{"id":29112,"date":"2020-10-04T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=29112"},"modified":"2020-10-04T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T13:04:10","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-chemistry-professor-leslie-hiatt-turns-glass-door-into-light-board-for-online-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/10\/04\/austin-peay-state-university-chemistry-professor-leslie-hiatt-turns-glass-door-into-light-board-for-online-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University chemistry professor Leslie Hiatt turns glass door into Light Board for Online Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University (APSU) chemistry professor Dr. Leslie Hiatt spent some of the summer transforming a scrapped glass door into a learning tool for students forced to take online classes during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University chemistry professor Dr. Leslie Hiatt built a light board to help with online lectures. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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She turned the glass door \u2013 donated by Nashville\u2019s Flow Construction \u2013 into a light board, a teaching tool she uses to make YouTube videos to help connect her online students to the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one more tool that makes it so that they\u2019re able to conceptually understand the chemistry,\u201d Hiatt said. \u201cI knew the challenges (of learning during the pandemic) \u2013 just getting used to technology was going to be hard for students \u2013 so I wanted to do everything I could to make it easier for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hiatt needed about 20 hours to turn the glass door into a light board. She turned the door on its side, lined it with high-luminosity LED lights and bracketed it onto a homemade wooden stand. Two holes remain where the door\u2019s handle used to be, but the resulting light board helps Hiatt craft compelling videos to help her students learn chemistry.<\/p>\n

The lights work with the pens to deliver a vibrancy to the lessons and allow online students to see Hiatt\u2019s face as she delivers the lecture (instead of seeing her back while she writes on a white board).<\/p>\n

\u201cI want them to have an equivalent experience with previous years, but watching me via Zoom is not the same as having me in the room with them,\u201d Hiatt said.<\/p>\n

Hiatt has made more than 30 videos this semester, mostly for her general chemistry students. She followed APSU Distance Education\u2019s advice and tries to keep the videos short, between 5 and 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s working, and I feel like the students are getting in there, they\u2019re doing good,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019ve all had very good attitudes about it. They\u2019re all working hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Feel better about solving the problem\u2019<\/h3>\n
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Dr. Leslie Hiatt came up with the idea after she learned a stastical concept on a light board. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hiatt likes that she can look into the camera and point at the problem as she works through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students can see what I\u2019m gesturing toward, how it fits in the equation and, hopefully, feel better about solving the problem,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She edits the recordings to add graphics and to flip the image so the students can read her writing (instead of the mirrored way it would show up without the edit).<\/p>\n

The videos are supplemental to her live classes, which have a mix of in-person and online students each day. During the live sessions, she delivers lessons at a white board that online students watch on Zoom.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to watch the lecture videos before they get to class, then they can ask questions while I\u2019m doing stuff on the board,\u201d she said. It\u2019s a more real-time interaction, and they\u2019ve already had time to process concepts, the math, what they need to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can watch Hiatt\u2019s light board videos at her YouTube playlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Inspiration for Hiatt\u2019s Light Board<\/h3>\n
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Dr. Leslie Hiatt plans to expand her light board into upper-level classes. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hiatt first thought to build a light board for her students while honing her statistics knowledge for a paper she\u2019s preparing for the Journal of Chemical Education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey asked me to do something called a Bonferroni Correction, and I had no idea what that was,\u201d she said. \u201cI found this really awesome video where the instructor was using a light board.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to learning about the statistics, the board made it easier for me to learn,\u201d Hiatt added. \u201cI thought maybe this would make it easier for the students to learn chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can see the video that inspired Hiatt here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you can tell (in the above linked video), they have very professional lighting and a cleaner board, but I am happy with our much cheaper setup,\u201d Hiatt said. \u201cI think I have less than $200 in the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the cost is for the extruded aluminum heat sink frame around the light board, she said.<\/p>\n

She already had some of the pieces for the board \u2013 such as a light her husband had \u2013 but she needed to buy the LED lights and extruded aluminum.<\/p>\n

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Future plans<\/h3>\n

Hiatt plans to improve the lighting and sound of her videos, such as upgrading the wireless mic she already had at her house.<\/p>\n

She plans to use the videos in her general chemistry classes all semester then expanding them to upper division classes starting next semester. She probably will continue the videos even after the pandemic passes.<\/p>\n

The Journal of Chemical Education has accepted for publication the article Hiatt worked on with Dr. Anuradha Pathiranage and two students, Parth Patel (a May 2020 graduate) and Kristofer Conrad (a current APSU student), with statistics help from Dr. Sumen Sen. You can see the paper they recently published here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To learn more<\/h3>\n

For more about the Department of Chemistry at Austin Peay State University, visit www.apsu.edu\/chemistry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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