DyKnow

As I've mentioned before, it's important for us here at DyKnow to recognize educators for their outstanding teaching strategies and integration of classroom technology.

This month we're recognizing Dr. Jean Adams of York University (Ontario, Canada). I personally had the pleasure of working with Jean and her colleagues as they evaluated DyKnow to determine if the product would meet the needs of her and other business school classrooms. You can read her profile and why she is our Educator of the Month, but I want to discuss some of the specific uses of the software in her class.

Engaging Every Student with Content Transmission -- Jean has a very large lecture class of about 400 each semester. DyKnow facilitates engaging all of those students via the technology. Jean knows that each of her students receive the lecture notes and can type additional information while in class.

Working in Small Groups -- The small collaboration group feature was something Jean was very excited about when she first saw DyKnow. With a few clicks she is able to separate the class into smaller groups of her choosing. These students can work together even if they are not seated near each other. In a way, this emulates interactive whiteboard technology for the small groups. They now have a shared space to collaborate--and they can easily submit their work to Dr. Adams.

Submitting Work in Class -- Speaking of submitting work, the students use the submit panel feature to send their work (either as individuals or as groups) to Dr. Adams. It's then easy for her to determine if she wants to share those submissions with the class or review them afterward. If she selects to look at them afterward, she can mark them up and send them back to students with the click of one button.

PowerPoint Plug-In -- Jean was very excited to hear this fall that we now have a PowerPoint Plug-In. She is able to create all of her content, including polling questions, ahead of time. She can click one button to have it convert into a DyKnow file and is still able make changes once it's in DyKnow.

This is just a sampling of Dr. Adams favorite features in DyKnow (I'm sure she uses others, too).