Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

In this interview, Scott McDonald from the College of Education, talks about his reactions to the Symposium and the back-channel communication. He's using video in his teaching and was one of the people we profiled in the faculty stories.

In this Podcast, John Messner, George Otto, and Lingyun Wang team up to discuss group interaction among students who use resources such as virtual reality displays and the Immersive Construction (ICon) lab. During their studies, they used the Studiocode video analysis software to help draw conclusions. The recording can be accessed through iTunesU or directly through the file attached to this post.

Carla Zembal-Saul and Scott McDonald in the College of Education teach courses on methods of science teaching. As one activity, students record videos of themselves teaching lessons to their classmates or in school settings. They are then asked to analyze the videos to reflect on their teaching practice. Now these future science teachers are able to reflect in a deeper, more meaningful way, using a video tagging and analysis application called Studiocode.

In the past, said McDonald, students would watch a video, then use iMovie to compile a clip of highlights with commentary. McDonald would then watch the clip and provide feedback. “But it was just a one-on-one interaction between the instructor and the student,” he said. Studiocode has opened up that interaction to allow dialogue with the entire class, say the two faculty.

This recording was made during the 2007 TLT Symposium. In it, Carla Zembal-Saul and Scott McDonald discuss they way they have been using Studiocode to enhance teaching, learning, research, and in-service work. The recording can be accessed through iTunesU or directly through the file attached to this post.

Here is the original session description:

Over the past year, we have developed several interactive group activities that students in architectural engineering courses perform in the Immersive Construction (ICon) Lab, a facility which contains a large, three-screen display system along with a SMART Board. The students perform small group activities in the ICon Lab, where they develop construction schedules for a project using the SMART Board and then are immediately able to visualize their schedule on the large, immersive display system.

The analysis of human performance of all kinds is increasingly reliant on the use of video data. This session will provide an opportunity for participants to see how video can help students become more analytical about their own performance as well as analyze the performance of others. The context of the talk will be in developing prospective teachers’ understanding of classroom practice. However, the general principles are relevant to any context where students need to understand and analyze human performance, e.g., medicine, music, public speaking, sports, or the arts.