instructional technology summer 2013 23 documentation on it for clinics, they take notes – some handwrite their notes with a stylus. Some will record classes. When you teach movement, it helps if you can do a lot of video, because you can’t always have live patients.” Using their iPads, students record video sessions with patients, put them on a class wiki and have classmates comment on them. “Because I know they have iPads, I’m able to record the presentation, give them the information, tell them to review it before class and that way use class time for application,” said Dr. Ennis. “I can get to stuff a whole lot quicker than I could before when I had to use class time to lecture. It’s also allowed me to do more formative assessments without calling people out. I can do some case presentation, answer some questions and I get a spreadsheet at the end so I can call in any students who are way off base.” The physical therapy department also uses an iPad app called NearPod, said Dr. Ennis. “I’ll insert a case – here’s a young man with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, he’s showing these symptoms – and using presentations, videos, poll questions and quiz questions in the NearPod app, I can generate discussion to get the whole class talking. This way I get a better sense of the class as a whole. In the old way, the two students who liked to talk in class would answer. “I can put a picture of the brain hemisphere and say, ‘Show me where the auditory cortex is,’ and they have to draw on top of it on their iPads, so you have that capability as well.” And this all gets saved, which is a godsend to those students who, like some of us, have trouble reading their own handwriting. Dr. Ennis uses technology in other creative ways. “Having office hours during the day doesn’t work, so I have office hours on a Google Plus Hangout,” she said. “My students know that Mondays and Wednes- ‘Ou r research shows that lectu res don’t work as effectively as engaged, stu dentcentered learning.’ Dr. Shawn Apostel Physical therapy students use iPad video as part of a project evaluating the reliability of a test used by U.S. Figure Skating. Physical therapy picture caption
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