Faculty Tablet PC Grant Award Recipients

The grants are made possible through the VITRC department whose mission is to enhance the teaching and learning process in the university community by promoting the integration of emerging technological tools into classroom instruction. 

VITRC annually awards up to four $2000 grants that are meant to be an incentive for faculty to adapt current courses or create new courses to enhance the e-Learning environment at LTU. 

These grants have been awarded annually since 2005 for faculty seeking to develop innovative hybrid and/or fully online courses to support the application of Blackboard, Streaming Video, Wimba, and Video Conferencing.

2008 Award Recipients

Professor Zwiesler-Vollick of Natural Sciences will explore the use of the Tablet PC for annotation of flowcharts or other course of study documentation as a way for advisors to keep a digital record of issues discussed during advising and will save time spent checking into the same things semester after semester.  Additionally she will explore use of the Tablet PC as a means to help facilitate the collaborative aspects of advising for both advisor and advisee.

Professor Patricia Shamamy of Mechanical Engineering proposes to develop the use of the Tablet PC to create a hybrid course for EGE 2013, Statics.  Professor Shamamy's will focus on utilizing the Tablet PC and Pen for engineering problem solving in a virtual classroom setting.