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Paul R. Cox Franklin L. Yoder Academic Advising Center University of Iowa

35 advisors

Full-time to ¾ time appointments

320 students in a full-time caseload

Advisors specialize in 10-20 majors

Mandatory advising

Train 2-3 advisors each year

Training Committee of 8 advisors

Three weeks of intensive training

Face-to-face contact in training

Developed in the mid-1990s as a way to efficiently exchange ideas

Wiki = quick

A wiki is information put on the web that one or more editors can manage

Collaborative websites

Personal or collective note taking

Corporate Intranets

Knowledge management systems

Wikipedia

Can be as little or as much as you want.

As simple as sharing a few text documents or a completely self supported site that incorporates multimedia and embedded content.

What is the level of technical difficulty? If you feel comfortable with MS Office applications and web browsing, then you can already do or easily learn the basics.

If you yourself don't feel you have the time or skill set to learn, look for a tech-savvy person in your office. You should also contact your institution's IT department to see what kind of support is already in place - hosted services such as wikis, web sites, and SharePoint; software for content creation, and training support.

Documents: MS Office Suite, Acrobat Professional

Screencasts: Camtasia Studio/Snagit, Adobe Captivate

Video Editing: Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut/iMovie

Power of the Cloud: online document creation and editing, online photo editing, online video editing, online multimedia mashups – you are limited only by your needs and creativity

Use your favorite search engine to explore constantly evolving services and tools to enhance your advisor training program

Incorporating technology into an advisor training program is an ongoing commitment

Depending on your resources, staff, and IT department, the difficulty of using technology to enhance an advisor training program will vary.

If you decide to use third party services, be aware of Terms of Service agreements. Make sure anything you agree to fits your philosophy of content ownership and privacy.

Document sharing

SharePoint

Website

Blog

Social Media

easy to implement, but not good for getting overall picture – just a collection of documents expensive, can be difficult to set up, limited control over format, little multi-media integration flexible organization, but not collaborative and can have significant learning curve more given to advisor development - ongoing exploration of a narrower theme with frequent posts especially suited to conversational interaction and snippets of information rather than substantial content We chose the wiki platform because we needed a knowledge management system for a collaborative group of trainers to create, disseminate and update training materials for new advisor consumption. Wiki is very well suited for this application.