Instructional Software Fund

Proposals are now being solicited for the 2010-2011 Instructional Software Fund. The purpose of the fund is to support endeavors that will allow and encourage faculty to explore the use of instructional software in the curriculum. The Instructional Software Fund is managed through a partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and Information Technology.

To apply for the Instructional Software Fund, please complete the Instructional Software Fund Proposal (available in Microsoft Word or PDF formats) and return it to the Office of Information Technology, on the first floor of Watzek Library, by Thursday, Decemeber 2, 2010 at 5:00pm.

Use your imagination, reviews from journals and colleagues to explore a piece of software that looks intriguing. Below are some examples of software previously purchased using Instructional Software Fund monies:

Final Draft

“Final Draft is the number-one selling application specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics, and stageplays. It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package.”

WPWebHost

Web Hosting solution for Word Press blogs.

Vectorworks Designer

“Vectorworks Designer is the perfect CAD software for design firms of all kinds. Whether you work in architecture, landscape, entertainment, or manufacturing—or whether your business is large or small—Vectorworks Designer gives you the flexibility and versatility you need to design it all.”

Virtual Light Lab

“Virtual Light Lab software allows lighting designers, teachers, or students to experiment with light, shadow, color composition, and cue timing in a simulated lighting studio.”

ChemDraw Ultra

Sibelius 4 and Sibelius Instruments

“The complete software for writing, playing, printing and publishing music notation”

Macromedia Director

Multimedia authoring tool

MacVector

“The leading sequence analysis package for the Macintosh”

Dreamweaver

Web page development and maintanance tool.

Quandry

“An application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options.”

MacroModel

Molecular modeling software

MatLab

“MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran”

Ableton Live

“Music creation, production and performance platform”