VITAL/EXPANDED TECHNOLOGIES INITIATIVE FY 2018-2019 PROPOSALS Proposal ID: 39 Division Academic Affairs College of Arts and Letters 47228 Campus Division David Carlson
[email protected] 909-537-5834 Total Amount Requested for FY 2017 $45,357.00 Project Title: Mobile Laptop Labs for English Courses and Advising Project Abstract: The English Department requests funding for two 30-laptop mobile labs to enhance student learning in multiple classes, and to be used by the department for group advising sessions as we work through the semester conversion and towards overall improvement in graduation rates. One of these labs will be housed at the San Bernardino campus and the other will be housed at the Palm Desert campus. These labs will serve the many sections of first-year composition (ENG 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107) and expository writing (ENG 306) taken each quarter by students from all different majors. In these courses, the laptops will help students to learn how to conduct online research; complete collaborative writing projects; and incorporate real-time feedback from their peers and instructors into their writing. In addition, in our English literature, creative writing, and linguistics courses taken by English majors and Liberal Studies majors, the laptops will allow students to research digital archives on authors and texts; to use online "corpus linguistics" tools to examine word usage in real- life discourse; and to produce a range of multimedia texts. Our department has just hired a new creative writing faculty member with expertise in digital publication and multi-modal creative writing; we expect this faculty member to regularly employ these labs in her courses.