1. School of Social Work
Instructional Technology Support

2. About Us – Peter Dimock
SSW Professional Education Director
Teaching Specialist
Experience with online courses and LMS.
2011 – 2012 Objectives
• Help the School of Social Work meet the challenge of fully
integrating blended learning to most of the courses.
• Assist all the faculty in creating several lessons that can be delivered
online.
• Provide workshops that help faculty become increasingly
comfortable with integrating different learning technologies inside
and outside the classroom.
• Referring instructors to additional available UMN resources.

3. About Us - Alfonso Sintjago
PhD Student –OLPD – (CIDE)
Comparative and International Development Education
Experience using audiovisuals, and mobile technologies.
IT Fellows support instructors by: (Cohort Model)
• Advising on the selection, integration, and management of
instructional technologies
• Consulting on the use of learning technologies at the U
• Providing technical support for the use of learning tools
• Researching and evaluating new learning technologies
• Referring instructors to resources for digital media
development

4. New Website!
z.umn.edu/sswtechhelp
We will post tips and links regularly on site.

5. Making An Appointment
• Check our hours! - http://z.umn.edu/sswtechhours
• Add an appointment to our calendar
Visit:
www.google.com/calendar
to access your umn google
calendar(s) directly
You should be able to see our
calendars in this area. You
have been given editing rights
over our work calendars

6. Making an Appointment
1. Select the time that is most convenient for you
2. Select the calendar of whom you are scheduling the
appointment with and write a brief description of your concern.
Make sure the time you
select for the appointment is
a time that is available
Make sure you enter the
appointment in the calendar
of the person who you are
planning to meet with
Add your calendar or your
UMN ID to the guests list of
the event so that you will
also receive an event
reminder and the event is
also placed in your calendar
Please add a brief
description explaining the
problem you are having or
what you need help with
during the meeting

7. Technology Support
Visit the Website
for Tips and Ideas
- Moodle 2.0
- Moodle 1.9
- Links to other UMN
Resources
- Copyright Concerns
- Links to Copyright
Friendly Sites
- Digital Storytelling
- Mobile Learning*
- Video Recording*
- Social Media*
- Storage – Net Files*
- Google Apps*

8. What Technologies are
Recommended by ATS?
Technology Description
Used for class capture or other demonstrations.
Digitally share your education, activities and goals.
Make readings available to students online (24/7).
Distribute class-related audio and video content.
Get audio and video content online and share it.
Course management system with a variety of tools.
Navigate resources available from the U of M.
Access to 5 GB of storage with a current UMN ID.
Web-based citation manager.
Communicate through web conferences and webcasts.
An academic, online survey tool

9. What Technologies and Resources
are Recommended by ATS?
Technology Description
Contribute to an existing wiki or create your own.
Blogs intended to support teaching and learning.
Provides software discounts.
Repository of electronic documents.
Blog tool - synthesizes UThink blog .
Online video with timeline-based text annotations.

10. Workshops
• Workshops will be held twice a month and we
will discuss topics such as Moodle, digital
storytelling, social media, copyright concerns,
among other IT* topics throughout the
semester
Flickr Photo by xdxd_vs_xdxd

11. Brainstorming and Suggestions
If you are planning on
developing a project that will
require the use of an
instructional technology that
you are not very familiar with or
you would like to discuss
different possibilities and the
design of a project, please
contact us and meet with us
whenever is convenient for you.

12. Looking Forward to
• Meeting with you either online
• Or in Peters 190, where we will have a place
where we can work together.
Thanks!
Flickr – Chris Cohen “Working Desk”