Palming Around in Ohio Higher Education: A State Implementation Plan

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Palming Around in Ohio Higher Education A
State Implementation Plan

• Dr. Colleen Sexton and Dr. Teresa Franklin
• Ohio University
• Dr. Tim Best and Dr. Jane Fullerton
• Ohio Board of Regents

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• Building capacity to
• produce high-quality
• teachers

The Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) believes that the
preparation of future K-12 teachers is the
responsibility of ALL faculties within the
educational system.
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Building Capacity

• Engaging faculty
• Education, arts and sciences
• All institutional stakeholders
• Universities and community colleges
• Developing new collaborations
• K-12 and higher education
• Workforce
• Systemic approaches to change
• System vs program approaches
• Building on existing resources
• Leadership and support
• All levels, all stakeholders, and partners

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Capacity Building Teams
Regional Workshop sites

• Baldwin Wallace

• Bowling Green

• Akron

• Findlay

• Ohio State

• Ohio University

• Wright State

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Research Question
The research seeks to determine ways in which
faculty in higher education communities can use
handheld technology to integrate technology into
teacher education programs.

• Management and Service
• Teaching
• Research
• Technology Integration and Transfer

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Method
Method

• Participants
• 200 faculty from Colleges of Education, Colleges
  of Arts and Sciences, Community Colleges
• Procedure
• 2 day training face-to-face
• Received Palm m130, keyboard, carrying case,
  Veo Camera, Documents to Go
• 3rd day training virtually or face-to-face to
  discuss results of faculty use
• Class sets of Palms for faculty field testing

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Training Day 1
Method

• Faculty were encouraged to bring their own
  laptops
• Between sessions faculty were encouraged to try
  as many features as possible
• Faculty keep weekly journals of their experiences

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Training Day 2
Method

• Faculty focused on the use of probeware
• Faculty learned to use the Veo Camera
• Faculty were charged with keeping the
  journal of experiences
• Faculty were to develop a lesson plan for their
  content area
• Use a class set of Palms to field test their
  lesson

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Training Day 3
Method

• Virtual meetings to discuss results of work
• Face-to-Face meetings to discuss results
• Sharing of ideas and concerns

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Data Collection
Method

• Participant Demographic Survey
• Direct observations
• Journals
• Field Notes during training
• Lesson plan examination
• Classroom documents

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Data Analysis
Method

• Grounded Theory was used to examine the
  phenomenon of bringing an emerging technology
  into the higher education classroom.
• Themes emerging from the data were compared to
  the three themes identified as the focus of
  higher education (Teaching, Research and
  Management/Service)
• Examination was made for technology integration
  into teaching and learning and technology
  transfer

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Teaching
Results Expectations

• Documenting student performance
• Student grades, attendance, submission of
  homework, send and receive email
• Observing student teachers, journals, student
  information, documenting student experiences,
  concept maps, store data on student work,
• Also, for the most part, the only briefcase I
  carry to do student teacher observations is the
  palm-plus-keyboard. No more messing with a
  briefcase, paper folders, note pads, etc. My
  hands are free as I walk through a school palm
  pilot in one pocket and keyboard in another. I
  sit at a desk, set up the palm and keyboard and
  away I go. (Kids were very much interested in
  this technology.)

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Sample Journal Plan
Results Expectations

• The following is part of the plan for a project
  of theoretical application tracking
• Key concepts and identifiers of the theory can be
  shared via Palms (i.e., beaming) during class
  time each week.
• Students will observe and participate in groups
  as usual.
• Immediately following the group, students will
  take 10-15 minutes to use their Palms to
  journal observations regarding theoretical
  application.
• Students will return to the following class and
  share observations with one another. Beaming may
  be utilized once again to help students see the
  different applications of theories in their
  respective groups.

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Sample Field Trip
Results Expectations

• Faculty asked the students to use the Palms to
  collect data and record findings while they are
  on a field trip.
• One faculty wrote in an email
• Okay, here's what I want to do - let me know if
  this can fly. I am teaching a class on campus
  environments this quarter and I have 16 students
  in the class. We are doing field trips to 3 other
  colleges and taking a fresh look at OU. Our first
  trip was this week to Marietta College. For the
  Hocking trip or the OU trip (May 7th and May 14th
  respectively), I would like for volunteers from
  the class to take the field notes using the
  Palms. Would this work? Can the volunteer
  students get the Palms a couple days in advance
  so that they can get comfortable using them? I
  have one student who's already asked me about
  this since I announced the possibility of it at
  the start of the quarter.

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Sample Data Collection
Results Expectations

• My goal is to load files onto the Palm that
  will permit me to record class observations about
  student performance and generate more rapid
  qualitative and quantitative feedback for
  students. I may also experiment with my own
  spreadsheet used for recording student grades and
  seek Palm support teacher grade book software,
  but I would rather find some utilities that are
  more specific to science teaching or statistics.

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Our Faculty Teaching
Results Expectations
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Management/Service
Results Expectations

• Management is main use
• Yearly calendars, due dates, to-do lists
• Note taking, business card, excel for travel
• I find more and more that all the information I
  may need for any given meeting, event, or other
  need is now stored in my Palm. The convenience
  is certainly worth it alone. I do, however, still
  feel the need to go to meetings with a pen and
  paper, although this morning I found that I did
  not use my pen even once. I have never been a
  purist when it comes to theory or adaptation, so
  I suppose I should not be surprised that this
  situation is any different.

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Our Faculty Mgt./Service
Results Expectations
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Research
Results Expectations

• Research
• Presentation files for conference
• Journal submissions could be worked on and shared
  for editing with co-authors
• Literature review, list of search info, download
  manuscripts
• I am finding more ways to use this Palm because
  of it's added features. As an example, I recently
  traveled to California for a conference. I
  downloaded several documents, including 2
  presentations to Slideshow to Go and 2
  manuscripts to Word to Go. This enabled me to
  have the documents on hand when working with
  colleagues from other institutions so that we
  could make edits on the spot.

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Our Faculty Research
Results Expectations
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Technology Integration Transfer
Results Expectations

• Technology skills with desktop were transferred
• Some couldnt wait to have students use the Palm
• Some faculty were explorers
• Some faculty followed the rules
• Similar to past adoption/diffusion/innovation
  models

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Barriers/Glitches
Results Expectations
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Implications for Practice
Conclusion

• Common barriers found in adoption of emerging
  technologies
• Transferability of technology skills was YES
• Portability and convenient should be required
  for students
• Need more assessment ideas
• Good for clinical work
• Probe questions

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• Faculty became excited and in some cases
  empowered by the technology
• --a worthy goal for technology!

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Project Website

• http//tlcf.osn.state.oh.us/cop/index.htm

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Thank you

• Contact Information
• Dr. Colleen Sexton
• Ohio University
• Athens, OH 45701
• sextonc_at_ohio.edu
• Dr. Teresa Franklin
• Ohio University
• Athens, OH 45701
• franklit_at_ohio.edu
• Dr. Tim Best
• Ohio Board of Regents
• tbest_at_regents.state.oh.us
• Dr. Jane Fullerton
• Ohio Board of Regents
• jfullerton_at_regents.state.oh.us

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