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Stars of the Town Shining Bright Physics Takes Tutorials To September 25, 2008 Vol. 44 No. 24 The University of Western Ontario’s newspaper of record www.westernnews.ca PM 41195534 The Big Picture Physics takes tutorials to web Teaching tool lets students attend tutorials from anywhere B Y HEAT H ER TRAVIS Managing eight tutorials for 900 first-year students was a logis- tical nightmare for Physics pro- fessor Martin Zinke-Allmang, but he is now using technology to his advantage to get more students involved and giving his teaching assistants more independence. Zinke-Allmang teaches Physics 1028a – Physics for the Life Sci- ences – at The University of West- Paul Mayne, Western News ern Ontario, the largest physics A 7T functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging system (fMRI) – the most powerful of its kind in Canada – was hoisted into its new home Wednesday class in the department and one at the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping in the A.M. Cuddy Wing at Robarts Research Institute. The fMRI weighs 27.5 tonnes and will of the biggest in the Faculty of be used to take pictures for neurology and neuropsychology research, including Alzheimer’s disease, mental illness and stroke. Installation and Science. commissioning will take about six weeks. Over the years, students weren’t showing up for tutorials unless there was the promise of a quiz at the end, he says. This cre- ated more preparation and mark- ing for his teaching assistants. As Stars of the Town shining bright well, many students complained about differing instruction styles among teaching assistants. B Y PAUL MAYNE ern Ontario. “We discontinued the tutorials The original films were donated at the time because we expected It’s safe to say the DVD burner to ARCC in 2005 by Massecar’s no one would come. But, stu- on Barry Arnott’s computer has wife, Marion. Western media dents like tutorials because it is been working overtime these last specialists Charlie Egleston and an effective means of learning few months. Alan Noon converted each one things.” As archives media assistant to DVD. Zinke-Allmang’s dilemma was with Western Libraries, Arnott While each community in the creating a tutorial system that receives and burns orders for series – from Atwood to Zurich – was useful for students, without the Stars of the Town DVD that has received a single copy for its having burnt-out teaching assis- the Archives and Research Col- archives, community viewings tants, who were managing about lections Centre (ARCC) released and word of mouth have acceler- 115 students eight times a week. earlier this year. ated sales of the ‘era snapshot’ As well, finding a classroom So far, it has been an unex- DVDs. to repeatedly house such a large pected runaway success. From the small south-central number of students was becom- “We estimate we’re at about community of Tottenham, for ing increasingly challenging. 1,000 DVD orders since Febru- example, Arnott has received The solution came in the form ary,” says Arnott, admitting the more than 50 orders. of Wimba Live Classroom, an project has taken on a life of its “We know folks are showing interactive online education appli- own. “They sure have. We’ve been them in community halls and cation accessed through WebCT surprised, that’s for sure.” churches because the orders will Owl, which allows teaching assis- The collection of more than suddenly increase for a specific tants to conduct real-time virtual 80 black and white films, shot community,” says Arnott, adding Paul Mayne, Western News tutorials. And, the two teaching between 1946 and 1949 by Rev. there’s a wide variety of interest Western Libraries’ John Lutman, head of Regional and Special Collec- assistants don’t even have to be Leroy Massecar, captured day-to- tions, and Barry Arnott, archives media assistant, are being kept busy day life in small town southwest- Continued on page 17 with brisk sales of the Stars of the Town DVDs. 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