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For years, associate professor Christopher Stoney has been hauling the equivalent of a small electronics shop to class. He likes to enhance his lectures with everything from news clips and YouTube videos to audiotapes and old slides.<\/p>\nFor years, associate professor Christopher Stoney has been hauling the equivalent of a small electronics shop to class. He likes to enhance his lectures with everything from news clips and YouTube videos to audiotapes and old slides.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents like it because it tends to bring the real world into the classroom,\u201d says Stoney, who teaches in the School of Public Policy and Administration.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, all of that multimedia content requires a thicket of playback equipment, wires and projectors. It also requires Stoney to spend a lot of time at home finding files, editing them and converting them into a usable format. \u201cThe night before a class, I\u2019m often up until three in the morning,\u201d he confesses.<\/p>\n
A few years ago, MA student Ken Doyle observed he could save Stoney a lot of time and hassle by developing a computer program that would allow the professor to digitally store all of his files in a single format on his laptop, and to catalogue them by topic and lecture. Stoney immediately knew such a program would be more
\nefficient, flexible, reliable and professional than his current patchwork system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be a lot sleeker,\u201d he says with a chuckle.<\/p>\n
Together, Doyle and Stoney developed a prototype program, which they called Project Lanevo. The name comes from a combination of the words \u201cLAN switch\u201d (a networking technology) and \u201cevolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there will be a great need for it,\u201d says Stoney. \u201cI think using audio-visual stuff is something that many teachers would like to [do]. It\u2019s just\u2026so time-consuming to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The university obviously agrees: it recently gave Stoney a Teaching Achievement Award for the idea. The $15,000 prize will fund further development of the prototype. By this time next year, Stoney may be able to leave most of his electronics at home\u2014and get a bit more sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For years, associate professor Christopher Stoney has been hauling the equivalent of a small electronics shop to class. He likes to enhance his lectures with everything from news clips and YouTube videos to audiotapes and old slides. \u201cStudents like it because it tends to bring the real world into the classroom,\u201d says Stoney, who teaches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"\n