Educational Technology for Instruction: Everything a Dean Needs to Know

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Educational 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
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• Some Technology Trends in the Workplace and in
  Education (Michèle 15 min)
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• 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)

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• Some Technology Trends in the Workplace
• and in Education

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The 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

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New 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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only in the context of this presentation
Used by permission of Martin Bean, General
Manager, Education Products Group, Microsoft
Corporation
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Technology 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
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Internet 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

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Super 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

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BusinessWeek June 2007 http//www.businessweek.com
/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm
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Student 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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This slide is used by permission of Microsoft
only in the context of this presentation
Used by permission of Martin Bean, General
Manager, Education Products Group, Microsoft
Corporation
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"Connected" Part 2 Academic Uses (YouTubeV
7min) http//youtube.com/watch?vTLCTpX3tJEQfeatu
rerelated
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• Social Media for Learning
• wiki

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• Virtual Collaboration and New Office Applications

SciVee an open community for scientists to share
videos and publications http//www.scivee.tv/
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Project 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
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Information 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
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Microsoft 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
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New Search Engines

• Visual Search Engines
• http//grokker.com/
• Tafiti
• http//www.tafiti.com/
• Visual Medical Dictionary
• http//www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do

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Second 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

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Catch 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/

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Evolving 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)

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• Collaborative Faculty Development and Open
  Educational Resources
• wiki

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• Impact on Computing Services
• Interview of Agnes Figueroa
• Director of Computing Services, Bellevue
  Community College

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Establishing 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)

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Some Challenges

• Administrative support
• Evaluation of teaching by old standards
• Access to technology tools
• Technical support, resources and standards
• Training of teachers
• Bandwidth
• Diversity of students in
• Access to technology
• Not all students are technology natives

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• Additional Resources

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Resources
Open Thinking Wiki http//couros.wikispaces.com/em
ergingtechnologies
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Blog 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/

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Blog 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

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Social 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