John Bowers (john@morris.umn.edu)
RATIONALE: UMM teacher education graduates (approximately 1/3 of each graduating class) have very limited on-campus experience with instructional technology. Our students receive verbal instruction about the use of technology in lessons and are expected to use it during their public school field experiences. This is not sufficient. Our students must have practice in the design and implementation of technology based curriculum and instructional strategies prior to entering the schools in which these resources are commonly available.
The need for this preparation of prospective teachers is affirmed by standards of state, regional and national accrediting agencies to which we are responsible (e.g. Minnesota Board of Teaching, Interstate New Teachers Assessment and Support Consortium, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education). We must meet requirements of these licensing and accrediting agencies to continue our programs and to effectively provide our students with the expertise they need in the use of educational technology.
The requested equipment will allow creation and presentation of instructional materials that make use of text, photo, audio, video, and WWW resources. Each teacher education student will use this equipment and software in developing course assignments and in delivering instruction through peer teaching. Students will also use this equipment to prepare materials for use during student teaching and other school based practicum experiences.
PLAN: Two instructional design workstations will be set up in an office space that is available in the Education Building (other curriculum materials development equipment is currently in this room and it has an Ethernet connection).
These workstations will include two PC computers with DVD and CD-ROM read/write drives. They will minimally have MS Office Professional 97, Photo Shop 5.0, and Page Mill 3.0 software. A HP slide, negative, photo scanner and HP B/W laser printer are also requested. A HP color printer and scanner that are currently in the Division will be added to these workstations. Appropriate tables and chairs for the equipment and students will also need to be purchased.
For use of materials developed at the workstations two light/ultralight portable computers and two portable projection units will be purchased. This equipment will allow for presentations in the Education Building seminar rooms, in Social Science 124 (secondary education), and in MRC 200 (elementary education). Two sets are required given the schedule of classes under the semester system.
Technology Fee Proposal "A"
Ken Hodgson, Associate Professor of Music
This proposal has two facets: one, to establish a workstation in the music area of HFAC, and second, to establish and maintain a unique music resource Web site, "The UMM/Midwest Choral/Instrumental Music Reference Library," and Resource Center.
A workstation is very much in need in the music area of HFAC. There is not a workstation available in HFAC at this time. Student performance organizations need one for concert and tour work, record keeping and music library inventories. Individual applied music students’ need a workstation for recital program and program note preparations, and the area would be available to all students for general computer work when it wasn’t already in use. Keep in mind that over 225 students are involved with the various music organizations "The UMM/Midwest Choral/Instrumental Music Reference Library," and Resource Center web site would allow users to visit the holdings of the University of Minnesota, Morris choral library and single copy resource files. Currently about half of the resources of the choral library and single copy files are entered into a relational data base application, MusiCat™ (a 4th Dimension application) developed by Ken Hodgson under a MinneMac grant in 1988. The latest update of 4th Dim. allows the database to be uplo aded to a web site. The data entry would be completed to include the detailed information on the piece of music (vital details, text, location of score(s), etc.), a sound bite of the melody or theme of the piece as a streaming audio file, and a facsimile of a significant page of music. There is not a software program currently available that is capable of this a kind of delivery, nor is they’re anything even close to it. It is a very unique approach in wed searches to have the visitor greeted by the th eme or tune of the piece they are selecting from the database, let alone to have a facsimile page or complete text available to them. The search features of 4th Dim. Allow the user to search for any component of the data for the individual pieces, i.e. title, composer, arranger, voicing, period in music history, particular text reference, among others.
The physical facility is already in place on the upper level of the Choral Rehearsal Room (HFA 170). The facility includes the multiple copy choral holdings of the UMM Music Discipline and single copy choral releases and rare or out-of-print choral releases. The holdings would be increased as other institutes contributed to the single copy library and as publishers of choral music submitted new issues.
Once established, other holdings of the music discipline would be added, such as, the recording library, solo songs, band, orchestra and jazz libraries.
UMM Music Majors would maintain the physical facility and would install and maintain the database and WWW site. The site would allow UMM students access to over 3000 choral works. If you were looking for a piece of music with the reference to "blue butterflies" in the text, the program would identify the names and locations of each match. More practically, it will list all the pieces in the data bank that were composed by Bach, or were composed between 1650 and 1700. Searches are very complete and offer a wide variety of links. (Once the solo literature was entered, students would be able to search for appropriate songs for weddings, anniversaries and Barmitzvahs.)
UMM Students would eventually have access to all the recordings held in the UMM Music Discipline Library, allowing for searches for favorite classical pieces, works referenced in courses and recordings needed for a course or project. The course, Music 3450, Choral Conducting and Materials would use the site and facility extensively in their course work and a Continuing Education course on Choral Materials would be developed and offered via interactive media. Students in the courses, Introduction to Music, Fundamentals of Music and Music History would find the site valuable for further study of a particular composers work or general area of music study.
The Web site and Center would be open to visiting music educators and conductors for research on music literature and materials. The project would be adopted by the UMM Student Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association for continued maintenance . Ken Hodgson would provide supervision. The Web site and Center would create many hours of work for Freshman Pool workers and very likely a MAP or MAI.
I cannot emphasize too much how important this type of resource will be to our music students and alumni, especially those in Music Education. Also, It should be pointed out that there is not a computer workstation with the capabilities of this proposal available to the general student in the entire HFAC! Because of this importance, the Concert Choir and music discipline would continue to maintain the site, seek funding from other sources to upgrade the software and cover the $100 annual maintenance fee.
Total Budget: $5004.
Monitor: M6159LL/A $657 Apple ColorSync 17 Display, (16.1 VIS) Sony Trinitron™ tube supports res. up to 1,280x1,024
Software:
Microsoft $180 Office 4.2.1/with Bookshelf on CD (Office/Bksh CD) Word,
Excel, Powerpoint, Mail, Bookshelf.)(free upgrade to Office. To generate
text into 4th dim and transfer excel data basis to 4th Dim
Claris $65Apple Web Page Construction Kit 1.0 Mac
ACI $299 4D 6.0 for Mac/PMac on CD
Network hook-up in HFA 170 $100
2 - gigabyte disk drive for the UMM WWW
Computer - $800
Technology Fee Proposal "B"
Ken Hodgson, Associate Professor of Music
To add resources to the music resource Web site, "The UMM/Midwest Choral Music Reference Library," and Resource Center. This facility would be augmented to become a Photoshop and PageMaker resource work area and Concert/Recital program work station. The availablility of a Scanner would allow graphics to be added to the "MusiCat" data base and the availability of Finale (a music notation program) would allow melodic material to be added to each data base record. Both the scanner and the Finale program are valuable enhancements ot desk top publishing. Illustrator gives the work station the added ability to enhance all graphics and create unique artisitic suppliments to publictions.The added benefit of the site computer for recital and concert program assembling and publicity work could benefit anyone in the campus community where public event promotion is needed.
The literature on the data base, "MusiCat," can be accessed and exported in many different formats, giving the student the opportunity to draw titles, texts and/or background information to Pagemaker for program designing and publishing. From 20 to 30 concerts and recital programs are given each quarter at UMM. The finished concert/recital programs would also become part of the data base and thus available to students in future years!
It should be pointed out that there is not a computer work station with the capabilities of this proposal available to the general student in the entire HFAC!
The Concert Choir and Music Discipline would continue to maintain the site, seek funding from other sources to upgrade the software and cover the $100 annual maintanance fee.
Total Budget: $1225
Software:
Adobe $160 Pagemaker v6.5 on CD To creat programs (a concert
program) from data base info
Adobe $140 Illustrator 7.0 for MAC on CD For graphics on Web site
and individual entries in MusiCat=AA
Adobe $240 Photoshop 4.0 for MAC on CD For Scanner enhancement of
page fascilmiles and photos
Coda $275 Finale 97 for MAC CD To add music melodies
Technology Fee Proposal "C"
Ken Hodgson, Associate Professor of Music
To enhance the workstation and music resource Web site, "The UMM/Midwest Choral Music Reference Library," and Resource Center. The addition of a quality printer would be a tremendous asset to the work done at this work station. In the area of desktop publishing, photoshop enhancements, and particularly, publicity work, the availability of a quality printer - at hand - is extremely important. Documents must be proofed and proofed again to insure the quality of the work and accuracy of the document. This is especially true in creating concert programs. While printers are available over the Net, the availability of the printer - at hand - will save many hours of going back and forth from the work site to an available printer and would give the work area a one stop capability.
It should be pointed out that there is not a computer work station with the capabilities of this proposal - a printer - available to the general student in the entire HFAC! The Concert Choir and the music discipline would continue to seek other funding for uprades to the printer and would maintain the printer and supply paper.
Total Budget: $850.
Rationale: There is an evolution from paper and pencil based to the computer based method of offering tests (i.e. admission, certification, placement and psychological tests). For many reasons, testing via the computer is becoming popular, and will soon replace the paper and pencil method almost entirely.
Students will benefit from this project in several ways:
1) This project will make it possible for students to take placement
tests from anywhere
in the world. Placement tests are strongly recommended as a prerequisite
to registration for classes at UMM, and being able to test at another
location than UMM, opens up possibilities for new students to register
from a distance.
2) The new electronic student database will capture test
scores and include them in the student’s advising records, thereby
immediately giving both the student and the advisor quick access.
3) This
is a way that UMM can empower students to access new technology, and for
UMM to continue to offer better services to our students.
$ 5600.00 Total projected cost.
Fund Access to JSTOR. JSTOR is an electronic archive of journals at the University of Michigan. Phase I of the project will make available a full text searchable database of 100 journals in more than ten disciplines including history, political sc ience, Asian studies, mathematics, economics, ecology, education, philosophy, literature, demographics and sociology. JSTOR is a unique project in that it guarantees access to the full run of all issues of its journals back to the first issue, no matter h ow old that is. Some journals in JSTOR go back to the 1800's. Examples of journals available in JSTOR include: Journal of Asian Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, American Economic Review, Ecological Monographs , Journal of Philosophy, Political Science Quarterly, Population Studies, American Sociological Review, and American Historical Review. These are important journals in their fields
Of the 100 journals chosen to be included in the JSTOR project, 68 are available online now. The rest will be added later. Of these 68 now online Briggs Library subscribes to only 29. So if this request is funded, we would be adding a full set of 39 journals we do not currently own. We would be completing sets of 18 of the 29 journals we have as partial sets. This is a wonderful opportunity to increase the number of journals available to our students without increasing the need for storage space i n the library. Access to JSTOR for UMM students, faculty and staff would be any time, anywhere through the Web.
Providing access to JSTOR is an important step in the evolution of the modern academic library. Projects such as this are defining what a library of the future will look like. UM Morris is the only campus of the University that does not have access to JSTOR.For more information about what STOR is and how it works, visit the JSTOR web site at: http://www.jstor.org
Why should this project be funded? JSTOR meets all the criteria for the Student Technology Fee. It represents a future-oriented solution of providing access to journal articles students need for class projects and senior seminars in a time of limited physical storage space in the library.
"PROJECTS MUST PROVIDE DIRECT, VISIBLE BENEFITS TO UMM STUDENTS" JSTOR would make available directly to all UMM students a searchable database of the full text of journals, over half of which Briggs Library does not now have. Instead of using interlib rary loan to get them, students would have instant access from any computer accessing the campus network.
"PROJECTS SHOULD MAKE NEW INVESTMENTS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES" JSTOR is an exciting breakthrough. It represents the way journals will be stored in the future. It is a successful experiment now several years old. It is an investment in a service idea, that libraries acting in cooperation can provide a way to store journals permanently online and make them conveniently available to students and faculty. By sharing costs college and university libraries of all sizes can make this material available to their students and faculty. To buy and store the journals in the JSTOR collection in paper form would be something only the largest and wealthiest academic libraries could afford.
"PROJECTS RECOMMENDED FOR FUNDING SHOULD PROVIDE MAXIMUM BENEFITS TO THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STUDENTS" JSTOR would be available through the Web to all UMM students, faculty and staff, any time, anywhere. The fields covered include majors in all four UMM Divisions. The high quality journals in the JSTOR collection are the materials UMM students need for class projects and senior seminars.
"PROJECTS MUST BE FOR TECHNOLOGY: FOR EXAMPLE, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, NETWORKING, ACCESS, SUPPORT SERVICES, AND DATA" JSTOR more than doubles our access to periodical data online for journals we already own and adds a whole set of journals we do not now have access to in online or printed form, except through interlibrary loan.
"FUNDED PROJECTS MUST FALL INSIDE THE PARAMETERS OF TECHNOLOGY THAT IS SUPPORTED AT UMM" JSTOR is accessed through the internet using a Web browser interface. This is standard technology already used on the UMM campus to access online library database s.
Itemized Budget: JSTOR has a set fee schedule based on the size of the student body and the type of institution. (See http://www.jstor.org/about/pricing.html for an explanation of the fee structure.) For UMM the one time cost is $20,000 with an ann ual ongoing access fee of $3000. Student Technology fee money is requested for the one time fee of $20,000. The Library's budget will pay the recurring annual $3000 fee.
Fund library instruction computer: Each year Briggs librarians provide instruction sessions for UMM classes on how to access and search library resources. These sessions are held in Library Room 360 where a computer linked to a video projector allo ws the whole class to see what is displayed on a computer screen. The librarians may cover several things: how to access and use Summon to find books; how to search online indexes to find journal articles; how to search databases and the Web effectively.
The comupter we use in conjunction with the video projector is now several years old. It is becoming slow for the applications we need to run on it. We are asking the Student Technology Fee to replace this computer.
Why should this project be funded? This project meets all the criteria for the Student Technology Fee and represents an upgrade that would benefit a wide range of students in their classes.
"PROJECTS MUST PROVIDE DIRECT, VISIBLE BENEFITS TO UMM STUDENTS" Last year the Library used this computer for all freshman orientation sessions and for a wide variety of instruction sessions for other classes. A total of 100 group sessions were held with a total attendance of 703 first year and transfer students during orientation and 687 students in other classes throughout the year.
"PROJECTS SHOULD MAKE NEW INVESTMENTS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES" Library computer software continues to change. The current computer is having difficulty adequately running the programs for which it is used. Some library software now requires Windows NT, and future software will require Windows 2000. Replacing this computer with a Windows 2000-ready computer will make it possible to run NT applications now and allow us to migrate to software running Windows 2000 as nece ssary in the next two years.
"PROJECTS RECOMMENDED FOR FUNDING SHOULD PROVIDE MAXIMUM BENEFITS TO THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STUDENTS" This computer will be used for group instructions sessions for new students in the First Year Seminar (Common Course) starting next fall semester. In addition, it will continue to be used for new student orientation at the beginning of fall semester. It is especially useful for specialized subject oriented instructional sessions geared to particular classes at faculty request. During these advanced s essions librarians demonstrate particular indexes and search techniques for specific subject areas. Faculty from all four Divisions request such instruction sessions each year. Last year a total of 1390 students attended one or more library instruction sessions.
"PROJECTS MUST BE FOR TECHNOLOGY: FOR EXAMPLE, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, NETWORKING, ACCESS, SUPPORT SERVICES, AND DATA" We are asking to replace our old computer with the best system readily available within our price range in the summer of 1999 with insta llation to be completed before the start of fall semester.
"FUNDED PROJECTS MUST FALL INSIDE THE PARAMETERS OF TECHNOLOGY THAT IS SUPPORTED AT UMM" We are asking for standard pc hardware of a type already used on the UMM campus.
Itemized budget: Because computer prices keep changing, we are asking for $3000 and will buy whatever the best technical specifications would be next summer for a highly capable desktop computer that is Windows-2000 ready, and is well equipped with R AM and disk space. The amount requested will fund hardware (monitor, cpu, keyboard, mouse, etc.), a network adapter and software licenses. No furniture is requested.
This request was initially prompted by significant computer induced difficulties experienced by student organization leaders in producing Activity Fee Review Committee budget requests last fall. For example, Student Activities Budget Preparation Help Sessions turned ugly when student leaders couldn't access their documents because the older server versions of Word and Excel available in Student Activities weren't compatible with the new versions now available in the labs.
Other problems caused by the older machines include: painfully slow speed for graphics, Web, and general use; limited spreadsheet usability due to small monitor size; and inability to move between software programs (the SE30 doesn't have Multifinder, the LCIIs and IIIs don't have enough memory to have many applications open at once). Student leaders often move to the computer labs to do student organization work, making use of Student Activities resources (budget files, etc.) and consultation with staff difficult.
5 Power Macintosh G3 computers (300 MHz/100Mhz System Bus, MiniTower, 64MB
SDRAM, 6GB ATA HD) @ $1503 each = $7515.00.
5 Super disk drives @ $150
each = $750.00. The new Power Macs don't have floppy disk drives; these
external drives will accommodate 1.4 HD/DS floppy disks and 120MB super
disks.
5 Apple Multiple Scan 720 Display color monitors (17"/16"
viewable)@$469 each = $2345.00
Software: 5 Office 98 (contains Word98,
Excel98, Powerpoint98, Outlook Express & Internet Explorer) bundled with
Svmantec's Norton AntiVirus 5.0 to ensure compatibility with lab
computers. 5 @ $199 each = $995.00
1 Filemaker Pro 4.1 @ $119.00
1 QuarkXPress Passport @ $355.00
1 CalendarMaker @ $54.95
As for the server, we experience a large number of crashes due to strain on the computers. We have the computers networked with our newest computers as file servers. A dedicated server would alleviate the strain on the computers and allow us to better u se the power of our PowerMacs.
LTC background: The center has become an integral part of the language curriculum at UMM since its opening in Fall, 1997. Currently, it provides support to four separate disciplines: French, German, Russian, and Spanish. Because of the current language requirement, it is estimated that 8 our of 10 UMM students will come into contact with the LTC during their four years at the university. The center is open to all students (not just language students) during open study hours, and has been used by community members as well. Support for maintaining the high quality of the equipment and software found in the center will be critical to sustain the number of users expected. Continuing to provide funding to the LTC through the student technology fee will ensure its success as an alternate campus computing facility.
The Hasselmo Language Teaching Center requests funds to upgrade our existing lab computers (currently PowerMac 7500s). 32MB RAM will be added to each, as well as installation of Mac OS 8.5. This will allow student users to work in more than one application more efficiently, as well as use software that currently requires more RAM than is available on the LTC computers.
If LTC Proposal A is approved, then we are asking for upgrade funds for the remaining 12 computers. If Proposal A is denied, we are asking for funds for all 16 computers.
IF PROPOSAL "A" DENIED:
32 MB RAM. 16 @ $150 = $2,400
Mac OS 8.5. 1 lab pack (10 user) @ $449 + 6 single user @ $49 = $743
TOTAL: $3,143
In 1998-99, Russian began to be offered on the UMM campus, where it was only offered via ITV previously. The Hasselmo Language Teaching Center, which is designed to support all languages offered on campus, requests funds to purchase software enabling lab computers to read & produce Russian fonts, as well as be compatible with a variety of software products currently on the market. The freeware found on the web has proven to be unreliable, and has caused disruptions for other students, not enrolled in Russian. We are requesting funds to install the Apple Cyrillic Language Kit on each lab computer, thereby making the LTC truly accessible and useful to all language disciplines. Specific Russian software will be provided by the Russian discipline.
The Hasselmo Language Teaching Center requests funds to upgrade and add to software on the lab computers. Specifically, Microsoft Word 98 will be installed on each computer, including language spell-check software on some computers. Either Softwindows 98 or Virtual PC 2.1 will be installed on each computer to make the currently all-Macintosh lab a little more flexible. With this software, Macintosh computers are able to run IBM/PC-compatible software, which opens up new educational opportunities for both students and faculty.
Whiteboard technology has greatly increased in the past few years. Currently, whiteboards are available which allow an instructor to write notes in a typical manner, but with the added option of saving these notes digitally to a computer. This of course, provides a large benefit to both the instructor and the student, in that one can easily recall previous notes, prepare notes, diagrams, and presentations for lecture ahead of time at one's convience, and use the board during non-class hours for individual or group study.
Specifically, the computer science discipline is interested in a Panasonic Panaboard KX-B series electronic white board, which, with the right accessories, provides the functionality noted above. We feel this proposal meets the requirements as outlined in the Technology Fee Proposal Guidelines, and will compliment the learning process.
KUMM is the largest student organization on campus, involving over one tenth of the entire student body. In keeping with the station's mission, other student organizations record public service announcements for their events free of charge, and University Relations provides a portion of KUMM's newscasts. Live "play-by-play" of Cougar sports will be re-introduced into the station's schedule this spring, and a current program showcases UMM music talent. In addition to its over 200 members, then, the u90 alternative involves students from virtually every facet of campus life. With netcasting, UMM students will be part of an unfolding, new technology. Some have suggested that netcasting will become a primary medium for future communications as technology develops further. Upon graduation, alumni will be able to receive KUMM via their computers regardless of location. We believe that the UMM community as a whole will benefit greatly by the opportunity to "reach the world."
A) A dedicated network line to KUMM's studios. $1,600.00
B) Next
year's network connection charge. Future charges will be included in
KUMM's general operating budget. $100.00
C) Capable computer with a
digitizing/compressing board. $3,000.00
D) RealAudio streaming software
is currently free for the station's purposes.
TOTAL REQUEST)
$4,700.00
TOTAL REQUEST: $2321-$1000=$1321
This past fall KUMM, in completion of the final part of our 5 year plan for AFRC, we had 2 consultants from KUOM (in the Twin Cities) come to look the station over. On top of their list of recommendations for KUMM was increasing our signal's strengh.
To achieve that goal of reaching more listeners with a higher quality signal, KUMM wants to extend the radio station's tower and antenna. By raising the antenna and tower we will be able to increase KUMM's power output (watts) and cover more square miles.
KUMM currently has an FM radio transmitter that is capable of emitting 1,000 watts, however we are currently limited to only at about 150 watts with an ERP (Effective Radiate Power) of about 250 watts. By raising the radio tower from 50 feet to 100 feet and replacing our 1 bay antenna with a 2 bay antenna we would be able to take advantage of the transmitter's full capitablity, and could run at full power: all 1,000 watts. The increase would give KUMM an expanded good listening range well beyond Morris.
The first step is inviting some structural consultants to come to Morris and give us bids on the work. Then, based on their recommendations, we would hire an electronic construction company to work with Plant Services and build/install the new tower and antenna. It will be a long project, which is projected to take about a year. This time frame includes the application process for the FCC.
Although it will be a long and expensive project, KUMM's executive staff and members believe that this new tower and antenna has significant short and long term benefits for the Morris campus and community.
Structural Engineer - Tower Analysis - $4,000.00
Structural/Electronic - Antenna Analyses - $4,000.00
Tower extension/construction - $15,000.00
Antenna Construction - $15,000.00
FCC legal work - $6,000.00
Total request - $44,000.00
NOTE: It is possible that our current tower could be adapted with little cost. If that is the case, costs could be cut dramatically. However, until we have a structural engineer give us an opinion, there is no way to predict how much work will need to be done.
The computers themselves are donated from the "retired" computer pool. The telnet software is "freeware" and doesn't require a license.
Total Cost : $2090.00 - This would be a worst case scenario. The actual price is expected to be less than this.