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IUPUI Camp Gives Area Teachers Lessons for
High-Tech Curriculum

Seventy Indianapolis-area teachers spent four days on campus learning how better to incorporate computer technology into their classroom curriculum.

The Computer and Information Technology Department at IUPUI offered the 5th Annual Tech Camp for teachers July 18-21.

Teachers representing more than 60 schools chose to learn how to infuse desktop publishing, Web design, Access data management, or Web graphics into their classroom activities. The camp is designed to offer secondary school teachers the latest and greatest in technology curriculum ideas...
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SLIS Graduate Students at IUPUI Win National Honors

Several School of Library and Information Science students associated with the IUPUI program have been recognized recently with national awards. These honors represent a growing population of professional-minded graduate students in the Indianapolis program and a wide array of academic achievement.

“Over the past few years, over a dozen graduate students in the School of Library and Information Science at Indianapolis have won grants and scholarships from local and state organizations,” said Daniel Callison, executive associate dean and professor. “The Indiana Library Federation (ILF) and the Association for Indiana Media Educators (AIME) have been generous with frequent support of SLIS students.”

Students who have been recently honored...
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New IUPUI Computer Course for High School Students Focuses on Crime Scene Investigation

Two dozen area high school students will team up to solve a murder mystery as they learn the high-tech basics of crime scene investigation during a new summer course at IUPUI.

The students are enrolled in “Computing Forensics”, a course being offered by the Department of Computer and Information Science as part of its summer college program for high school students. The class will meet from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, July 25-29 in SL247, 723 W. Michigan St. Designed for beginning programming students, the course teaches computer science principles and techniques behind the CSI-scenes of forensic science.

“The Computing Forensics course allows students to explore....
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Goff Edits New Book on American Religious History

Philip Goff, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and associate professor of Religious Studies, has just published a co-edited volume titled “The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945” (Columbia University Press, 2005).

The anthology holds documents that reflect religion's intersection with the key issues...
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