In 1990, Heeter developed and taught the first hypermedia design course in the college, TC 446.
As a professor of Digital Media Arts in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, she is currently working with other digital media arts faculty in the college to revise the curriculum and launch undergraduate and masters level programs in digital media arts.
Last spring, Heeter co-taught as Virtual Professor and Brian Winn as real professor for the advanced hypermedia design course. Once a week, Heeter brought in guest speakers from the San Francisco Bay Area to talk to the class via picturephone, critiqued proposals and projects over the internet, and delivered web-based lecture-discussions to students in the DMAT lab.
This spring she will be teaching two experimental sections of self-paced learning of emerging tools and techniques -- one on DreamWeaver and web design and the other on PhotoShop and image manipulation.
She helps guide students to internship and project opportunities with the digital media arts industry and works with undergraduate and graduate students on independent study projects and paid employment in the Comm Tech Lab and MSU Virtual University.
Heeter also serves on and chairs M.A. Production Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, College of Education, Department of Computer Science, Department of Geography, and the Department of Natural Resources.
Links to recent graduate student work:
Kimberly York
Natural Resources Doctoral Dissertation:
Using the World Wide Web for K-12 Environmental EducationKyle Sanders Tait
TC M.A. Production Thesis:
The Beatbox
M.A. Defense SlidesRandy Russell
Education Doctoral Dissertation:
World Wide Web Site Visitor Studies: Techniques Using Server Log File DataLynn Rampoldi
Mass Media Doctoral Project Work
Recall and Mental Models: Designing a User Interface to Affect MemoryMatt MacQueen
TC M.A. Production Thesis:
The Virtual Children's GardenPericles Gomes
Education Doctoral Dissertation:
Usability Feedback in Interfaces