Dan Robinson here at UT Austin has done
something similar. He videotaped himself lecturing and makes that
available to students to look at on Blackboard, if they so desire—in addition
to reading.
Really, it serves the same purpose as a “reading
guide” but it seems to meet some need that a sheet of paper does not. :-)
-M
From: Team Learning
Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sibley, Jim
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 9:23
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Subject: Re: Preclass preparation
If you want to do voice over lecture
recordings
check put Camtasia (www.techsmith.com) for PC and ScreenFlow
for MAC
Example of PC recording at http://cis.apsc.ubc.ca/PodCasts/tbl_flash/tbl_3.html
Jim
From: Robin L
Hills/FS/VCU [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 7:18
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To: Sibley, Jim
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Subject: Re: Preclass preparation
I thought I'd share what I've done to prepare students for
inclass activities. When I started 6 years ago, a colleague was
struggling with poor course evals because she adopted a teaching strategy that
required students to acquire the content on their own outside of class.
So, when I decided to adopt the TBL strategy, I knew I would have to provide
more guidance to the approximately 60 graduate nursing students in my GYN
course. Our School purchased Articulate PresenterTM which I used to
record all of my lectures into shorter (10-15 slide) modules which I post to
Bb. The students then review them along with the reading assignments
prior to class. Of course, feedback on course evals still occasionally
includes "too much time needed to review the modules", but more
frequently the feedback is along the lines of appreciating the opportunity to
review the modules at their own pace (sometimes multiple times) and not having
to listen to 3 hours of lecture. Although somewhat time intensive
the first semester, the Articulate program is easy to use, and now I just have
to update selected modules each year. I hope this is helpful.
Clinical Assistant Professor
VCU
Department of Family and Community Health Nursing
(804) 828-5578