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Support for Faculty in
Creating Learning Materials
How do you scan a document for use in a TigerNet course?
Narrate a PowerPoint presentation and reduce the file size? Scan
a 35mm slide? Capture an image from a screen or scanned document
and annotate it for student use? This section will describe resources
and professional assistance to DWU faculty in creating materials
for your courses, both in the classroom and in TigerNet.
The use of digital media (e.g., "learning objects") can
greatly enhance student learning. Digital media can illustrate concepts,
serve as stimuli for discussions, be incorporated into exam questions,
and serve a host of other functions in learning and assessment situations.
Think "out of the box." How can you use these technologies
to enhance the learning experience for your students?
Except where indicated, these services are available from Mike Albright,
DWU Instructional Technology Specialist. Contact Mike at mialbrig@dwu.edu or
995-2638.
The examples provided in the bullets
are accessible only within the DWU domain.
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Document, Image, and 35mm
Slide Scanning
Scan and manipulate any flat object, including images
on paper, text documents, and 35mm photographic slides. Multiple
page documents can be scanned and converted into Word files. Scanning
such as this is legal under fair use under certain conditions. See
the Copyright section of this
web site.
Examples:
- Tips
for Writing Tests. Text document scanned for Becky Feaster,
for which the original document was not available in electronic
form.
- Terms - Week 12. Text document scanned from several different
textbook pages, edited together, and then annotated for Elizabeth
Hoffman's Medical Terminology course to inform students which terms
and abbreviations would not be covered on the weekly quiz. We scanned this
page (will open as PDF document) and this
page (PDF) and, using the scanner, merged the scans into a
document that looked like
this. Through word processing with Word, the document was edited to
look like this.
- Lateral
View of the Adult Human Skull. Textbook image scanned for
use in a course lecture PowerPoint presentation by Elizabeth
Hoffman.
- Examples of digital images converted from scanned 35mm slides.
The traffic photo on the left (shot at twilight on a freeway overpass
in Tempe, AZ) was used in a photography class to illustrate the
effect of shutter speed (f4 @ ½ second). The sunset photo
followed a summer thunderstorm in Sioux Falls in 1977. The flowers
were photographed in Pacific Grove, CA.
(Click to enlarge.)
Screen Captures, Cropping,
and Annotation
Capture, edit, and annotate images taken from your
computer screen. These functions can also be performed with
images shot with a digital camera. DWU uses Snagit,
from TechSmith, to perform and edit screen captures. Examples:
- Thoracic
cavity image annotated for a quiz question for Lana Loken.
- Screen
shot captured for a TigerNet tutorial for DWU staff.
- Screen
shot captured for a TigerNet FAQ posted to the All-Faculty
discussion forum in Outlook. The arrow was added using Snagit
Editor.
- Another
simple example of an edited screen shot with an item circled,
done with Snagit Editor.
PowerPoint Presentation,
Narration, File Size Reduction
Create and narrate PowerPoint presentations, incorporate
images into the slides, and reduce the file size to permit easy access
by students in TigerNet. DWU uses a product called Impatica to
reduce PowerPoint file sizes for the web. See these examples from
Nursing 100, narrated by Elizabeth Hoffman.
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