To whom it may concern:

Re: Are you interested in using CPS in your class in Spring04?

Dear Colleague,

The Classroom Performance System (CPS), is one of the wireless interactive systems available, which has the potential to promote interactive teaching in large classrooms and has the benefit of promoting class attendance/participation through electronic records. Presently there are over 10 CNS-multi-media classrooms equipped with such systems, maintained by CNS Dean's office. The College of Engineering and College of Library Arts have begun pilot-use of the system. UT Center of Instructional Technology and Center of Teaching Effectiveness under the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment(DIIA) have also been involved in helping to implement the use of the system on our campus.

I am the faculty coordinator of our UT-CPS-support project. Our goal is to promote excellence in undergraduate teaching on our campus, especially in large classrooms, through the use of such wireless interactive system.

We invite you to visit our homepage at http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk.

• See UT-cps-bulletin #4 at the top of the web for the listing of classrooms presently equipped with the system.
• See Sec. I.2, classdata(fall03) for classes using the present system. Interested faculty members may want to talk to his/her colleagues about their experience in using the system.
• Sec. Sec. II.1 on ongoing class-record, especially those postings for the whole class.
• Sec. Sec. III on students' survey, presentations, articles, about the use of the cps-system.
• See Bulletin #6 on Professor Marilla Svinicki of Center of Teaching Effectiveness comments on the use of the system (last slide)
• Outside of the College of Natural Science, in the current semester Professor Jeff Siegel of the College of Engineering and Professor Liz Cullingford in the English Department are using the system. See Bulletin #18 which describes how the system is implemented in Eng 316K, Masterworks of British Literature.

Those who are interested in using the system in the Spring04 semester, please go to Sec. I.2, to signup using the system in spring04.

• Those who want to learn more about using the system please contact me at chiu@physics.utexas.edu.
• In the school of biological science, the contact persons are Dr. Art Woods, art.woods@mail.utexas.edu and Dr. K. Sathasivan at sata@mail.utexas.edu.
• Interested instructors may also contact Morrie Schulman of the Center of Instructional Technology at schulman@mail.utexas.edu, especially for those who will be teaching in classrooms not equipped with the system.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely yours,

Charles Chiu

Professor of Physics, UT Distinguished Teaching Professor