Instructional Technology Mini-Grants

Now that most faculty are equipped with networked computers and we have some technology enhanced classrooms with more to be installed in the near future, faculty need time to adapt their pedagogy to electronic communications and develop curricular materials. We have recently completed the IDeA Center (i.e., the Instructional Design, Development, Delivery, and Assessment Center)--a room in Ames Teacher Education Center which is devoted to faculty use for the development or adaptation of technology-dependent curricular materials, especially materials to be used in technology enhanced classrooms. The IDe³A Center contains (or will soon contain) networked PC and Macintosh computers, scanners, printers, digital camera, a projection system, and appropriate software.

To further promote the use of instructional technology at UW-RF, the FASDB will award up to four $1,000 mini-grants for use during summer school. We intend these mini-grants to pay faculty as they develop the actual curricular materials they will use in a course to be taught during the next academic year. The funds are to be used only for summer salaries, not for equipment or software.

Recipients of mini-grants must agree to mentor, on an informal basis, other faculty using the IDeA Center during the mini-grant period. Recipients must also be willing to demonstrate their projects during fall faculty development days.

The application form is available here as a "fill in" MS Word form. You must use this form to apply for funds. Download the form, fill in the gray boxes with the relevant information, print the form and submit seven copies of your application to the Director of Faculty and Student Academic Support Programs, 104 North Hall.