Instructional Technology

Alphabetical list of faculty members

• Susan Alcock (salcock@umich.edu), Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, teaches courses in classical archaeology and classical civilization in which undergraduates engage directly with artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology on campus. In courses such as 'Food in the Ancient World' and 'Death in the Ancient World', students select and research objects, and then design an exhibit for the public. Sometimes the show is 'real' (with objects actually on display in the Kelsey) and is then transferred to an online exhibit. Other times, the exhibit is exclusively Web-based. Two examples are:"A Taste of the AncientWorld" at http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/Food/text/Food.html; and"Death on Display in the Ancient World" at http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/Death_on_Display/.

   

Link to CRLT TTI Grant Projects 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

• Mining Corpora: Students as Academic Language Investigators

  Pamela S. H. Bogart, Lecturer IV, English Language Institute/LSA

  ELI students face a particularly difficult challenge in their academic writing when it comes to selecting appropriate “collocations,” or words that pattern together in high frequency and thus “sound right" to fluent English speakers. This project facilitates student use of online “corpora” databases of real language use that are designed for language researchers and that can thus be unwieldy for language learners. The project team therefore created an online video tutorial showing students how to conduct collocation investigations based on word choices in their own writing. Students log their process and findings in a Sitemaker database, where they can also view the findings of their peers. Students reported being pleased and surprised to find a resource for discovering how words pattern in real language use. Since some student conclusions about collocations have been inaccurate, future work will focus on developing additional online tutorials to support more sophisticated searches.

Link to CRLT TTI Grant Projects 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011

• Applied Ethics in the Ancient World

  Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Associate Professor, Classical Studies, LS&A, (rappe@umich.edu)

  Professor Ahbel-Rappe’s project prepares and facilitates the creation of websites that connect students’ own identities and aspirations to social issues in the ancient world. Through multi-media explorations (video, interview, performance, conferencing, etc.) students’ websites address the ancient Greek and Roman intellectual record with special focus on possibilities for social, intellectual, and scientific protest and debate.