PowerPoint Presentation New Tools for Teaching Psychology in the 21st Century

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? New Tools for Teaching
Psychology In the 21st Century Sponsored by The
College Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Roundtable And The Department of Clinical and
Social Sciences in Psychology Barbara C.
Ilardi ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Using Technology in Undergraduate and Graduate
Courses or HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION (and
Fall break, and weekends, and most evenings, and
probably winter break as well.)
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• WHY I DECIDED TO DO IT
• Personal Goals
• Mastery
• Freshman coming in are pretty sophisticated and
  look at us as archaic
• Easing communication, information flow in large
  classes (and small!)
• Departmental Goals
• Commitment to enhanced web presence
• Departmental site
• Courses
• Make instruction available locally
• Enhance graduate education
• Enhancing the undergraduate program

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• Personal starting point (as of spring 00)
• Pretty much the usual
• Lecture notes, overheads
• Low tech in classroom (overheads, VCR)
• Grad-student-maintained web site
• Notes
• Tests, answer keys
• Old tests
• Grades

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• The FIT grant
• Assess technology use, knowledge
• Customized departmental workshops
• Assemble resources (hardware, software,
  courseware)
• Attend conferences
• Had to learn things myself before customizing
• Faculty Summer Institute
• SUNY Conference on Educational Technology
• Designing web sites
• Acquiring my own new hardware, software
• Learning PowerPoint for lectures
• Learning communications tools

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• My Learning Experience
• Started with faculty INDEX PAGE listing courses
• Decided on format for simplest course - 553
• Got a litte more experience with second course -
  267
• Signed up for WebCT pilot for third course -
  192Q
• Used a combination of own hard work and Ed Tech
  Center staff one on one
• Discovered the real advantages of our Ed Tech
  Center

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• Workshop Design
• Technology Questionnaires
• Pretty huge range of knowledge
• Narrower range of usage
• Included all faculty, grads, staff
• Used own experiences to customize
• Set time and place
• Advertised from start of semester
• Created slick binders
• Planned digital photos
• Web site, video archive, handouts

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RESULTS

• What I learned personally
• Set realistic goals
• Personal
• Dont underestimate time needed
• Start simply
• Departmental
• Not everyone wants to convert!
• Grad students CRITICAL
• Staff support/interest CRITICAL
• University
• Incredible resources, support staff

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• How close did we come?
• Excellent attendance (food helped!)
• Good chance for older faculty to learn what is
  now available and WORKING WELL (library,
  registrar, courses server, Ed Tech Center)
• Faculty, staff got to meet tech folks
• Students REALLY into it (two actually
  presented)
• Staff expressed appreciation, interest

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• Whats left to do?
• Personal - e-pack, cleaner sites, more links,
  better PPT, newer software, wireless
  (husband??), TAKE A VACATION
• Departmental - resource room, more
  hardware/software evangelism, more courses
  web-enhanced, survey of workshop participants NEW
  FIT GRANT FOR WEB SURVEYS
• College
• Better technology usage/knowledge survey
• Ed Tech road show for other departments
• Inducements for Summer Institute
• Portable package for schools like us..