Implementation on the Campuses

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Implementation on the Campuses

• Lanny Arvan
• Director Center for Educational Technologies,
  UIUC

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Goals For Tonight

• Make your group part of the people network at
  your campus
• Raise issues about implementation and support
• The issues are generic
• The solutions are local

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Procedure for this evening

• First hour or so - Open ended bull session
• Get to know each other
• Get lots of ideas on the table
• Second hour or so
• Discuss implementation
• A group member to take minutes???

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Focus Group on Thursday Eve

• If your campus hasnt done so already, select a
  representative for focus group
• Focus group will be interviewed over dinner by
  Cheryl Bullock, who is doing FSI evaluation.
• Private Dining Room (Colonial Room) Illini
  Union 530

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Intellectual Property

• Is there a Campus or System Policy?
• Should there be a Statewide Policy?
• Who should represent your campus in the
  discussion?
• Carol want to say something here?

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Using Web Resources

• Doing it all yourself is fine, but.
• Your time is scarce.
• There are potentially useful resources on the
  Web.
• Learning from others online is what you want your
  students to be doing.
• Why not exemplify that?

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Public Resources

• Example Smithsonian Web site
• Computer History Web
• http//americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/
• Interviews

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Newspapers Online (Free)

• New York Times
• http//www.nytimes.com
• Chicago Tribune
• http//www.chicagotribune.com/
• Washington Post http//www.washingtonpost.com/
• San Jose Mercury News http//www.sjmercury.com/

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Individual Courses Online

• Go to a campus Web site
• Follow links to courses in your discipline
• Example
• U. Maryland (Govt Project ICONS)
  http//www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/

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Publishers Starting with A

• Addison Wesley Longman http//www.awl.com/corp/
• Allyn and Bacon http//www.abacon.com/
• Archipelago http//www.archipelago.com/

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Publisher Lists

• http//www.bookwire.com/index/Prof-and-Edu-Publish
  ers.html
• http//cs.heritage.edu/publishers.html

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Resources

• University of Maryland http//www.inform.umd.edu/E
  dRes/FacRes/TeachTech/.TeachTech/itech.html
• Taxonomy of resources http//www.kelley.iu.edu/is
  web/teachln/epss_p600/tax.htm
  

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Online Periodicals

• Educause http//www.educause.edu/
• ALN http//www.aln.org/alnweb/publications.htm
• Chronicle http//www.chronicle.com/
• AAUP http//www.aaup.org/

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Obstacles

• Where does your campus need to improve?
• Servers?
• Training?
• Network Access?
• Drop-in Help?
• Recognition?
• Cant do it allimmediately

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Reality Check

• Adopting technology in instruction is not a get
  rich quick scheme for you.
• Academic budgets for technology in instruction
  lag behind demand growth.

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Your Mission

• What can work on your campus?
• How do you make it work?
• Mobilize for action. Get together with
• Previous attendees
• Others interested in Ed Tech

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Dining Room Assignments

• This Room
• NEIU, SIUC, NIU, WIU, UIUC, UIC
• Across the hall
• GSU, SIUE, EIU, UIS, CSU, ISU