Freshman Faculty Forum April 3, 2013

1. Freshman Faculty Forum April 3, 2013

2. Overview • Support Services to enhance Teaching and Learning • Transformative Initiatives • Meet the EdTech Team

3. 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

4. Support Services • Workshops and self-help materials • Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) • partnership with CERTI (Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation) • eLearning consultation • Course design and tech support for effective web-enhanced, blended & online learning

6. Support Services • Blackboard (learning management system) • Clickers (student response systems) • Lecture Capture • Classroom presentation technology • Computer Learning Centers (CLCs)

7. Support Services Blackboard (Bb) • Course/Learning Management System • Supports tests / blogs / wikis / online classrooms

8. Support Services Clickers • Personal Response Devices • Use TurningPoint software • Used in Chemistry, Math, Geology, and many other disciplines • Approximately 40% of our students use clickers each semester

9. Lecture Capture Lecture Capture • Record and archive lectures in real-time • Bookmarking for both instructors and students • Mobile options

10. Google Apps for Education • Google Docs • Collaborate on documents • Google Sites • Build collaborative websites and areas to work together

11. Support Services Classroom Technology • Includes: • Projector • Instructor PC • Laptop connection • Some document cameras • Some SMART technology • All centrally-scheduled classrooms are equipped with projector and PC *Personalized classroom walk-through available upon request

12. Support Services CLCs • ~ 40 labs • ~ 900 computers • ~ 360 software apps • Several are 24-hour or extended-hour labs • Many departmentally owned with discipline-specific software http://edtech.mst.edu/clc/ *You need to request specialty software for CLCs prior to the semester needed.

13. Support Services CLC Software request Process • Link is on CLC website edtech.mst.edu/clc • Starts after middle of semester • Request window announced via EduMine list • Request any and all software needed for instruction • Be safe over sorry – request it even if you aren’t sure of location • Be thorough – request it even if it is already installed

14. Support Services CLC Software request Process • Software MUST meet the following criteria: • Works with Windows 7 64-bit • 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

15. Initiatives & Projects • Virtualization – taking IT to the “cloud” • Virtual CLCs • Google Apps for Education • eLearning • eFellows Program • eLearning Community of Practice • UM Online Learning Program • Missouri Course Redesign Initiative • eStudio • Faculty resource for adoption of new/emerging technologies and course content creation

16. Stay “In-the-know” • EdTech home page: • http://edtech.mst.edu/ • Support for Blackboard, clickers, and more • EdTech Blog • http://edtechconnect.mst.edu • Includes announcements, faculty testimonials, articles • CERTI home page: • http://certi.mst.edu • Information and resources for faculty development • EduMine email list

17. EdTech Team Meg Brady Academic Technology Director • Guide and communicate direction of EdTech team • Provide team resources • Remove barriers The team makes it happen!

18. EdTech Team Angie Hammons Mgr., EdTech • Manage team operations • CLC/Classroom tech • Learning technology support • eFellows, UM eLearning and other funded programs • Oversee various projects • Manage student team

19. EdTech Team Malcolm Hays Content 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

20. EdTech Team John Petrikovitsch Learning Space Coordinator • Manage Computer Learning Centers on campus • 40 Labs • 901 computers • 360 Software Applications • Administer PaperCut in CLC • Oversee student help

21. EdTech Team Chris Hillen System Support Analyst • Install and maintain presentation technology: • 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.

22. EdTech Team BarbWilkins Instructional Designer • Course design consultation • Faculty support for eLearning • eFellows Program • UM eLearning Program

23. EdTech Team Julie Phelps Instructional Designer • Course design consultation • Faculty support for eLearning • eFellows Program • UM eLearning Program

24. EdTech Team Amy Skyles Instructional Technologist • Course design consultation • Instructional technology support • Blackboard, Wimba, etc. • Clickers • Classroom Technology • Faculty support for eLearning • eFellows Program • UM eLearning Program

25. EdTech Team Jeff Jennings Instructional Technologist • Course design consultation • Instructional technology support • Blackboard, Wimba, etc. • Clickers • Classroom Technology • Faculty support for eLearning • eFellows Program • UM eLearning Program

26. EdTech Team Gandalf Sidio Programmer Analyst • Support instructional technologies • Blackboard • Tegrity • Google Apps • Support virtual desktop initiatives

27. EdTech Team Ryan Sims Systems Support Analyst • Support instructional technologies for BIT department • Server support