At the LiU Medical Faculty we were discussing and planing some labs for medical students. As usually, the time spent was a concern and also the amount of people involved in every teaching moment. Nobody has time! I think that quality and the end result should also be a matter of concern and that we cannot rush the students through downsized lab moments and lectures just because of this lack of time.<\/p>\n
However, in this context technology applied to education has something to say. We can help ourselves by blending some courses. For example, we could prime the students with some materials prior to labs and lectures. This will motivate them, engage them and make the actual meeting\u00a0between teacher and student more fruitful.<\/p>\n
Students will have the possibility to\u00a0review in advance certain course materials and they will hopefully come up with deeper questions to the lectures and labs. Technology in this case will not replace the physical\u00a0meeting between students and educators but it will pride our courses with\u00a0flexibility and innovation. Moreover, the created material may\u00a0not be restricted to LiU students allowing for more openness in the course.<\/p>\n
For instance, the free Chrome extension Screencastify<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0will allow the teacher to record what’s\u00a0going on in the computer screen. In this way the teacher can demonstrate how to use programs or webpages or to share drawings and presentations. \u00a0Screencastify allows you to record your\u00a0own voice while browsing through\u00a0the\u00a0open tabs or to\u00a0show\u00a0your own talking-persona in some screen corner (I did that because I\u00a0like\u00a0personal engagement). This extension can be\u00a0applied\u00a0for\u00a0bioinformatic<\/a> lessons among other things.<\/p>\n In order to test this application I first watched this tutorial\u00a0<\/a>and wrote some notes using\u00a0google drawings<\/a>\u00a0so I could read it while recording my screen. Then I recorded my screen several times and deleted the video whenever I didn’t like it. Finally,\u00a0I recognized that I didn’t have much more time myself and shared this recording<\/a>\u00a0on youtube. My purpose here is to show you that if I did it you can also do it and have the same fun!<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n The feature image is from Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the LiU Medical Faculty we were discussing and planing some labs for medical students. As usually, the time spent was a concern and also the amount of people involved in every teaching moment. Nobody has time! I think that quality and the end result should also be a matter of concern and that we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-networked-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}