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Donna Kocur talks about the Department of Education’s use of Swivls

An interview with Donna Kocur, Field Placement Coordinator with the Department of Education The Education Department purchased multiple Swivl devices (https://www.swivl.com/robot-teams/) to be used by student teachers. The Swivl is a robotic mount for an iPad, camera, or smartphone that comes with a remote control Marker that can be worn on a lanyard by a

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Simulation Lab goes Virtual for the Dietetic Internship Program

Last month, the director of Meredith’s Dietetic Internship program, Cathie Ostrowski, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., FAND, presented at the Nutrition Health and Human Performance virtual monthly meeting on the program’s addition of a virtual adaption of the simulation lab to its curriculum. In this video, Ostrowski gives an overview of the lab’s use of video, Google

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Social Work Program Director Amanda Jones uses video to help her students prepare for real world practice

We spoke with Meredith’s Social Work Program Director Amanda Jones, MSW, LCSW, about an assignment she’s been giving her students in her SWK390 course, General Individual Practice. Can you describe the assignment? For the Experiential Interviewing Exercise (EIE) assignment, students are assigned a practice client (one of their classmates) and will work with that practice

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Meredith’s Office of Career Planning delivers Resume and Interview skills online.

Meredith’s Office of Career Planning (OCP) has been using online modules developed by the Instructional Design and Academic Technology team to extend the reach of their office to provide students with resume and interviewing skills. We talked to the OCP’s Katie Peterssen to learn more. Why did OCP decide to do these modules? Peterssen: OCP

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Digital Storytelling Project Spotlight – “Women Warriors” and their Callings

For the Fall 2018 semester, Associate Professor of English, Kelly Roberts, Ph.D,  connected the summer reading book, Callings, by David Isay, with a digital storytelling project in her English 111 Principles of Writing course. Instructional Design Specialist Paul Keys, M.Ed, helped Roberts’s students use WeVideo, a cloud-based video editor, to complete their projects. We caught

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Stories Worth Telling: Bringing Documentary Filmmaking into the College Classroom

By Paul Keys, M.Ed., Instructional Designer & Kris Macomber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology Colleges and universities are charged with preparing students to meet the new challenges and demands they will regularly face throughout their lives. In keeping with this charge, we see the ability to communicate effectively in our audio-visual, multimedia world as an

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