Discover Your Technology Load
John Allan
Niagara College
Stephen Roney
College of the North Atlantic
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abstract
Are you overloaded in your teaching and administrative tasks? This workshop
will allow you to identify the tasks that your job requires to meet the goals
of the classroom and the institution. The presenter will provide an overview
of 16 categories of digital responsibility. The participants then complete a
rubric to discover their technology load. Coping strategies will also be
presented and discussed at the conclusion of this workshop.
Hopefully…we will cover
teaching and administrative tasks
introduce workshop task
identify 16 categories of digital responsibility
complete check list to discover their technology load
coping strategies
Why is this relevant?
Technology wealth varies
Stress
teachers
support
administration
STUDENTS
Awareness
for future negotiations
Your checklist
Determine your load
Communication
Email
Chat
Instant messenger
FaceBook
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social communities
Twitter
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mobile device and web
IP telephones
Office applications (versions)
Word processor
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Word
Presentation
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PowerPoint
Spreadsheet
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Excel (gradebook)
Database
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Access (old school CALL)
Publishing
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MS Publisher
Human Resources (apps)
SharePoint
(Hr docs stored here)
PeopleSoft
Dedicated HR software
Grade book
TNG
On
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going grades archive
Calculates grades
PeopleSoft
Grade entry for official purposes
Simple spreadsheets
Many schools create their own
LMS
Learning Management System
Desire
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to
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Learn, Moodle, Blackboard
Administration
Creation
Set up
Facilitation
Mixed media
Accessing learning objects
Assistive applications
Special needs students
Speech recognition
Text to speech
Zoom
concordancers
Material developers & linguists
concordancers
Used as a teaching tool “rule
generation” from a concordance
WordSmith or LexTutor
Internet resources
Wikipedia
Google
Dave’s ESL Café
WebQuests
Translators
Dictionaries
……
Web 2.0
Compression/decompression
WinZip
Windows
Content management system?
SharePoint
Instructor support
the “portal”
CALL software
Multimedia
Proprietary packages
Customized learning opportunities
Outdated?
Ellis, Focus on Grammar, Rosetta Stone, Tense Buster,…..
Basic computer hardware
Microphones
Headphones
Audio mixers
VHS players
DVD [players
Audio visual
Data projector & remote
Audio mixer (usually software)
Video switcher (at the teacher podium)
Complex integrated lecture and classroom
control podiums
Virtual Personal Network
Allows access to intranet
resources
From outside an institution
Media Editors
Audacity
Imovie
Windows Movie Maker
Flash
Image editors
Vector/pixel
Photoshop
Online (Sumo Paint)
MS Paint
Illustrator
Self paced training
Large repositories of on line training
opportunities
Atomic Learning
Adobe
Microsoft
E
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whiteboard
Whiteboard (reduction)
SoftBoard
SmartBoard
DVD or CD replicator
Desktop (which one do you use?)
Roxio
Windows Explorer
Nero
Security
Norton
Cisco Clean Access
Browser security (Pop up blockers)
Spam blockers
Ad Aware
Mobile devices
Pervasive learning is here & getting bigger
ITunes university
Ipods, mobile phones, PDA, BlackBerry
Uploading
File naming
Paper generators
Fax machines
Photocopiers
Printer scanners
Schedulers
Instructional coordinators only
Benchmark Timetable
Assignment
Class planner
Library
Access, reserve & monitor resources
Online journals, mags & newspapers
Online subscriptions to resources & media
Virtual spaces
Second Life
3D Virtual Worlds
Filters and Blockers
Websense
Telecoms (National)
Laptops
Access the institution systems & Internet
Power outlets
Communicating with an e
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whiteboard
Behavior management
Students and laptops?
Networking
Specialized mailing lists
TESL
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L
listserve
Social networks (NING)
Classroom2.0
Trouble shooting
Task manager
Wiring
Who is responsible?
Example
What technologies are involved in
creating an eportfolio?
eportfolios
Proprietary system
Wordprocessor
Scanner
Printer
Graphics
Server
CD copier
Email
Photocopier
Spreadsheet
Others?
suggestions
Include stakeholders in process of technology
acquisition
Upgrades of technology (equal, training, timely)
Training
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cycles, just
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in
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time, system (check list)
suggestions
Optimization of learning objects
Logical archiving of learning and
administrative media
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for easier access
Common desktop (workstation) Teacher/Lab
considerations
Mentoring system (tech champion)
Dedicated team to support tech
considerations
Consistent Bookmaking on browser & portal
page
Development of suitable activities to make
technology relevant
considerations
Development of suitable activities to make
technology relevant
Don’t use technology unless it adds value to
the learning
Inauthentic labour
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