Project Description:

This project will partially illustrate how humanities faculty can incorporate technology in classroom delivery and course design. The techniques used in our project can be utilized by others and hopefully will encourage faculty to try new technological elements in their own teaching. The visual articulation of this project will include classroom elements of a redesigned World War II course focusing on the effects of the era on the average American that adds technology components to the faculty delivery system, student research assignments with additional student group projects.

Action Plan:

December 6 - 18, 1999
Beginning with our return to the Richland campus the team will establish an e-mail group to include the following: the Richland project team, George Massingale, Dean of Humanities, Kathy Yates and Carole Lester, faculty, Orange-Burg-Calhoun Technical College team, the project mentors, Donna Erhart and Charley Boyd, Linda Coronado, Richland V.P. of Student Learning, Jean Conway, Dean of World Languages, Cultures and Communication, and a representative from the Dallas County Community College District office, and Jesse Jones, North Texas Community College Consortium.

December 10
Add faculty member Bill Matter to the team to begin transferring the existing course content to the Blackboard platform. Project team will add our campus faculty resources to the effort, including: Emilio Ramos from the LeCroy Center, Lolita Gilkes, Multimedia Production lab, Peggy Goode, Computer Science.

Carole and Kathy will prepare press releases identifying the project as sponsored by CCHA and funded by the NEH for the Campus staff newsletter, The Bridge, the DCCCD staff newsletter, Intercom, for release by the Public Information office to area newspapers, and for use on RTV the area educational channel.

December 14
Team project presentation to Richland President, Steve Mittelstet, and the president's cabinet. (moved to Feb. 1, 2000 because of scheduling conflicts.)

January 3 - 14, 2000
Team begins work on project web site. Kathy and Carole will create the dynamic syllabus on blackboard and begin adding source links to World War II and other history web sites.

Kathy, Carole, George and Bill will begin planning first faculty workshop. Topics for workshop to include both content and process. Workshop will utilize on-campus faculty and staff resources as presenters. Focus on the workshop will be to encourage the formation of faculty teams to fuse content and technology to enhance student learning.

January 7
Project team (Carole, Kathy, George and Bill ) meets for status report on web site, syllabus and workshop planning. No written agenda.

January 15
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group, copied to CCHA leaders.

February 1
Team project presentation to Richland President, Steve Mittelstet, and the president's cabinet. George and Carole will begin budget review, items to include faculty release time and instructional development grants.

February 4
Team meets for workshop and project update meeting.

February 14
Carole, and Bill continue pre-preduction phase of project web page design.

February 15
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

February 15 - 28
Web design team continues Web design.

February 29
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

March 1
Carole and Bill begin the production stage of the web site production. Carole and Bill will also begin copying class components form the Blackboard demonstration class to the web site.

March 15
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group. Copied by mentors to CCHA team.

March 30
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

April 1 - 14
Team (Carole, Bill, Kathy & George) plans faculty development workshop - rescheduled from earlier in spring.

April 15
Team (Carole, Bill, Kathy & George) meets for update on planning for faculty development workshop.

April 25
Faculty Development "Brown Bag" Workshop 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in room B228.

April 30
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

May 15
Faculty leaves campus for summer - no meetings scheduled until August.
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

July 1 - 14
Student focus group from summer classes invited to log onto web site and blackboard to test access.

August 1
Carole, Kathy, Bill and George begin planning for mentor site visit and second faculty workshop.

August 15
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

August 30
Workshop and site visit planning continues

September 1
Richland team issues district-wide invitation to the workshop. Project progress report sent to President Steve Mittelstet with copies sent to mentors and CCHA leaders.

September 19 - 21
Mentor site visit and second faculty workshop. Itinerary and presenters list included in final report.

September 15
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

September 30
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

October 1 - 31
Revisions to web site continues (Bill and Carole) as identified by accessing site.

October 20
Mentors send site visit report to CCHA and NEH (Charley Evans, copy to David Berry.)

October 30
Project team leader (Carole) sends e-mail status report to mentors and e-mail group.

November 1 - 20
More web site revisions (Bill and Carole)

December 1, 2000
Project team leader (Carole) sends project report to Steve Mittelstet with copies to mentor team.

January 3 - 31, 2001
Web site updates continue.

February 1 - 28
Team meets to more fully develop class monograph format and secure funding for publication.

March - April 2001
Team serves as technical mentors to faculty discipline meetings were requested.

May - August, 2001
Faculty leaves for summer. Will schedule periodic meetings for class planning and web page updates.

August 31, 2001
Classes begin - team begins teaching WWII class.

October, 2001
CCHA national conference

December 7, 2001
Last day of classes - WWII campus presentation.

Author: Becky Driscoll
E-Mail: bdriscoll@dcccd.edu