Dr. Andrew Wright, U of Louisville
- Mizzou: Launched Tegrity Summer 2009. Available via Blackboard Spring of 2010
- 150 instructors using Tegrity currently
- 8,000 recordings, 360,000 views
- Keys to success
- Keep training brief
- Focus on early adopters
- Provide necessary tools - cameras, mics, digital writing tabs, tablet PCs, etc.
- Hand-holding may be necessary
- Be available for quick response
- Seek feedback about users' experiences after they start using it
- Pedagogical Focus
- Student recordings - practice presentations
- Provide a 'model course' with a variety of recording examples to show instructors how Tegrity can be used
- Panel discussions with faculty who are using it and how
- U of Louisville - Soft launched Tegrity Summer 2008
- Campus-wide deployment via Bb
- Decentralized support
- Central IT supports servers
- Unit IT staff support end users
- Marketed to faculty (newsletters, presentations)
- Usage time increasing
- Keys to success
- Raise awareness
- Student survey data positive
- Include personal vignettes by students to show faculty
- Pedagogical Focus
- Group faculty training
- Link to and demo specific use cases
- Reinforce active learning strategies to avoid decline in class attendance. Passive teaching style might reduce attendance with Tegrity recordings available
- Remind faculty that they are in control of their class (esp. in regard to class attendance)
- New learning paradigm
- Tegrity enhances critical thinking, promotes congnitive elaboration (modeling think-aloud-problem solving)
- Voice Tracker array microphones used to capture entire audio spectrum
- Providing feedback on accuracy of note taking
- Supplemental recordings: problem sets, hot-to demos
- Use Sympodium for annotations, diagrams
- Student recordings
- Record grading of projects, papers to provide to students
- Remind faculty of Tegrity settings
- Advance training available for faculty
- Important take-aways
- Documenting/publishing use cases
- Highlight users and vignettes as motivators
- Train the trainer sessions for Help Desk/IT
- Equipment availability - loaners of mics, Webcams, etc.
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