Provides data and examples from those assisted in the organization. Omitted are examples of partnerships created and other collaborations.

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Year in Review
OSU Extension Educational Technology
Data and Examples from August 2015 – December 2015

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Current Educational Technology Unit Staff
Jamie Seger, Program Director .5 FTE
seger.23@osu.edu
Danae Wolfe, Ed Tech Specialist 1.0 FTE
wolfe.540@osu.edu
Ed Tech Blog: http://u.osu.edu/extensionedtech

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Needs Addressed in 2015
Based upon 2015 Organizational Tech Use and Skills Survey
• Evaluating technology and reporting with assistance from PD&E unit. Social media
instructions created and distributed by PD&E at OSUE AC social media workshop.
• Peer review process updated to include digitally created materials (in process)
• Social Media training, workshops, coaching (both formal and informal)
• Video Creation workshop held in Mahoning County in November
• Large Ed Tech presence at 2015 OSUE Annual Conference (5 sessions + Tech Faire)
• Monthly Ed Tech eNewsletter created (October)
• Monthly “First Friday Coffee Break with an Ed Tech” hosted (October)

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0
10
20
30
40
50
Questions, Programs, and Meetings
per Month (pulled from Estimated
Task Lists)
Questions,
Inquiries
Program,
Workshop
Meeting,
Coaching
Total
Items to Note:
• Danae Wolfe began her Ed Tech Specialist appointment August 3rd, 2015.
• Many programs and workshops were scheduled in October, and facilitated in November / December.
• Not all questions and inquiries are reported. Data represents all documented inquiries received via email
or during workshops, programs, or events. (Questions answered in passing are typically not documented.)

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Number of Facilitation Opportunities /
Coaching & Trainings / Other Tasks
Reactive = 149
Proactive = 9
• Depicts total estimated number of Ed Tech tasks (between 1.5 FTE).
• Reactive = any workshop, presentation, created material, or field question answered with a
reactive answer (Ed Tech received a needed topic or question, then responded with
information.)
• Proactive = any workshop, presentation, created material, or field question given without
receiving a submitted topic of interest (Ed Tech provided information without being prompted.
This is commonly known as: providing information to those who need to know it, before they
realize they need to know it.
• Detailed list of tasks from the Ed Tech Unit are included in this report.

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Planning Hours Spent
Reactive = 173
Proactive = 154
• Depicts total estimated Ed Tech hours (between 1.5 FTE) spent planning reactive
workshops, presentations, newsletters, blog posts, and other materials and information.
• Typically, much more time must be devoted to planning proactive programming.
• In order to the Ed Tech Unit to function at its most effective level, proactive planning time
should be twice that of reactive planning time.

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• Innovators = Pulling the change. Willing to try new things and fail.
• Early Adopters = Respectable people, opinion leaders, try out new ideas, but carefully.
• Early Majority = Thoughtful people, careful but accepting of change more quickly than the
average.
• Late Majority = Skeptical, but will use new ideas or products only with the majority are
using it.
• Laggards = Traditional people. Critical of new ideas and will only accept them once they
have become mainstream. (Rogers)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Innovators &
Early Adopters
Early to Late
Majority
Laggards
Where Colleagues Assisted Fall on
Innovation Adoption Curve (from Ed
Tech Tasks List)
According to the Ed Tech Unit
task list from August –
December, 2015, the majority
of those seeking help and
participating in Ed Tech-led
professional development
opportunities fall under the
Early to Late Majority section
of the Roger’s Innovation
Adoption Curve.
This suggests:
1) Laggards may be less
likely to ask for Ed Tech
assistance and/or
2) The majority of OSUE
professionals are ready to
move forward from basic
tech integration
information. They
understand the “why” and
need to learn the “how”
and “how best to…”

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Ed Tech eNewsletter Statistics:
MailChimp Newsletter began October, 2015
October Newsletter
Total opens - 543
Total link clicks - 85
November Newsletter
Total opens - 423
Total link clicks – 54
Two eNewsletters will be emailed to the organization in January. January 13th (with December
highlights) & January 30th (January highlights).

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Ed Tech Blog Statistics:
326 Blog Subscribers
Most Popular Posts
Files at Your Fingertips: the Beauty of Box
Best Royalty-Free Image Sources
Blogging Best Practices

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2016 Plans:
• 2016 Organizational Tech Use & Skills Survey
• sent out via email by January 30th
• Project Proposal Process for large-scale Ed Tech projects
• announced by early February
• Tech talking points created for supervisors & county directors
• County office visits from Ed Techs to assist in creating digital content
strategy
• #OSUExtension Social Media Campaign highlighting Extension events
around the state on OSUE social media channels in partnership with
CFAES Communications
• New planning procedures for workshops and trainings, announced January
• program staff will help recruit minimum number of participants in order to avoid having to
cancel due to low registration
• INNOVATE Post-Conference for Extension professionals in partnership with
ODEE (May 12th)