Summer Institute 2008
Call for Applications - Deadline May 12, 2008
Applications are no longer being accepted
for Summer Institute 2008.
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Overview
The ITG Annual Summer Institute is a program for faculty who want to experiment with using technology to supplement their teaching. The Institute is designed to provide an environment in which faculty can focus on incorporating technology into a specific course. The Institute is geared toward faculty with little to no experience with using instructional technology.
Should You Attend?
What Will You Gain by Attending?
Institute Timeline
Project Examples & Past Projects
Applicant Eligibility
Application Submission
Contact
Should You Attend?
The goal of the Summer Institute is to demonstrate technologies and resources which can help many classroom situations, such as:
- Would your students benefit by having online access to course materials and demonstrations so that they could review them outside of class at their own pace?
- Do you create important diagrams or modeling structures on the blackboard? Do your students struggle to copy these, perhaps missing important details? Could your students benefit from having access to an online version of these diagrams or perhaps an animation of these diagrams to use as a resource?
- Are there concepts that students consistently find difficult to grasp? Could these concepts be better explained if you had several ways to show the same phenomena?
- Are students reluctant to inform you when they are not are grasping course content? Would you like to provide them with tools to help this type of communication and make it easier for you to assess their mastery of the material?
- Do your students ask you to put your course materials online?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you are a prime candidate for the Institute.
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What will you gain by attending?
You will meet with colleagues for a four day immersive workshop, during which you will gain:
- time to rethink and redesign your course with a head-start on planning your teaching for fall
- an understanding of the course-related resources available to you and your students
- a comfort-level with software that directly assists you in your course
- independence and confidence using technology in your course
- a chance to talk about teaching with your colleagues
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Institute Timeline
Monday May 12, 2008
Deadline for submission of proposal.
Friday May 16, 2008
Notification via email/telephone of acceptance.
May 19-May 23, 2008
Time available for one 1-hour meeting with an Instructional Technologist
June 2-5, 2008
Summer Institute workshops from 9 am – 3:30 pm
Full day workshops, hands-on development time, and informal discussions with colleagues. Lunch will be provided each day.
Post-Institute
Student technology assistants and ITG staff will develop digital content on behalf of Institute participants. Participants will oversee the progress of projects via email and/or brief, in-person appointments, dependent upon personal schedules. Project deadlines and deliverables will be determined based on the scope of the project and the needs of the instructor.
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Project Examples & Past Projects
Participating faculty will receive a Brown Instructional Technology (BIT) Grant. The BIT Grant provides access to student technology assistants, trained in a variety of software applications, to work with you to create digital content for your course.
For examples of past projects, see the BIT grant page
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Applicant Eligibility
Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants are encouraged to apply. The Institute is geared toward faculty with little to no exposure to using instructional technology. Space is limited.
Application Submission
Applications are no longer being accepted
for Summer Institute 2008.
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Contact Information
The Instructional Technology Group
169 Angell Street (on top of the Paragon Restaurant and across from the Brown Bookstore)
email: itg@brown.edu
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