Running a listserv for a department, for a discipline, or within a content area is another way to collect and store data for reflection and accreditation. Listservs allow faculty members easy access to colleagues and a quick venue for idea exchanges. Housing one in a department requires permission from computing services, memory on the server, and the time of someone to oversee it. On more familiar ground, digital cmaeras can be used to capture and record what happens in the classroom. Still pictures can be scanned into files.
More expensive cameras allow more options.
It requires a video capture card, memory space, and time to learn the programs. We ve found that images from the digital camera take up a good bit of space and suggest storing them on separate floppies, a Zip or Jaz drive, as well as expanding a computer s memory to handle the increased storage and image manipulation requirements. Once faculty discover the ease of using the digital cameras, they use them with increasing dexterity, proficiency, and frequency. The digital dance becomes a bit more difficult, at this point, though. The images the faculty, and our students, record can be transferred to the web or to CD s. Downloading images to the web makes the web site more appealing, but slows it down a bit.