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Edwards Aquifer Monitoring Project
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Bob Blodgett, Geology
- Website with real-time well monitoring
- Imagine a well that tracks the health and activity of the Edwards Aquifer, via special monitoring equipment deep underground. Picture a real-time data stream of essential information about the aquifer’s water quality and quantity. Now imagine that this well is located right here at an ACC campus – think of the instructional possibilities! Those possibilities are now a reality, thanks to this innovative website that makes real-time data from the well available on the Web for the first time.
Developmental Writing Course Redesign
Purposes and Patterns
- Patti Dungan, Developmental Writing
- Website, online practice exercises
- Don’t you just love it when a mandate comes with money? When the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board provided funds to redesign the Developmental Writing program, the ACC faculty saw an opportunity and ran with it. The curricula for Writing Skills II and English Composition I were redesigned with clean, high-end graphics and online interactive exercises to help students master the essentials of purposes and patterns in writing – AND meet the new requirements of the Texas Education Code.
College Connection - Student Recruitment
- Candice Jackson, Student Recruitment Office
- Video in revised PowerPoint
- Imagine standing in front of an auditorium full of high-school seniors, armed with your own energy, commitment… and a 21-page PowerPoint presentation. The Student Recruitment Office pared their message down to the basics, resulting in a short video and even shorter slide presentation that is tailored to the attention span and interests of their audience.
Austin Cooks
- Brian McCormick, Culinary Arts
- Television series and website
- Do you wash your chicken? Did you know that wine has legs? And what the heck is that chef doing in the ostrich pen? Chefs Brian Hay and Brian McCormick take viewers into the kitchen and out and around Central Texas to answer these crucial culinary questions, while reviewing and demonstrating essential skills for their students.
Brought to you by Instructional Development Services.
For more information, contact Susan Thomason, Director, IDS: sthomaso@austincc.edu, or 223-7796
