Ivy Schweitzer
Douglas Moody (Photos by Joseph Mehling '69)
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Schweitzer, professor of English and women's and gender studies, and Douglas Moody,
lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese, have been appointed Dartmouth Center for Advancement of
Learning (DCAL) Fellows in 2007-2008.
DCAL Fellows enjoy a reduced teaching load to allow them time to develop
important new tools for learning at Dartmouth. Schweitzer will work with
College Archivist Peter Carini and Senior Instructional Designer Sarah Horton
to build a Web site that will make hundreds of pages of manuscript materials
written and owned by Samson Occom easily available to students and researchers
around the world.
Schweitzer uses Occom's material in her teaching, and her students do original
research using the Occom papers in the Rauner Special
Collections Library. Occom, a member of the Mohegan Tribe and Nation, was
largely responsible for Dartmouth's founding having raised substantial funds
for the school in England and Scotland. He was one of Eleazar Wheelock's first
pupils.
Moody will work with Susan Simon in academic computing and Thomas Luxon,
Cheheyl Professor and director of DCAL, to build a pilot telecollaboration
network to serve the five Language Study Abroad (LSA) and three Foreign Study
Programs (FSP) offered by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Moody has
dubbed his project the Keypals Tele-collaborative Exchange Program (KETEP); its
goal is to provide Dartmouth students with opportunities to interact with their
peers in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil before, during, and after their
LSA and FSP experiences. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, Moody promoted the use
of asynchronous and synchronous telecommunication tools to bring students in
Mexico into close communication with Dartmouth students.
By THOMAS LUXON
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