Faculty Technology Workshop: Behind the Blackboard
Hosted by Academic Computing and the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library

Friday, May 25, 2001 8:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

AGENDA

8:15	Welcoming Coffee and Pastry ­ Science Center Foyer
8:45	Overview and Goals of the Day - Hindle Auditorium Tom Brooks Faculty Technology Support - Kathy Ebert-Zawasky Copyright Issues: intellectual property and "fair use" ­ David Caldwell
9:30	Faculty Panel - Blackboard Pilot Program - reports from the pilot projects and Implementation Team members (library and Academic Computing) Michelle Harris (Sociology) and Jenni Lund (Academic Computing) Mary-Kim Arnold (English) Elita Pastra-Landis (Chemistry) Geoff Collins (Astronomy/Physics) Kathleen Sheehan (Library)
10:45	Break ­ Science Center Lobby
11:00	The Electronic Reserves Project: Current Status and Expectations for Fall '01 (Hindle Auditorium) Deryl Kenney, Wallace Library
11:30	Small "interest group" discussions with librarians and Academic Computing. (Group building in Hindle Auditorium followed by discussions in assigned rooms)

Faculty will have the opportunity to discuss new goals for using technology in their teaching. Librarians and Academic Computing staff will join groups of faculty and help formulate requests for follow-up workshops and/or proposals for projects employing new technology in traditional classes. Departments or groups of faculty are encouraged to request a half-day follow-up workshop. We hope to schedule many workshops on Tuesday and Thursday mornings in June, but other slots are available if needed. Each workshop will be designed specifically to meet group goals. These workshops (which carry half-day stipends) will be hands-on opportunities for faculty to review some skills and to begin working on new projects of their choice. We anticipate that many workshop requests will involve using Blackboard to enrich sets of existing courses.

LTLC will also accept proposals for technology projects following the guidelines revised last year. The guidelines are in the workshop folder.

In order to facilitate discussion, we would like you to consider some of the questions listed below. We envision that lively conversations may develop into requests for summer workshops and some proposals for summer-long or semester-based projects. Please do not be limited by these questions, they are an attempt to catalyze innovative projects. Take this opportunity to talk with colleagues about the next step you, your department, or other working groups might take in using technology for pedagogical purposes.

Consider some of the following questions:

1. Is it time for your department to think about a sequence of technology skills which your majors are expected to master through their four years with your department? For example, should all 100 level courses use technology? If so, what should the student experience be? Should all seniors be comfortable with research tools in your field?
2. Should selected 100-level, 200-level, and 300-level courses be enhanced by being developed in Blackboard?
3. Are there tracks or themes in your subject area that would benefit from an infusion of technology?
4. Should some of the courses in your department be more closely linked than in the past? Can technology help to bring courses together?
5. Should some courses include a major technology component throughout the semester?
6. Are some topics in your discipline difficult to cover in one course? Are they better covered by interdepartmental offerings? Can technology help bridge any gaps?
7. How can you find and make better use of both traditional resources and electronic resources in courses or programs of study?
8. Does your department have a wealth of information or data that could be used by many courses? Could a resource-rich departmental site serve as a data source for the College? for other academic communities?
9. Is there any feature of Blackboard that could serve your discipline in new, possibly untested ways? For example: e-syllabus and document distribution, communication tools (threaded discussions, chatrooms, whiteboard,) quizzes, surveys, grading tools, group work support, tracking student participation, student webpages, etc.)

Follow-up workshop request forms, checklists, and other resources are available in this packet to help you shape a summer hands-on workshop plan that most closely meets the skills and needs of those attending.

Request for summer workshop from Academic Computing
Request for summer support from the Library

Content by Academic Computing
Last Modified: June, 2001