The new Teaching, Learning, & Technologies Initiative, launched in the summer of 2011, brings together staff members from CNDLS and the Gelardin New Media Center to help faculty generate projects that use technology to advance particular learning goals and instructional interactions.  The resulting curricular projects will deeply address conceptual topics or teaching challenges and employ assessment activities to track student progress, shifts in teaching practice, and how technology mediates these.

During the Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI) this May, CNDLS and Gelardin staff worked closely with a group of 23 faculty members during a three-day workshop series focusing on issues of technology and teaching. Following that brief summer program, we accepted applications for several fellowship positions. TLT fellows would be expected to continue developing the ideas they had begun during the summer program and implement them in at least one course during the academic year.

We are pleased to be working with the following fellows during the 2011-2012 year. For more on their projects, please visit their portfolios (linked to their names) or the team hub.

Betsy Sigman (McDonough School of Business)
For her TLT project, Betsy is integrating a number of tools into her course on databases, including blogs, Twitter, Zotero, and Dipity.

Dana Luciano (English; Women’s and Gender Studies)
During her TLT fellowship, Dana is refining and expanding her use of course blogs and ePortfolios, as well as introducing an wiki assignment. She’s thinking beyond her courses to develop practices that could be adopted by others in her program.

Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding; Catholic Studies; Liberal Studies)
Diane is redesigning student assignments to incorporate new media technologies. For example, for one of her projects, students are creating virtual exhibitions and guides to images of Mary around Georgetown. She’s also incorporating the Wikipedia Project into her courses.

Matt Burstein (Philosophy; Kennedy Institute of Ethics)
For his TLT project, Matt plans several new elements for his course: low-stakes writing assignments designed to increase interactivity, lecture capture recordings for students to view before class discussions, and digital portfolio final projects.

Nancy Crego (Nursing and Health Studies)
Nancy has been using video simulations in her classes for some time, and will be experimenting with new ways to make these activities beneficial for her students as well as more efficient as a tool for giving feedback.

Sylvia Önder (Turkish; Anthropology)
Sylvia’s TLT projects, which will involve courses in Turkish language as well as Anthropology, will include blogs, mapping tools, timelines, and ePortfolios. We look forward to collaborating with this enthusiastic and dedicated group of fellows! Stay tuned for more updates on their projects throughout the year.