Category Archives: 2015-2016

Awardee: Tobias Armborst Semester of Award: Spring 2016 Materials Awarded: A one-year license for the Social Explorer software Project Description: Social Explorer is a data research and visualization program that provides easy access to a large amount of current and … Continue reading →

Awardee: Bill Hoynes Semester of Award: Fall 2015 Materials Awarded: Dragon voice recognition software Project Description: We used the software to assist with transcribing lengthy interviews. It turned out not to be the best fit for our purposes. While we … Continue reading →

Awardees: Nancy Pokrywka, Cindy Schwarz, Brian Daly, Susan Trumbetta, Ken Livingston Semester of Award: Fall 2015 Materials Awarded: A Samsung Galaxy Pro tablet Project Description: The goal was to use the tablet to create instructional videos using Explain Everything, and … Continue reading →

Awardees: Nancy Pokrywka, Cindy Schwarz, Brian Daly, Susan Trumbetta, Ken Livingston Semester of Award: Fall 2015 Materials Awarded: A samsung galaxy tablet Project Description: In the Physics and Astronomy department, we used the tablets as a platform on which students … Continue reading →

Awardee: Zachary Donhauser Semester of Award: Fall 2015 Materials Awarded: Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Tablet Project Description: I used a tablet to produce instructional videos for my Physical Chemistry class (CHEM-350). I was following a “semi-flipped” classroom model, where … Continue reading →

Awardee: Curtis Dozier Semester of Award: Spring 2016 Materials Awarded: 1 copy of ABBYY Finereader Optical Character Recognition Software Project Description: Like many fields in the humanities, Classical scholars write in a wide range of languages, primarily English, German, Italian, … Continue reading →

Awardee: Matthew Schultz Semester of Award: Spring 2016 Materials Awarded: Go Pro recorder Project Description: The hardware was used to record testimonial-type videos (between 45 – 60 seconds in length) in which students explain why they are going vegan for … Continue reading →

Awardee: Leonard Nevarez Semester of Award: Spring 2016 Materials Awarded: We acquired a camera and a lens for documentary video. Project Description: We filmed excerpts of our course fieldtrips and edited footage into two-minute documentaries. Students recorded voiceover narration after … Continue reading →

Awardee: Barry Lam Semester of Award: Fall 2015 Materials Awarded: I purchased two Shure SM7B microphones, a mixing board, studio monitors, a power conditioner, and microphone desktop stands. Project Description: I used the equipment to record the pilot episode of … Continue reading →

Awardee: Hadley Bergstrom Semester of Award: Spring 2016 Materials Awarded: SMART 3.0 video tracking software (Harvard Apparatus, Holliston, MA) Project Description: We used the SMART 3.0 video tracking software in my lab to automatically detect and quantify behaviors related to … Continue reading →