Title: Educational Technology for Instruction: Everything a Dean Needs to Know
1Educational Technology for Instruction
Everything a Dean Needs to Know
- Jennifer D. Jones Bellingham Technical College
- Michèle Royer Bellevue Community College
- WEC April 30, 2008
Technology Rules for the Day
2- Some Technology Trends in the Workplace and in
Education (Michèle 15 min) -
- Social Media for Learning (Jennifer 45 min)
- Virtual Collaboration and New Office Applications
(Michèle 45 min) - Demos of Groove, OneNote, Web Office Apps, Search
Engines - Evolving Assessment and Roles of Faculty and
Students (small group discussions 30 min) - Collaborative Faculty Development and Open
Educational Resources (Jennifer 45 min) - Impact on Computing Services (Podcast Interview
15 min) - Establishing New Technology Policies (small group
discussions 30 min)
3- Some Technology Trends in the Workplace
- and in Education
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7The New World of Work
- Mobile and Virtual Workplace
- Collaboration across distances and organizations
- Web-enabled business processes
- Increased access to and management of information
- Multiplicity of devices and applications/
Integration - Continuous changes in technology tools and
processes
8New Work Skills
- Beyond IT literacy
- Comfort with technology
- Information management skills (including
information security) - Technology-enabled communication and
collaboration skills - Adaptability and flexibility ability to learn
new skills, new technologies and new processes
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Manager, Education Products Group, Microsoft
Corporation
10Technology Everywhere
- Number of internet devices in 2006 600 millions
(up from 1 million in 1992) - More than 70 of 4-year-olds have used a computer
- Todays 21-year-olds in the US have
- watched 20,000 hours of TV
- played 10,000 hours of video games
- talked 10,000 hours on the phone
- sent or received 250,000 emails or instant
messages
Shift Happens / Did You Know 2.0 http//youtube.co
m/watch?vpMcfrLYDm2U
11Internet and Media
- 48 of internet users have been to video-sharing
sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to
such sites on a typical day has doubled in the
past year - 1/9/08
- 28 of internet users have tagged or categorized
content online such as photos, news stories or
blog posts - 1/31/07 - 28 of online teens have blogs 12/19/07
- Pew Internet and American Life Project Reports
Technology and Media Use - http//www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/4/topics.asp
12Super Communicators
- Content creation by teenagers continues to grow,
with 64 of online teenagers ages 12 to 17
engaging in at least one type of content
creation, up from 57 in 2004. - 28 of teens are super-communicators using a
host of technology options for communicating with
family and friends, including traditional
landline phones, cell phones, texting, social
network sites, instant messaging, and email.
- Teens and Social Media 12/19/2007 Pew Internet
and American Life Project Report - http//www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_displa
y.asp
13BusinessWeek June 2007 http//www.businessweek.com
/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm
14Student Technology Needs Assessment
Recommendations
- SBCTC Report, 1-29-08
- www.sbctc.ctc.edu/college/dl/StudentTechnologyNeed
sAssessmentResultsfinal.ppt - www.sbctc.ctc.edu/college/dl/StudentTechnologyNeed
sFocusGroupResultsBulletsver4.doc - More ways to interact and collaborate with other
students - More technology resources, such as wireless
coverage, tech support, computer hubs, electrical
outlets - Cutting-edge technology
- Online textbooks
- A Vision of K-12 Students Today (YouTube V
4min) - http//youtube.com/watch?v_A-ZVCjfWf8
- Based on research by Michael Wesch, cultural
anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the
impacts of new media on human interaction at
Kansas State University.
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only in the context of this presentation
Used by permission of Martin Bean, General
Manager, Education Products Group, Microsoft
Corporation
16"Connected" Part 2 Academic Uses (YouTubeV
7min) http//youtube.com/watch?vTLCTpX3tJEQfeatu
rerelated
17- Social Media for Learning
- wiki
18- Virtual Collaboration and New Office Applications
SciVee an open community for scientists to share
videos and publications http//www.scivee.tv/
19Project Collaboration
- Microsoft Office Groove
- Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software
program that helps teams work together
dynamically and effectively, even if team members
work for different organizations, work remotely,
or work offline. - MS Groove vs Sharepoint
- Can access info offline (peer-to-peer)
- No network access security issues
- Collaborative tools in the workspace
- Text and audio chat
- Microsoft Groove 2007
- http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/FX1004876
41033.aspx - http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA1016726
01033.aspx?pidCL101732621033
DEMO
20Information Gathering and Organization
- Microsoft Office OneNote
- Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that
provides people one place to gather their notes
and information. - Gather all digital file formats (text, graphics,
photos, audio files, videos, office documents,
internet and screen clippings, emails, calendar
events) - Integrate with other MS Office apps
- Share and co-develop with others
- Publish in other formats
- Microsoft OneNote 2007
- http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.
aspx - http//office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA101672
671033.aspx
DEMO
21Microsoft Opens Free Online Workspace for
Student Collaborations
- Microsoft wants to help students get their lives
together (their learning lives, at least), and
Tuesday it rolled out a product to help. As part
of Live_at_edu, the companys free Web-based email
and calendar suite, Microsoft unveiled Office
Live Workspace, which lets students access their
work online and share it with others. Live_at_edu is
in use at more than 600 colleges. - http//chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2795/mic
rosoft-opens-free-online-workspace-for-student-col
laborations - Google Docs and Calendar
DEMO
22New Search Engines
- Visual Search Engines
- http//grokker.com/
- Tafiti
- http//www.tafiti.com/
- Visual Medical Dictionary
- http//www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
23Second Life
- Gartner says that 80 percent of active Internet
users will have a "Second Life" in the virtual
world by the end of 2011 - http//www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id503861
- Science Learning Opportunities in Second Life
(YouTubeV 3min) - http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEfsSGBraUhcfeature
related - NMC Campus Seriously Engaging (YouTubeV 5min)
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vS9VZKTT6gZ8feature
related - Educational Uses of Second Life (YouTubeV 7min)
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqOFU9oUF2HAfeature
related - Corporate presence on SL (YouTubeV 4min)
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtEGHJuCbGdofeature
related - A Second Life in Second Life (YouTubeV 5min)
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vUV52WRXm1Cg
24Catch All
- Ning in the Classroom
- http//animation120.ning.com/
- http//game110.ning.com/
- http//animation230.ning.com/
- Professional Networking
- http//www.linkedin.com/
- Camtasia Studio and JING Project
- Screen video and audio capture
- http//www.techsmith.com/ Camtasia Sample
- http//www.jingproject.com/
25Evolving Assessment and Roles of Faculty and
Students
- What is the role of the teacher when information
can be accessed through the net? When the
students know more about the tools than the
teachers do? - What is the role of the classroom when learning
can be acquired anytime, anywhere? - How do you assess student learning in a digital
and collaborative environment? - Is faculty assessment taking into account their
ability to effectively use digital collaborative
strategies? - (small group discussions)
26- Collaborative Faculty Development and Open
Educational Resources - wiki
27- Impact on Computing Services
- Interview of Agnes Figueroa
- Director of Computing Services, Bellevue
Community College
28Establishing New Technology Policies
- Which technologies will you allow and support in
and outside of the classroom? - Which technologies will you promote to support
the learning? - Which training will you make available to faculty
and students? - How will you motivate and support faculty in
exploring the use of new teaching/learning
technologies? - (small group discussions)
29Some Challenges
- Administrative support
- Evaluation of teaching by old standards
- Access to technology tools
- Technical support, resources and standards
- Training of teachers
- Bandwidth
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- Diversity of students in
- Access to technology
- Not all students are technology natives
30 31Resources
Open Thinking Wiki http//couros.wikispaces.com/em
ergingtechnologies
32Blog Resources
- http//edu.blogs.com/
- Advisory Bored
- Thoughts, resources, research and moral support
for instructional staff trying to build relevant
and interesting technology programs in Snohomish
County high schools and colleges. - http//advisorybored.blogspot.com/
- EVA Blog
- Education Virtually Anywhere.
- Ramblings about teaching and learning in a
web-enabled world. - http//evablogged.blogspot.com/
- SBCTC WikiSpace
- http//ctcinsl.wikispaces.com/
- http//carollager.wetpaint.com/
- http//eci831.wikispaces.com/
33Blog Resources
- WordPress http//wordpress.com/
- Blogger https//www.blogger.com/start
- Faculty member creates a "Website" (not a blog)
using Wordpress to share the information for
their trip to Trinidad with her students and
their families. http//trinidad.umwblogs.org/ - A student used tracks from a video another
student shared with the class to make his own rap
about the implications of Japanese internment.
http//math.umwblogs.org/2007/11/04/rap-for-all-ya
ll/ - The University of Mary Washington is creating
their own online, academic community using blogs.
Whcih they are re-imagining as an educational
publishing platform. http//umwblogs.org/ - Alan Levine's More Than Cat Diaries
http//cat-diaries.blogspot.com/ and links to
sites using blog platforms for other purposes.
http//del.icio.us/tag/notcatdiaries
34Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users
to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks
of web pages on the Internet with the help of
metadata. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
- Social bookmarking
- Blue Dot
- BookmarkSync
- del.icio.us
- CiteULike
- Connotea
- Digg
- Diigo
- Fark
- Furl
- GiveALink.org
- Social cataloging
- Librarything
- Shelfari
- Social citations
- BibSonomy
- bibster
- CiteULike
- Connotea
- refbase
- Havadarha.com
- Hugg.com
- Ma.gnolia
- My Web
- Mixx
- Newsvine
- Propeller.com
- Reddit
- Simpy
- SiteBar
- StumbleUpon
- http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_softwa
re