laire Hopkins, R.N., Ph.D, for the School of Nursing
“…In the School of Nursing, we have begun to collect our evaluation data through Blackboard. We have set up our Undergraduate & our Graduate Student Exit Surveys & have asked for students to give us emails for us to send them our Alumnae Surveys. We used this format for the first time at the end of the spring '07 semester & will analyze the data & the process this fall…We are excited at the possibilities! It gives us the data already in a database, so it reduces the need to type in all the responses to a separate database.”

iane Matthews, Ph.D, CPA, CFE,
Associate Dean for the School of Management
“I am using the Audience Response Units (aka the Clickers”) to teach Continuing Professional Education (CPE) for CPAs…The course is “Forensic Accounting: An Interactive Session on the Four Knowledge Areas Required of a Forensic Accountant.” Using interactive audience response units, each participant will determine their proclivity for success in the areas of Criminology & Ethics, The Law & Fraud, Fraud Investigation, and Financial Accounting. In addition, each participant will learn the requirements necessary to earn the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designation, the most highly-respected and recognized credential in the forensic field.”

ristin Raup, Web Communications Manager, Communications & Community Relations
“Over the past few months, I have begun to deploy Contribute, a content management software application, to several departments on campus. The software allows the users to easily edit text, add hyperlinks and even create new pages within their section of the Carlow Web site. This will provide the opportunity for departments to update information regularly, keeping the Carlow site content fresh. So far, Contribute has been implemented in the Office of Academic Affairs, Office of Admissions, Grace Library, Center for Academic Achievement, Department of Athletics and several others. The deployment will continue as the Web site needs to continually grow and evolve.”

enise King, Asst Director for Instructional Technology
“I created a video introduction to my online course using Camtasia software, an add on to PowerPoint. With a few clicks, I was able to develop a narrated, flash video from a PowerPoint file. I posted it Blackboard for all my students to easily view. I used this format for the first time in my online Labor Relations course this summer. I even included a few photos so the students could get to know me better in a faceless environment. I think it was instrumental in building community.”

inda VanKeuren, Systems Manager for Grace Library
“Grace Library is using Electronic reserves (E-Reserves). This service offers electronic access to class reading materials (journal articles, portions of books, etc.) through Carlow's Blackboard system. Using E-Reserves, class readings can be accessed and printed at home, at work or on campus. Faculty members give the reading assignments to the library staff and the librarians take care of determining copyright compliancy, scanning the documents and placing it on the Grace Library Electronic Reserves course on Blackboard. Since the official launch in Fall of 2006, over 100 articles have been placed on E-reserve for students. Elaine Misko, the University Librarian, comments, “Students enjoy having the luxury of reading their assignments from their home or office. We see that usage is increasing with every semester.”

oberta Schomburg, PhD, Associate Dean & Director, School of Education
“I am currently using digital technology in my classes to replace real-life observations of children. Since many of our graduate students are working during the day, we find it hard to get them into schools to observe children. I have been exploring the use of digital video technology through collaboration with Dr. George Forman, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and co-founder of Videatives. I am trying to identify ways that digital video can be used to help students construct their own theories about child development and learning, rather than having our students just read about the theories of others and parrot back what they have read. Using short digital video clips in class and as assignments improves teacher candidates' skills in observation and assessment of children. I'm hoping to see that their understanding of child development and learning improves as a result."

im Carmine, Associate Professor/Philosophy
“I will be teaching PH 100 without any texts but internet sources. I did it this summer and it worked very well. I will be requiring my PH 102 students to begin a blog and write all papers on that blog and respond to each other's papers. I am using the GRE web site to provide topics for my PH 204 Logic class.”