Wow, I never would have been able to think of all of those things on my own… especially since about 85% of the technology presented in the chapters is new to me. Throughout the reading I highlighted quite a few methods I could make use of in teaching an athletic training curriculum. Games, like jeopardy, are great with athletic training students, as most are former athletes who are competitive at heart. Concept maps would be great to map out exercise physiology concepts or the injury response. Presentations with PowerPoint are always helpful as they provide students the opportunity to collect their thoughts and present professionally to their peers. The systems model would be great for exercise physiology and how the body’s systems change from normal when under stress. Model thinking with expert systems would be great to help students create a differential diagnosis for pathologies. The Pro/Desktop design will provide students with the opportunity to be creative and invent something to benefit daily life in the athletic training room. Sketch Up and architectural design programs can take the usually cut-and-dry, lecture based organization and administration class to a whole new level, allowing students to design their own athletic training room within a given budget. Video would be a great tool for students to watch themselves and self-evaluate their own skills. Creating an electronic portfolio can be a capstone or senior project for the students, compiling all of the projects they have completed. And finally, but certainly not least, clickers can be incorporated into classroom lecture to really keep the students interested and actively involved, while also providing me with feedback on how well they’re learning the material.
The same goes for Educause’s 7 things site. So many tools I could use to enhance a lecture that I had a ton on my potential list… collaborative editing, clickers, haptics, presentation tools, live question tool, lecture capture, zotero, Wii, multi touch interfaces… just to name a few. Preliminarily, I’m thinking that clickers and the Wii are at the top of my list, but that change as I spend more time exploring!
The Learning Activity Types Wiki was helpful to synthesize information and organize some of the technology into types of activities with which it would be most useful. Since there obviously wasn’t an “athletic training” wiki, I looked at the science information and still found many parts of it useful because the same concepts, learning information, simulations, quizzing, taking notes, etc. still apply.
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Amy:
You’ve provided great examples of ways to incorporate technology into your training curriculum. I now want to go outside and work out but unfortunately it’s cold here in Atlanta (smile). Seriously, you present interesting ways to educate students about training programs and physiology. You’re right, athletes are very competitive and the tools you mentioned will definitely keep them engaged. Our learners are visual and the presentation tools will help them stay focused on the material. I look forward to learning more about your plans.
Roddran
Amy,
I would have to agree that there are a lot of different technologies out there to utilize in an educational arena (no punt intended). I have a jeopardy game template if you are interested. It even has the sound chips included. I use it in one of my lectures as part of the lecture to help alleviate some of the stress the students are under at the end of the semester. I still incorporate a lecture into it; but include the Jeopardy part too with fun and even little prizes. Like you the Learning Activity Types Wiki was lacking “nursing” part for me so I geared myself toward the science as well which still focuses on the important things that you mentioned: learning information, simulations, quizzing, taking notes, etc.
I would love to see the template for Jeopardy!!! I actually miss playing it when I was in undergrad…
Amy – I’m delighted that, already so early in the semester, you are identifying pedagogically sound ways to use a variety of technologies in your discipline. I’m eager to see how you weave these ideas into the lesson plans you’ll be creating throughout this semester.