Digital
Education for a Global Village
by Douglas Savage, UW System Institute for Global Studies
Savage,
the Assistant Director of UW System's Institute for Global
Studies,
introduces TTT's special section on technology and global
studies. He writes
that "the growing role of technology in global education
reflects the
technologically enabled processes that drive globalization
itself. As technology
transforms the world into a global community, it is only
appropriate that it also
be used to aid students in understanding the reality it
helps create." Read
about what's happening at IGS and in global studies programs
throughout the
world. (Feb. 2003)
Like
Catching Waves Upon the Sand: The Challenges of Designing
for the Web
by Pamela O'Donnell, UW-Madison
This
article chronicles the development of four tutorials designed
to teach
students how to find quality web-based information on international
women's
issues. The tutorials--Contemporary Women's Issues in LexisNexis,
Evaluating
Web Search Results, Gender Watch, and Using a Metasite--are
a project of
the UW System Women's Studies Librarian's Office. O'Donnell's
account of the
decision-making process, along with some of the obstacles
encountered along
the way, should prove helpful to anyone designing for the
World Wide Web.(Feb. 2003)
On
the Road: Bringing the Maya World to UW Students
by Brett Greider, UW-Eau Claire
Take
a virtual trip to the Maya World with Brett Greider, who
taught his Indigenous Religions of the Americas course last
summer from Internet cafes in Mexico and Guatemala. He met
his students in an asynchronous discussion area with direct-experience
dispatches from the field, lecture notes, journal entries,
and digital imagery of his expedition. (Feb. 2003)
Learning
Objects in a Constructivist Curriculum
by William Washabaugh, UW-Milwaukee
In
this article, Washabaugh discusses the differences between
teaching students to know course content and teaching them
to understand it. With funds from the UW System Institute
for Global Studies, he has developed learning objects, or
course content modules, that aim to help his anthropology
students "discern the components of social life and
to recognize the implications of connected conditions and
conjoined forces," an important goal for anyone teaching
global studies courses.(Feb. 2003)
TTT's
Global Studies Sampler
UW
System faculty and staff who teach international studies
use technology in a myriad of inventive ways. The articles
in TTT's special global studies issue represent just a few
examples of the high-quality ventures on UW campuses--we
simply could not include them all! Learn about a sampling
of other inspired projects underway. Perhaps one of them
is occurring on your campus. (Feb. 2003)
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