Welcome to the 21st Century: Pull Up a Keyboard

English Department Colloquium Fall 2005 Welcome to the 21st Century: Pull Up a Keyboard Beth Brunk-Chavez & Esther Solis Al-Tabaa

What We Are Here to Say and Why We are Saying It
Campus wide-initiative to promote alternative delivery of courses
Possible ways to enhance courses
Hybrid Academy
Research

What Teaching with Technology Means
Technology Enhanced —F2F with elements such as:
online course management (syllabus, schedule, assignments, grading)
online content (e-books, readings, glossary)
online communication (discussions, blogs, email)
Hybrid —part F2F, part online (variations)
Distance —never see the whites of their eyes

Why Teach with Technology?
Enhance writing skills of students
Provide an environment that is conducive to interaction and community building
Enable more student-centered learning
Accommodate a variety of learning styles
Create a visually organized learning environment

Why Teach with Technology?
Track student learning
Introduce time-use flexibility for students and instructors (especially for hybrid and distance)
Increase students’ computer literacy skills and confidence
Save paper—create a paperless classroom
Enable efficient use of physical classroom space

What Teaching with Technology is NOT!
Easier
More time efficient
Better
The wave of the future
Politically identical to F2F teaching and learning

What to Consider Before Redesigning a Course
Need
Appropriateness
Methods and strategies
Learners
Instructional goals
Time to develop materials
Support for students
Willingness to be flexible

Challenges to Teaching Online
Time commitment to development
Feeling of being online all the time
Student awareness, participation, technological abilities
Technological issues (access, system failures)

What Do You Want To Do?
What elements in your own courses lend themselves to on-line learning?
Map your course—determine what elements must be delivered F2F and what elements would translate well to an online environment
What new activities would you like the technology to facilitate or enhance for you?
Don’t fall into the shovelware trap!

Into the Future
English Department
Policies
Course releases
What courses can be hybrid/distance
What training is required
What support is needed
Teaching evaluations
Scholarship

What We Will Do for Faculty
Summer Academy
For those interested in creating hybrid or technology-enhanced courses
One-on-one Consultations
For those how-to questions
FIT Lab in UGLC
For assistance with technological procedures (scanning, web development, etc.)

Welcome to the 21st Century: Pull Up a Keyboard

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