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2004 Award Recipients - Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology
Stephen Engel and Russell Poldrack
Psychology
for their innovative use of technology to enable undergraduates to design and implement research experiments using functional MRI to measure brain activity.
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"The basic idea was to teach a lab course where people learn the basics of experimental methodology and how to do good science."
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"For a lot of people it was eye-opening in that, they don't expect psychology to be this high-tech."
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"We were really impressed with the creativity that [the students] brought to this task."
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"You see them excited by this technique and what it can do, and that feeds back into your enthusiasm for your own research." - read interview transcript
Tim Groeling
Communication Studies/Speech
for his innovative use of technology to teach political communication theory by giving students experience using multimedia tools to research, create, analyze, and debate political advertising.
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"[This project] allows students to put themselves in the role of persuaders operating through the mass media."
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"They were amazed at how little information they were able to convey, even in a minute."
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"I get a lot out of this, because it's new every single time."
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Kimberly Jansma
French and Francophone Studies
for her innovative use of technology to create a broad range of multimedia modules to give students access to authentic and culturally-rich material, as well as to make these modules available through the Electronic Language Media Archive (ELMA).
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"We want students to be able to use the language right up front."
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"It's the web environment that makes this all possible, because it's completely individual."
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"I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't found it so enjoyable."
