ITGP Awards: Spring, 2006
Online Japanese Character (Kanji) Database
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| Principal Investigator |
William Burton
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| Department |
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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| School/College |
College of Arts and Sciences
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| Investigators |
Sarah Frederick, Mariko Itoh Henstock
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| Project Description | |
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The acquisition of written Japanese — a language comprised of thousands of Japanese-
Chinese characters (kanji), each with at least two different pronunciations — presents an
incredible challenge to the organizational and memorization skills of the student and
teacher alike. The object of this project is to make available through web page access an
interactive database designed to aid in the identification and drilling of the 1850
characters used in everyday written Japanese. In addition, this program will serve as a
method for instructors to create and distribute a variety of reading and writing exercises
and drills for their students.
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VisionU: Visualizing Science in Our Non-major Undergraduates
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| Principal Investigator |
Samuel Hammer
and Karina Baum
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| Department |
Division of Natural Science
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| School/College |
College of General Studies
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| Project Description | |
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Visualization is key to biological understanding but challenging for non-science majors.
Students experience disparity among images encountered in lecture, texts, and exams.
Textbook illustrations and photomicrographs are adequate, but an approach that
emphasizes student participation in image-making may better meet non-majors'
conceptual needs. We will help our students develop visually integrated course material
using handheld digital microscopes that link directly to computers. Our goal is to
encourage students to actively problem solve, and to develop multiple representations of
the scientific concepts we teach. Students will participate in building a still- and video-
image library that we will publish on a Web-based "bioblog."
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The Diagnosis of Major Depression in Patients, an Instructional Project for Medical Students
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| Principal Investigator |
Douglas Hughes
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| Department |
Department of Psychiatry
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| School/College |
School of Medicine
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| Investigators |
John Wiecha, Gail March, Brian Perreault, Wayne LaMorte
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| Project Description | |
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Teaching medical students to recognize depression in a patient is challenging as the
symptoms are often based on subtle human emotions. Recognizing and treating patients
with depression is a primary national concern due to the fact that only 38% of depressed
patients are given follow-up appointments by physicians, significantly below other medical
illnesses. The purpose of this instructional depression project is to develop a website with
instructional material on diagnosing depression in patients, streaming videos of
interviews with depressed patients, and testing with factual DSM-IV diagnosing material
and a nationally recognized depression scale. The instructional depression project will
span 12 months and will be evaluated on its effectiveness.
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Development of Instructional Materials on Clinical Characteristics of Health Conditions
Encountered in Occupational Therapy Practice
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| Principal Investigator |
Nancy Lowenstein
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| Department |
Department of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Counseling
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| School/College |
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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| Investigators |
Wendy Coster, Karen Jacobs, Susan Berger
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| Project Description | |
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This project addresses a need identified by occupational therapy faculty for alternative
instructional methods for basic content related to medical, psychiatric and developmental
conditions that are not taught in the curriculum due to space and time. Information on
these conditions does not change significantly from year to year; therefore it is not a good
use of faculty time to lecture on this content. Therefore, we propose to develop a DVD
instructional program to teach students about specific health conditions and diagnoses
through self-paced learning.
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Using Video Technology to Develop Expertise as a Literacy Specialist: Critiquing and
Improving Intervention Provided to Struggling Readers
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| Principal Investigator |
Jeanne Paratore
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| Department |
Department of Literacy & Language, Counseling & Development
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| School/College |
School of Education
| | Investigators |
Mary Matthews, Roselmina Indrisano, Susan Dougherty
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| Project Description | |
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Last summer, the Reading and Writing Clinic in the School of Education was revitalized,
moving to a newly refurbished space and enrolling a new cohort of graduate students to
work with Boston-area children in grades 1-5 who struggle in reading and writing. The
purchase of digital video and audio recording equipment for use in the Reading and
Writing Clinic would greatly enhance graduate students' progress toward becoming
experts in reading instruction and will help to ensure that they graduate as Specialist
Teachers of Reading of the very highest quality. Video recordings of one-on-one teaching
sessions will be used to critique (and subsequently improve) teaching behaviors. In
addition, video cases created from the raw footage collected in the Reading and Writing
Clinic will be used as examples of exemplary practice in the introductory Teaching
Reading courses taken by approximately 75 undergraduate and 25 graduate students
each year.
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Global Christianity and Mission Interactive Data Base
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| Principal Investigator |
Dana Robert
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| School/College |
School of Theology
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| Investigators |
Jack Ammerman, Septemmy Lakawa
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| Project Description | |
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In order to provide essential materials for required masters' and doctoral courses in
the history of Christianity as a cross-cultural movement, we propose to scan 130 rare
public domain texts related to the study of Christian missionary outreach and Christianity
as a global movement. These documents will be stored on the Theology Library's
digital document server and will be publicly available through a Web interface. The
Theology Library's wiki server will provide the infrastructure to facilitate the
collaborative development of readers' guides and author biographies for classroom
use.
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iDesign: Podcasting Capstone Senior Design
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| Principal Investigator |
Michael Ruane
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| Department |
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
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| School/College |
College of Engineering
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| Investigators |
Babak Kia, Ron Knepper, Tom Little, Alan Pisano, Aaron Caine, Jeff Albro, Dan Berkovitch
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| Project Description | |
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Instruction in Capstone Senior Design initially mixes lectures with team activities. Once in
the design lab, design skill tutorials and team design reviews assist students. Students
develop lifelong learning habits with considerable autonomy. Making class design
information more accessible at the students' convenience should improve their
individual and team performance.
This project will assemble the recording and editing technology to convert course
materials to podcast format. We will distribute podcasts using iTunes U, a free Apple
iTunes service. We will record class activities, add visuals and exercises, and post them
with links through our existing CourseInfo/Blackboard class Web site.
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Global Health Course Modules Project
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| Principal Investigator |
Suzanne Sarfaty
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| Department |
Office of Student Affairs
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| School/College |
School of Medicine
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| Investigators |
Tom Hall, Gerald Keusch, Wayne LaMorte, Ben DeWinter, Jon Simon
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| Project Description | |
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Each year a substantial number of Boston University undergraduate, medical and public
health students travel internationally to participate in global health activities. These
activities range from clinical electives to public health and community service projects in
hospitals, clinics, and rural villages. Preparation, education and mentoring of our students
participating in these international activities is variable and limited by a number of factors,
not the least of which is faculty available to educate and orient students at their variable
times of departure. This proposal describes the development of a set of interactive, case-
based teaching modules that would accomplish three goals: 1) provide a "how
to" series of mentoring modules to assist students in their initial planning stages of a
global health experience, 2) develop a set of mandatory core competencies for any
student planning to work internationally, and 3) provide a resource for asynchronous, self-
paced education. Upon completion of the core competency modules, students would
receive certification prior to departure. This project would serve to place Boston
University at the forefront of the global health education movement by filling a need for
which there is currently no good solution.
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Document last updated 5/19/2006
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