This page features course descriptions for the most recent ITP courses offered.
Spring 2009
GC ITP Core 2
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30PM, GC 4419
Instructors: Joe Ugoretz email, Kimon Keramidas email
This second core course in the ITP certificate program introduces students to IT in the classroom, focusing on pedagogy and technological innovation. The course provides a hands-on introduction to key educational uses of digital media applications, including on-line writing tools, educational hardware, course management software, simulations and gaming, and experimentation in virtual spaces. Topics for discussion include; modes of learning within and outside the classroom; and intellectual property. Students will learn skills and concepts and then will design and prepare a proposal and prototype for a multimedia-based interactive teaching tool or strategy. The course employs an interdisciplinary approach to the application of digital media to classroom teaching and scholarly research and presentations.
Requirements: There will be a series of short individual and group assignments along the way; also, regular participation in the class blog and wiki is essential (more to follow). A final project (described above) will be due by the last class session of the course in mid May that will include a class presentation, a written component, and a prototype for a teaching tool. We will ask for an interim paper or discussion due sometime mid-semester where you develop and analyze the conceptual issues and literature that supports your project and articulates the steps you intend to make towards completing the project. There will also be an emphasis throughout the course of the semester on online participation through various projects and weekly online discussion that will impact your final grade.
Fall 2008
ITCP 70010 - History, Theory, and Practice of Interactive Media
Wednesdays, 4:15 to 6:15
Profs. Brier and Gold | 3 credits
This course will examine the economic, social and intellectual history of technological design and use in general and interactive media in specific. Our focus is on the mutual shaping of technology and teaching and learning; how people and ideas have shaped these interactions in the past, and how we are now shaping technological use and teaching and learning processes.
ITCP 89010: Independent Study
Prof. Brier | 3 credits
Permission of instructor required.
