New Faculty Forum17 February 2010

How educational technology can invigorate your classes – and you!

• Support Services • What’s coming…• The team

What can EdTech do for you?• Help you enhance, enable, and expand the learning

experience for your students with technology

• Connect you with peers to collaborate and share ideas for improving the teaching and learning environment with technology

• Provide a reliable, supported teaching and learning technology environment

Support Services• Consultations on adoption of teaching and

learning technologies, best practices for eLearning, technology selection, and more

• Workshops and self-help materials

• Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) – partnership with CERTI (Center for Educational

Research and Teaching Innovation)

• Blackboard (learning management system)

• Clickers (student response systems)

• Classroom presentation technology

• Computer Learning Centers (CLCs)

Support Services

Support ServicesBLACKBOARD (Bb)• Content Learning

Management System• Supports tests / blogs /

wikis / Wimba live classrooms

• Transitioning to Bb 9 in Fall 2010

Support ServicesCLICKERS• Personal Response

Devices• Use TurningPoint

software• Used in Chemistry,

Math, Geology, and many other disciplines

Support ServicesCLASSROOM

TECHNOLOGY• Includes:– Projector– Instructor PC– Some document cameras

• All centrally-scheduled classrooms are equipped with projector and PC

Support ServicesCLCS• ~ 40 labs• ~ 900 computers• ~ 360 software apps• Several are 24-hour or

extended-hour labs• Many departmentally

owned with discipline-specific software

http://it.mst.edu/clc/

Support ServicesCLC SOFTWARE REQUEST PROCESS• Starts after middle of semester• When requesting software, remember:– Your name– Your department– Software titles and versions– Desired CLC locations– Courses that will be using software

Support ServicesCLC SOFTWARE REQUEST PROCESS• Software MUST meet the following criteria:– If it needs to “check out” a license, then it must be

license managed by the license server– The software meets campus security standards– The software has been determined through

testing that it does not interfere with other software packages installed on the same machine

What’s Coming?• Virtualization – taking IT to the “cloud”– Virtual CLCs– Google Apps for Education

• Windows 7 – Summer 2010• Blackboard 9 – Summer 2010• Software request window – soon, for Fall 2010

What’s Coming?

• Teaching and Learning Technology conference (March 11-12, 2010)– Showcases practical and effective uses of technology to

enhance teaching and learning

• eFellows Program / eLearning Community of Practice (CoP)– Transform course design by applying best practices for

online/blended learning– UM eLearning Initiative

Stay “In-the-know”• EdTech home page:– http://edtech.mst.edu/– Support for Blackboard, clickers, and more

• CLC List– http://it.mst.edu/clc– Includes software installed in individual CLCs

• CERTI home page:– http://certi.mst.edu– Information and resources for faculty development

• EduMine email list

EdTech TeamMEG BRADYEdTech Director• Guide and communicate

direction of EdTech team• Provide team resources • Remove barriers

The team makes it happen!

EdTech TeamANGIE HAMMONSEducation Technology

Specialist• Provide support for Blackboard,

Clickers and Classroom Technology– Train faculty– Develop support documentation with

Malcolm– Work with Gandalf and John on

software in classrooms and CLCs

• Support Blended/Online Learning• Design/Re-design learning spaces

with the Learning Space Designer

EdTech TeamMALCOLM HAYSContent Support Analyst• Manages EdTech web site• Posts to EdTech Connect blog• Sends announcements of upcoming

EdTech events– TLT Conference– CLC software requests

• Provides documentation for EdTech supported products– Blackboard– Wimba– Clickers

EdTech TeamJOHN

PETRIKOVITSCHCLC Coordinator• Manage Computer

Learning Centers on campus– 40 Labs– 901 computers– 360 Software Applications

• Administer PaperCut in CLC• Oversee student help

EdTech TeamGANDALF SIDIOSystem Support Analyst• Install and maintain presentation

technology in centrally scheduled classrooms and CLCs. Including but not limited to:– Projectors and external displays– Smartboards and Sympodiums– Document Cameras– Lectern PCs– AV switchers and controls– Audio systems

• First response for technical issues in classrooms.

• Creating and deploying images for the classrooms and “Virtual CLCs”.

• Evaluating new equipment and software for use in teaching.

Where are we located?