The Program seeks to select a diverse group from all level of teaching experience, technology use, and project implementation and across all disciplines. Successful applicants will be expected to attend all sessions, must be willing to communicate to their department and campus the projects and tools with which they are working, and must be teaching a course in the Fall of 2012. Upon completion of the week-long portion of the program participants will receive a certificate, designation as a Faculty Instructional Technology Fellow, and a $1000 stipend.

Applications for the Program will be accepted on a rolling basis until 10 fellows are selected or until 9:00 AM on May 14th.  Applicants will be notified about the status of their application on a rolling basis but not later than 5 PM on May 14th.

Curriculum Outline:

Monday: introductions, review of goals and expectations, fears, course tech tools
Tuesday: digital storytelling, hands-on session with featured speaker
Wednesday: extending the wall of the classroom with technology, hands-on session with featured speaker
Thursday: presentations and tech tools, hands-on session
Friday: evaluating digital projects, techniques for incorporating tech projects into your course, fellows’ picnic

Questions

Please contact Matt Gardzina (x2057) or Jon Breitenbucher (x2207).

We also encourage you to speak with any of our alumni about the program:

Dan Bourne (2010)
Mark Gooch (2009)
Jenna Hayward (2009)
Katie Holt (2009)
Shelly Judge (2010)
Elys Kettling Law (2010)
Charles Peterson (2010)
Meagen Pollock (209)
Peter Pozefsky (2009)
Ibra Sene (2010)
Josephine Shaya (2010)
Larry Stewart (2010)
Greg Wiles (2010)

The Innovation Studio is NITLE’s latest project to explore online learning environments while investigating and proposing solutions for issues facing the nation’s liberal arts colleges.  As Lisa Spiro, Director of NITLE Labs describes, “Not only does the Innovation Studio aim to help leaders hone their skills as innovators, but also to cultivate innovative solutions to thorny challenges facing liberal education.”

The entire cohort of Scholars will meet face-to-face at the 2012 NITLE Symposium, where they will pitch their ideas, receive feedback from mentors and the NITLE community, gather user input, and work hard to refine their projects. They will unveil their work at an online Demo Day to be held at the end of the summer.

Creating your I.S.

Schedule an individual consultation with an Instructional Technologist.

Workshops

Designing print posters

Using pages to design print posters (Thur., March 29th and Tues., April 3rd 4-5 PM in Taylor 205)

Designing digital posters

Tools for preparing digital posters (Tues., April 10th and Thur., April 12th at 11 AM in Taylor 205)

Presenting your research

Using technology for effective presentations (Wed., April 11th 4-5 PM in Taylor 205)

Examples of projects in which we have provided support

Jacob Dinkelaker

• Developed a plugin for VoiceThread
• Provided support customizing a WordPress theme
• Chronicle article

Cathy Trainor

• Training and support in the use of Final Cut Pro
• Editing equipment
• Filming equipment

• six iMacs running Mac OSX Lion for digital project work
• six general purpose PCs
• many group stations with flexible furniture, mobile whiteboards and LCD screens to accommodate laptops
• two group study rooms with LCD screens to accommodate laptops
• one large presentation/multipurpose room for collaborative work, workshops and presentations
• two scanning stations with the ability to scan film, slides, and high-quality images
• cordless keyboard and mice (available for checkout)
• music keyboard (available for checkout)
• video cameras with tripods to record practice presentations (available for checkout)
• 2 copiers/printers connected to the “cloud” printing queue (CoW-Copiers)

The Digital Meda Bar is staffed with student digital media assistants:

Sunday – Thursday 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Friday 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Hooley was looking for new an effective ways to get in touch with his students and to connect with them on a deeper, more personal level. In thinking about using technology available to him, Hooley looked at using WordPress, Confluence Wiki and Woodle.  After consulting with Instructional Technologists, he chose Wooster’s open installation of WordPress called Voices.

Prior to using Voices, Hooley found that there has always been a large amount of pressure on the “one-on-one” meetings professors have with students. These meetings, while productive, can put pressure on both students and professors, hoping to get through a large amount of work accomplished in a limited amount of time. One of the perks that Hooley found by using Voices is the fact that sharing information between professor and student is very easy and instantaneous.  Hooley believes that it has been much easier for him to track his advisees through the week, as well as give comments for instant feedback.  Using Voices has transformed an short hour-long meeting into a constant flow of improvement and advice.

As an advocate for environmental awareness, Hooley believes that Voices not only eliminates the “paper trail” commonly associated with many professors teaching style, it becomes a type of ecologically friendly “bag of tricks” for after college. Not only does Voices/WordPress incorporate the written text, but can also include audio, as well as video elements into a project. With the inclusion of a multitude of mediums, Voices helps move away from having a project simply become a paper. A Voices blog is something that students can show employers as a way to show research methods as well as new and innovate project aspects.

Interested in using Voices/WordPress like Dr. Hooley? Members of the Wooster community can create a Voices blog in seconds at: http://voices.wooster.edu/register

Questions? Contact Instructional Technology (instructionaltechnology@wooster.edu, or extension x3883.)

Woodle’s forum feature is an easy way to take course dialogue online.  You can add a forum for discussion and students can post responses to each other.  They can even add attachments, such as a Word document or image, to discussion board posts and link to resources on the Web.

Many Faculty already use the forum feature before class sessions as a “starting point” for students to consider a topic or question and post their initial thoughts before talking face to face in class.  The discussion board can also be used as a “follow up” to continue the debate after the class session or address points that might have been unclear to the students.

If your students engage in ongoing research or a series of readings during your course, you might also investigate use of Voices, our community blogging platform.  Students can use the tool to make posts or comment on other posts on the blog.  A blog is structured so that the most current posts are most visible and easy to access, making it a good choice for situations where topics being discussed change on a frequent basis.

Depending on your class and the situations of you and your students, you may prefer to use Adobe Connect to provide real-time discussion with voice and shared visuals. Adobe Connect requires a bit more preparation to use than the woodle forum, because the tool itself typically requires a little practice to use effectively. However, in certain circumstances, Adobe Connect can be an ideal and powerful way to continue your class discussions.

For more information contact your instructional technology liaison or stop by Taylor 205.

Image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanofi-pasteur/5283434109/in/photostream/

October 12th
Kauke 143
4:00 PM

Dr. Michael Shaughnessy
Chair of Modern Languages
Washington & Jefferson College

Woodle: This is our traditional learning management system. If you have used Blackboard, Angel, or WebCT in the past then this will be similar to those systems. All courses in ScotWeb are automatically created in Woodle and have their enrollments automatically synced every evening.

Confluence: Confluence is an enterprise wiki. It allows for easy uploading of course readings and gives users lots of control over what items can be viewed and by whom.

Voices: This is our WordPress Multisite installation. It affords users the most flexibility in controlling the look of their content and is extremely customizable through the use of plugins.

Below is a table identifying some course management tasks and the degree to which each system supports the task.

Each day there will be a morning (9:30-11:30) and afternoon (1:30-3:30) session covering the same material and all interested faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend. Spaces will be limited to 12 participants per session and there is no need to attend at the same time each day. The workshops will include the following topics:

August 9th Setting up a site (9:30 -11:30) or (1:30-3:30)

• Creating an account
• Creating a site
• Choosing a theme
• Customizing with plugins and widgets
• Planning layout and navigation

August 10th Working with media (9:30 -11:30) or (1:30-3:30)

• Uploading your own images/videos/audio
• Using media from other sources
• Displaying media

August 11th Writing effective content (9:30 -11:30) or (1:30-3:30)

• Writing for the Web vs. writing for print
• Best practices for effective content
• Search engine optimization
• Improving your SEO

Please register for the workshop by completing the Registration Form

If you have any questions please contact Jon Breitenbucher x2207 or Matt Gardzina x2057

1. Woodle Addresses:

There are now two addresses you need to know to access your current and archived courses:

ARCHIVED: http://woodle-0711.wooster.edu will display all archived course materials from 2007 to spring 2011.

CURRENT: http://woodle.wooster.edu will display current courses for the 2011-2012 academic year.   You will see the address automatically change to woodle-1112.wooster.edu but you can still enter woodle.wooster.edu in your address bar to get to the main login screen.  If you get an error message when loading woodle (certificate error) please adjust your url to http instead of https or click on the woodle link in the faculty/staff section of the College website.

In the future each academic year will have its own address.   Since we are not keeping multiple years on the same server space, you should see a noticeable increase in the speed of the system.  At all times you will have access to at least the last four years of courses.

2. FILE SIZE LIMIT INCREASED

Another great benefit of our improvements is that we are able to offer greater file size uploads for instructors: 100 megabytes compared to 20 megabytes.  This should accommodate most larger file sizes including large PowerPoints, images and audio files.

3. USING OLD COURSE CONTENT IN YOUR CURRENT COURSE

Because archived course content resides at a different address than your current courses, using materials from an archived course requires an extra step.   We have documented this process on the IT documentation wiki with both text instruction and an instructional video.

https://wiki.wooster.edu/x/n4EXAg

If, after reviewing the instructions, you are uncomfortable moving materials the instructional technology staff is happy to import archived materials into your current course for you.  This will require completing a form and will take a day or two to complete.

http://goo.gl/oO3ox

4. FALL COURSES ARE READY TO USE

As of July 7th fall courses have been added to woodle allowing instructors to start adding material to their courses.  Please keep in mind that while all courses are created not all courses have instructor information associated with the course.  E.g. courses marked “STAFF” do not have any instructor associated with the course and will be inaccessible.  Because courses are synced with ScotWeb, please contact the Registrar’s office if you do not see all of your courses listed within woodle.

5. AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENTS

Your course roster has been automatically synced with your woodle course.  Please keep in mind that the official roster for your courses is Scotweb.  Woodle syncs with Scotweb each evening adding and removing students as reflected in official course enrollments.  If a student is not listed in woodle, please confirm that they are listed in your Scotweb roster.  If they are listed in Scotweb please wait 24 hours for the sync to occur.  If, after 24 hours, they are still not in your woodle course, please contact the User Services helpdesk at x4357 or it-request@wooster.edu .  If the students are not listed in Scotweb please contact the Registrar’s office at X2366 or registrar@wooster.edu .