Faculty Projects

Listed below are Santa Clara faculty-led projects demonstrating the integration of technology into the curriculum. If you have a project to add to this list, or want help creating multimedia projects, please email David Armstrong, Michael Ballen, or James Linehan.

International Conflict Simulation, William J. Stover pH D.
The International Conflict Simulation (ICS), a game of strategic interaction involving nation states in political conflict. It can focus on any region of the world: East Asia, the Balkans, Indochina, Latin America, Africa or the Middle East. It can entail historical events like the outbreak of World War I, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the 1973 Middle East War. It can examine contemporary negotiations involving trade, intellectual property rights, migration, human rights, environmental protection, or political-military crises. It is played over the Internet, using threaded discussion, email, and other multimedia resources.

Plants Map of Santa Clara University (demonstration version)
This web site was developed to provide information on our campus plants and to serve as an opportunity for incorporating new technology into the classroom experience. It began as a class assignment in the Biology of Vascular Plants course (Biology 190E) taught by Elizabeth Bell, Ph.D. in the Winter quarter 1999. The class created an initial inventory and map of the plants on campus. Each student conducted library research on several plants, took photographs and created a web page for each plant. A digital camera, provided by the Media Lab, was used for most of the photographs. Excellent technical assistance in web site design and development has been provided by two students, Tin Lam and Mai Nguyen, from the Bio 190E course under the direction of David Armstrong, M. Ed.. (Instructional Technology) and Elizabeth Bell. Sandra Kelly, also a former student of Bio 190E, assisted in web page refinement. John Dayton provided technical photographs of selected plants.

Student Self-Reflection Web Sites, Tom Shanks, Communications Department
GOALS for Students
To learn to design a basic World Wide Web page that includes text, links, and images.
To use the web as a medium for self-expression.
To reflect about the experience of using the web for self-expression.
To create web pages that express your reflection about your own use of technology, with an eye toward the final reflection pages you will create in a group.

Does Virtual Reality Enhance the Psychological Benefits of Exercise?
Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficients Among Salient Variables
Thomas Plante, Sharon Frazier, Anna Tittle, Mark Babula, Elizabeth Ferlic, and Esther Riggs

Virtual reality has been successfully incorporated into the treatment of various phobias and other psychological difficulties in recent years. Furthermore, virtual reality technology has been used to enhance the psychological experience of people in diverse ways. The purpose of the present study was to investigate if virtual reality technology might enhance the psychological benefits of aerobic exercise in a laboratory setting. In this study, 121 college students (72 females, 49 males) were randomly assigned to one of four experimental or control conditions. The first included a 30-minute exercise experience on an exercise bike where participants were instructed to bike at an intensity of 60-70% of their maximum heart rate (i.e., 220 - age). For these students, this translated into 120 to 150 heartbeats per minute. A second condition included this same 30-minute exercise prescription with the additional use of virtual reality technology. These participants used a software product called Cycle FX that provided them with a virtual computerized biking experience on the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games course riding with 3 other virtual riders. An interface between the exercise bike and the computer allowed for participants to increase or decrease the speed of their virtual biking experience by riding faster or slower on the exercise bike. The third condition included computerized virtual biking without any actual exercise. This condition included a virtual experience using "Extreme Mountain Biking" software of downhill and trail biking using a computer mouse to control speed and direction. The fourth condition included a control procedure where participants watched a 30-minute biking experience on videotape while sitting quietly in a comfortable chair. A research assistant strapped a video camera to her bike and biked for 30 minutes in a park setting to create this control condition. The Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List (AD-ACL), a brief mood questionnaire used in exercise research measuring energy, tiredness, tension, and calmness, was administered immediately before and after each experimental or control research condition as well as administered prior to bedtime on the day the subject participated in the experiment.

Anthropology 2 class Time Line
This Time line is the result of work done by students in Anthropology 2 at Santa Clara University. Each student in the class was assigned a ten year time frame and worked to develop those years into a web site. This class was taught by Dr. Lisa Kealhofer, with instructional technology support provided by David Armstrong M.Ed.

Project (CD) de Alandaluz
This project was a joint collaboration between Alandaluz and an introductory Spanish class at Santa Clara University. Under the direction of Dr. Josef Hellebrandt Ph. D. in the department of Modern Languages.

Cold War Timeline
This Time line is the result of work done by students in Political Science 132 at Santa Clara University. Each student in the class was assigned a year(s) and worked to develop that year into a web site that can be displayed in this widow by clicking on year in the menu. (User ID and password is coldwar).

Web site for English 79, Dr. Phillip O'Neill
This web site is divided into sections. Each resource section - colonialism, modernization and globalization - provides a brief summary, extract, or interpretation of an important writer in the area. These sections can be used for overview and review.

Renaissance and Baroque Art, Dr. Andrea Pappas
This web site is currently used in the Art History 12 class. The Web contains graphics and other supporting materials used in the class.

Animal Development CD-ROM, Dr. James Grainger
This CD-ROM/Web Site contains original laboratory experiments and images created in the Biology 115 Animal Development course at Santa Clara University. The images were created by undergraduate students in this laboratory course.

Business Ethics Team Projects, Dr. Martin Calkins
These team projects are shell-based ethical decision trees using hyperlinks to web pages containing text, videos, images, and so forth. Each of the teams produced a web site and CD-ROM.

Sociology 049: Computers, The Internet, and Society, Dr. John Ratliff
Dr. Ratliff has created web pages to augment his current course schedule. Students groups do web projects on aspects of the sociology of the Internet and related technologies. These projects involve Internet research, creating and publishing a web page linked to the class Website, and in-class multi-media presentations. (User ID and password is ratliff)

Sociology 049: Computers, The Internet, and Society, David Armstrong M. Ed
Dr. Ratliff has created web pages to augment his current course schedule. Students groups do web projects on aspects of the sociology of the Internet and related technologies. These projects involve Internet research, creating and publishing a web page linked to the class Website, and in-class multimedia presentations.

Dr. Chad Raphael, Communications
Dr. Raphael has created a number of web pages to augment his current course schedule. He has also used the web in class assignments ranging from an Online Scavenger Hunt to Web Page self-portraits.