Fulfilling the Institutional Mission: Using Tegrity to jump start the freshman year

Dr. Sherri Cousin Davis, Lawson State Community College (Birmingham, AL)

• 7500 students, 286 faculty, 100% of courses are Tegrity supported
• Dilemmas:
• How to use technology more innovatively
• Better equip, engage, empower students
• Need to give 24/7 access to curriculum information
• Don't lecture to students about orientation info - just provide information
• Rethought using Tegrity just for lecture capture, but use it for training
• e.g. How to use e-mail, police chief talk, president talk
• Delivery of complex topics uniformly
• Assignments for incoming students to view information prior to arrival
• Same experience for all 35 sections of freshman orientation in recordings
• How-to's
• Register online, pay tuition, etc.
• Freshman Academy in Blackboard, Bb sections and Tegrity recordings for various topics for incoming freshmen
• Enables: consistency, 24/7 access, new approach, info for late-comers
• Tegrity recordings linked to assignment which requires taking of Tegrity Notes which are graded.  Tegrity Notes form created by college
• "What were main points of presentation?"
• "What did you  learn in the presentation that you didn't already know?"
• Recordings put a face on key faculty/staff for the students that hand-outs don't
• Surveys before and after implementation of Tegrity in training incoming students show marked increase in understanding of various areas and functions of campus life