the coordination of the 2002 Spring Technology Fair. It allowed Allen to bring in additional well-known speakers to attract a wider community involvement to Buffalo State College. Thanks to Allen we now have expanded the event.
Project Title: "Classroom Response System"
Project Coordinator: David P. Wegenast - Social Work Department
The Classroom Performance System, (CPS) is an Infrared response system that supports real-time interaction in the training-room. CPS allows you to ask questions and get immediate responses from every trainee. This tool also tracks the results of individual trainees and instantly grades all types of assessments. CPS is a revolutionary system that will engage your trainees and free you from mundane administrative tasks!
- Automatically grade every assessment you deliver! Lessons can contain any type of forced choice assessments. You can view individual trainee as well as entire class scores in 4 different reports.
- Reuse existing content from previous lesson plans.
- Ensure that every student in the training-room has an opportunity to respond. The more actively involved they are, the more they will attain and retain.
- Ask questions during the lecture and instant feedback about what your trainees do and don't understand.
- Encourage collaborative learning by using team activities.
- Focus more time on student needs: mentoring, coaching, and facilitating and less on mundane administrative tasks.
- Increase the flow of performance data to trainees, supervisors, and administrators.
Direct questions and applications
to Nancy Herrmann at ext. 6910,
or e-mail: herrmanl@bscmail.buffalostate.edu