Session Title
Designing an App: An Integrative Teaching and Collaboration Experience
Start Date
4-10-2012 9:45 AM
End Date
4-10-2012 11:45 AM
Session Description
After envisioning an app to increase engagement in his lecture based classes, Learning Technologist Anthony Fontana sought the help of graphic designer and Professor Lori Young for professional assistance. Together the two developed the specific look of the web application for laptops and iPads before developing a user interface specific to smaller screen smartphones. During this process, the collaborators expanded the project to include graphic design students at Bowling Green State University who were enrolled in a Graphic Design Practicum class.
This session will feature a presentation of the web application now known as QizBox, a social learning environment, led by Anthony Fontana, also an Instructor of Art at Bowling Green State University. He will discuss how cross-campus collaborations with Computer Science, Graphic Design, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer at BGSU, led new insights when developing integrative teaching and learning projects on campus.
Lori Young will present on her professional work designing the graphics for QizBox and the work of her Practicum class. This class currently collaborates with community/business partners who are interested in working with students to produce actual projects. It also gives students valuable training and professional experience needed in today’s competitive market. The multifaceted levels of the Qizbox made it necessary for the students to work with students/professionals in other disciplines which in turn made this a dynamic and challenging project for them.
Designing an App: An Integrative Teaching and Collaboration Experience
After envisioning an app to increase engagement in his lecture based classes, Learning Technologist Anthony Fontana sought the help of graphic designer and Professor Lori Young for professional assistance. Together the two developed the specific look of the web application for laptops and iPads before developing a user interface specific to smaller screen smartphones. During this process, the collaborators expanded the project to include graphic design students at Bowling Green State University who were enrolled in a Graphic Design Practicum class.
This session will feature a presentation of the web application now known as QizBox, a social learning environment, led by Anthony Fontana, also an Instructor of Art at Bowling Green State University. He will discuss how cross-campus collaborations with Computer Science, Graphic Design, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer at BGSU, led new insights when developing integrative teaching and learning projects on campus.
Lori Young will present on her professional work designing the graphics for QizBox and the work of her Practicum class. This class currently collaborates with community/business partners who are interested in working with students to produce actual projects. It also gives students valuable training and professional experience needed in today’s competitive market. The multifaceted levels of the Qizbox made it necessary for the students to work with students/professionals in other disciplines which in turn made this a dynamic and challenging project for them.