instructional technology 24 BELLARM INE MAGAZINE challenging.” Meanwhile, Alisha Harper, assistant professor in the W. Fielding Rubel School of Business’ Master of Science in Taxation program, used Vidyo a little closer to home last spring. “I had a student who needed to travel regularly to Harlan, Kentucky, for business and would be unable to physically attend class sessions,” she said. “With Vidyo she could attend the classes and she could hear the lectures. I was also able to record days from 8 to 9 p.m. I will activate a video Hangout and they can ask me questions face to face and I can share things onscreen and go through it. And because they all have iPads, it works beautifully.” Kaitlyn Stahl, a student in the physical therapy program, is a fan of the iPad program. “We use our iPads daily in the classroom, not only to download Power- Points for our lectures, but also to utilize apps like cHEPlan in the Service Learning Clinic,” she said. “It’s a really cool app that allows students or practicing PTs to create a customized home exercise program for the patient, which can then be uploaded to the patient’s phone or iPad. “We also use a documentation website, WebPT.com, to document treatments we do at our service clinics. Physical therapy and most other health professions have almost eliminated paper documentation. The DPT program at Bellarmine does an excellent job of promoting this in the classroom.” Another technology that’s gaining wider acceptance at Bellarmine is the video conferencing platform Vidyo. Traditional educational television lectures and “massive open online courses,” or “MOOCs,” offer a one-to-many spectator experience. Although they may be highly engaging, those lectures are at best a watered-down version of the classroom experience. But using Vidyo, the students on the remote end can interact with the professor and classmates just as they would if they were in the room. They can ask questions and offer opinions, and everybody can see each other onscreen. David Paige, an assistant professor in the Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education, uses Vidyo to meet with teachers in India and elsewhere in the U.S. “Our Thinking Schools Academy equips teachers in India with instructional strategies that encourage higher order thinking in students,” Dr. Paige said. “This requires teacher training over an extended period of time. Our team can only visit India several times a year. So we use Vidyo to conduct weekly meetings with our teachers in India and my colleagues here in the U.S. Vidyo is flexible enough that I can present PowerPoints and use a neat feature where I can write on a digital whiteboard. Without Vidyo, our initiative would be much more Hollywood special-effects artist Kevin Kutchaver spoke to Dr. Lara Needham’s communication students from his studio in Burbank, Calif., in April. An Emmy winner, Mr. Kutchaver has created special effects for many movies, including Return of the Jedi, Ghostbusters II, The Addams Family and the TV series Lost. Photo by Geoff Oliver Bugbee
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