Dr. James Hampton, associate professor and program coordinator in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville School of Agriculture is the recipient of this year’s Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award. The award program provides faculty and teaching academic staff with funds to purchase technology with the potential to improve teaching and learning.
Hampton’s project is titled Incorporating Draw It to Know It into an Anatomy and Physiology Course. The proposal will incorporate a web-based application called Draw it to Know it, to enhance student learning of key concepts by utilizing application modules and developing custom tutorials within the application.
Draw It to Know It is an online learning application for the medical and biological sciences that provides tutorials aimed at enhancing student learning and retention in the biological sciences. Students have the option to draw on top of a prerecorded drawing using the applications online drawing interface, use a blank online canvas to create their drawings from scratch, label pre-rendered drawings that correspond to the recorded tutorials or use blank paper or printed out pdf versions of the drawings from the tutorials.
Hampton will be recognized at the UW-Platteville faculty and staff convocation on Thursday, Aug. 26.