Helen Gordon, Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Nursing

Project description

This project will develop series of short video lectures taped via a desk-top, Flip-video on a tiny tripod. A “Video Workbook” will be created for the N220: Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family, upon finishing all recordings.

These recordings will be uploaded to Blackboard, iTunes U, or other media for students to view and download to their iPods. Students will receive a designed workbook with objectives, lecture highlights and worksheets and directed to the lectures which will be numbered on Bb, iTunes U, or other media. Students then can load the lecture on a video iPod for mobile studying, or view the lecture online. This will accompany the regular course materials. But instead of the course coordinator lecturing via PP slides, class room time can be spent processing critical nursing content as it relates to nursing care of the childbearing family.

Helen Gordon foresees how the project makes different: “I spend HOURS lecturing on small segments of content that consume valuable class time. Now students will spend this time, hearing me and seeing me via video mini-lectures. They will have the satisfaction of receiving the content they want….and I will have the class time back to focus on nursing actions of the material… This format will appeal to the audio learning styles of many of the students. The organization and creation of the workbook will be a key shift in how I have taught this before.”

By the end of the summer 2008 semester, Helen Gordon will randomly select about 7 representative students from her over 60 students to form a focus group for evaluating the project.

Project start date: 2/1/2008
Funding awarded: $ 500

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Brenda Berlin, Supervising Attorney, Children’s Education Law Clinic, School of Law
Mark Dorosin, Supervising Attorney, Community Enterprise Clinic, School of Law
Andrew Foster, Director, Community Enterprise Clinic, School of Law
Carolyn McAllaster, Director, AIDS Legal Project, School of Law
Allison Rice, Supervising Attorney, AIDS Legal Project, School of Law
Alan Weinberg, Director, Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, School of Law
Jane Wettach, Director, Children’s Education Law Clinic, School of Law

Project Description

Faculty in the Law School’s Clinical program sought to use their new facility’s video equipment to enhance clinicals and facilitate student self-evaluation as the students work with actual clients on real cases.

Students in the Law Clinics gain their first experiences with clients under the guidance of faculty. As part of this program, the students are trained in interviewing techniques and given practical legal instruction by the faculty as they work through cases. The faculty were seeking ways to use video recording of these student-client sessions to evaluate student interviewing skills, and to allow students to self-evaluate their performance.

Through a year-long Faculty Fellows program, faculty learned about using the classroom video systems in their facility, and practical ways to integrate video technologies into the student interaction observations. The Fellows met with other faculty from Duke who had used video for student performance evaluation, and had a campus visit from Larry Farmer, a Law faculty member at Brigham Young University, who has considerable experience in the use of digital video in student observations.

During the Fellowship year, faculty developed a rubric to evaluate student performance in interviews and logistics for recording material, including processes for obtaining releases from clients and access and disposal of video recordings to protect client privacy. In addition, the faculty, using local multimedia support staff, developed video examples of model client interviews used in training students in the orientation to the Clinical program.

Faculty noted improvement in interviewing skills of the students who used the rubric, and surveys of students showed that many students found the rubric helpful to examine and improve their own performance. The model video encounters created for training were helpful, allowing the faculty to use excerpts to make key points about interviewing and make the training more focused, improving on “live” model interviews done during student training in the past.

As the technology changes, the Fellows continue to explore the best ways to improve video for student performance evaluation, examining new technologies such as DVD recording and portable video recording on laptops, in addition to methods for easily marking and retrieving video segments for student discussion.

Project start date: 12/2005
Funding awarded: $19,000 (includes $2,500 stipend for each faculty member)

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Susan Denman, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Penny Cooper, Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Nursing
Margaret Bowers, Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Nursing

This project created video series that demonstrate a specific adult physical examination taught in N332 Physical Assessment. The various formats of the videos were integrated to online courses posted in Blackboard, to self-paced web tutorials for online learning and to video iPods for mobile learning.

This demo session of the physical examination was taught each year to about 150-200 students in N332 Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning at Duke University School of Nursing. Faculty, actors, models who were involved in this demo had to repeat the same live demo to show many different sections of students before doing a laboratory practice.

This shift to ‘in house material’ videos and the subsequent movement of the clips to iPOD has changed instructors’ teaching in a major way. Because instructors not longer have to use live demo or non Duke specific video material the content drift for the course is much reduced. It has also very significantly affected the teaching style of at least 7 faculty and their respective courses. In addition, after instructors were able to fully utilize the videos this semester, the students have been so enthusiastic that they are moving ahead with this resource and influencing and enhancing their applications.

“The huge student enthusiasm for this product has convinced me that convenience and portability is very valuable to our students…likely to others…The university could do more to support these initiatives. They are time and resource intensive to start but the payoff is very good.” Dr. Susan Denman, the project primary investigator said when she evaluated this project.

Project start date: 4/20/2006
Funding awarded: $ 3,250

Additional Information

Center for Instructional Technology showcase poster on this project

Duke University Media Services was funded by CIT for field production

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Martha Reeves, Visiting Professor, Sociology

Martha Reeves received support to integrate examples of advertising/promotional campaigns (print ads, websites, podcasts, direct mail campaigns, advertising short films, etc) into her course MMS 170: Integrated Marketing Communication. Compiling such materials required student assistance for digitizing and organizing content, as well as to review materials for copyright clearance. Creating such a resource would provide the faculty member with a large collection of appropriate and available content to draw from and include in lectures, Powerpoint presentations, or even online using Blackboard.

Funding was provided for a graduate student who could collect and integrate these materials. CIT provided training and support, enabling the student to use various software, such as Picasa for photo-organization, to complete the project. Funding also resulted in the development of a compilation DVD of course materials, including digitized commercials from advertising agencies, resulting in improved organization of course resources and accessibility for students.

Project Start Date: 4/11/2006
Funding awarded: $2500

Additional Information

Poster from CIT Showcase 2007

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Joan Clifford, Visiting Assistant Professor
Romance Studies, Arts & Sciences

Project Description

In this ongoing Service-learning project, students explore issues of cultural assimilation, literacy, and access to educational opportunities for the growing Latino community in the United States. They used iPods with microphone attachments to record observations from their service learning experiences. Students in this course will also be asked to listen to archived interviews with Spanish-speakers in the community, which will facilitate listening comprehension practice, provide exposure to authentic speech patterns and accents, and also disseminate content to the students outside of class.

In the Fall 2006 semester, the project involved Duke students interviewing Latino/a students and parents at Jordan High School about their experiences within Durham Public Schools. These testimonials provided additional information to further the insights gained last year with a written survey. The video and audio components of the iPods were used in the production and editing of the interviews. Duke students also continued to use their iPods to record their own audio journals reflecting on their service at the high school.

Project start date: August 1, 2005

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Sucheta Mazumdar, Associate Professor, History

Project Description

Mazumdar created a rich set of course materials, including images and film clips, to complement the lectures and readings for the courses (History 172B, China and the West, and History 172C, China from Antiquity to 1400). The project also explored evaluation tools as a method to gauge student background knowledge about China at the beginning of the course, how much they learned during the semester, and ways in which the course affected their perceptions of China at the end.

Project start date: 05/01/04
Funding awarded: $1,250

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Alyssa Perz-Edwards, Lecturing Fellow, Biology, Arts & Sciences

Project Description

Perz-Edwards created digitized movie clips that her students used to explore experimental methods and embryo development. The students accessed the streaming video through Blackboard, which provided the students with a better understanding of processes they used to plan and execute experiments during lab sessions.

The availability of video outside of class allowed the instructor to use class time for discussion and other activities. Students also collected video and time lapse data in the class to use in presentations describing their work.  A poster describing the project is available.

Project Started: 5/1/2004
Funding awarded: $2500

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