Making the Most of the Tools at Hand:

Building Toward Courageous Technology Use

Cindy Jennings & Lori Tanner

EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2011

Welcome!!!

Find our Session Resources:‘Making the Most of Tools at Hand’ (mtmt) Wiki:

Why are you here?

Our story…

2 project examples…Digital Storytelling

AcademyNew Media Faculty

Seminar• Spring 2011• Fall 2010 - It all started

with:– New Media Consortium - “

Awakening the Digital Imagination: A Networked Faculty Development Seminar”

– and here…networked with Baylor

• Web home

What tools…?

Our learners…

Challenges…

• Hint…they were NOT about the tools!

More about…

• sustaining engagement,

Successes/Outcomes…

• Hint…they were NOT about the tools!

• new connections• sustainable collaborations • powerful shifts in practice

More about…

Lessons...

Now you…

Framing Questions:

What would you like to be able to DO with technology that you are now already doing?

What technologies, capabilities, functionalities, affordances are missing, if any?

What technologies do you have that might be used in new ways?

What is stopping you?

Who are your champions?

Share your stories and ideas…

Find ways to make your own meaning in your own institutional contexts.