Ken Haling, a Gateway Technical College-Elkhorn instructor, has been invited to attend SMART’s North American Higher Education Conference on November 8-10, 2006. Haling was selected for his innovative use of SMART Boards in his teaching of distance courses in accounting and economics.
Haling enjoys using SMARTBoards as a lecture tool, because “it seems so flexible to me, it is seamless to move between sources of information and applications. Students perceive me as being much more involved with the information I’m presenting, highlighting and annotating about. For example, I can call up a SMART Notebook file, with imbedded web links to major government economic statistics and quickly show the class up-to-the-minute leading economic indicators.”
A lot of the Haling’s lectures become SMART Notebook files. “This frees up time in class for students to better focus on the concepts behind accounting or economics, and helps students to not be so stressed out about notetaking and recording every detail.
As a joint presenter with GTC’s technology specialist, Tina Cipriano, Haling has presented on SMARTBoard use at four “League of Innovation” national conferences and twice at the Austin Texas NISOD conference. Haling’s presentations repeatedly draw beginning and advanced SmartBoard users, looking for creative ideas for using SMARTBoards in higher education to improve learning and student retention.
