Use of Technology in Teaching
The following resources are online or available at Pickler
Memorial Library.
Instructional Design Services
(a Division of Information Technology Services and The Center for
Teaching and Learning). Truman State University. 2 July
2007.
http://ids.truman.edu/
Box-Steffensmeier, Janet and others. "Virtual Field Trips: Bringing
College Students and Policymakers Together through Interactive Technology."
PS: Political Science and Politics. 33, 4 (Dec. 2000): 829-834.
(Location: Periodicals JA 28 P24).
Examines the impact of adding interactive video technology in an
experimental course, "Congress and the Policy Process", in which the students
held conversations with participants in Washington politics who acted as video
seminar speakers. Reports that interaction with politicians improved the
student learning experiences and grasp of the course material.
Information Resources Library.
Educause. 12 Feb. 2003. <http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/subject_docs.asp?Term_ID=388
>
This is a bibliography by Educause of electronic articles and
PowerPoint shows on faculty technology development.
Lavoie, David R. "A
Resource-Enriched Learning Model." Educause Quarterly.
24,2 (2001), 67-68. (Location: Periodicals LB 2395.7 C38)
Describes the Resource-Enriched Learning Model, a process which
dovetails the individual efforts and interests of college librarians,
instructional technologists, and faculty, requiring their collaboration at the
micro level to succeed in meeting their separate but overlapping goals.
The process results in a technological and information literacy infrastructure.
Pitt, Sharon P.: Updike, Christina B.; Guthrie, Miriam E.
"Integrating
Digital Images into the Art and Art History Curriculum."
Educause Quarterly v. 25 n.2 p.38-44. (available at
Pickler Library Periodicals LB 2395.7 C38).
Describes an Internet based image database system connected to a
flexible, in-class teaching and learning tool (the Madison Digital Image
Database) developed at James Madison University to bring digital images to the
arts and humanities classroom. Discusses content, copyright issues,
ensuring system effectiveness, instructional impact, sharing the database,
evaluation and lessons learned.
Resources. Teaching and
Learning Technology Group. 12 Feb. 2003. <http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/index.html>.
These are articles, URLs, case studies, workshop materials, talks,
products and services presented by the Teaching and Learning Technology Group.
World Lecture Hall.
Center for Instructional Technologies. University of Texas at Austin. 12
Feb. 2003 <http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/>
An award-winning site with links to pages created by faculty
worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.
Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed
for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between, and all can be
visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet, faculty developers
and curious students alike.
Web Showcase. Center for
Instructional Technologies. University of Texas at Austin. 12 Feb.
2003. <http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/webshowcase/index.html>
Examples of best practices from around the country's campuses—and
beyond—to give you a taste of what is possible.
Compiled by Carol Lockhart
Pickler Memorial Library