What Others are Saying
The best way for us to show you the diversity and creativity of our personnel is to have you become familiar with what people are saying about us and how specifically we have helped them.
This section contains testimonials from just a few faculty members and graduate students and we hope it will provide you with ideas on the many ways technology can be used to enhance the teaching and learning process.
Check back often for additional testimonials or if you'd like to share how the LTC has helped you, let us know.
Blogging: Extending the Classroom Beyond the Meeting Time
The Project: Setting up Blogs for instructional purposes and "creating community" along the way.
"Thanks to the Blogs we set up for my course, I had students who never speak in class become active participants in online discussions."
-- J. David Betts, Assistant Professor of Literacy & Technology, College of Education
"Staying connected to the LTC allows me to keep up to date on what the University is experimenting in and investing in when it comes to educational technology. Learning how to actually create Blogs for all the students in my class was really only possible with the help of the LTC."
-- Bill Endres, Teaching Advisor, Department of English.
Good Graphics Clean up a Dirty Presentation
The Project: Getting the point across is easier with great graphics.
"The LTC created such wonderfully clear graphics for my PowerPoint presentation that I stopped worrying about the need to refine my ability to explain the concept verbally!"
-- Ben Tanner, Doctoral Student in Microbiology
From Colored Chalk to Mouseovers
The Project: Collaboration produces an effective interactive lesson on the Celestial Coordinate System.
"Thanks to the creativity and collaborative spirit of the LTC, this new interactive online format allows students to really grasp the fundamental properties of Astronomical Coordinate Systems."
-- Ray White, Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy
Building an Instructional House Students Will Visit Again and Again
The Project: Students get the opportunity to review lectures and PowerPoint presentations via the class portal.
"It's empowering to have LTC's amazing resources at my disposal. Having such easy to update web sites for my classes makes my life easier and allows my students to be part of the future of learning. One student described me as "being ahead of the curve" and I have LTC to thank for that."
-- Leila Hudson, Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Lights! Dyes! Action!
The Project: Database programming helps to create an online interactive model to replicate a laboratory process.
"Creating an interactive online replication of a scientific experiment before ever taking it to the lab has been a long time goal for me. I wouldn't have had a prayer of doing this without the LTC's programming help."
-- Carl Boswell, Staff Scientist - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Arizona Cancer Center
PowerPoint Presentation with a Twist
The Project: Creation of 3D Graphics for a more persuasive PowerPoint presentation.
"It was amazing what a difference it made when LTC added 3D Graphics to my PowerPoint presentation. Now I have one more tool to capture the attention of my audiences."
-- Jonathan Dorn, Doctoral student in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science
Recycle that Content: Creating Reusable Learning Objects
The Project: Collaborating on an authoring system for creating RLO's (Reusable Learning Objects)
"Creating an easy to use tool for faculty to produce "Reusable Learning Objects" was a challenge. Having the theoretical understanding and the intuition just wasn't enough and the LTC did a great job of helping me translate the ideas into a practical application."
-- Pithamber Polsani, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Wired and Ready to Learn
The Project: Streaming video and WebBoards are incorporated into a course Web site.
"Working with people who get the big picture, are able to problem solve and answer the specific technical questions has made the LTC invaluable to me and my department."
-- Daniel Bernardi Assistant Professor, Media Arts Department
