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CIT Services:

  • Online Learning
  • Blackboard Support
  • Classroom Technology Support
  • Application Support and Multimedia Project Development
  • Plato Academic Server Support
  • Workshops

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What Can We Do In a Consultation?

  • Application Assistance: basic training in a software application or a software feature
  • Project Development : brainstorming and planning for a student or faculty project involving technology
  • Blackboard training and course development
  • Course Design for Online Courses
  • Web Site Development with Dreamweaver
  • Audio and Video Creation and Editing for podcasting to our iTunes U site
  • Designing and supervising learning experiences in Second Life

iTunes U and Second Life

Access the Mercyhurst College iTunes U site: http://itunes.mercyhurst.edu/

  • The CIT can help you create podcasts of lectures or videos created by or for your course. Currently you can view some CIT material and videos from Hurst TV

Mercyhurst has an island in Second Life, which you can visit here after joining: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Mercyhurst%20College/62/171/23

  • We suggest that you join via the NMC Observer, which will take you to their NMC Orientation Island, a good place for educators.
  • We would be happy to work with you to create an educational project or tool to use in this virtual environment.

Both Mac OS X and Windows Vista computers are available for the following sample projects:

  • audio capturing and editing using GarageBand and Quicktime Pro
  • video capturing and editing using Quicktime Pro, iMovie, iDVD, DVDxDV
  • CD burning of appropriate academic material (visitors must supply CDs)
  • DVD creation using iMovie and iDVD (visitors must supply DVDs)
  • image and document scanning
  • photo and image editing using Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks
  • photo slideshow creation using PowerPoint, Keynote, or Adobe Flash
  • narrated PowerPoint presentations using Adobe Captivate or Microsoft Producer
  • concept mapping projects using Inspiration or Microsoft Visio to visually display the complexity of concepts
  • music editing with the Oxygen 8 Midi Controller Keyboard

Call if you don't see your project idea in this list . . . .

Copyright Responsibility: Faculty, staff, and students are responsible for complying with copyright laws governing fair use when completing projects with CIT equipment. See any of the following sources for further information: Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center, The Fair Use Network, or the U.S. Copyright Office.

Fair Use, Web Publishing, and Copyright

Follow the link above to a brief and clear paragraph reminding us that the Fair Use rules for using text and images in the classroom do not extend to publishing on Web pages.

Search for copyright-free images. such as these, and follow the 10% or 1000 words--whichever is less--rule for text.

 

Technology-Enabled Teaching and Special Topics Grants for Faculty

In the past, the CIT has offered grants to faculty every fall to develop a course or department project using technology to enhance teaching and learning. Beginning in the fall 2008, we will offer grants on special topics.

The first special topic will be Online Course Development: Redesigning Face-to-Face Courses for Online Delivery. Grant recipients will participate in a series of workshops designed to address issues of course translation and will be awarded certificates to teach Mercyhurst online courses.

Here are a few projects from past years, including one from the Director that was not a grant project:

Barbara Pittman, CIT suggests allowing students to have as much control as possible in collaborative technology assignments, even when things fall apart. Part of her reasoning is based on the old "failure is a lesson in itself" adage, and the other part is confidence in the collaborative situation to create its own knowledge. Read more >>>

Kris Wheaton2006 TET Grant recipient: Kris Wheaton, Intelligence Studies: Kris worked alongside his students to produce instructional videos that model good presentation skills. He found that student collaborators offered useful critiques of a project finally directed toward students. Read more >>>
2007 TET Grant recipient: Brian Reed, English: Because Brian uses Web projects for student assignments and clubs, as well as for his professional profile, he wanted to develop some expertise with Dreamweaver software to make his sites more consistent and more universally viewable. Read more >>>
2007 TET Grant recipient: Daliang Wang, World Languages: Daliang created MP3 and video files to supplement an audiovisual text for his Chinese language students, to help them better learn a language for which there is no local community of speakers where they could experience interaction. Read more >>>

 


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