The Education Technology Center (ETC) is developing
a home page on a World Wide Web (WWW) server. Mary Long
created a WWW learning environment called
The Source for
Philosophy and Religious Studies classes. Her students have
been accessing The Source from the Electronic Forum, but now
Long uses Mosaic in class as a lecture tool on a new
Macintosh computer and projection system. With release time
granted by Dean of Instruction Ken Roberts, Long is
helping other faculty who want to provide instructionally
related material that connects to the Internet.
In the Fitness Center, Jack Chisum is leading a project
to produce a Hypercard stack that will include QuickTime
video clips to show proper exercise mechanics. Students in
the Fitness Center obtain medical information from the
Family Doctor CD-ROM and from the Internet.
With a grant from the National Security Agency, a
microcomputer-based and calculator-based learning laboratory
is being built and should be ready by February 1995.
Students in MAT 155 and above, as well as those in chemistry
and physics will have access to the lab.
Communications instructor Peter Facciola is developing
a Hypercard stack to help his COM 207 students learn and
practice APA publishing style. In Dynamic Learning (an
integrated class of English, humanities, communication, and
service learning), Facciola, Jackie Jaap, and Yvonne
Montiel are using technology for writing workshops and
Internet exploration. Students are conducting communication
campaigns to effect change on social issues. For example, on
the issue of gun control, students track the latest
Congressional discussions and correspond via electronic mail
with representatives. The Dynamic Learning classroom is now
equipped with ten Macintosh computers, a video projector,
LCD panel, and a camcorder. Students use Microsoft Office
and are learning to make multimedia presentations.
LynnAnn Wojciechowicz enhances discussions in her
humanities classes by incorporating multimedia CD-ROM
software such as Encarta, Art Gallery, and Musical
Instruments. She completed a
review of more than 28 software titles for humanities.
Wojciechowicz also helps faculty in
many disciplines use the Electronic Forum. SMCC is hosting a
linked electronic forum for Phi Theta Kappa as well as one
for the District Apollo project
where students provide input
on the Oracle Computer System Project.
In classes taught by Laurita Moore de Diaz, computers
are used to a large extent. It is part of a movement for
diversity in technology she calls "MIT," or Minorities In
Technology.
Computers and music are a significant part of George
Barrientos' "Algebra without Anxiety" classes. Barrientos
uses an LCD panel as a lecture aid as well as graphing
calculators because he wants to use "as many technology
tools as [they] can!"
With the support of a District Instructional Technology
grant, Karen Park is developing a multimedia CD-ROM for
anatomy and physiology. Her students helped plan the
storyboards and gathered images for the program. Park is
evaluating the potential of the A.D.A.M. software and its
authoring kit to assemble the project.