Welcome!

This site has been inspired by the (now defunct) Mt. Hood Community College Teaching and Learning Cooperative's "Innovation in Teaching" and "Technology" Grants. The grants and projects include:

For the TLC: "Teaching in Second Life - Impressions: Thoughts and Lessons Learned During Five Quarters of Teaching Experiments in Second Life"
• The Report submitted on June 3, 2009

TLC Grant: "Enhancing the Presence of MHCC in Second Life" (co-authored with Valory Thatcher and Walter Shriner)
• The TLC proposal submitted on February 8, 2008
• The TLC Report submitted on May 15, 2008

TLC Grant: "Applications of Laboratory Video to Learning Environments - Creating Laboratory Videos to Enhance Student Learning" (co-authored with Valory Thatcher)
• The TLC proposal submitted on January 22, 2007
• The TLC Progress Report submitted on May 16, 2007

TLC Grant: "Creating Enhanced Podcast Virtual Lectures - Using Enhanced Podcasts and PowerPoint to Deliver Online Modular Lectures"
• The TLC proposal submitted on December 5, 2005
• The completed work submitted on June 2, 2006

TLC Grant: "PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Techniques - Turning Original PowerPoint Lectures into Web-accessible Flash Presentations"
• The TLC proposal submitted on June 6, 2005
• The completed work submitted on September 19, 2005
• The PowerPoint Presentation Converted to a Flash Movie as presented to the TLC and MHCC community.
  Additional examples of PowerPoint files converted to Flash movies can be found in the completed work.

TLC Grant: "Dance to Your Own Drummer - Creating Original Music Using Soundtrack and GarageBand" The TLC proposal submitted on June 1, 2004

• The completed work submitted on December 13, 2004
• A chemistry example of density using original audio in PowerPoint and a Web module: PowerPoint (300 kb), MPEG4 (3.7 Mb)
• A kiosk-style PowerPoint presentation with original audio: PowerPoint (9.2 Mb), MPEG4 (3.2 Mb)

TLC Technology Grant: "Anecdotes on the Amazing Adobe Acrobat - Using Adobe Acrobat and PDF Files in Academia"
• The presentation and the handout from February 20 and 21, 2003
• Examples of Creating Classroom Documents: A Syllabus and PowerPoint Notes
• Examples of Archiving Websites: the WRAP Website and the TLC Grant Website
• Examples of Brochures: the WRAP Brochure and the Gresham Speech Therapy Brochure
• Example of a Slideshow: the Nature Scenes Slideshow
• Examples of Paperless Grading: a Lab Report before and after comments have been applied

TLC Grant: "Listen To Me! - Creating Audio for PowerPoint and the Web"
• The TLC Proposal submitted on June 8, 2001.
• An addendum submitted in late June for the proposal.
• The completed work submitted on November 19, 2001
• A sample website created for this work which combines text based learning with audio sound bites (sound card required.)
• A PowerPoint movie highlighting the usage of a low memory sound loop during a kiosk-style presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint and a sound card required.)

TLC Grant: "Maximizing the Power of PowerPoint in the Classroom" (co-authored with Dr. Walter Shriner)
• The TLC Proposal submitted on December 1, 2000
• The completed paper submitted on May 21, 2001
• The handout distributed at the public lecture on May 25, 2001
• A Brochure entitled "Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations - Tips for Instructors at Mt. Hood Community College" created for the grant

TLC Grant: "Joining the DV Revolution"
• The TLC Proposal submitted on May 10, 2000
• The completed paper submitted on September 11, 2000.

TLC Grant: "Beyond the Internet Syllabus"
• The TLC Proposal submitted on October 15, 1999
• The completed paper submitted on January 24, 2000
• The handout available at the February 28, 2000 lecture