Discover Your Technology Load

Discover Your Technology Load

John Allan

Niagara College


Stephen Roney

College of the North Atlantic
-

Qatar

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
-

social communities


Twitter
–

mobile device and web


IP telephones

Office applications (versions)


Word processor
--

Word


Presentation
--

PowerPoint


Spreadsheet
--

Excel (gradebook)


Database
–

Access (old school CALL)


Publishing
---

MS Publisher

Human Resources (apps)


SharePoint


(Hr docs stored here)


PeopleSoft


Dedicated HR software

Grade book


TNG


On
-
going grades archive


Calculates grades


PeopleSoft


Grade entry for official purposes


Simple spreadsheets


Many schools create their own

LMS

Learning Management System


Desire
-
to
-
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Outdated?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
-

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
-
whiteboard


Behavior management


Students and laptops?

Networking


Specialized mailing lists


TESL
-
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
–

cycles, just
-
in
-
time, system (check list)


suggestions


Optimization of learning objects



Logical archiving of learning and
administrative media
–

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