What's Happening in Learning Technologies

L. Penny Rosenblum, Ph D, with the Disability & Psychoeducational Studies program at the College of Education at the UofA. Dr. Rosenblum discusses using Elluminate to enhance instruction and reach students and collaborators located at institutions around the country.

George Davis, Regents Professor Emeritus, received the 2010 GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award. He has published extensively on the formation of the Basin and Range region of the U.S., including the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona, and on the Colorado Plateau. In his current research project, Davis is a team leader on the Mt. Lykaion (Zeus) sanctuary and excavation site in Greece. His role is to interpret the geologic history of the site, including active tectonics, in specific relationship to its archaeology.

In this interview Dr. Ravishankar Palanivelu, Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences talks about how he uses technology to support his teaching.

Prof. Laura Lunsford talks about how she uses D2L for her online classes. She outlines strategies and tactics and illustrates points on how she uses quizzes, podcasts and how she structures her courses. OIA supports many activites on the University of Arizona campus. Among those activities is the use of technology to support teaching on the campus. Faculty share their experience and thoughts on teaching with technology and the impact that this has on their instruction.

Dr. Amy Fountain, Department of Linguistics, has podcast her lectures for several years. In this video, she explains why she records her lectures for podcasting, and how her students have responded.

During Spring Semester 2006, Ms. Sweeney listened to a podcast by educator Susan Smith Nash. She compares podcasting to the ancient oral tradition. Ms. Sweeney was a Master's student in the School of Information Resources & Library Science.

Joel Gottschalk was a graduating senior in December 2006 when he described his experience using Apple's GarageBand to create a podcast for ART 497A Gallery Management that fall semester. Joel created images for the podcast and used GarageBand loops. He offers advice for UA students who are interested in creating podcasts using GarageBand.

Dr. Riley is Associate Professor, Soil/Water and Environmental Science. He recorded podcasts for students in his GenEd class for review in advance of mid-terms and other exams.

Dr. Leila Hudson is Associate Professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies. In 2006 she was one of the UA's first professors to record audio of her lectures. She discusses why she did this and how it helped students in her GenEd class of over 200 students.

Dr. Katie Hirschboeck is Associate Professor, Climatology. She discusses how she recorded videos of students giving presentations in her graduate teaching practicum course as a way for students to receive useful feedback and explore self-assessment.

Bruce Fulton was the Communications & Outreach Librarian at the School of Information Resources & Library Science in 2006. Bruce described how SIRLS was podcasting "educational events, guest speakers and other kinds of live presentations."

In 2006, Blake Shell was the College of Fine Arts Gallery director. She taught Gallery Management and had her students create a podcast around a gallery exhibition. She describes how students learned to make podcasts, enrich them with images of the exhibitions, and realize instructional outcomes. She also describes how podcasts are being captured of visiting artists.