Progress 09/01/00 to 08/31/04
Outputs
The graduate and undergraduate courses AQU 511 and 411 (Fish Diseases) were taught in the itv facility in fall 2004 and were enhanced with a Blackboard web site containing abridged PowerPoint lectures for students to print and bring to lecture; documents such as scientific articles assigned to the students to read; and video clips & photographs of fish pathogens. To increase enrollment, these courses were publicized by way of e-mailings and telephone calls to County Extension Agents and Small Farm Assistants as well as biology and agricultural professors at Kentucky universities. Video equipment items outlined in the grant were ordered to help enhance the quality of the courses being taught. The DVD Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases produced under this grant was used during a workshop demonstration of incorporating digitized video footage into PowerPoint presentations at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting of the Fish Health Section in
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, July 2004. The final results and impacts of this teaching capacity building grant were presented at Aquaculture America 2005, New Orleans. The fish diseases DVD was mailed in 2004 to project collaborators at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Virginia State University, Fort Valley State University, University of Tennessee, and West Virginia State College. Colleagues at these universities also received a 2-volume CD set with PowerPoint lectures, educational video clips and digital photos to aid in their teaching of fish diseases and water quality as well as other aquaculture courses. Copies of the fish diseases DVD was also sent to County Extension Offices in the 120 Kentucky counties. Subscriptions to scientific aquaculture journals (paper and online versions) were also ordered. They included Journal of Fish Diseases, Fish and Shellfish Immunology, Aquacultural Engineering, Canadian Journal of Fisheries Management, and Journal of Fish Biology.
Textbooks ordered included Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Fishes by John Plumb, Nutrition and Fish Health, edited by Chhorn Lim and Carl Webster, Parasites of North American Freshwater Fishes, by Glenn Hoffman, and Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management, by Claude Boyd. Textbooks and journals were made available to all graduate and undergraduate students interested in aquaculture and fisheries. Three Nikon microscopes were purchased for use in teaching Fish Diseases and for laboratory use: a trinocular compound scope, a dissecting scope and an inverted scope for virology work were bought. Also, 3 binocular compound Nikon microscopes were purchased for student use during Fish Diseases laboratories. These scopes are all of research grade to maximize the learning experience for students. For capturing video footage of fish diseases for classroom teaching use, a digital microscopic camcorder and a mini-DV camcorder were purchased with the grant. And a
combination mini-DV and SVHS player/recorder was also purchased to capture microscopic video footage and to play video captured on the mini-DV camcorder.
Impacts
Workshops taught at the Annual Meeting of the Fish Health Section of the American Fisheries Society in Shepherdstown, WV (2004) familiarized Fish Health Scientists from around the country with techniques used to incorporate video footage into PowerPoint presentations. This added dimension to the teaching skills of Fish Pathologists skills has been helpful to clients and students being taught by these professionals. A complete overview of accomplishments from this grant was presented to fellow Extension Specialists during a session of Aquaculture America 2005 in New Orleans. Several Specialists expressed an interest in using the DVD and CD software developed with this grant, and they also expressed interest in obtaining USDA grants to enhance their teaching efforts. The DVD Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases has been used by many teachers of fish diseases to teach hundreds of students. It is also popular among koi hobbyists in some parts of the country
including the Pacific Northwest. Valuable video footage was captured with equipment purchased under the grant. This footage was used to enhance teaching over the past two years and will continue to enhance teaching and video production. Students have benefited from the use of online scientific journals and textbooks bought with the grant. Students expressed appreciation and interest in viewing parasites and bacteria clearly through the superior resolution of the research-grade Nikon microscopes.
Publications
- Durborow,R.M. and D.A. Rockcliffe. 2005. USDA teaching capacity building grant for aquaculture curriculum development at Kentucky State University. In Abstract Book for Aquaculture America 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Durborow, R.M. 2004. PowerPoints, videos, and photos for water quality management and fish diseases. 2-volume CD set to be used for teaching in the classroom.
- Durborow, R.M. 2004. PowerPoint videos for teaching fish diseases. In Abstract Book for American Fisheries Society Fish Health Section Annual Meeting, Shepherdstown, West Virginia (abstract and oral presentation).
- Durborow, R.M. 2004. Video technology in PowerPoint for teaching aquaculture and fish diseases. In Abstract Book for Aquaculture 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii (abstract and oral presentation).
- Durborow, R.M. 2001. Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases. DVD-ROM with 2 Educational Videos, 54 Publications, and Internet Web Links. Kentucky State University and United States Department of Agriculture. 60 minutes.
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Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03
Outputs
January 23, 2004 CRIS report for USDA Teaching Capacity Building Grant. The graduate and undergraduate courses BIO 560 and 460 (Water Quality Management) were taught as interactive television courses in fall 2003. All lectures were presented in PowerPoint to on-site and remote students. The remote student was an APHIS-USDA veterinarian in Bowling Green, KY assigned aquaculture responsibility for the state, and completing this course was imperative for him to adequately perform his job. The distance learning format of the course made it possible for him to do that. The courses were web-enhanced with Blackboard.com. Assigned readings and student versions of PowerPoint lectures were available to students in the Course Documents section. All examinations except the final exam were administered through Blackboard. To increase enrollment, these courses were publicized by way of e-mailings and telephone calls to County Extension Agents and Small Farm Assistants as well as
biology and agricultural professors at Kentucky universities. A County Agent in Franklin County enrolled in the graduate course but dropped the course after a few weeks due to family pressures and time constraints from multiple jobs that he worked. Video equipment items outlined in the grant were ordered to help enhance the quality of the courses being taught (graduate and undergraduate water quality management as well as graduate and undergraduate fish diseases). The DVD Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases produced under this grant was used during a workshop demonstration of incorporating digitized video footage into PowerPoint presentations at the National Aquaculture Extension Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 2003. In a publication that was a "spin-off" of this grant, a fact sheet on protozoan parasites for the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center; the on-line version of the fact sheet has video clips (taken from the fish diseases DVD) to illustrate parasites and
their movements in movie format. Please refer to the web site http://srac.tamu.edu/4701fs.pdf and see the publication cited below. The fish diseases DVD will be mailed in early 2004 to project collaborators at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Virginia State University, Fort Valley State University, University of Tennessee, and West Virginia State College. Colleagues at these universities will also receive a CD or DVD with PowerPoint lectures, educational video clips and digital photos to aid in their teaching of fish diseases and water quality as well as other aquaculture courses. Copies of the fish diseases DVD will also be sent to County Extension Offices in the 120 Kentucky counties. Subscriptions to scientific aquaculture journals were also ordered. Textbooks will be ordered during the early part of 2004.
Impacts
The graduate and undergraduate courses in water quality management and fish diseases are designed to help not only on-campus students at KSU but professionals already working in the aquaculture field. In fall 2003 Dr. Dallas Meek, a USDA veterinarian working for APHIS in Bowling Green, Kentucky, successfully completed BIO 560, Water Quality Management, from his remote location and received an outstanding grade (A). This was an essential course for Dr. Meek, because he was assigned aquaculture responsibility for Kentucky with no prior formal training in the field. This distance learning format of this course enabled him to take the course, increasing his exposure to water quality and aquaculture in general, and therefore, enhancing his ability to better serve his clientele. The same could be said for Mr. Keenan Bishop, County Extension Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources within the University of Kentucky system. Although he was unable to finish the course due
to family and other-job constraints, he was at least exposed to water quality and aquaculture issues and topics for a few weeks. Attempts to recruit professionals will be made again in future offerings of the water quality and fish disease courses. The workshop taught at the Aquaculture Extension Conference in Tucson familiarized Extension Specialists from around the country with techniques used to incorporate video footage into PowerPoint presentations. This added dimension to the teaching skills of Specialists is and will be helpful to clients and students being taught by these Specialists.
Publications
- Durborow, R.M. 2003. Video Technology in PowerPoint and DVD-ROM for Teaching Fish Diseases. In: National Aquaculture Extension Conference 2003 Abstracts, Tucson, Arizona (abstract and oral presentation).
- Durborow, R.M. 2003. Protozoan Parasites. Southern Regional Aquaculture Center Publication number 4701 7p.
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Progress 01/01/02 to 12/31/02
Outputs
January 31, 2003 CRIS report for USDA Teaching Capacity Building Grant. The course Water Quality Management (previously BIO 502/BIO 260) was re-numbered to BIO 560 for graduate students and 460 for undergraduates. Fish Diseases (BIO 511/411) was developed and taught during the fall 2002 academic semester at the Kentucky State University Distance Learning Center. Lecture notes were prepared in PowerPoint format (which included video clips of fish pathogens) and were used to teach a class of four graduate students. The Water Quality Management course will be taught in fall 2003 and will be transmitted to remote out-of-town sites, reaching a broad range of audience as outlined in the grant (County Agents, Small Farm Assistants, students enrolled at other universities, and aquaculturists). In-state universities will be recruited this year for involvement in the interactive video phase of the course that will be taught in the fall semester, 2003. The course is taught only
in odd years. We plan to request an extension of the grant in order to allow this course to be taught under the grant during the fall 2003 semester. Journal subscriptions and textbooks will be ordered this year based on current needs of the KSU Aquaculture Program. The fish diseases educational DVD-ROM, Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases, was distributed to approximately 100 persons and institutions. The 6 microscopes purchased with this grant were used by aquaculture graduate students during Fish Diseases course laboratories (BIO 511). A digital microscopic video camera with a monitor and electric pointer will be purchased this year. Oral and poster presentations on the development of the project were presented at World Aquaculture 2002 in Beijing. The fish diseases DVD developed in this project was demonstrated during both presentations. In addition, the 4th International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health in New Orleans provided an excellent forum for demonstrating the
fish diseases DVD-ROM to a wide range of fish health professionals including veterinarians.
Impacts
January 31, 2003 CRIS Report for USDA Teaching Capacity Building Grant. The courses Water Quality Management and Fish Diseases will help graduating majors in the Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences M.S. degree program to be able to contribute to scientific fields. This year one of our master's degree students was accepted into and began a Ph.D. program in immunology and molecular biology at the University of Mississippi Medical School. Teaching the Fish Diseases course (BIO 511) in a simulated interactive video setting this past semester provided further practice for the 'official' interactive video course in Water Quality Management (BIO 560/460) that will be taught this fall (2003). The educational DVD-ROM, Disease of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases, has helped viewers (students, farmers, scientists, fish hobbyists, etc.) to recognize and diagnose bacteria, parasites, and viruses killing their fish or their clients' fish. The oral and poster presentations in China
disseminated our findings to scientists worldwide, indirectly benefiting food producers in other countries and enabling the provision of a more abundant availability of food to people in developing nations by reducing fish mortalities. Fish health professionals including veterinarians benefited from the poster presentation of the fish diseases DVD at the 4th International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health in New Orleans.
Publications
- Durborow, R.M. and Rockcliffe, D.A. 2002. Course and curriculum development in water quality management and fish health at Kentucky State University. Oral and Poster Presentation In World Aquaculture 2002 Book of Abstracts, April 23 - 27, 2002, Beijing, China. p. 200.
- Durborow, R.M. 2002. Fish diseases education: use of a DVD-ROM for teaching producers, students, and colleagues about fish pathogens. Poster Presentation In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health, September 1 - 5, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana. p. 245.
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Progress 01/01/01 to 12/31/01
Outputs
An advisory committee was selected for the project. The course Water Quality Management (BIO 502/BIO 260) was developed and taught during the fall 2001 academic semester at the Kentucky State University Distance Learning Center. Lecture notes were prepared in PowerPoint format and were used to teach to a class of six graduate students with half the class in an adjacent "remote" room to simulate conditions when the course will be taught to students at remote sites in distant cities. The course will be in completed form when the class is next offered (fall 2003) and will be transmitted to remote out-of-town sites, reaching a broad range of audience as outlined in the grant (County Agents, Small Farm Assistants, students enrolled at other universities, and aquaculturists). In-state universities will be recruited this year for involvement in the interactive video phase of the the course that will be taught in the fall semester, 2003. The course is taught only in odd
years. Journal subscriptions and textbooks are currently being ordered. The fish diseases educational DVD-ROM Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases has been completed and is currently being disseminated. The following equipment has been purchased with the project grant funding: 2 laptop computers 2 Dissolved Oxygen Meters 2 DVD players 6 microscopes The laptop computers have been and will be used to teach the Water Quality Management and Fish Diseases courses. PowerPoint presentations are made as well as showing educational DVD movies on fish health, and connecting with the Internet for demonstrations during lectures. The dissolved oxygen meters were used to demonstrate their use and function during Water Quality Management laboratories in fall, 2001. DVD players will be used to show educational DVDs to students during lectures, to fish farmers in the field and during workshops, and to aquatic scientists and the general public during poster exhibits. The microscopes will be
used by aquaculture graduate students during Fish Disease course laboratories. The poster presentation on the development of the project at the World Aquaculture 2002 in Beijing has been accepted. The poster is in preparation and near to completion.
Impacts
The courses Water Quality Management and Fish Diseases will help graduating majors in the Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences M.S. degree program and undergraduates to be able to contribute to the fields of science, education and commercial fish production. Teaching BIO 502 in a simulated interactive video setting this past semester will help the course to run more smoothly when it is officially taught in this format in fall, 2003. The educational DVD-ROM Disease of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases will help viewers (students, farmers, scientists, fish hobbyists, etc.) to recognize and diagnose bacteria, parasites, and viruses killing their fish or their client's fish. All equipment purchased will contribute to more effective teaching of the water quality and disease courses, and the impact should be graduating students who will be able to make more significant contributions to commercial aquaculturists and fellow scientists. In addition, the battery-powered portable
DVD player will be an effective teaching tool in the field to show diseases to aquatic farmers, and in workshop settings with televisions in county offices. Other aquaculture educational videos can also be used on this player. The poster presentation in China will disseminate our findings to scientists worldwide; this will hopefully benefit food producers in other countries, enabling the provision of a more abundant availability of food to people in developing nations. Conversely, knowledge that we acquire from the Chinese and scientists from other nations will likely benefit citizens in our state and country.
Publications
- Durborow, R.M. 2001. Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases. DVD-ROM with 2 Educational Videos, 54 Publications, and Internet Web Links. Kentucky State University and United States Department of Agriculture. 60 minutes.
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