Best Practices for Wirless in the classroom 0- for both faculty and students
Survey Students on what technologies they they want to see/use in the classroom
Participate in learning new instructional technologies to share with the Committee and with respective Divisions.
- A presentation on a new technology at each Faculty Technology Meeting
Make recommendations for support services and technology that will streamline processes that enable faculty to focus on instruction.
- More support available via the helpdesk. Need more staff. Self-help FAQ for employees.
- Work with Distance Ed. committee in determining/creating the technology support services necessary for faculty who want to put course materials in electronic format (on a web site, via the Portal, or on WebCT). This includes providing instructors with appropriate hardware (i.e. high speed scanners), software, and training. Training should include guidance on copyright issues and 508 compliance
- Get support for broader use of successful technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, classroom response with open source applications where warranted. Consider installing open source WikiMedia, WordPress, PHP and joining iTunesU to facilitate free and consistent applications where there is sufficient interest.
Cross-committee participation and collaboration to encourage communication.
Identify faculty who use emerging technologies in instruction. (pr)
- Provide a showcase or best practices site to share the work and successes.
Conduct an Instructional Technology Inventory. (al)
Assess Computer Replacement Plan for faculty (kc)
- Are refurbished computers meeting faculty needs?
- New computer every three years?
- Special needs request does not work.
- Software - need labs and faculty workstations to have identical versions
Obtain feedback from faculty regarding the proposed Acceptable Use of Electronic Resources Policy.
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