Every year the Department of Information Technologies awards IT Faculty Technology Stipends to
UMaine faculty. These stipends are to compensate for the extra time and effort needed for faculty members to
develop technology-based resources for their courses.
Between 12-15 awards are made annually. The stipends range from $1,000 to $1,250 each.
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Speaker |
Video |
Topic |
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John Gregory, Executive Director of IT |
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reflects on the growing role of technology on our campus. |
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Owen Smith, Keynote Speaker |
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illuminates the potential of the Innovative Media Research and Comercialization Center. |
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Todd Zoroya, Mathematics |
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will demonstrate the importance of iPads in the classroom and how these devices can be used to help engage
the students in a hands on learning experience. |
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John Sherblom, CMJ |
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is looking to add an international component to the CMJ 450 Communication and Technology
course by providing additional capability for communication to Acadia University in Nova Scotia,
as well as provide the needed campus space to host lectures and small group meetings. |
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Steven Sader, Forest Resources |
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is planning on modifying some of his Forestry courses to work with BlackBoard to provide students with
lab pre-quizzes as well as online lecture question sets in hopes to retain more students in the program, and to reduce the
amount of low grades students receive. |
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Ed Nadeau and Andy Mauery, Art |
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plan to use iPads in some of his 2D design courses to directly plunge students into
various forms of art, allowing an immediate visual connection to the artist, and the artistic language being taught. |
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James Fastook, Computer Science |
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is integrating the iPad as a teaching aid into his COS215 course to maintain the natural pace of a
computer-less teaching environment while taking full advantage of the digital realm. |
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Eric Gallandt, Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences |
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harnesses the power of asynchronous communication to orient and involve students outside
of the classroom with a series of summarized lecture videos and computer generated tests. |
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Robert Glover, Political Science |
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brings life to the University's first online section of POS201 through the use of Social Network
integration, podcasts, and online repository and feedback systems. |
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Michael Grillo, Art |
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strives to keep up with the constantly changing technologies by using the current version
of Photoshop and the use of a portable digital projector, and how these tools prove beneficial to students in his Photography
and History of Art courses. |
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David Hiebeler, Math and Statistics |
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Seeks to replace the whiteboard through the use of iPads in the classroom. He will discuss how using
an iPad creates a more visually appealing way to learn, increases mobility and flexibility, and also how convenient storing
lectures can be. |
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Tina Passman, MLC, Peace Studies |
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strives to make the experience in Second Life for students in her online courses more user
friendly by implementing Vushi, a learning management system specifically designed for virtual world software to alleviate technical
issues as well as enhancing the learning environment as a whole. |
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Amy Cross, DLL |
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seeks to revitalize and standardize our academic approach to using SecondLife™ in University of Maine
classes based on a set of best practices as defined by the Four Bridges Project. |
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