Faculty Showcase: Clinical Laboratory Sciences (CLS)
Spring Semester 2003
| Dr. Carolyn Bunde Affiliate Faculty, Clinical Laboratory Sciences Phone: (208) 282-3891 bundcaro@isu.edu |  |
Showcase Pages: Home | CLS Program | Online Discussions | Content Sequencing | Technical Support
The Clinical Laboratory Sciences (CLS) program has been selected as the ITRC Spring 2003 Faculty Showcase. Additionally, Dr. Carolyn Bunde has been selected to receive an award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, & Technology. She will receive her award in Florida at the Fourteenth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning held in April 2003. Additionally, the entire CLS faculty (including Dr. Bunde, Dr. Kathleen Spiegel, Susan Galindo, M.S., and Sonja Nehr-Kanet, M.S.) will present two sessions at the Clinical Laboratory Education Conference in New Orleans, in March 2003.
The CLS program has combined classroom laboratories, 2-way video instruction, a website, and a series of WebCT course sites to enhance communications with CLS students. The CLS Website, located at http://www.isu.edu/cls provides information for current students as well as prospective students, government agencies, accrediting bodies, etc. For current students, the CLS program has announcements about important course dates and program activities. This website gives students easy access to important information and news. It is a rich source of information for prospective students about how the program runs from day to day.
The WebCT sites used in the CLS program employ a variety of online technologies to enhance student communications with faculty and with one another. They also guide the sequence of learning activities in order to help students keep track of course activities and stay focused on current concepts. Lastly, technical support is provided to students in order to preserve their learning time for content and course skills rather than technical issues.
In addition to online resources, the CLS program uses the two-way video classroom to allow for real-time interactions and to provide student access to a variety of equipment both in the classroom and in the field. Recently, the CLS Program acquired a microscope with the software to send a live signal (including the slide and the instructor's voice) over the Internet to students connected from anywhere in the world. This allows many students to see specimens on a slide without having to come to campus or to wait to take turns. Considerable class time is saved with this type of broadcast. Furthermore, the image and sound signals can be recorded for later playback by students whenever they would like to review them.