Michael J. Schreffler proposes to develop and implement web-based resources that will enhance the classroom component of the art history survey courses that his department offers. He is very interested in digitizing still images and video clips with the potential integration of these materials into a PowerPoint presentation. While realizing the significant difficulties with copyright, Schreffler's proposal will enhance art history courses by bringing quality images to the desktop for study without regard to time and place and by obviating the need for the continual replacement of color transparencies that fade with time. Matthew F. Woolman proposes to construct a course web site for a new course dealing with invention and entrepreneurship that is part of the joint Communication Design program between the Shaqab College of Design Arts in Doha, Qatar and Virginia Commonwealth University. The course web site is to host a series of case studies as both text and multimedia.
Enhancements are to include interviews with case study subjects.
Their model envisions the development of a series of competencies designed to teach specific curriculum items to residents which are to incorporate adult learning theory principles into the primary care pediatrics curriculum. Ragazzi and Lovoie will use their Mentorship year to learn the technologies of web page construction and design that will include text, graphics and assessment. SMIL allows the synchronization of video clips with still images or text appearing in adjacent frames or windows on a video monitor. Johnson knows very well that anatomy is a visual science and his goal in his instruction of students is to allow them to build a three-dimensional representation of anatomical structures and their relationships in space. The materials developed by Johnson will be made available asynchronously as web pages and allow preview or review when necessary.