Projects

Currently the STC program works on two types of instructional technology projects at OSU:

Short-term projects

We make appointments with faculty, graduate students, and teaching staff and work with them in their offices or teaching environments on familiar computers. We currently offer instruction in the following:

• Course-management software (Carmen)
• Video capturing, editing, publishing (iMovie, Movie Maker)
  
• Audio capturing, editing, publishing (Audacity, Garageband)
  
• Image-editing software (Photoshop)
  
• Web-development software (Dreamweaver)
  
• Web-building and animation (Flash)
  
• Digital assets management (Media Manager)
  
• Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis)
  
• Web-based applications (the production, storage, and publication of documents, calendars, etc.)

Long-term projects

This option is for teachers interested in meeting throughout a term to develop instructional technology activities, units, media, or assignments they will use frequently in the future.Below are a few examples where combined development efforts have resulted in new materials.

TAGARELA

TAGARELA is an intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) system designed to be fully integrated into the Portuguese Individualized Instruction Program at The Ohio State University. It can be viewed as an intelligent automatic workbook that provides students with opportunities to practice their reading, listening, and writing skills. Because it is a web-based system, it can be used anywhere there is a computer with Internet access.

Students in the STC program helped the TAGARELA team with the interface design and early usability testing, and they also offered student feedback on instructional design issues. This project is completed and is available at the TAGARELA site.

Linguistics Portfolio System

The Linguistics Department is developing a portfolio system for students to document their accomplishments as they work toward their degrees. This portfolio system will allow them to collect and display their interests, internship experience, research experience, projects, organizational involvement, educational background, awards, and other items. The goals is for students to produce a thorough presentation of themselves for potential employers and graduate school reviewers. The system will also function as resume-builder, taking the essential pieces of information the students have entered and compiling it into an attractive resume format.

This project is currently under construction.

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

Harlot is a digital magazine and web forum founded by graduate students in the Department of English. The publication will be a space in which academic and lay audiences engage in rhetorical criticism through submitting multimedia texts for review, responding to published texts or blog, or generating conversation in the forum or wiki pages. The space will also be a teaching resource for a variety of courses, where students across campuses can interact with professional and general audiences. Its name, Harlot, comes out of "harlot of the arts," terms used toward the field of rhetoric due to its interdisciplinarity.

This project is under construction but has a temporary site available for viewing.