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Astonishing the Senses Demo
As teachers of theater, one of the greatest challenges
Professors Crystal Tiala and Jennifer Stiles in the Department
of Theatre face is the ability to effectively convey the interdisciplinary
nuances of theatrical style. Professor Tiala and Stiles Flash-based
developed a demo for a media book that teaches the principle styles
of Western theater.
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Center for Excellence in Home Care
A collaboration between the Connell School of Nursing and the Visiting Nurse Association of Boston, the Center provides community health training for CSON students and professional development for VNAB staff members. Center Director Adele Pike wanted to establish a way for the two groups to share common resources, and better integrate theoretical and practical information.
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China Gateway
China Gateway was envisioned by Professor Rebecca Nedostup
of the History Department as
an introduction to the wealth of information available on China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora. To create the site, she
drew on distinctive Boston College resources as well as the wider
internet and digitized print material, supplemented by specially
created learning objects.
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Covering Photography
Covering Photography is a web-based archive and resource for the study of the relationship between the history of photography and book cover design. It was created by Professor Karl Baden (Fine Arts Department), who wanted to make publicly available his 1000+ collection of images of classic photos, used and recontextualized in various ways on book covers.
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C21 Online
C21Online is the online continuing education initiative
co-sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century and the Institute
of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry. Dr. Barbara Radtke,
Program Coordinator for C21 Online, wanted to expand the continuing
education mission of C21Online through the development of a public
website and a series of WebCT courses.
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The First-Year Writing Seminar (FWS)
Funded by a Faculty Summer Workshop Grant, Lad Tobin and Ricco Siasoco collaborated with IDeS to create an online teaching resource repository to support faculty who teach the First-Year Writing Seminar. This site is designed to offer faculty a collaborative space where they can share teaching resources such as syllabi, readings, and assignments and where they can discuss the challenging teaching issues they face. |
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GenerationPulse
Professor Belle Liang (LSOE) was moved by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, especially its effect on displaced youth, and wanted to create a supportive environment where they could help themselves and each other by exchanging experiences. She gathered a team of students and they set out to create a web site, which now has sections on issues facing teens, opportunities for outreach (for example through service programs), and global trends and events.
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The Death of Jesus: Four Gospel Accounts
Phil Cunningham (Center for Christian-Jewish Learning)
and Barbara Radtke (C21 Online) approached IDeS with an idea for
an online tutorial that would enable participants to explore the
Gospel passion narratives in new ways. IDeS created a website featuring
interactive commentaries that guide users through each of the five
scenes in the four Gospel narratives, supplemented by historical
background materials and an introduction to reading the bible in
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John Adams: Boston and Braintree
Marc Landy, from the political science department,
is the director of an NEH summer program on John Adams. Professor
Landy needed a website that would serve as a marketing tool to
spread the word about the program, as a communication medium for
those planning to attend, and as a course website for participants
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NU264: Professional Nursing II
NU 264 01: Professional Nursing II focuses on the transition from the student to practitioner role. The increased enrollment in this last required nursing course for graduating seniors motivated Judy Vessey of the William F. Connell School of Nursing to move from a straight lecture format to an interactive web-based format in order to meet the course goals of developing critical thinking and practical technology skills for the practitioner.
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Organizational Behavior Teaching Toolkit
Professor Michael O'Leary in the Organization
Studies Department wanted to create a web-based teaching toolkit
containing learning objects for faculty and teaching fellows teaching
multiple Organizational Behavior courses. A number of learning objects
professors use in their courses were collected, digitized, and uploaded
into the site.
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Patient Assignment Game
The Patient Assignment Game was envisioned by Professor Robin Wood in the Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Wood wanted to create an interactive simulation for post-Masters-level nurse educators. Simulating a clinical environment, users practice making patient assignments. Users play the game by pairing hypothetical students with patients on a typical clinical day.
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Perspectives I
With multiple instructors and more than twenty sections,
this distinctive Boston College program seemed an ideal candidate
for a digital repository of shared material. The faculty team also
wanted a means of visually representing the relationships among
philosophical and religious movements and leaders, and other forms
of culture.
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PY030 Child Growth and Development
Coordinating this social science core course, Professors Penny Hauser-Cram and Jackie Lerner provide a wealth of professional and multi-media material to 8-10 sections and their instructors. They saw the benefit of delivering these resources through a web site so students could continue to refer to them outside class, and have convenient access to the library databases essential to work in the field.
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Rhetorical Tradition
The Communication
Department hoped digital technology could
provide a way to make the media-rich offerings of this flagship course
extend even further. Professor Bonnie Jefferson wanted to make the
audio and video clips of the great speeches and other examples she
was showing the students available to them outside class for further
study.
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20th Century and the Tradition
The Arts and Science Honors program wanted to develop a site that would serve as a common resource for the course "20th Century and the Tradition," a seminar required for all 3rd-year students in the program. Because this course is highly interdisciplinary in nature, the Honors Program needed a vehicle for distributing a wide variety of multimedia course material to both students and faculty.
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Torts
Using WebCT Vista, Judy developed a staggered system of feedback
that balanced the workload among small peer groups, a teaching
assistant, and Judy herself. By providing this range of online
opportunities for feedback, Judy intended to maximize the face-to-face
time she spent with students in her office and enhance the attention
she could give to her written responses.
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XUL: Signo viejo y nuevo
Professor Ernesto Livon-Grosman of the Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures wanted to create an electronic version
of XUL:
Old and New Sign. XUL is a journal of experimental writing first
published in Buenos Aires in the early 1980s. This website contains
all 11 issues of XUL and English translations originally published in The
XUL Reader. In
the future, this site will house scholarly texts about the pieces that were originally
published in XUL.
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