METC CONFERENCE

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METC CONFERENCE

• Turning Your Technology
• Initiative
• Over to the Students

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OVERVIEW

• Educational Technology Environment
• Institutional Services
• Classroom setting
• Teaching Tools
• Faculty Resources
• Student Resources

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Institutional Services

• Infrastructure within an institution

• Institutional Technology Department

• Student Technology

• In-house Equipment Oversight

• Training and Educational Resources

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Institutional Services

• Office of Instructional Technology (OIT)

• Coordinates and oversees all technological
  services within the building

• Serves as the primary contact between the service
  divisions and the institution

• Maintains budgetary and material resources for
  various service divisions

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Institutional Services

• Student Computer Services (SCS)

• Maintain institutional equipment for community use

• Train students in web page creation, use of
  programs and in self-maintenance of their
  personal computer

• Assist students in repair of personal computers

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Institutional Services

• Kenrick Lights Magic (KLM)

• Oversee the operation and maintenance of
  audio/visual equipment for community use

• Instructional Media Center (IMC)

• Oversee the usage of individual recording devices
• Assists in the copying, dubbing and distribution
  of recorded media

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Institutional Services

• Graduate Writing Center (GWS)

• Provides assistance in all aspects of writing and
  project development

• Class papers

• Classroom presentations

• Web page development

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Classroom Setting

• Each classroom should contain a wide variety of
  technological resources to provide the best and
  most diverse learning environment possible.

• Appropriate equipment for teaching purposes

• Also, appropriate resources for learning

• Electrical outlets, internet wall jacks or
  wireless access, etc.

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Classroom Setting

• Ceiling-mounted
• projector

• Connectivity for various types of technological
  equipment

• Provides a multi-level teaching environment

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Classroom Setting

• Network-connected
• computers

• All the basic computer programs
• Web Browser
• Word Processor

• Access to the institutional network

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Classroom Setting

• Other multimedia
• equipment

• VCR/DVD player

• Class lab computers for students

• Mounted audio/visual equipment

All these should have the ability to connect with
the projector system.
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Teaching Tools

• The primary purpose for having a wide variety of
  equipment is to provide multiple resources for
  both teaching and learning.

• Professors have the ability to present materials
  in a number of ways.

• Students have the ability to demonstrate their
  understanding of the material using technology
  best suited to their needs.

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Teaching Tools

• Community-level teaching tools

• A community-based system offers a single
  environment common to all courses.

• Blackboard

• Central institutional directory

• Blogs, forums, course chat rooms, etc.

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Teaching Tools

• Institutional web pages

• The most common type of teaching or learning tool
  is the web page.

• Faculty web pages
• Class-specific pages

• Student web pages

• Organization web pages

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Putting it all together

• When utilized together, this type of technical
  environment allows for the most ideal learning
  environment

• Graduate Writing Seminar
• PROFESSOR Dr. Sebastian Mahfood
• CLASS 1st Year Theology
• Project Team 1
• Project Team 2

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Conclusions

• The presence of advanced technology in an
  educational institution helps provide numerous
  tools for both teaching and learning.

• When a proper technological structure is
  established, students are able to maintain and
  advance a multimedia learning environment.

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Conclusions

• Institutional Services
• A well-defined structure for the development,
  maintenance and use of technology helps provide
  the foundation for student involvement. The
  resources for their learning are maintained and
  developed by the students themselves.

• Classroom Setting
• A wide variety of equipment in the classroom
  allows for professors and students to participate
  in an interactive environment that enhances the
  possibilities of learning and gives more
  technology opportunities for the students.

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Conclusions

• Teaching Tools
• Once an institutional structure is in place and a
  wide range of multimedia equipment is available,
  professors can begin to tailor their teaching
  methods to allow for students to take control of
  their own learning.
• The students are able to both utilize and employ
  the technology available to them for their own
  learning.
• The students also continue to grow in their
  understanding of how technology can be used in
  learning.

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Conclusions

• Students become their own teachers
• As students take on more and more of the
  maintenance and development of the technological
  environment of the institution, they advance
  their own learning.

• Students control technological growth
• The development and expansion of technological
  resources within the institution is able to be
  determined by the students. They are able to
  articulate to the institution their needs for
  continued learning and growth.

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Conclusions

• In summary
• Students learn to operate and maintain the
  technology available in their institution.
• Students incorporate this technology for
  advancing their own education
• This advance in knowledge allows the students to
  further develop the technology for the institute

THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY IN AN EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTION IS IN THE HANDS OF THE STUDENTS.