Dr. Susan Anderson

Dr. Anderson was the first in her department to use eCompanion with the original intent of making grades more accessible to students and also to provide them with more resources and materials through document sharing. Using it as a mechanism of communication, she posts information about assignments, tests, course requirements, and PowerPoint lecture presentations. eCompanion has also become a starting ground for webquest style activities. In her general psychology class, she used eCompanion to direct students to a website, asking them to reflect on and answer questions about the content. In PSY 310, eCompanion was the starting point for a webquest, which allowed students to utilize the web and other resources to prepare a paper based on neurological case studies. As a result of using eCompanion, Anderson now structures her materials in a way that utilizes the web. Her materials are broken into units, and she is beginning to think of assignments in terms of webquest style activities where the student searches for information online with given resources.

January 20, 2004

Compiled by Amanda Hecker

Revised January 23, 2004