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Faculty, PRESENT staff collaborate on ’games’ 4:39 p.m., Sept. 15, 2006--Working with PRESENT staff, faculty members have created interactive, web-based “games” that test a student's understanding of course material and provide an environment for problem-based learning. For her food-borne diseases course, Kali Kniel, assistant professor, department of animal and food sciences, collaborated with PRESENT staff to create a new way for her to interact with her students and reach her educational goals in unique ways. Together they created a simulated food-borne disease outbreak investigation. The web-based program is modeled on the classic board game “Concentration,” but computer technology has allowed for unique and useful variations. Penny Rodrick-Williams, supplemental faculty, entomology and wildlife ecology, worked closely with PRESENT staff to develop a bird identification game. The game presents students with interactive questions regarding various species indigenous to Delaware and the surrounding area. To learn more about these collaborations as well as additional educational projects designed by other faculty members, visit [www.udel.edu/present/profiles/index.html]. Faculty who have an idea for a technology component that they would like to add to their courses should call the PRESENT at (303) 831-0640, visit [www.udel.edu/present/], send an e-mail to at [present-site@udel.edu] or stop by 010 Smith Hall. |
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