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Teaching Excellence Fair 2006

The The Teaching Excellence Fair celebrates the many important teaching initiatives at the University of Pittsburgh and thereby illustrates the important role of teaching at our University. The Fair will feature the projects funded under the auspices of the Provost's Advisory Council an Instructional Excellence's Innovation in Education awards program. A variety of presentations, displays, and round-table discussions will highlight faculty initiatives and innovations related to teaching and to the use of instructional technology. I encourage all faculty to take advantage of this special event.

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TEF 2006 Introduction to Podcasting from the Classroom Presenter(s): Dan Hummon Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 9:00 AM EST Length: 21 Minutes 49 Seconds This session overviews the capabilities of the Faculty Instructional Development Lab (FIDL) and its staff, and reviews the Technologies and services CIDDE provides to assist you with your instructional projects, highlighting the use of Podcasting from the Classroom. Presented by Dan Hummon, Instructional Technologist, CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh	TEF 2006 Introduction to CourseWeb (Blackboard) Presenter(s): Richard Oravetz Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 9:30 AM EST Length: 23 Minutes 44 Seconds This session is an introduction to courseweb (Blackboard), licensed for use at the University of Pittsburgh for all faculties at all campuses. Presented by Richard Oravetz, Manager, Faculty Instructional Development Lab, CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh
TEF 2006 Using Social Marketing to Improve Care of Diverse Populations Presenter(s): Brian A. Primack, Thuy Bui, Carl I Fertman Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 9:30 AM EST Length: 25 Minutes 9 Seconds Health literacy—the degree to which individuals understand basic health information—is now recognized as a critical determinant of health care outcomes and health care costs. But how should we teach our medical students to communicate with people of various backgrounds and with differing degrees of health literacy? In their project, Improving Medical Students’ Cultural Competency through Developing Community Patient Education Materials: Health Literacy Meets Social Marketing¸ Brian A. Primack, Thuy Bui, and Carl I. Fertman have worked to answer that question.Medical students were taught the principles of marketing and helped to use those principles to create health education brochures on various health topics tailored to certain populations. Many exciting aspects of this program will be discussed, including its evaluation, the development of a large database of student projects, and examples of winning projects chosen to be professionally printed and disseminated in the community.	TEF 2006 Digital Photography Concepts Presenter(s): Jim Burke Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 10:00 AM EST Length: 29 Minutes 7 Seconds This presentation introduces best practices for taking digital photographs for use in classrooms and home. Presented by Jim Burke, Coordinator, Photographic Services, CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh
TEF 2006 Advanced Blackboard Adaptive Release Presenter(s): David Holzemer Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 10:30 AM EST This session overviews the capabilities of the Faculty Instructional Development Lab (FIDL) and its staff, and reviews the Technologies and services CIDDE provides to assist you with your instructional projects, highlighting the advanced Blackboard: Adaptive Release. Presented by David Holzemer, Instructional Technologist, CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh	TEF 2006 Virtual Experiments: Teaching Probability as a Lab Presenter(s): Dean E. Nelson Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 10:30 AM EST Length: 21 Minutes 6 Seconds Presenter Dean E. Nelson Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Dean E. Nelson’s project, Teaching Probability Theory as a Lab with Simulation and Symbolic Computation, is an example of introducing technology used by students into the classroom. In a traditional lab, students explore concepts and theory by doing experiments. With the use of laptop computers and symbolic computational software, students are able to explore the concepts and theories of probability. Simulations produce results for virtual experiments and ease of symbolic manipulation by the software allows for increased exploration of the mathematical descriptions of probability distributions.
TEF 2006 Video Demos for Introductory Physics Presenter(s): Russell J Clark PhD Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 11:00 AM EST Length: 21 Minutes 8 Seconds Presenter Russell Clark Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh Physics lab students’ biggest problems usually occur early in most lab sessions when they have difficulty with equipment setup or with experimental procedures. Recognizing these challenges, Russell Clark developed Digital Video Demonstrations for Introductory Physics Lab Experiments, 50 one- to two-minute demonstrations addressing these “nuts and bolts” issues. Accessible in the lab itself, these brief video tutorials resolve most difficulties likely to arise in a particular session. Since the tutorials are also available online, enterprising students are able to view them beforehand, leaving them better prepared and able to answer basic questions on their own. Additionally, the videos will benefit the course TAs themselves: they will have time available for addressing more critical, detailed issues and the videos will also serving as a training instrument for both new TA lab instructors and as a refresher for current instructors.	TEF 2006 Enhance Your Course with Visuals Presenter(s): Bill Johnston Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 11:00 AM EST Length: 25 Minutes 38 Seconds This session will demonstrate how to use electronic images in a variety of settings in order to enhance the delivery of course content and helping engage student interest throughout the lecture or discussion. The examples of electronic imaging will be for the Internet, CourseWeb (Blackboard), PowerPoint, and printed handouts. Presented by Bill Johnston, Manager of Electronic Graphics & Design CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh
TEF 2006 Assessments in Blackboard Presenter(s): Cindy Lu Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 11:30 AM EST Length: 25 Minutes 27 Seconds This session overviews the capabilities of the Faculty Instructional Development Lab (FIDL) and its staff, and reviews the Technologies and services CIDDE provides to assist you with your instructional projects, highlighting Assesments in Blackboard. Presented by Cindy Lu, Instructional Technologist, CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh	TEF 2006 Keeping the Records Straight Presenter(s): Valerie Watzlaf Status: Available Air Date: 11/8/2006 Air Time: 11:30 AM EST Length: 20 Minutes 6 Seconds Presenter Valerie Watzlaf School of Health & Rehabilitation SciencesWith medical errors on the rise, the electronic health record (EHR) may be able to actually decrease medical errors and improve quality of medical care. However, are all health professionals aware of the many uses of the EHR and are they able to use it proficiently? The faculty within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Social Work developed their project, An Online Interdisciplinary Course on Electronic Health Record Technology, to teach health and rehabilitation students about the many different aspects of EHR technology and how to use different EHR systems.