Previsualization to accelerate anatomy dissection in classroom
Presentation Abstract: Animal dissection is a hands-on training that teaches students not only the identification of structures in vertebral animals but also the fine motor skills of cadaver dissection. A majority of students, however, lack sufficie...
Teaching with technology: a model for implementation
Many educators have been early adopters of pedagogical technologies and have worked hard to keep pace with rapid innovations over the past decade. Many others started later but continue to join in the technology revolution in education. With a cornu...
Using student blogs as reflective practice
Presentation Abstract: The progression in the past decade of blogs from personal web journals to a platform for established professionals, corporations and writers has also created opportunities for education. This session looks at the use of blogs ...
Using moodle for online course delivery
Moodle provided an effective interface for the online learning format. Any discipline that uses online teaching or needs a record of student work for accreditation or assessment purposes can benefit from this project as it allows discussion, journal...
First year seminar on social networking & sustainability: lessons learned
Most first year college students tell stories of "getting caught" on their laptops Facebooking or MySpacing. They are members of multiple social networks, with highly developed online communication and multitasking skills, so desirable in today's jo...
Use of screencasts in information literacy instruction
The development of information literacy has become an essential curricular goal in undergraduate education regardless of major or instructional delivery format. This session summarizes collaboration between a college librarian and a faculty member, ...
Online multicultural field experiences: possibilities, pitfalls, and potential solutions
Presentation Abstract: Teacher educators are required by accreditation standards to provide field experiences for their students in diverse settings in order to prepare them for the realities of todays K-12 schools. This presents a challenge however...
Surprise! laptops INCREASE student engagement in large classes
Research over the past three years at the University of Michigan shows that, while students with a laptop are more likely to increase their time on tasks unrelated to the conduct of the course, they report being more attentive, significantly more en...
Powerful lectures, self grading exams, and dynamic gradebooks, using cloud computing
Want lectures with truly seamless audio and video? Want to give paperless exams that grade themselves? Want a gradebook that is dynamic and will automatically update a student accessible grade web page? Bring your classroom into the new era of cloud...
Teaching, writing, and speaking with classroom capture
Presentation Abstract: Classroom capture technology, typically designed to make faculty-lead classroom activities and instruction available to students for later review, can be repurposed to create interactive self-evaluative learning activities for...