Stephany Rimland Receives DoIT Faculty Fellowship

Stephany E. Rimland received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago. Stephany joined Harper College as a full-time faculty member in the Visual Art Department in the Fall 2005. Stephany currently teaches Art History and Introduction to the Arts courses at Harper College. Stephany’s areas of professional interest include Contemporary and Postmodern Art.

In this DoIT faculty fellowship project Stephany will create illustrative and demonstrative PowerPoint slides pertaining to important foundational art topics which will promote visual cognitive learning in the classroom. The completed PowerPoint presentations will be made available to all Harper Faculty as for classroom use and for use as supplementary learning materials on Blackboard Learning Systems.

The DoIT faculty fellowship will enable Stephanie to learn how to edit, manipulate and create digital images through Adobe Photoshop CS and to produce a group of “readymade” interactive PowerPoint presentations. Stephany anticipates that these interactive PowerPoint-presentations will be utilized as convenient pedagogical learning objects for introductory courses related to the visual arts and humanities.

DoIT Faculty Fellowships are intended for the development of an instructional technology project over the course of a single semester. Projects should enhance the use of instructional technology and can be discipline-based or more generally broad based. DoIT fellowships offer the participating faculty member three hours of release time or a $3,000 stipend per semester.

Harper College Faculty members who would like to develop an idea or project that involves instructional technology are encouraged to apply for a DoIT Faculty Fellowship. You can find the DoIT faculty Fellowship Application by going to the DoIT resource page http://www.harpercollege.edu/doit/res.html and clicking on the “forms” tab. If you would like to learn more about DoIT Faculty fellowships please contact John Kiener (DoIT Faculty Coordinator) at (847) 925-6170