Application Instructions

The Office of Instructional Technology and the Information Technology division will provide a total of ten (10) $800 grants to support faculty members who wish to participate in the ITC Summer Faculty Workshop.  Faculty from all colleges are encouraged to apply.  The 2007 ITC Summer Faculty Workshop will run from June 18th thru June 23rd, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Requirements:

• Completed Statement of Interest submitted *online* by the proposal due date
• Faculty must participate in the full institute to receive full payment
• Faculty participants will be asked to showcase their project on the final day of the institute
• Completed resources/artifacts will be included in the Blackboard Content System’s Learning Object catalog and shared with the Sacred Heart University community
• Faculty will be asked to implement their project created during the institute during the 2007-2008 academic year
• Faculty will be asked to provide a brief, informal assessment/report on their project at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year
• Faculty may be asked to showcase their projects to the Sacred Heart University community during the 2007-2008 academic year

Proposal Due Date:   March 16, 2007

All proposals will be evaluated by the Innovative Teaching Coalition team using the following criteria:

• Quality/clarity of project statement
• Demonstrated need and potential impact of project
• Benefit to University in terms of enhancing the quality of instruction
• Feasibility of completing project in stated timeframe

To Submit your Application to Particpate CLICK HERE

The ITC Summer Faculty Workshop is dedicated to

• Assisting faculty in the production of innovative teaching resources or projects for use during the 2007-2008 school year
• Sharing solutions and experiences from past and current projects in ways that benefit Sacred Heart University's larger teaching community
• Exploring the relationship between pedagogy and technology and promoting discussion on the topic across campus
• Evaluating the impact of technology-enhanced teaching in the classroom

Examples of past ITC Summer Faculty Workshop projects

• The creation and implementation of an online or hybrid version of an existing course
• The development and delivery of educational Podcasts
• The recording and implementation of original audio and video content to be added to an existing online course
• The digitization of a large collection of images, and the construction of numerous PowerPoint presentations to be deployed both in-class and via the web

Sample comments from past participants

• “This week is like dying and going to heaven.  I have not been to anything so useful in many years- if ever.  Everyone was wonderful.”
  
  
• “I was very pleased with the quality of the workshop.  Having three general activities—facilitator presentations of techniques and applications, sharing ideas with colleagues, and producing my own project—worked very well for me.  The model for this workshop should be used for future workshops.”
  
• “It was a great opportunity to learn from other faculty members, to see what other departments are doing and to be able to talk to the IT professionals on campus. I enjoyed that we could work on our projects and we had to develop something… The support was fantastic.”
  
  
• “This is the most productive workshop I have attended. It was long enough and diverse enough to cover multiple topics and allow for work time and application.  Support was more than adequate – the interns were very helpful, and the amount to formal presentation was sufficient. Good structure, ideal size of number of participants and variety of topics and projects.”

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To apply for the 2007 ITC Summer Faculty Workshop General Session, please fill out the online application form AVAILABLE HERE.