First Winner:
Patrick Wiseman, Georgia State University College of
Law
Honorary
Award: Thomas Marino, Temple University School of
Medicine
Sponsored by Blackboard
October, 2000
Patrick
Wiseman, Professor of Law at Georgia State
University College of Law, was selected as the first
recipient of the Tom Creed Memorial Compassionate
Pioneer Award. The award is presented in honor of
Tom Creed, who was a highly respected Professor of
Psychology at St. Benedict/St. John's University.
The first Award was presented by The TLT Group, in
collaboration with one of its founding sponsors,
Blackboard, Inc. at the Sixth Annual TLT Group
Summer Institute, July, 2000 in Phoenix. Creed had
been a leader and contributor to the TLT Group's
Summer Institute in previous years.
The criteria
for selecting the winners of this award reflect some
of the most admired characteristics of Creed's
work. Compassionate Pioneer faculty members are
those who:
1.
Use technology in new ways to improve teaching and
learning.
2.
Use technology to make
learning more effective and engaging for students
outside of
the classroom; especially in ways that complement
and support more interactive uses of face-to-face
classroom time.
3.
Encourage and help colleagues (both within their own
departments and institutions -- and beyond) to
develop their own educational uses of information
technology.
4.
Enjoy teaching, enjoy helping others; and, when
appropriate, make learning more enjoyable for
students.
Dr. Wiseman
was chosen by a committee of faculty and
administrators from St. Benedict/St. John's
University (Creed's home institution for much of his
career), and by the TLT Group's Senior Associates.
Professor
Wiseman uses technology to enhance his courses in
Property, Constitutional Law, and Law and the
Internet. His accomplishments include:
- increasing student
participation by developing a very popular
e-mail discussion forum that is used well beyond
his own classroom
- setting up an online
forum and Website about property law that makes
him more accessible to commuting and part-time
students
- developing methods that
enable his students to notify him anonymously of
problems with any aspect of the class
- and developing online
tutorials.
His
colleagues and students report that Professor
Wiseman uses technology to encourage communication
among students and faculty. Like Tom Creed, Dr.
Wiseman has shared his expertise well beyond his own
academic unit. He presents seminars to other
faculty members on using technology and contributes
to the legal community through his work on Law and
the Internet.
The
committee from Georgia State University that
nominated him provided several quotes about
Professor Wiseman that summarized dozens of
responses from his students and colleagues.
From a
student:
"Professor
Wiseman is a caring and gifted educator.
