And the winners were:

First Place ($3000 award): Michael Carenbauer Music Technology and Guitar Instruction at UALR This project involves the highly innovative use of technology to teach music performance, theory and technique. Carenbauer uses video in RealPlayer and Quicktime format for a powerful supplement to performance and technical material assigned to Pop Guitar students. His use of animated PowerPoint slides has greatly enhanced the presentation of theoretical material, and he posts this material on the internet for students to review at their convenience. Guitar Reading students use Finale Notepad, a free software download, to view and hear course material. Carenbauer uses accompaniment software in his weekly private sessions with students majoring in guitar performance. He emails the midi files to students to give them the opportunity to rehearse with "virtual ensembles" during the week. Students use guitar synthesizers to perform material Carenbauer has composed or arranged with the Finale notation software program. Carenbauer also uses MIDI and MP3 technology to give students access to rehearsal and performance material. Carenbauer's project allows for an individualization of the learning experience for each student across a wide range of skill levels.

Second Place Tie ($2000 award to each):

and...

Laura Smoller
History
The History of Mathematics on the Web for High School Students:
A Supplement to the UALR On-Line Precalculus Math Course
This project was designed to enrich students' experience of mathematics by including information on selected topics in its history. The use of highly interactive materials and pages that give a sense of mathematicians as people yield an informative and engaging learning experience.
http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/pagelist.html

Third Place ($1000 award):

Stephanie Dhonau & Dave McAlpine
DISLS
Streaming Best Practices: Digital Video Segments in the Second Language Methods Course.
Streaming video was used to create examples of minilessons by instructors and by students that were demonstrations of best practices in the instruction of second languages. These minilessons were linked to reflective questions, readings, and in-class activities to bring all of these together into a cohesive whole.

Other Teaching with Technology Fair projects:

Bonnie Black
Art Education
Technology Enhancements in the Foundations of Art Education Course:
Students Develop Digital Portfolios and Computer Based Instruction for the K-12 Art Classroom
The project incoporated the use of technology and the internet for research and the production of web sites and lesson presentations in a course for art education majors. This also helped them produce the digital portfolio that will be a requirement as part of the teacher licensing process.

Andrew Eshleman
Philosophy and Liberal Studies
List3310 999: Reasoning Across the Disciplines
This is an on-line version of the introductory course for the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts program. It focuses on fundamental critical thinking skills. This will be an important course in the development of an online versions of this degree.

Stephen Grace
Biology
The Botany Web Project: An Online Learning Resource for Plant Science Education
This multimedia website was created for the introductory Botany course at UALR. The site includes an online botanical image database and is used to supplement face-to-face instruction.

Thea Hoeft, Bill Butler, Justin Chia, Jan Dannaway,
Carla Griffin, Constance Hurd, Margaret McClain
Academic Advising, University College
The Implementation and Delivery of Electronic Advising
The Office of Academic Advising now offers electronic advising to students via email. Students first complete a downloaded authorization form which allows them to work with an advisor through email by clicking on an animated image. An email advising form is then sent to the appropriate advisor. The advisor reviews the student's file and responds within 48 hours.
http://www.ualr.edu/~aadept/e-advising.html

Barb L'Eplattenier, Larry Henthorn, Kristina Decker
Rhetoric and Writing
CyberSpace Project
The CyberSpace Project, an outreach program helping high school and community college students develop their writing and computer skills, serves as a valuable recruitment and retention tool for UALR. The CyberSpace website is located at
http://www.ualr.edu/~cyberspace.

Johanna Lewis Miller, Jessica Fullbright
History, Public History Program
A Gathering of Women: Arkansas Women 1930-2000
This website is part of alrger history project which includes a traveling exhibit, a oster and a published bibliopgraphy. It replaces the typical exhibit catalog and helps get the information out to a wider audience via the internet.

Alan Marks
Sociology, Anthropology and Gerontology
Teaching with Technology: Utilization of Animation/Flash and Mind Mapping to Communicate Scholarly Materials and Ideas
This presentation demonstrated the use of technology as a teaching and learning modality in communication basic social science concepts. It utilizes a multimedia approach to create a more dynamic and interesting presentation of basic sociological concepts.
http://members.tripod.com/aphdmansoc/fair/

John Pickett
Economics and Finance
"SmartStat" Student Resource Website
"SmartStat" is website designed to assist UALR statistics students. It offers an extended discussion on various statistical topics, tutorials, glossary, message board, on-line feedback and questionaire, and links to other statistical sites.
http://www.ualr.edu/smartstat/

Pam Warrick
Secondary Education
Electronic Portfolio and Assessment: SCED 4330 Reflective Teaching and Professionalization
The student-teacher electronic portfolio is facilitated through WEBCT and seminar. The "How to Create an Electronic Portfolio" is in Adobe's PDF format and conveniently zipped for quick download to the student-teacher's desktop. The course also contains sample student-teacher portfolios to examine.

Richard Zraik, Terry Hutton
Audiology and Speech Pathology
The Use of Simulated Patients to Teach Principles of Clinical Management of Communication Impairment
These technology-based clinical training materials help students to partially fulfill their requirement for supervised clinical observation through the use of standardized/simulated patients. Vignettes of actors portraying persons with a variety of communication impairments were interwoven with PowerPoint presentations.

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The Judges:
Dr. Diane Heestand and Dr. Robin Smith, Office of Educational Development, UAMS. Dr. Heestand, Director of OED, and her associate are both experienced instructional designers. Dr. Heestand has also been a leader in several professional organizations in the area of educational communications and has extensive experience as a college instructor.

Dr. Cheryl Murphy, Educational Technology, UAF. Dr. Murphy has her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in instructional design and technology. She has extensive research and teaching experience in the design and use of technology in the classroom and her most recent research involves the development and assessment of online programs.

Pat Torvestad, Director of Planning and Development, UA System Office. Ms. Torvestad has played a leading role in building liasions between the UA System campuses in the area of distance education. She co-directs the UA Distance Learning Academy--a faculty development program open to faculty from all of the UA campuses.