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Think about what you are doing that other HHP instructors might find useful. Remember that something you are doing may seem small to you but might make a big difference to one or more of your colleagues.
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Renee Newcomer, faculty member in Sport Psychology, and two graduates and one undergraduate student produced five videos each of which depict key patient-provider interactions (i.e., patient presentation of psychosocial concerns, demonstration of appropriate patient-provider communication, and modeling of effective patient-based coping skills training). Final editing was completed this summer, and the video clips will be integrated into small group assignments and discussion groups within the ESS 711 course this fall 2006 term.
Sharon Morrison, faculty member in Public Health Education, has created a content area in her Blackboard course called Daily News. It is the first thing students see when they enter her Global Health Issues course. She has three RSS feeds on this page: BBC health, NPR Health Care, and World Health Organization News. The BBC health RSS feeds are video clips. She has found that students are not only visiting the links but they are also now sending her other Internet links pertinent to their subject matter. Students also use these RSS reeds as a means of generating or developing a theme or topic for each of 3 critical analysis essays.
Pam Brown, faculty member in Excercise and Sport Science, has just completed teaching ESS 220, Fitness for Life, in an online format that UNCG's Division of Continual Learning helped her develop. The course was designed to help individual students assess their overall health and wellness "from a distance" through both "paper and pencil techniques" and a variety of physical activities. They were then asked to develop a plan to improve their level of wellness. Students commented that they appreciated the flexibilty of the class. Despite the deadlines for the assignments, they could complete the course, including the physical activities, at times that worked for them.
Duane Cyrus, faculty member in Dance, presented Beyond the Mirror: Using Technology and Media as a Teaching Device in the Dance Studio, at the UNC System Teaching and Learning with Technology conference, March, 2006.
Duane videotapes his students in class, does an instant replay with comments, and also posts video clips with voice over comments to his Blackboard course.
DCE 200: Dance Appreciation was taught for the first time online in Spring 2006. The course, subtitled Intersections: Dance, Place, and Identity, is an exploration of information and ideas about the global interconnections and local distinctions of various dance practices. A second emphasis is the development of dance literacy, meaning the ability to understand, discuss, and, write about dance as artistic, social, and cultural expression. Faculty members Robin Gee and Ann Dils and MFA student and teaching assistant, Matthew Brookoff, developed and taught the initial offering of the course. Challenges in developing the course included finding ways to provide the students with some kind of bodily experience and with a dancemaking experience online. Thanks to DCL designers, the course includes two opportunities to make screen dances by combining moving and still imagery, text, color, and sound. Brookoff, Dils, and Gee find the online environment especially productive for teaching writing. In Fall 2006, they look forward to incorporating a newly published reader, developed especially for this course, into their teaching.
Jolene Henning, faculty member in Sports Medicine and Athletic Training, and her graduate student Michelle Lesperance, an ESS doctoral student, have developed self-assessment tutorials to help Athletic Training students prepare for the national Board of Certification exam. They used the action maze tool Quandary to build the tutorials. They have also had an article on the subject accepted to the journal, Athletic Therapy Today.
Celia Hooper, Department Chair for CSD, asked her CSD 150 Communication Disabilities in Film students to do group creative media projects. Project formats included posters and role plays, web sites, and video role plays and interviews. Here is the Announcement flyer for the presentations. Here is a student project website on Cochlear Implants.
If Celia does this again, ask her if you might attend. You can learn a lot - about students, what they can do with multimedia, as well as about communication disorders.