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2006 Award Recipients - Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology
2006 Award Recipients Brian P. Copenhaver Award Innovation in Teaching with Technology
Daniel Blumstein
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
for his innovative work in the co-development of software that enables the collection and analysis of data on animal behavior and the use of this tool in teaching field courses.
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" JWatcher is a program that allows you to quantify behavior over time……."
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" I think it’s really neat to provide and create software and exercises and distribute them and share them..."
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" Students respond in a variety of ways. We’ve been polling students to try to get a better idea of what’s working..."
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Nicholas Gessler
Human Complex Systems Program
for teaching non-technical students to develop their own software, so they are able "to express their own ideas about the structure and processes of interactive systems as computer simulations."
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"ALiCE is an acronym for Artificial Life, Culture and Evolution…."
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"Participants in the class have been quite varied. Having this wide-range of participants makes the course interesting..."
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"When participants join the course about 90% of them have never done anything related to programming..."
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Todd Presner
Germanic Languages
for his innovative work in developing a dynamic web-based hypermedia textbook and modular mapping tool that can be used for creating a cultural history of cities and spaces.
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“What would it mean to teach a cultural history class spatially...?"
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"The idea of the class is to foster something I call project-based learning..."
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"This [Hypermedia Berlin] is not a textbook which has been published...instead students are interacting with an environment..."
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for her co-development of Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), an integrated set of network tools that manages the submission and evaluation of written student work, promotes student understanding through writing, and develops students' critical thinking skills.
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“The Calibrated Peer Review program is a comprehensive instructional tool that lets students learn material by writing about it…."
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”The calibration is the training of the students to be reviewers …"
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"We started it in chemistry…but it has moved broadly into many disciplines… "
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