{"id":3951,"date":"2019-04-25T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2019-04-25T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:18:18","slug":"deploying-kenny-the-robot-to-make-remote-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2019\/04\/25\/deploying-kenny-the-robot-to-make-remote-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Deploying \u2018Kenny the Robot\u2019 to Make Remote Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Leah Veldhuisen \u201919<\/strong><\/p>\n

You never know when you might need a little help from a\u2026 robot? CC is known for its small class sizes and strong connections between professors and students. However, there are occasionally times when someone can\u2019t physically make it to class. Associate Professor of History Jane Murphy called on Kenny the Robot in this exact situation when Maddie Bodell \u201920\u00a0<\/strong>couldn\u2019t make it to one day of Murphy\u2019s History of Medicine class during Block 6.<\/p>\n

Kenny is an iPad attached to a wheeled, mobile base that can be remotely controlled and maneuvered by the user. Users are also able to control Kenny\u2019s line of sight. Kenny\u2019s ability to be remotely controlled was particularly handy when Bodell couldn\u2019t be in the classroom for an integral day of Murphy\u2019s class. For this course especially, the classroom community and participation were important. Murphy says, \u201cwriting intensive classes are capped at 12 students and we exchange drafts of work throughout the block\u2026 You need to trust people to share your writing drafts with them \u2014 that participation in a process is a large part of the work we all do.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the day Bodell had to miss, Murphy had arranged to Skype in with Nancy Bristow, CC history alumna and professor of history at the University of Puget Sound, who authored \u201cAmerican Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.\u201d The discussion about Bristow\u2019s research and the students’ research \u201cwas our final element of the course and not something I could make up later,\u201d Murphy adds. Via Kenny, Bodell was able to engage in the discussion with Bristow and her classmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cKenny enhanced my learning experience by allowing me to participate in a class discussion in a more natural way when I couldn’t physically be present. It was fun having more of a presence than just a computer screen,\u201d Bodell explains. Additionally, the day she missed was the day of the \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d spring blizzard right before Spring Break, and she was able to direct Kenny to the window to see the storm. \u201cI could move him around since he was on wheels and I could use my computer keys to control his movement. He’s actually pretty fast,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

Murphy says, \u201cWe are fortunate to do most of our teaching face-to-face, in a context in which we have gotten to know and trust one another.\u201d She says she sees Kenny\u2019s potential to enable further classroom participation when a student cannot be in class.<\/p>\n

Contact the ITS Solutions Center\u00a0<\/a>if you have an opportunity to use Kenny in your class: (719) 389-6449.<\/p>\n

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By Leah Veldhuisen \u201919 You never know when you might need a little help from a\u2026 robot? CC is known for its small class sizes and strong connections between professors and students. However, there are occasionally times when someone can\u2019t physically make it to class. Associate Professor of History Jane Murphy called on Kenny the … <\/p>\n

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