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2002-2003 Seed Grant Recipients

Name: Steven D. Anderson, Ph.D.
College: College of Arts and Letters
Department: School of Media Arts & Design
DVD Authoring/Burning Project. Request for a DVD burner to test different platforms and to preserve dvds.
   
Name: Susan K. Barnes
College: Education
Department: Early Childhood Education
Purchase a digital camera to be sent home with first and second grade ESL students being tutored by JMU practicum students. The young children take pictures of favorite family activities and then the pictures are printed at school. The photos become inspiration for language arts activities.
   
Name: C. B. Claiborne
College: Business
Department: Marketing
Purchase copy of Final Cut Pro 3.0. to develop and edit streaming video tracks for classroom presentation and to be available outside of class.
   
Name: Robert Eliason
College: College of Business
Department: Management
Purchase Belkin FirePath (Firewire) PCI card and GVP Firewire Portable 40 GB harddrive in order to teach business plan creation skills through online, streaming video presentations.
   
Name: Hugh Hobson
College: Business
Department: Finance & Business Law
Use of a state of the art graphics tablet when teaching the MBA 630 {Finance} course within the online InfoSec program.
   
Name: Dr. Nikitah Imani
College: College of Arts and Letters
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Purchase SimCity4 for use in a new course. The course will be presented as a developmental model this summer and then implemented formally next year. Using SimCity4, the course will examine the configuration of space, time, and social policy on social realities. Sociological critical theory will be used to analyze relationships between the physical and social environments.
   
Name: Susan E. Kruck
College: College of Business
Department: Computer Information Systems
Purchase of a graphic tablets for use by student for presentations. The topics vary, students are required to present online and often struggle with the whiteboard; the graphics table will alleviate these problems.
   
Name: Ronald Raab
College: CISAT
Department: ISAT
Integrating industrial a biotechnology software package from DNASTAR Inc. into class modules that will teach how such software packages are used in biotech companies, and in addition make this software a learning tool for many of the basic concepts of molecular biology/biotechnology.
   
Name: Harry Reif
College: College of Business
Department: Computer Information Systems
Use a graphics tablet to teach MBA InfoSec Networking course from a distance. To be able to make better use of Centra and to offer students pictures of networking hardware that they wouldn't ordinarily get to see.
   
Name: Mark Rooker
College: College of Arts and Letters
Department: School of Art and Art History
Purchase of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX to create web-based instructional handouts and presentations for all my Metals and Jewelry classes.
   
Name: M. Cathy Sullivan
College: College of Business
Department: Accounting
Purchase of a graphics tablet to teach Accounting for Decision Making and Control in the MBAINFOSEC distance-learning program. Also to teach the same course on campus and pilot a hybrid pedagogy between distance-learning and classroom based teaching. In order to effectively teach accounting using Centra the instructor must use the whiteboard, which necessitates the need for an appropriate graphics tablet.
   
Name: Dr. Roshna Wunderlich
College: College of Science and Math
Department: Biology
The proposed project is for the incorporation of a computer-based data analysis component to a new course in Forensic Anatomy/Biology (BIO 325/ ANTH 395 for spring 2003). The software requested in this proposal allows students to perform hands-on tasks, analyze their data, obtain results as they would in a real forensic case, and learn how to interpret these results.

 

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