Project Outcomes
Using Visual Communication Tools to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Harrison Yang
Oswego
2012
Type of GrantIITG Tier One
Amount of Award:$10,000.00
Design, implement, evaluate, and disseminate an innovative and replicable training model of integrating visual communication tools for teacher candidates at SUNY Oswego, including a training approach to better prepare technology integration across curriculum.
A large output of student portfolio examples, data, publications and press articles are available.
Developing a SUNY-wide Transliteracy Learning Collaborative to Promote Information and Technology Collaboration
Trudi Jacobson
University at Albany
2012
Type of GrantIITG Tier Three
Amount of Award:$60,000.00
Creation of a Transliteracy Learning Collaborative as a SUNY-wide think tank and incubator for promoting transliteracy and emerging frameworks for information literacy including learning analytics, badges, and the semantic web. Other areas of exploration include the transition from high school to college, and developing learning communities.
Enviropedia: A Serious Game about Beverage Container Choices
Lori Scarlatos
Stony Brook University
2012
Type of GrantIITG Tier Three
Amount of Award:$60,000.00
Development of an innovative web-based game situated within an online science learning community. Enviropedia, will emphasize the connections between science and society by focusing on beverage container choice.
The game is available for play here to demonstrate that by concentrating on containers with the larger carbon footprint points are accumulated more rapidly. Additional teaching materials are available.
Initiating Conversations About the End of Life: The Advanced Illness Decision Simulation Environment
Deborah Waldrop
University at Buffalo
2012
Type of GrantIITG Tier Three
Amount of Award:$38,883.00
- Under-Represented or At-Risk Groups
The Advanced Illness Decision Support Environment (AIDSE) and utilize simulation technology to create an environment to engage students in active, real-time learning about how to initiate and facilitate decision-making conversations with patients about their goals for care and desired outcomes.
Website provides freely available modules for learning more about end-of-life decision making.
Observations of Students in Clinical Settings via iPads
Pam Youngs-Maher
Upstate Medical University
2012
Type of GrantIITG Tier Three
Amount of Award:$25,640.00
Use of iPads to observe real time patient encounters and feedback to participating students in multiple health professions. Written feedback documented outcomes in a web-based database.
Faculty cohort (n=16) in health professions (Nursing, PT, Pediatrics) report FaceTime can be effective for use in Grand Rounds. Report includes issues regarding secure network connectivity within hospital environments to ensure HIPPA compliance.