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Featured faculty is a site dedicated to highlighting C.W. Post faculty and their use of innovative teaching technologies to engage the students in their courses and improve the learning process.
Our first recipient:Prof. Patrick Aievoli,
Director of Interactive Multimedia ArtsExamples of some student web archives can be found below:
IMA 504 Social Legal and Ethical Issues in Multimedia
IMA 505 Multimedia History and CriticismPatrick is using the web in two of his Interactive Multimedia Arts courses to develop a web archive for students in the IMA program. A web archive is a series of articles written by students who have researched numerous web sites on a particular topic. The students include hyperlinked references to these external web sites within their article. By putting together a large collection of these articles, Patrick is creating an ever-growing knowledge base that can be used by future students for research purposes.
Patrick describes the approach as “… the students engage in research for their papers (which they are required to complete as an html page) and then accumulate research links and bibliographies that can easily be of help to their current and future classmates. By gathering this into project categories on a class web page we are creating a decent sized and validated reservoir of research materials. We also are going to be using these papers and their links as part of the iMag section of our website. IMag is an ezine dedicated to Interactive Multimedia Arts and available to anyone via the web.”
“I would like to see [the students] build the portal for the program. Right now they are reaping the rewards of the IMA portals but it would work better if they would take it over and let it become a journal like status with an editorial board and a peer review process. iMag or maybe even iMaj-(Interactive Multimedia Arts Journal) could be a great thing.”
“I always have used the Web as a classroom resource since around 1998 but what has really changed for me has been my interpretation of the Web. Ted Nelson (originator of HyperText) wanted the ability to link between content masses to be an organic experience and not a territorial one. So ever since then (1963) the concept of using the Internet to build and link knowledge bases has been the natural goal. …Now we (in the classroom) are starting to use the Internet and the Web for its original intention.”
”Through using web based teaching materials I am able to acquire a tremendous arsenal of examples and visual elements that would have taken a small truck to deliver to the classroom not to mention a complete forest of trees to duplicate or print out. The ability to disseminate information without spending a cent or chopping down any trees is amazing. I come from the educational publishing world so I know what effect new media has had on that business model. It has just about changed everything when it comes to producing or using educational materials in a physical sense as well as in how you mentally prepare for a lecture.”
We in the FTRC congratulate Patrick on his use of technology in teaching, and wish him the best of luck with its development.
If you know of a faculty member at C.W. Post who you would like to nominate for inclusion on this site, please see our nomination page.
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The C.W. POST campus is recognized as having a talented faculty who have developed skills that promote teaching and learning in their classrooms.
The Faculty Technology Resource Center (FTRC) would like to highlight the efforts of faculty who have spent many hours developing and using novel forms of technology in the classroom to advance the learning of their students.
The Featured Faculty site recognizes those faculty who actively engage their students by enhancing the teaching and learning process through the use of technology.
We invite you to nominate either yourself or a faculty colleague, full or part-time, who is currently using some form of technology in a course at the C. W.Post campus.
To submit a nomination, please email the name of the nominee, their email and extension, their web site address (if applicable), and a brief description of their use of technology.
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Prof. Patrick Aievoli,
Director of Interactive Multimedia Arts