Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 1 Technology as Vertical Teaming March 26, 2003 ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 2 Technology as Vertical Teaming Problem: –High school teachers had no way of knowing what college professors expected students to know –College professors had no way of knowing what students had learned in high school –…resulting in a gap between teaching goals and teaching realities

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 3 Technology as Vertical Teaming Solutions: –Telephone hotline –Mentoring via –Sharing of collegiate syllabi and handouts –Summer workshops

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 4 Technology as Vertical Teaming Solutions: –Telephone hotline –Mentoring via –Sharing of collegiate syllabi and handouts –Summer workshops EUREKA! website

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 5 Technology as Vertical Teaming The EUREKA website is: –Portal for mailing lists, contacts, lesson plans, etc.

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 6 Technology as Vertical Teaming The EUREKA website is: –Portal for mailing lists, contacts, lesson plans, etc. –Introduction and easy access to professors

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 7 Technology as Vertical Teaming The EUREKA website is: –Portal for mailing lists, contacts, lesson plans, etc. –Introduction and easy access to professors –Links to other educational resources

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 8 Technology as Vertical Teaming Problems discovered: –Teachers very timid –Little knowledge of how to use technology, even basic websites –Teachers have so little time to work technology into their schedules

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 9 Technology as Vertical Teaming Next step: teaching via videoconferencing –The Problems: Firewalls (Oak Mountain) –solved with Polycoms recommended ports Bandwidth limitations –Oak Mountain has a total of 3 MB bandwidth for the system; limiting connection to 384 MB helped

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 10 Technology as Vertical Teaming What needs to be taught: –Professors: what is your real audience? –High school: what are the expectations at the college level? –Students: what are you expected to know? kingarthur/index.html

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 11 Technology as Vertical Teaming Future Plans –Conduct a formal evaluation to provide evidence of impact –Disseminate the model to other departments at UAB and to other university/K--12 collaboratives

Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop 12 Technology as Vertical Teaming The Positive Results