mary flowers braswell, uab march 26, 2003, vide/sura digital video workshop 1 technology as vertical...
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March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
Technology as Vertical Teaming
March 26, 2003
ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop
March 26, 2003, ViDe/SURA Digital Video Workshop
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
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
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
Technology as Vertical Teaming
• Solutions:– Telephone hotline
– Mentoring via email
– Sharing of collegiate syllabi and handouts
– Summer workshops
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
Technology as Vertical Teaming
• Solutions:– Telephone hotline
– Mentoring via email
– Sharing of collegiate syllabi and handouts
– Summer workshops
EUREKA! website
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
Technology as Vertical Teaming
• The EUREKA website is:– Portal for mailing lists,
contacts, lesson plans, etc.
http://eureka.mhsl.uab.edu
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
Technology as Vertical Teaming
• The EUREKA website is:– Portal for mailing lists,
contacts, lesson plans, etc.
– Introduction and easy access to professors
http://eureka.mhsl.uab.edu
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
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 resourceshttp://eureka.mhsl.uab.edu
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
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
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
Technology as Vertical Teaming
• Next step: teaching via videoconferencing– The Problems:
• Firewalls (Oak Mountain)– solved with Polycom’s recommended ports
• Bandwidth limitations– Oak Mountain has a total of 3 MB bandwidth for the
system; limiting connection to 384 MB helped
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
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?http://www.legends.dm.net/
kingarthur/index.html
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
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
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Mary Flowers Braswell, UAB
Technology as Vertical Teaming
The Positive Results
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