The International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning (ICCEL) at Wake Forest University honored three Whitman faculty for their innovative use of technology in instruction. The first week of January, Gary Esarey, Ben Houston, and Fred Moore flew to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to attend the Swap-and-Share Conference hosted at ICCEL.

At the conference, Fred Moore described and demonstrated the course management software which he designed to meed the needs of the large first year physics class. Earl Fleck's web materials on Virtual Pig Dissection were presented by Ben Houston, and Patrick Henry's multimedia materials on the Holocaust in France were presented by Gary Esarey.

Ben Houston is the WCTS Multimedia Specialist who developed Web applications for both Fred Moore and Earl FleckÕs projects. Gary Esarey is the WCTS Director for Instructional Technology.

Other faculty demonstrating innovative use of technology to complement instruction include:

  • Professors Robert Withycombe and Jim Hanson of Rhetoric and Public Address are using equipment in their new Public Address Classroom in Hunter on an almost daily basis to enhance, record and review class presentations. Recently Professor Withycombe effectively used this special classroom to teach his students how to access the Lexis-Nexis databases on the Internet.

  • Professor of Education Tom Callister is using several new interactive Web pages in his department to enhance learning. Education students will use these pages to collaboratively build Internet resources for use in the department's math and science methods courses. Students will also participate in the department's "Interactive Paper Project" in which they will submit a written paper on-line through an interactive Web page, and receive comments from peer reviewers.