Strategies for Transitioning to the Age of Digital Media

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Strategies for Transitioning to the Age of
Digital Media

• Christina B. Updike
• Sarah E. Cheverton
• James Madison University
• March 12, 2004

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Purpose of Workshop

• Participants will learn strategies for
  successfully transitioning their departments and
  faculty to a digital media environment.

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Where are you in the transition process?

• Thinking about it?
• Beginning conversations?
• Beginning a pilot project?
• Fully integrating digital images?

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Workshop Agenda

• Introduction
• Survey Results
• Strategies
• BREAK
• Questions Answers
• Focus on Faculty
• Managing Change
• Review of Resources
• Wrap Up

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Survey Results
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Purpose of Survey
To get a snapshot of what other institutions have
done, are doing and are planning to do while
moving to instruction with digital media
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http//cit.jmu.edu/digitalsurvey
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Survey Method
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Survey Group

• Total Survey Group 132
• Curators 98
• Curators-Instructional Faculty 12
• Instructional Faculty 22

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Student Enrollment for Survey Institutions(n109)
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Number of Faculty at Survey Institutions(n102)
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Do Faculty Currently Use Digital Images?(n34)
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Percent Digital Images Used by Faculty in the
Past(n34)
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Percent Digital Images Currently Used by
Instructional Faculty(n34)
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Ways Faculty Use Digital Images(n34)
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Ways Institutions Use Digital Images(n109)
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Number of Years Curator in Current
Position(n108)
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Responsibilities of Visual Resources Curator
(n109)
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Tasks and the Person or Group Responsible (n109)
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Primary Mover Comparison of Curator,
Curator/Faculty and Faculty Group
Perceptions(n130)
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Strategies
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11 Key Actions

• Build Collaborative Relationships
• Share the Vision
• Research and Plan
• Obtain Images/Process for Prep
• Use Computing Infrastructure
• Provide Delivery Tools
• Obtain Equipment
• Recruit Expertise
• Establish Policy and Procedure
• Provide Training
• Secure Funding

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Collaboration Six groups participating in the
project

• Seek Funding Art history faculty, Dean General
  Education
• System Development Center for Instructional
  Technology staff
• Content Development Libraries and Educational
  Technologies Division
• Technology Classrooms Media Resources Division
  and Administration
• Technology Infrastructure Offices of Computing
  Support and Tech Services
• Technology Transfer Academic Affairs Office,
  Administration and Finance Offices

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Lessons Learned

• There is a technology learning curve for faculty
• There is a content learning curve for technology
  developers
• Technical infrastructure for teaching and
  learning is critical
• Instructional design is an increasingly
  collaborative process, not only with faculty,
  which is inherent, but with technology
  organizations of the institution

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Keys to Continued Success

• Communicationfocus groups, departmental meetings
  
• Evaluation and assessmentkeeps system relevant
• Integration of content from commercial and/or
  licensed image libraries
• Collaboration with classroom media services and
  computing support to ensure appropriate
  infrastructure for system
• Accuracy of images and data

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Keys to Professional Success

• Learn collaboration techniques
• Become involved in professional activities
• Keep current in the profession
• Participate in continuing education

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Sources of Digital Images (n109)
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Sources of Digital Images for Faculty(n34)
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Sources of Licensed Images (n109)
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Person/Group Responsible for Licenses(n109)
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Image Delivery Tools(n109)
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Number of Tech Classrooms in Survey
Institutions(n107)
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Percent Getting More Tech Classrooms(n108)
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Concerns

• How will this affect me?
• What are the potential threats?
• How will I have to change?
• How will my workspace/workday change?

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Faculty Concerns
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Survey Responses

• I am far too old to keep up with the
  technology.
• If a projector bulb fails or the server is down,
  that particular class session is pretty much
  over.
• I'm concerned about mastering the new
  technology, about obtaining enough images to
  teach with, about quality of reproduction.

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Change is not an event. It is a process of
transitioning from the old to the new, from the
familiar to the unfamiliar.
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Four Phases of Transition

• Denial
• Resistance
• Exploration
• Commitment

By Heartwork, Inc. and Flora/Elkind Associates in
Managing Change at Work by Scott Jaffe, 1995
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People dont resist change they resist loss.
Scott Jaffe, 1995
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Still, it's clearly the wave of the future, so
I'm at least inching into the waters... Facult
y Survey Response
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People are different!
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Personality Types

• Zealots
• Innovators
• Early Adopters
• Bohicans
• Late Adopters
• Diehards
• Bewildered Majority
• Most of us

References Managing Change at Work by Scott
Jaffe, 1995A Managers Guide to the Millennium
by Matejka Dunsing, 1995
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How Can You Help?
Your task as change agent is to shift the energy
away from the feeling of being powerless and the
feeling of security from the past, toward seeing
the opportunities of the future.
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Web Addresses for Workshop Materials

• http//cit.jmu.edu/cit/presentations.asp
• http//www.vraweb.org

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Contact Information

• Christina (Tina) UpdikeVisual Resources
  Curator540.568.6588updikecb_at_jmu.edu
• Sarah ChevertonManager, Faculty
  Development540.568.3393cheverse_at_jmu.edu