Faculty of Arts Technologies for Learning Centre

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Faculty of Arts Technologies for Learning Centre
Meeting the TechnologyDemands of a Diverse
Faculty

• Terry Butler, Director TLC
• 1999 June 24

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Arts TLC Description

• Purpose of the initiative
• Staff and resources
• How we provide support and assistance
• How can we scale up to the size of the task?

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Mandate
provide infrastructure and technical support

• Provide advice to departments and the Faculty --
  networks, equipment
• Give hands-on help system quotes, set-up,
  installation, troubleshooting
• Three technical support staff (3.0 FTE)

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Mandate
guide, advise, assist teachers to access
appropriate technology for their teaching

• Guiding, coaching, and helping individual staff
  members
• Instructional Designer (1.0 FTE) and part of the
  time of an Office administrator (0.25 FTE)
• Student assistants are the key

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Mandate
cultivate and develop the knowledge and skills of
faculty, staff, and students working in this area

• Courses
• Workshops
• One-on-one assistance

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Skills Training
Courses

• complement extensive offerings provided
  elsewhere see the Training Calendar
• How to Design Effective Web Sites
• Dreamweaver -- Introduction Intermediate

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Skills Training
Workshops

• hands-on, active sessions which lead to a product
  which the instructor works on
• Personal Web Page Design
• Creating Digital Images
• demonstrations of effective work done by
  colleagues

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Skills Training
One-on-one assistance

• Direct access to our Instructional Designer
• Help and guidance from our student mentors
• Contact and support from our Technical Support
  staff

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Mandate
provide input to policy decisions and
co-ordinate at the campus level and beyond

• Sustain our very high participation rates in
  funding programs and opportunities
• Make our voice heard as the U of A finds its way
  forward with new technology

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Changing Emphasis

• Accessible to individual Arts teaching staff
  outreach
• Projects Room (5-21E Humanities)
• showcase for new software and equipment
• demonstration centre
• digitizing resources
• Assist departments to develop course, program,
  and curriculum technology plans

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How to Scale Up to the Challenge

• Appropriate models?
• instructor as constructor
• development team - costs results
• reliance on transient staff

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How to Scale Up to the Challenge

• Rebalance access to funds
• CRF capital recruitment fund
• new CRF curriculum renewal fund

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How to Scale Up to the Challenge

• Lead
• from the front,
• or the middle,
• or from the rear?

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To Learn More about the Arts TLC

• Call us
• Terry Butler 492-9232
• Visit us
• 5-21 Humanities Centre
• E-mail us
• ArtsTLC_at_mail.arts.UAlberta.ca
• Watch our Web site
• www.humanities.ualberta.ca/TLC

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Please Join Us!

• Today!
• from 400pm until 600pm
• 5-21E Humanities Centre
• walk east into HUB, and follow the signs
• take the centre elevator in the Humanities Centre
  up to the 5th floor
• Demonstrations, new technology
• Faculty who are eager to explain "how they did it"