Academic Technology Vision Workspace

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email.hidden@example.com (Jenny Darrow) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:55:53 +0000

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June 2008 printable version of the working Academic Technology Vision:
June08_print_version_AcademicTechnologyVision.doc
NOTE: this is a 25 page document
Input on the Vision via the Wiki is now closed.
Thanks everybody that helped create the draft. The vision is currently being circulated internally by the ATSC for final signoff and approval. If you have additional comments, please forward them to Jenny Darrow at jdarrow@keene.edu.

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email.hidden@example.com (Jenny Darrow) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:54:25 +0000

Jenny Darrow edited FrontPage

Check in here for aJune 2008 printable version of the working Academic Technology Vision. Vision:
June08_print_version_AcademicTechnologyVision.doc
Input on the Vision via the Wiki is now closed.
Thanks everybody that helped create the draft. The vision is currently being circulated internally by the ATSC for final signoff and approval. If you have additional comments, please forward them to Jenny Darrow at jdarrow@keene.edu.

June08_print_version_AcademicTechnologyVision.doc

email.hidden@example.com (Jenny Darrow) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:51:15 +0000

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printable version (June 08)

email.hidden@example.com (Jenny Darrow) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:50:38 +0000

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email.hidden@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:05:56 +0000

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Check in here for a printable version of the working Academic Technology Vision.
Input on the Vision via the Wiki is now closed.
to Jenny Darrow at jdarrow@keene.edu.
We've left this site up because we're proud of the plan we all created, and proud of the transparent process we used to construct it. And even though we've moved into a more formal phase of plan approval, we want this conversation to continue. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns: the plan is solidifying, but this conversation is just beginning.
-- Mike Caulfield

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email.hidden@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:05:34 +0000

Mike edited FrontPage

Input on the Vision via the Wiki is now closed.
Thanks everybody that helped create the draft. The vision is currently being circulated internally by the ATSC for final signoff and approval. If you have additional comments, please forward them to jdarrow@keene.edu.
We've left this site up because we're proud of the plan we all created, and proud of the transparent process we used to construct it. And even though we've moved into a more formal phase of plan approval, we want this conversation to continue. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns: the plan is solidifying, but this conversation is just beginning.
-- Mike Caulfield
The Idea
We're working on an Academic Technology Vision Plan . We know smart people. We'd like some help. The idea is you can either post your own pass at an AT vision, or post a revision of someone else's pass, or revise a document in concert with others. (Or comment. Or lurk. It's all good.)

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email.hidden@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:00:35 +0000

Mike edited FrontPage

Check in here for a printable version of the working Academic Technology Vision.
Input on the Vision via the Wiki is now closed.
Thanks everybody that helped create the draft. The vision is currently being circulated internally by the ATSC for final signoff and approval. If you have additional comments, please forward them to jdarrow@keene.edu.
The Idea
We're working on an Academic Technology Vision Plan . We know smart people. We'd like some help. The idea is you can either post your own pass at an AT vision, or post a revision of someone else's pass, or revise a document in concert with others. (Or comment. Or lurk. It's all good.)

goal - make IT look good

email.hidden@example.com (Mike) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:43:30 +0000

Mike added goal - make IT look good

Hello-

IT is usually viewed as an administrative entity in higher ed. Things happen in a back room that cost lots of $$$$ and the results are as exciting as a dialtone.

Academic technology applications and innovation are the venue to show why we bought all this stuff in the first place///...to become more efficient with menial taks so we can spend more time innovating to support a more diverse range of people and needs.

I graduated over 20 years ago and when I walk into a clasrrom today its all the same except for a projector and a screen. Great, 3grand to show a powerpoint. Is this the best we have to show for this?

Where is my smartdesk? how come the lecture is not being speech to text transcribed (like in a courtroom) in real time. How come I cant share sidebar conversations without disrupting the class, and why do I have to be in room 102 at

Relation to Keene State College Goals

email.hidden@example.com (Richard Blatchly) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:58:41 +0000

Richard Blatchly edited Relation to Keene State College Goals

Relation to Keene State College Goals

email.hidden@example.com (Richard Blatchly) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:57:44 +0000

Richard Blatchly edited Relation to Keene State College Goals

6. To provide high-quality academic programs that are affordable and accessible to a wide range of learners.
Goal: Affordability and Accessibility.
Our core values are strong
*Excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship.
*Service to the community and civic engagement that support active learning and the common good.
*A strong sense of community on campus.
*Diversity on our campus and in our curricula.
*Civility and respect for diverse viewpoints and contributions to campus life.

Support Diversity on Campus

email.hidden@example.com (Richard Blatchly) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:53:59 +0000

Richard Blatchly edited Support Diversity on Campus

Goal
Support "Diversity on our campus and in our curricula" "Diversityonourcampusandinourcurricula"
Challenge
Faculty and students bring a wide variety of needs and expectations to Keene State. Examples of diversity that we must address are physical and perceptual challenges (addressed in conjunction with Disability Services), diversity due to diverse educational styles and objectives, and diversity in preferred software and hardware tools.

Support Diversity on Campus

email.hidden@example.com (Richard Blatchly) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:52:04 +0000

Richard Blatchly added Support Diversity on Campus

**Goal**
Support \"Diversity on our campus and in our curricula\"
**Challenge**

Faculty and students bring a wide variety of needs and expectations to Keene State. Examples of diversity that we must address are physical and perceptual challenges (addressed in conjunction with Disability Services), diversity due to diverse educational styles and objectives, and diversity in preferred software and hardware tools.
**Approach**

* Engage with Disability Services in periodic review of technology support for our current students.
* Engage with departments in periodic review of technology needs specific to disciplines and best teaching practice. Request that technology needs and practices be part of 5-year academic program review.
* Support a diverse set of common software and hardware tools for basic functions.

Making teaching and learning visible

email.hidden@example.com (Mark Long) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:53:26 +0000

Mark Long added Making teaching and learning visible

I'm on sabbatical, writing from India, and have been interested in this emerging conversation since it began. As a member of the English department and American Studies program I have experimented with technology in my classroom in different ways: through discussion lists, blackboard, collaboratively written wiki pages, and wordpress blog/pages. Years ago, I also created a web page for the English department as well as my own professional web page. (i have redone my page in wordpress, and we are currently rethinking the English department page in wordpress.)

All of this work is based on my conviction that our professional commitments and passions, teaching, and student learning remain for the most part invisible. I really do believe this. Based on this belief, I'm convinced that we need to make visible our professional work (and, for me, the relationship between personal history and professional life) so that it can be understood. For until academic work is understood b

Goal: Become Recognized For Academic Excellence

email.hidden@example.com (Alan Mccartney) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:50:11 +0000

Alan Mccartney commented on Goal: Become Recognized For Academic Excellence

In line with the various discussions that have been presented here, we must also consider ensuring that the basics within the each curriculum are appropriate and relevant to the role that each graduate will assume when entering the working environment.

Although many of us believe that we devote ourselves altruistically to education, we must realize that many of the programs here at KSC are one’s that could be academically “Accredited” but are not. It is not enough for the academic institution to be regionally accredited, but if an accreditation program exists for a specific major, there is not any logical or rational reason why the program can’t strive for this.

Whether we personally believe in the quality of curriculum accreditation, many employers do. In addition, students that graduate from an accredited curriculum, in many situations are able to move to the front of the line with respect to obtain personal certification in their specialty / profession.

A change from the status quo, is h

Goal: Affordability and Accessiblity

email.hidden@example.com (Elizabeth Nieckoski) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:23:52 +0000

Elizabeth Nieckoski edited Goal: Affordability and Accessiblity

Challenge:
Higher education is challenged with keeping the rising cost of a college education affordable and accessible. We are further confronted with maintaining our current set of academic technology applications while remaining nimble enough to address the varying needs of 21st century students.
that are low cost, balance cost with return of investment, low barrier with enough flexibility to meet the learning outcomes of our academic programs.
Approach:
The next generation of web applications has grown from a collection of flat sites powered by search engines to become the center of a new digital lifestyle. Today's web is a shared network space that drives education, work, research, and social life. These familiar low threshold technologies factor into the educational equation by making accessible the tools that will help students engage in their own learning.

Goal: Integrative Learning

email.hidden@example.com (Elizabeth Nieckoski) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:03:54 +0000

Elizabeth Nieckoski edited Goal: Integrative Learning

When guided by pedagogical objectives we have an opportunity to support students and faculty with existing and emerging technology tools that "support knowledge creation, knowledge gathering, and knowledge sharing" inside and outside of institutional settings." <Natriello>.
Desirable Outcomes:
connect disparate disparate[diverse?] information and draw on a wide range of information and knowledge to make decisions. decisions and apply knowledge.
Find ways in which technology will be used to balance the "playing field" by developing and recognizing talent.
student by [and teacher?]by championing innovation, creativity, and citizenship.
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Resources:

Goal: Become Recognized For Academic Excellence

email.hidden@example.com (Tracy Mendham) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:53:48 +0000

Tracy Mendham commented on Goal: Become Recognized For Academic Excellence

This is part of the vision that I think is so simple and smart. Academic faculty, and students, do so much work that never gets shared or appreciated outside of their own classrooms. Many products of our labor (such as the handouts for 40 homework assignments I write for a semester of ITW 101) don't need to be password protected or hidden. Moving documents from Blackboard to an academic website or a blog makes materials easier for students to access, and improves my visibility as a professional, and the visibility of the school. Since starting to use blogs and Macromedia Contribute to share my work, which I started in Fall '07 as I transitioned to teaching Thinking and Writing 101, I no longer feel like I'm laboring in complete obscurity.

printable version

email.hidden@example.com (Marie Duggan) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:03:38 +0000

Marie Duggan commented on printable version

I like the idea of moving from a focus on technology use for learning to technology for personal expansion. It goes along with what I see in my life: I need to be able to respond to my students 24 hours a day by e-mail, I need to continually learn to use new resources like you-tube. I want to put in a plug here for making the IT office more friendly to smartphones, as I have found this technology is critical to keeping track of everything, and having access to student e-mails at all times. I also like the support the vision shows for using dynamic models in the classroom--I feel this is where economics teaching needs to go. However, I can't find any support for the learning I would need to go through to be able to do that, or for a funding process for me to be able to request a site license for a particular software. Sort of a continuous learning upgrade as new technology becomes available, with feedback from users to IT as to what technology is essential--that process is what I can't seem to figure out.

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email.hidden@example.com (Jenny Darrow) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:26:32 +0000

Jenny Darrow edited SideBar

Vision (Rough Draft)
Conclusion and Next Steps
Spare Parts?
Service-Learning
Recent Changes
Recent Visitors

Goal: Affordability and Accessiblity

email.hidden@example.com (Jenny Darrow) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:24:39 +0000

Jenny Darrow edited Goal: Affordability and Accessiblity

GoalGoal:
To provide high-quality academic programs that are affordable and accessible to a wide range of learners.
ChallengeChallenge:
Higher education is challenged with keeping the rising cost of a college education affordable and accessible. We are further confronted with maintaining our current set of academic technology applications while remaining nimble enough to address the varying needs of 21st century students.
We need to begin to think laterally and begin to look at alternative academic technology solutions that are low cost, low barrier with enough flexibility to meet the learning outcomes of our academic programs.
ApproachApproach:
The next generation of web applications has grown from a collection of flat sites powered by search engines to become the center of a new digital lifestyle. Today's web is a shared network space that drives education, work, research, and social life. These familiar low threshold techno