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Faculty Mentoring
| Explore how UWT faculty are integrating instructional strategies into their courses and how they feel it fosters collaboration and more active learning opportunities for their students. |
Learn more about strategies faculty are utilizing at UWT...
Doug Wills, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Milgard School of Business
A tablet PC, Camtasia software and a lapel microphone; these are the tools that professor Wills uses to create instructional aids for his business economics students. In teaching economics, typical Powerpoint presentations did not meet his need for an interactive demonstration tool to teach derivatives to students.
He began by using his tablet PC as a whiteboard in class. He would use the tablet journal software to write out step-by-step derivatives that the students could follow along and copy down in class. He would then save the notes, add annotations after class for clarification, and then post the static notes to Blackboard. While this method was meeting his need for an interactive mode of communicating content to the students, he was concerned that too much time was being spent on students feverishly copying down derivative methods in class. He was also aware that post annotations that he put into the note slides may not make as much sense to students viewing the slides outside of class.
The process eventually evolved into his current practice of pre-recording derivative problems with step-by-step instruction. He uses Camtasia studio to capture his problem solving steps and narrate supplemental materials throughout a flash video. In class, students can now concentrate more on participating in class discussion rather than worrying about copying down crucial problem data and steps. Students know that they can login to Blackboard and download step by step instructional videos after class to reinforce material. He produces 15 minute pre-lecture and post-lecture videos to introduce and recap class discussion. Integrating video examples with the theories being taught in class really brings knowledge alive for students.
He has recently begun to experiment with downloading these files to his new IPOD Touch. Students can also download these .MPEG4 files onto their ipods, iphones etc. Professor Wills strongly feels that technology should compliment the class, not be a substitute for class.
Sam Chung, Ph.D.
John Banks, Ph.D.
Faculty interested in becoming me
ntors should contact Darcy Janzen, Instructional Technologist, Academic Technologies, at athelp@u.washington.edu or 692-5731.