CTS staff have over seven years of experience in developing online curriculum resources and teaching materials at Rice. Experience includes work with pre-web era collaborative tools such as the Virtual Notebook System and web development since 1993. A member of the CTS staff developed and taught the three-credit hour university course "Modeling, Rendering and Animation in Architecture" (ARCH 440/640) from 1993 to 1995. The staff are experienced with: HTML coding and web page design, image digitization and manipulation, audio and video digitization, manipulation and delivery, basic perl cgi scripting, web-database interaction via ColdFusion, online course management tools (OWL-Space), searchable image databases through Portfolio Server, and vector-based content creation with Macromedia Flash. Examples of projects developed by the current CTS staff are shown below:
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HART 350: American
Architecture & Decorative Arts Study images were made available to students via a campus-wide Portfolio Image Catalog Server. Images can be searched by Title, Creator, Location, or various other fields and keywords. They can be viewed as thumbnail images, full-sized images with image identification or as part of an online slide show.
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Multimedia Architecture
Database / This web-based database of architectural works was developed for the School of Architecture to explore three specific goals: 1) the information entered should be in a form usable by several different classes; 2) the information should be easily entered and maintained by the content specialists (the architects); and 3) the information should support learning and searching for information in a variety of ways.
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Technology-Enhanced
Beginning Spanish Project A project created to enhance learning of beginning Spanish through the use of multimedia and online web resources. The project consists of 52 companion units to be used in conjunction with the Destinos spanish language curriculum. Streaming audio and video clips expose students to the sounds and cadence of native speakers, custom learning tools (a multimedia clock and thermometer) were created for teaching time and temperature, exercises and quizzes are submitted via the web, and hundreds of links to online resources around the world enhance the students' exposure to Spanish-language culture.
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The Rice West Eugene
Wetlands Project The Rice West Eugene Wetlands Project was designed to offer a wide range of documents related to a real-life case of successful conflict resolution involving wetlands discovered in west Eugene, Oregon. The original materials are provided online as a starting place for many different types of learning activities. Among other projects, the materials are used in the Jones Graduate School of Management as background materials for a role-playing exercise on conflict resolution.
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Tsoungiza-Nemea Archaeological
Model Data from one excavation unit of Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (begun in 1984) was digitized to create a three-dimensional computer model of the excavation to see to what extent it could be valuable too researchers in examining the data collected. The project was presented at the "Imaging the Past: Electronic Imaging and Computer Graphics in Museums and Archaeology" at the British Museum, November, 1994.
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HART 345: Renaissance
& Baroque Architectural History This collection of over 1700 high-resolution images of Renaissance and baroque architecture was originally developed before the use of the World Wide Web at Rice. It was converted from the Virtual Notebook System to the current web-based version in 1995. The 1700 images are organized by lecture, architect, and location.
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Web-based course resource
page utility This web-based utility is designed to make it easy for faculty to maintain an up-to-date listing of resources for their courses without having to learn how to create web pages. Resources can be added, edited or deleted from any web browser.
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Workshops, tutorials,
and instructional guides CTS staff have been active in encouraging the use of technology in teaching for over seven years. They have conducted hands-on workshops and have prepared online materials to aid new content creators. Online materials include:
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Online software guides Online software guides for Adobe Photoshop and 3D Studio (a modeling, rendering and animation program) were created in conjuntion with a computer graphics course taught by current CTS staff in the School of Architecture from 1993 to 1996. While the course is no longer offered, the materials are still heavily used by web users around the world.
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Classroom
Technology Services (cts@rice.edu)