Greatest presentation to come out of IST 400: New Media and Social Technology

1. 2021: A Space Odyssey (er, a
Final Project Presentation)
Holden Fenner
Alex Kraus
Brian Reil
Zach Rubins

2. Holden Fenner

3. Zachary Rubins

4. Brian Reil

5. Alexandra Kraus

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GOAALLLLLLLLLLL!

7. Goal
To evaluate current uses of technology
in academic settings to provide insight
for future changes

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9. Stakeholders
SU Students
Students at comparably sized
universities
Our group
Interested faculty

10. What we know about them
Academic mindset
Widely varying range of internet
usage/computer savvy
All have to use current SU technology to
perform in jobs/studies

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OBJECTIVES

12. Objectives
Generate 15 comments on blog
Get 50 student surveys completed
Interview 10 students from other schools
Get 20 faculty responses to survey
Measure through hand counting due to
low numbers

13. Objectives - Final Results
Generated 6/15 comments on blog
Had 67/50 student responses to survey :)
Interviewed 8/10 students from other schools
Had 0/20 faculty responses to survey :(

14. Suggestions based on surveys
Only have one login for all sites
Online Calendar that supports syllabus
transcription, class schedule and events
RSS support to list upcoming homework, tests,
groups (customizable)
Teach how to use features in Freshman Forum
Student position to update for teacher
Make Web sites mobile device friendly

15. Findings from student survey
Students are ineffectively collaborating
92.7% still e-mail attachments
36.5% share flash/USB sticks
Only 1 student used centralized communication

16. Findings from student survey
8/52 students used calendar, but used it well
- “Separate by color to organize groups of
events (assignments, class schedule,
parties/social events, special events on
campus and work schedule)”

17. Reasons why an online calendar would be
useful
75.4% of professors updated content on Blackboard
67.2% of professors notify students of events on Blackboard
75.4% of students get their assignments and exam dates off blackboard
10% of students in open-ended field mentioned using SYR.edu to look up
academic calendar
5% of students in open-ended field mentioned using SYR.edu to look up
events
Findings from student survey

18. Findings from student survey
Students would utilize mobile device friendly
Web sites
 More than half (53.2%) of students surveyed did not have
phones with internet capabilities
 But 80% of those who did said they would use it
 In the near future likely more students will have phones and
devices like iPods with internet capabilities

19. Feedback from Other Schools
Several schools use only one login for all
features
Most homepages aren’t very useful for day to
day classwork
Many students prefer to forward mail to GMail
None of the schools had collaboration tools
Most schools had either Blackboard or Angel
powering online classes

24. Some thoughts
Use all free sites to do everything (aids in
transition from school)
Many students need to use surveys. Have a
tool to encourage them to take other surveys.
Contracts with commonly used services
(Google) to implement academic systems
Facebook/iPhone apps

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STRATEGY

26. Strategy
Get student input about current systems’
tools via multiple channels
Evaluate other schools’ use of
technology
Collaborate once a week to advance
project to conclusion
Raise student awareness of the tools
they use

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TECHNOLOGIES

28. The Tech that made us Tick
Zoho projects (projects.zoho.com)
Wordpress
Facebook
SurveyMonkey
E-mail/Text Messages

29. Zoho Project
Simple and Free
E-mailed us about updates
Kept us on track for meetings
Offered ability to support blogs,
calendars and task organization

30. Wordpress
Familiarity
Statistics easy to track
A blog helped create a Web presence

32. Facebook
Web presence
Status updates allowed us to gain more
interest

34. SurveyMonkey
Our bread and butter
Without dedicated survey tool, survey
would have been much less successful

37. E-mail/Text Message
We lived on this for group
communication
Most comfortable zone for group

38. The Why (Like The Who, but less
musical)
Kept tools to a minimum required
Only used what we needed

39. LESSON LEARNED
LESSONS LEARNED

40. Lessons Learned
Surveys…MORE PEOPLE!!!!
Faculty unresponsive
Talk to university
No plan survives first contact
If it doesn’t work, ditch it
Student projects are not always
“important”