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Our goal is to communicate the latest news related to UC’s eLearning ecosystem, Canopy. If you have input, please email us at ucitpio@ucmail.uc.edu. View past publications of the Canopy Newsletter in our newsletter archive at uc.edu/canopy.
Please Note: Due to Winter Season Days, the next edition of the Canopy newsletter will be sent Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015.
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We are proud to introduce cohort I of the eLearning Backpack Project:
The eLearning Backpack Project is an initiative to provide faculty with backpacks loaded with tools as an opportunity for them to reimagine how they create/deliver course content and engage with their students.
The first cohort of backpackers have been chosen and paired with members of the Center for Excellence in eLearning, who have set aisde 20 hours of group and one-on-one partnership per semester to help the members with their vision, to identify use cases and to establish best practices for these new services.
Listed below are the chosen 10 backpackers, their college and course information along with how they plan to use the backpack tools.
Let's meet them!
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Ruth Benander
UC Blue Ash—Intro to English Composition
She plans to use Camtasia, the wireless mic, and Swivl to produce high quality video and sound recordings for students to review outside of class. Coaching videos will accompany assigned readings so that students can better understand assignments and have guidance outside of class. The videos will also have embedded quizzes to measure comprehension. She hopes that the tools offered through the backpack project will help students understand how to better use their experience in class with private study at home.
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Krista Wood
UC Blue Ash—General Physics II
She plans to use the iPad in class to have students write out problems and representations that can be mirrored to the class projector using the Apple TV. She also wants to use the Wireless USB Mic and Swivl to capture group interactions and discussions to create a collaborative and interactive classroom environment. She thinks that using technology to move more content outside of class will provide more in-class time to develop the higher level critical thinking skills necessary to understand physics.
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Daniel Waddell
McMicken College of Arts & Sciences—Organic Chemistry II
He wants to create more digital content for students to access outside of class, so that more class time can be spent on peer-to-peer learning and problem solving. He notes that the headset and iPad will be especially useful with the Camtasia and Kaltura tools for uploading content in a user-friendly format.
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Sherry Donaworth
College of Nursing—Pharmacology for Adv Nursing Practice
She wants to develop interactive case studies for pharmacology students that will be accessible on an iPad. She also wants to present cases in the classroom and record them using the iPad Swivl. Being able to take additional cases, lectures and speakers from other courses and record them with Kaltura and the iPad Swivl will bring supplemental content and learning opportunities. She thinks that making the interactive cases interesting and accessible through the iPad will help boost student use and interest.
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Udo Greinacher
DAAP—InMotion - Elective Theory/Lab
He thinks that all of the tools in the backpack will be relevant and useful in his class. He hopes students will benefit from the ability to share content directly from their iPhones or laptops to the big screen. He thinks this will make discussions more interesting and will increase participation and retention.
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Wendy Eisner
McMicken College of Arts & Sciences—Crowded Greenhouse
She thinks the Swivl camera will be a game changer when it comes to student presentations, allowing them to review and critique each other’s projects and encourage participation. She also looks forward to using the Wacom tablet as she teaches the class because it allows teachers to draw and annotate as they move around the class and interact with students.
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Michal Raucher
McMicken College of Arts & Sciences—History of Jewish Civilization II
She plans to record her lectures using Swivl, so that she can review her own teaching styles and improve. The Apple TV will also help make her lectures more dynamic by providing her access to documentaries, films and TV clips. She also wants to use the iPad and microphone in class to call primary sources for student interviews during class. She thinks that these tools will engage the students and make the class material easier to learn. By giving the students multiple opportunities to absorb information, it will give them multiple ways of connecting to it on a more personal level.
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Gary Dick
College of Allied Health Sciences—Research II
He wants to learn about new technologies as he uses them to teach his students. With over 30 years of teaching experience, he is looking to propel his teaching methods into the 21st century using a variety of eLearning technologies.
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Todd Foley
ProPEL—Intro to Coop CEAS
He would like to start a precedent of utilizing progressive teaching technologies to enhance the engagement and learning of students who go on co-op. He plans to use the technology provided to create video lectures to be watched in advance of classes; edit his Keynote presentations on the fly during class; record in-class lectures, presentations, and activities; poll students during class and incorporate Skype lectures. He believes this will allow for more individualized instruction, thus transforming the learning environment.
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Julia Montier-Ball
McMicken College of Arts & Sciences—Career Development for Arts & Sciences
She hopes to boost her course enrollment by offering graduating seniors an alternative way to access the course and fit it into their busy senior schedules. By transforming it into an asynchronous learning environment, she believes more A&S students would be motivated to take the course because they would still feel included in class activities, guest speakers, lectures, etc., and interact with peers.
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