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Faculty Portfolio - A collection of techniques, tips and tricks.

How to Use a Financial Calculator

Faculty
Thomas Zorn

Pedagogy
Adobe Connect meeting provides students and instructors with the opportunity to interact, connect and get to know each other. It also helps to bring instructor presence to the online environment.

Technology Used
Adobe Connect;Jing

Objectives
The objective of the Adobe Connect meeting in this online course was to give students the opportunity to ask questions prior to the module exams. Dr. Zorn conducted a total of five optional Adobe Connect meetings in the Fall of 2007. The first meeting provided students with lessons and demonstration on how to use a financial calculator.

Jing for Student Discussion

Faculty
Frauke Hachtmann

Pedagogy
Stimulating asynchronous discussion using visuals and multimedia.

Technology Used
Jing

Objectives
Provide richer dialogue by having improved context for viewing and discussion multimedia and television advertisements. A secondary objective was to help students learn to present in a multimedia format.

Jing makes sharing visual ideas easy

Faculty
Sydney Brown

Pedagogy
Making learning more efficient by going multi-modal

Technology Used
Jing

Objectives
Use multimedia to share information more effeciently

Using Jing Video Capture in a language course to answer oral assessments

Faculty
Mila Saskova-pierce

Pedagogy
Jing allows students to easily record and then attach their audio answers to online asynchronous quizzes. It gives students the opportunity to focus on learning the language rather than dealing with complicated technology.

Technology Used
Jing

Objectives
CZEC 101 has five sets of practice and graded quizzes for which students use Jing to record their answers. Using Jing for answering assessments is a simple, reliable, process that can be used any time, 24/7. It gives students much practice using the language because they can preview and then re-record their audio responses as many times as needed. Students can easily attach their answer files directly to the Blackboard couse quizzes. Likewise, the instructor can easily assess student answers by listening to the attached answers.