Antony started using the tablet because he was sick of students being powerpointed to death. The university was across five campuses; products such as camtasia allowed recording of lecturers in a more efficient manner.
After the initial trial, he used the tablet PC to make videos of worked examples and emailed those back to staff, rather than typing an answer to an email.
From there videos were made of prac work equipment for viewing BEFORE the lessons/prac – this meant the students were coming to the class ready to learn – Dimension 1. I love this idea, and certainly think is something that we can do in science! I can’t wait!
The turnaround time for marking was decreased to 1-2 days, rather than 3-4 weeks. This is perfect for the teacher. The other thing is the teacher always has a copy of the work – this is valuable for conversations after the fact.
Antony has thrown out the print based study guide and instead is developing a video based study guide. This has video and audio for each worked example…. What a great idea! Flash is better than windows media files… maybe a focus for PD.
The tools used are Camtasia for the video screen capture. Evermap instead of PDFannotator – add in for acrobat – one product that does all! Itunes – huge potential.
The next aim is the paperless course! All paper documents are scanned for marking, so now all items are stored for each student.
This approach is quicker, more efficient and all records are stored for every student, which solves disputes.
However, staff training is really important. We need to get staff properly trained.
Some things to look at:
eemedia – media server that uni’s are using
iFiles (Novell) – aut backup for students
captivate – like camtasia but produces flash!
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