Learnitology Podcast 8 - Tales from Wakonse

The eighth Learnitology Podcast is a special treat that features short stories about effective uses of technology in college teaching. The storytellers are faculty from all over the country who participated in the Wakonse Conference on College Teaching. Wakonse is an annual "professor camp" on Lake Michigan, near Muskegon. Eddy Cuisinier teaches French at Western Kentucky University, where they have created podcasts to reinforce language learning. Scott LaJoie is in the Health Knowledge & Cognitive Science department at the University of Louisville. He helped create disaster training for mental health professionals, which was delivered via teleconferencing. Paul McDowell, a French professor at the University of Notre Dame videotapes his students in "French through Acting." Leona Rubin teaches anatomy in the vet school at the University of Missouri, where she makes digital images of students' lab slides as part of self-learning modules. Steve Keller, a Chemistry prof at the University of Missouri, uses WebCT chat rooms to conduct "virtual office hours." Sree Nilakanta is in Information Systems at Iowa State. He tells about his use of electronic portfolios. Indira Somani teaches Media Literacy at the University of Maryland. She uses video clips to illustrate key concepts. You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes.