5-20-2002
Jan Wissman: Associate Dean
- red and blue do turn into purple
until students see all their teachers at KState using technology, the majority
of students won't be using technology in their teaching (can't just be 1 course,
has to be core methods courses)Susan Maes
Charles Bonwell brought in, how to do you breakup a lecture, adapt to people's
attention spans, learning styles, etc.
- do these right before school starts, have like 500 faculty attend
Has a lot of 'swap sessions,' faculty from many different departments
- talk about different methodologies, technologies is part of this
- Provost's office supports these presentations
- have recognition for distinguished professor program
Dr Aust
KU's program
- has been doing technology for about 15 years
- had project in the early 90s to reach out to preservice teachers as they
went out to do their practicum
- focused on email and teachers creating lesson plans and sharing them (overnight)
Found that once teachers contributed to the lesson plan archive, they become
'invested' in the program and were active communicating with others
Created SCRTEC, developed TrackSTAR to develop on notion that if teachers
contribute something, they become invested and evangelists for the system
- required less work for the teachers to create something than a traditional
lesson plans
- key was getting them to contribute and get invested
Generation Y out of Olympia: students had been involved in teaching the teachers
how to use technology
- their program was to bring Generation Y up to the university, and combine
it with TrackSTAR concept where faculty create and contribute products of
their own
Cohort: CLAS faculty in COE, SoE Faculty, students in COE preservice, cooperating
teacher, K-12 stuent
- have not developed as rich a relationship with other college faculty within
university
Learning Generation
- seeks to improve quantity and quality of technology use in the college of
ed
- want a sustainable vision that will continue after the lifetime of the grant
(working within the school and the framework that exists
3 components
- awareness
- innovation
- evaluation
faculty DO have technology skills (basic)
- email
- web
- database
- spreadsheet
Core technology skills good, but NOT effectively integrating tech use within
their instruction
- some create movies
Have done learning generation brown bag sessions with faculty for sharing
and awareness
- how to integrate something they already do
- evaluating websites for eduction was one topic
- not trying to teach a skill, trying to raise awareness for how to use within
instructor
Innovation is ALL about cohort groups
- makeup of cohort is very flexible, guidelines are provided
In some cases had students create Trackstars for high school students relating
to current bills in the legislature
- students then wrote to legislators
http://trackcurrentevents.org
is new website, independent spinoff of the cohort group
Have a faculty liason person to work with faculty on Learning Generation project
- helps create cohort plans
Find reasons students want to be teachers:
1- they had an inspirational teacher
2- want summers off
3- enjoy teaching and working with people
Project seeks to get students to get excited about innovative technology use
as a reason for wanting to go into education
Have a GREAT survey for faculty to take on technology use
http://onlineacademy.org/FITS
Looking at how you use it personally, peceptions about how it gets used within
instruction
- have student and faculty versions of the survey
Want to harness what the students have done
- have created resource families
-- how to tutorial with an educational bent
-- when students have learned a task, they create tutorials AND an online
assignment that can be used by faculty members to create an assignment for
their own students
- created by students in co-horts, and by graduate student hired for this
process
- have naming conventions
- have vetting / testing process in place to try out resources
Have a resource development flow chart
MY IDEA: we need to create a database of how-tos that include these resources
and others that are educational how-tos
http://learngen.org/resources
- had very high return rate (70%) for this survey
- are interested in someone looking at item analysis
Have list of computer software tasks with students, (instructional resource
development - computer software tasks)
MY IDEA: Need to create FLOWCHARTS for resource creation for different products
Just purchased LASSO for Kansas Government Cohort
Life of a cohort ranges from 1 year to more, very flexible
Students get $7 an hour for 7 hours per week, and use of a laptop for being
involved in the cohort
- faculty member has primary responsiblity for supervising the student
Future: are going to be focusing on working with student teaching placement,
Rusty: instructional designer for online learning, 4 prong approach
1- delivery of lecture presentations with audio and movies, presently using
CBT express, exports as a player file
- student management software
- CAI activities for students during presentations (fill in the blanks)
- communication and collaboration tools/methods
Marjorie Hancock is Elem Ed professor within KSU COE
- one of the PT3 Star Alumni
- teaches language arts and social studies methods courses in semester prior
to student teaching
- focused in on the art of lesson planning, sees this as very critical element
MY IDEA: create trackstar / online database system for students and teachers
to create lesson plans and put them onlineDr Marjorie Hancock
- epitomizes philosophy of KSU's PT3: it is all about modeling this technology
integration
As she used PowerPoint, included photographs of children working or children's
work, she immediately noticed a difference of students engaging in discussion
about students and lessons
- her model is using talking points awhile, then showing photographis / examples
and engaging students in her classroom with technology
Technology component:
- resource for teaching
- presentation tool
- resource for student info
- resource for student production
PowerPoint was an invitation for students to see a professor using technology
- students thought 'if she can do it, maybe I CAN do it!'
2nd component: bring in mobile lab and have students explore websites
- created hotlist of language arts websites
- students explored sites and then gave presentation
3rd: 30 students went out to 3 different schools, were required to present
a lesson plan with the technology
- big issue: teachers began to hear Dr Hancock talk about technology
- immediate reaction from teachers was fear, but they agreed
1st graders did a series of 8 lessons using a Jan Bret website, readers theatre
- Also used career websites for 2nd graders, did a scavenger hunt, used collaborative
group
- 4th grade poetry project, went in mass to the lab
- another class did student research using technology resources, created written
report and also 3 PPT slides that were created by students
-- opening the door in Ogden to technology is a real important component
Already has a good reputation as a teacher at KSU, but when she started using
technology with her students
- students used more technology in their course projects (encouraged but didn't
require integration)
- one student took digital photos of writing excerpts and created a cotton
quilt of these images
She also used Elmo with students to present for the class
- instant feedback makes the best teachers
- answering and the immediacy of results is key
- took laptop and did observation
For inservices with Ogden teachers, she moved teachers into the computer lab
and showed them websites
- Miss Rumphius websites, teacher created websites that win awards
- www.reading.org has this site
318 project has students who help faculty develop powerpoints and other materials
- helped her create presentation for national conference
- that also led to a journal article
Others in the COE are doing more, but she had more to learn and further to
grow
- like a snowball, this has gotten bigger
support was key, tweed, ross, keith, etc: had to have someone to call and
help
- also get collegues who are using technology to help
Majorie's suggestions for future:
- have LCD projectors in all rooms built in
- need to see more examples of ways to to use technology (on her own)
- using child lit books with elmo: like BIG BOOKS
Needs to connect with more teachers who are finding a passion for technology
use, to share ideas and methods
- disseminiation of this info is SLOW in national organizations
In many KSU classrooms, some faculty are ahead of Majorie in presenting information
with technology
- in practicum settings, not sure what the
to be a technology person, you have to think OUT OF THE BOX
Nontechnology people who are excited about using technology are the BEST EVANGELISTS
- need to share more
In Higher Ed, we have tended to TELL instead of SHOW
- use of video can really bring real classroom
Right now COE at KSU have 2 mobile labs with 15 iBooks, Tweed is now putting
together bid for next year for a 3rd mobile lab
Warren White, discussion team teaching project for block one
in secondary teacher ed
- Lauri brought her PT3 experiences to this teaching team
Students develed evaluation rubrics using Rubistar
- was SCRTEC, now High Plains TEC
Used inspiration to do graphic organizer study guides
Used Trackstar to outline thematic units
Use Marcopolo to collect websites of lesson plans and evaluate those plans
Technology used by professors
- used Blackboard to manage courses
- used msart cart regularly (projector, elmo, and iMac)
- in class activities incorporated use of mobile computer labs
One of hardest standards for Tweed to get teachers to deal with is NETS VI:
social, ethical, legal issuesKSU provost is former dean of Vet school, has
website 'course on the horse'
- very supportive of teaching as well as research
MY IDEAS FOR HOW WE SHOULD BE MAKING SURE OUR TECHNOLOGY SKILLS ARE 'COVERED'
IN THE BLOCK COURSES
1- improving communication between methods instructors and people teaching
required EDIT 2318 and 3318
2- providing short courses to faculty and students in labs on different skills
3- more in-class training opportunities for faculty and students during regular
class times
4- improving proctor support, making sure they have requisite computer skills
5- providing online tutorials on technology skills
Online portfolio needs to come in to find out what standards are and are not
being coveredGRANT EVALUATION
- 2 phases: formative and summative evaluation
Objectives:
- increase knowledge, competence, and application of technology for individuals
- model technology use in classrooms
Had evaluations and project logs for participants
- COE really used results of evaluations to fine-tune the grant and adjust
it each year
Heath is unofficially the 'Technology Fear Therapist'
- network admin has 10-12 undergrad students working helpdesk and troubleshooting
- did the website till last fall
- does workstation training, mobile lab training, works directly with faculty
to tie in technology use with their curriculum
KState has now developed a campus wide survey system that they
could have used instead of Filemaker
- Heath used Filemaker because he knew it and it was faster
- being able to send out reminders was very helpful for increasing the response
rate
- submitted evaluatioins were confidential but not anonymous
Tools they were looking at before KState setup their own survey system:
- Dragon Web Surveys - www.wmotion.com
- Raosoft Incl, EZ Survey - www.raosoft.com
- Marketing Masters Inc., Survey Said - www.surveysaid.com
- Mercator Corp., Snap Survey Software - www.mercatorcorp.com
Used wireless labs for them to complete their evaluation workshops at the
end
Asked open ended questions at the end of each survey
- what wasn't clear to you?
- what info do you need to proceed with your project?
Had 1 week turnaround with evals many times, because of close scheduling of
workshops
Were able to tailor workshops to participants needs
MY IDEA: use a pre-workshop survey to assess participant knowledge prior to
an inservice training session
The evaluation component of the project really modeled the type of evaluation
they were expected to do with their projects
- 20% of participants utilized an online evaluation componentThey have a system
at the Dole center to record PIP of presenter and background computer screen
K knowledge they have now
W what do you want to learn
H how do you want to learn that content
L what did you LEARN
Understood attitudinal and cognative changes, and therefore needed assessment
instruments that addressed those
project logs recorded what were barriers, what helped formulate collaborative
exchanges
After year 1 evals:
- needed to bring tech support team from schools for initial training
Important to put whatever kind of survey you do, it is important to put it
into a context so that people will feel free to be candid and honest
- if given in an environment of trust, surveys can be effective
PROVIDE CONTEXT:
Need to say for example, this survey will be shared with departement heads
and deans and used to inform decisions about course _____
Good question: what are the barriers for technology integration, and what
are the solutions?IUP Portfolios
- http://www.iup.edu/pt3
NOTES FROM 5-21-02
Dole Center panel discussion
Video Toaster
www.newtech.com
Is a video production studio for $10K - $20K
- realtime effects, can do all switching for input sources
Rebecca directs iTECH Center at KSU (info support center)
- new in position
English dept is part of PT3
- technology survey last fall for English majors and minors
- 37% of students in English classrooms were Education majors
- experiences with students navigating the web showed their ignorance: not
able to discern satire versus fact, need more digital literacy skills
- working with the library to develop formative and summative surveys on information
literacy
Using that statistics, and other initiatives focused on preparing teachers
to use technology effectively
- wanted to create new technology classroom with projection capability, Elmo,
computer, etc.
Are getting funding for half of their new classroom
$18K for hardware and software
- $5K per year for 3 years for maintenance
Using Dadeleus acadmeic systems to facilitate writing and collaboration
- right now is cost prohibitive due to licensing terms, so may be moving away
from it
Half of money
Plains Academy from FIPSE preceeded PT3 to train arts and science faculty,
community college faculty, and Salina campus faculty
- had to come up with a problem, worked in teams
- worked with very Western Kansas schools (Colby, Garden City, Dodge, Liberal)
- didn't have instructional designers
- demonstrated the possibilities of technology out in their schools
- in grant, promised a statewide dog and pony show to demonstrate these possibilites
to share throughout the state
- videotaped throughout Plains Academy and PT3 so they can create a video
to share across the state
Realized they had just dented the surface with these efforts
- there are hundreds of other faculty that need to be trained
- how can we marshall resources, work with KU, Ft Hays, etc.
KSU had had a showcase of technology, tended to be techies showing the techies
- did this on Sept 11th last year
Decided to focus more on showcasing what faculty are doing, community college
people are doing, also discuss what collaborative partnerships can come out
of these relationships
- Asked futurist Don Norris to discuss future of higher ed
- Ed Klenosky came in as very practical consultant (Connecticut Distance Learning
Consortium)
-- this was the highlight of the conference: the very practical part of what
we can do
Convinced that training is the key
- not just the software
- training in where do we get started
See Rusty's handout on "Approaches to Technology" - Educational
Technology Pathways
- overview of key areas that are open to technology implementation
1- Learning Management Systems
2- Presentation Strategies
3- Stand-alone Strategies
4- Communications / Collaboration Systems
Heath no longer tells people he teaches technology
- he teaches people how to use technology
- this is not just a semantic change
iTAC really wants to go in this direction, helping faculty see possibilities
and grow in their pedagogy with technology
This money has helped find out what else is going on in the university, what
is already going on in the university so efforts are not duplicated
Board of Regents founded a committee to spearhead these statewide collaborative
efforts
- KANDLE - KAnsas Distance LEarning
invited EDUCAN - Western community colleges minus Hutch and Butler
- have put the first 2 years online, each have 4 courses online with Blackboard
C2C - has about 500 members, do shared training in technology, Johnson County
has taken lead for that group, also invited to participated
WEKSI - outreach service for technology in Western Kansas
Also had video with Sally Johnson with the Western Cooperative for Educational
Technology (she did a good vision piece)
MY IDEA: We need bridges! People who can bridge the gap between teachers focused
on teaching and learning and the technology which can enhance the available
opportunties
Ted McCain is another great futurist
Instructional Support Technician = technology fear therapistPORTFOLIO SYSTEM
Missouri has huge open source effort to develop electronic portfolios
- were one of the first blackboard adapters
- Center for Initiative for Technology
- Created Shardow networkspace
- can download and modify this as you need
Dean in Missouri felt the best college should be the college of ed
Have really cool idea called 'The Reflector'
- very progressive co-directors
- have cogrant with college of engineering and college of education
- have staff of approx 30 people: designers,
Networkspace shadows you wherever you go, has file upload
Had been developed in Perl, are moving to PHO
shadow.missouri.edu
- can get 30 day demo account
Can be used as course development software like WebCT
Can create review panel for a portfolio, can invite employers in
- can create workgroups for more people to access materials
Can invite people to view
- KSU is looking at this as a way to use this for the digital portfolio
- need to look at how conceptual standards
Very similar to Quickplace like lotus notes
www.quickplace.com
More info on www.shadow.edu
This is a starting point for a virtual locker system
Need someone to put the standards piece into
Need to look at the purposes of using an electronic portoflio system:
- student reflection
- documenation of student work
- employment portolfio?
- accreditation for the college?
Place in Minnosota has a personal involvement center, talks about your involvement
with different things
- like a resume builder
- would need to align this to standards
- can help students analyze their involvments, where the missing pieces are
Best portfolio assessment is in the athletic department of each college
Uses Charlotte Danielson's book to look at INTASC standards
- great to go out and visit with pre-service teachers about
- COE at KSU has been migrated to that approach / framework for discussing
what is good teaching and learning
- Manhattan schools has taken this and used it as-is to evaluate teachers
(not a document for discussion)
KSU COE has e-folio task force (committee) of two faculty who are piloting
this with their students
- have found this is incredibly time consuming, and VERY collaborative
- issue is who is responsible for helping the student do what in the portfolio
creation process?
Tweed thinks the intro to ed tech course should provide students with all
the skills they will need to create and build their portfolios
Have three skill parts:
1- instructional skills
2- technology skills (working with webpages, creating electronic artifacts
3- portfolio skills: scrapbook? power portfolio (football portfolo) or learning
portfolo that shows growth?
Need to integrate videos in this later on
- can be difficult to wade thru all the text in a portfolio to identify where
student learning and growth is indicated
Paul Resta has a great technology leadersihp conference at UT Austin
Tweed will send us splash video for digital convergence conference and keynote
Paris and the Future of War was book in 1922, book was a blueprint for WW2
- Bazel LittleHeart