Technology Initiatives - Interactive CD
During the spring/summer semester of 2005 Dr. Richard Henrikson and Dr. William McFarland (CNED) produced and distributed an interactive CD entitled Professional and Ethical Issues in Counseling: A Practical Approach. For this project, the duo received the 2006 COEHS Innovative Use of Technology Award.
The CD, designed using the Macromedia Director authoring studio with the support of COEHS Instructional Development Manager Dawn Sweet, was developed to train counselor education graduate students in ethical decision-making. The CD project incorporates numerous technologies that were used to create a stand-alone training resource for the Ethical and Legal courses. Lecture material was prepared and then nine PowerPoint presentations with voice narration were created and converted to QuickTime movies allowing students to hear and see course content as well as navigate throughout the course lecture material on an as needed basis.
Digital video was also used to create the CD. A digital camera was used to record three introductory presentations for the major sections of the training program, the general introduction and overview to the CD, interviews with practitioners, and finally three 15- minute counselor/client role plays. The videos were converted to iMovie, edited, and then incorporated into the CD to present information from people in the field as well as challenge students to apply an ethical decision-making model.
As a follow-up the interactive CD project, Dr. Henrikson and Dr. McFarland published Ethical Issues in Counseling: Utilizing Technology in Counselor Ethics Training in Counselor Education and Supervision, August 2007.