2001 Highlights

December 2001

TAC is featured in an article by Ed Janairo, "Integrating the Arts and Sciences with IT at George Mason University," in the ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education, Winter 2001, pp.12-15 (pdf version of article, 58.6KB).

November 2001

The newly formed TAC Advisory Committee meets to discuss a revision of the 10 TAC IT goals and to set goals for the TAC program for this year.

October 2001

TAC wins the 2001 Educause Award for Systematic Progress in Teaching and Learning. In addition, Anne Agee and Dee Ann Holisky's article on TAC receives the Educause Quarterly Contribution of the Year award. (See the press release for more information about the two awards.) Anne Agee, Dee Ann Holisky, and Star Muir present "Ten to Get Ready: A Framework for Technology Across the Curriculum" at the Educause 2001: An Edu Odyssey Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.

September 2001

Holisky presents an update on the TAC program to the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at George Mason. College of Arts and Sciences Dean Daniele Struppa announces that a TAC Advisory Committee will be formed and that he is accepting nominations and applications for the Committee. The Committee will consist of faculty, staff, students, and others who will provide multiple perspectives on student learning and IT skills to the TAC program.

TAC participates in an Open House for the ITU (Information Technology Unit) at George Mason. Director of DoIT (Division of Instructional and Technology Support Services) Anne Agee announces winners of door prizes, and TAC Administrative Assistant Vicki Sonu takes TAC's Technology Behavior & Attitude Survey.

August 2001

TAC welcomes 15 graduate students who serve as Technology Associates for the TAC program in 2000-2001. The Technology Associates attend an all day Orientation and Byte Week computer workshops.

July 2001

TAC Assessment specialist and Technology Associate Jamie Estock, a Psychology graduate student specializing in Human Factors, works with TAC administrators to create a Technology Behavior & Attitude Survey to serve as a model for assessment of IT skills of students in TAC and non-TAC courses. Estock, Dee Ann Holisky, and a team of others begin revising the IT goals for TAC.

June 2001

The AAHE Assessment Conference in sunny Denver, Colorado is attended by a large George Mason contingent: TAC administrators Dee Ann Holisky and Susan Warshauer, TAC assessment specialist Jamie Estock, the IT-Unit's Anne Agee, Star Muir and Jerry Drake, and the Office of Institutional Assessment's Ruth Green. The group discusses an IT assessment plan for TAC projects and student IT skills, and commits to forming an Assessment Council, which has its first meeting on campus in late June. Conference-goers are treated to Denver's 14th Annual Buskerfest of Street Performers, which runs simultaneously with the conference.

April - May 2001

George Mason University hosts the "IT (Information Technology) Everywhere Conference: Insinuating IT Skills Development Everywhere in the Curriculum" from April 29--May 1, 2001. George Mason University Vice President for Information Technology Joy Hughes plans the conference with co-sponsor Educause, TAC administrators, and other educators and IT professionals from Virginia, North Carolina and Massachusetts. The conference focuses on sharing strategies for identifying, developing and assessing the IT skills students need to succeed in their academic and professional careers.>March 2001

TAC seeks graduate students for next year. Deadline: April 9, 2001.
TAC welcomes faculty proposals for funding for 2001-02. Deadline: April 17, 2001.

TAC is proud to be a sponsor of Innovations 2001. This public event is a showcase of creative student projects at George Mason. Innovations 2001 is co-sponsored by the Provost's Office, University Life, DoIIIT, and the Century Club of George Mason University, Inc. Two projects tie for our "TAC Award for the Best Use of Technology to Enhance Learning": Professor David Wong's TAC-supported project in Geography 101: Major World Regions, and Professor James Barry's project in New Century College Learning Community 495: International Crisis Management. Congratulations also go to Professor Lisa Sparks Bethea for her TAC-supported video project in Communications 104: Presenting with Technology, which wins an award from the Century Club for "Most Effective Corporate Interaction."

Susan Warshauer, Ruth Green from Institutional Assessment, and James Young from the George Mason University Libraries give a panel presentation at the American Association for Higher Education's National Conference in Washington, D.C. Attended by over 80 people, the panel on "Promoting and Assessing Technology Use on a Most Wired Campus" emphasizes the TAC program.

February 2001

CAS faculty get report on TAC
Holisky gives a report on the TAC program at the first CAS faculty meeting of 2001, including a summary of the past years’ activity and the projects funded in 2000—01.

Jerry Drake, at the Instructional Resource Center of the IT-Unit, offers a WebCT workshop to TAC faculty and graduate students. TAC administrators work with instructional designers at the IRC and other technology support units to provide special workshops and class visits for faculty and students.

January 2001

Educause Quarterly publishes article on TAC.