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Fall
2004
The American Lives Project
prototype website with a focus on the WU campus
during the Civil Rights era, including unique tools for multimedia
searching.
Executive Editor:
Gina Frey Director,
The Teaching Center
Editors:
Kathy Atnip, Director The
Teaching Lab in A&S
Liz Peterson, Associate
Director, The Teaching Center
Published in the fall semester
each year by The Teaching and Technology Partnership: Olin Library, The
Teaching Center and A&S Computing. Comments to
iteach@artsci.wustl.edu
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FEATURE STORIES |
American Culture Studies leads integration of technology into A&S
curriculum
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American
Culture Studies in Arts & Sciences has charted a course into the
territory of technology in education, creating a technologically
fluent population of research-oriented undergraduate students and
building a number of online cultural collections along the way.
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Teaching with tablets (PCs, that is)
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Chemistry professors
in Arts & Sciences are using laptop computers in class with a
twist. Tablet PCs with covers that open like a laptop’s, but twist
to accept pen input like a clipboard have helped engage students,
add emphasis in class, and preserve in-class content.
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TELESIS COURSE MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM |
Telesis available for all courses
| Beginning with the fall 2004
semester, the Telesis course management system is available for
use in all university courses.
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TECHNOLOGY for TEACHING |
Grad students create visualization tools for A&S courses
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Under the direction of
a faculty sponsor, graduate students in Anthropology, Art History,
Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Physics have created online
teaching modules aimed at enhancing student learning.
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Washington University has recently acquired a campus-wide license
for Geospatial Information Science (GIS) software, ArcGIS from
ESRI.
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Interested in wireless networking for
teaching?
| The School of Arts & Sciences is
calling for proposals from faculty who would like to use wireless
networking in undergraduate and graduate A&S courses.
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Humanities Digital Workshop opens this fall
| Humanities faculty have a growing
interest in the ways technology can help advance teaching and
research, and in the development and use of digital archives to
support classroom learning and independent scholarship. In
response to these interests, we will open the Humanities Digital
Workshop in Eads Hall during the fall 2004 semester.
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WebREC: online
recommendation system
| Faculty can
streamline the process of writing recommendations for students
using WebREC, the new The Career Center online recommendation file
system.
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IT FLUENCY for
UNDERGRADUATES |
Look Ahead: Learning with Technology in A&S
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The Arts
& Sciences Class of 2008 received a preview of campus technology
via US Mail this summer.
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