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Title: How has using Sakai changed your teaching?
An interview with Craig Carroll, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism
I would say the way that Sakai has changed my teaching is
it's allowed me to develop more student-generated content and move more from the role of
being a lecturer to more a facilitator and students doing some of the lecturing.
And actually, my role is kind of a gate-keeper
to make sure that at least in terms of the contributions that people are bringing to the class
that I'm more monitoring for quality. Making sure that the things that they're working on,
the things that they are introducing themselves
are something that's of benefit to the whole community.
For the courses I'm teaching, especially the Research Methods course
I try to focus on student-generated content.
So we'll have exercises in class where sometimes I'll want to fact-check a statement and
so one of the forms of participation--since they all have computers--is you'll just talk about something going on in the news
and then someone will find information on it very quickly,
and they'll share something in class that will prompt somebody else to find something else,
and then the next thing you know, we have something here where we can integrate it all within Sakai within a matter of seconds.
The students can all stay where they are.
And upload the content straight through their computers. We don't have to have something on the overhead.
They can put it on their computers, give short mini-presentations from their seats.
Everyone else can immediately see it where they're sitting.
And so it just increases the volume and quality of content that we can have within minutes.
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