In Response to Faculty Requests
The Teaching and Learning Initiative & The Educational Technology Center
Are Sponsoring the Following Technology Workshops:
Using Blackboard
Integrating Multimedia into Your Teaching
Using Technologies that Facilitate Collaborative Work with Students in Classes
Each of these workshops will be two hours long, scheduled in the summer. All three workshops will be designed according to pedagogical principles embraced by both the TLI and the ETC: That the most productive and lasting learning emerges out of active engagement on the part of participants who are working on specific projects and who collaborate both with one another and with the workshop facilitators.
If you wish to participate, fill out the following:
The two hours of each workshop will organized in the following way:
NITLE Workshops
NITLE Calendar of Events
The upcoming events coordinated by NITLE.
Learn how to become an effective teacher and coach in an MIV environment by applying best practices to leverage participant video feeds, slideshow presentations, the collaborative whiteboard space, and application sharing.
Learn how to develop and support campus services based on NITLE's managed multipoint interactive videoconferencing (MIV) services. Every participating institution enrolled in the NITLE Network receives 10 virtual seats in a MIV "room" reserved for the participating institution's use. Using their personal desktop or laptop computers, members of the faculty and staff can communicate, interact, and collaborate with colleagues and students--on and off campus--in a web-based environment that includes audio, video, a shared whiteboard, group and private chat, and application-sharing. For campuses who wish to extend their use of MIV beyond the basic level, NITLE also offers Enhanced MIV Services and MIV Auditorium Access.
Learn how to participate and contribute successfully within the MIV environment. This "level 1" training is for new users of MIV, and will help new users of MIV feel comfortable within the virtual MIV environment, learn how to use its interactive tools, and otherwise learn how to participate and contribute successfully within MIV.
Cloud computing promises to have a significant impact on how colleges and universities secure computing resources to meet their academic mission. With its participating institutions, NITLE has been investigating how cloud computing can serve participating institutions to lower computing costs while improving services.
To further develop community knowledge in this area, NITLE is piloting this professional development program, which will focus on campus-based development of cloud-computing projects on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The pilot will bring together a small group of participants from up to six campuses for professional development and exchange. Work and lessons learned from this pilot effort will be reported at October's Changes in Provisioning and Supporting Enterprise Technology Tools (October 28, 2008, Rollins College).
By registering for this program, participants agree to complete an online, informational survey about a cloud computing idea/project that they wish to develop, submitting their responses to NITLE prior to participating in the program. Survey responses will inform the shape of the program. Note that while participation in this event is first-come, first-served, participants will derive the greatest benefit from participating if they create a cloud-computing project. In addition, NITLE recommends that participants discuss and plan projects with IT, library, or other appropriate leadership on their campus.
After this initial program, two follow-up sessions will be scheduled for pilot participants to engage in on-going discussion of discoveries, problems, and other issues that arise related to project development. Follow-up sessions will also be held within the online MIV environment. Note that the cost of participation in all three sessions is a single program unit.
N.B. Amazon Web Services accounts require a credit card or some other form of payment. Each participant should expect to cover the cost of the Amazon EC2 images that they will be running under their account.
As a community, NITLE participating colleges face similar challenges and opportunities vis-ŕ-vis digital technology. At the same time, institutions must also deal with unique situational needs that inspire a variety of strategic responses. At the annual NITLE Summit, participating teams will engage in high-level, peer-to-peer sharing with colleagues from other participating colleges, sharing information about the strategic responses and successful tactical approaches they have pursued to strengthen their learning missions with digital technology. By pooling the specific knowledge and experiences of individual institutions in an inter-institutional context, participating teams can identify common concerns and transform them into opportunities for collaboration.
Some comments from participants in the 2008 NITLE Summit:
Digital Librarian: "Having all the people you need for effective education in the same room is how it should be. NITLE is The Model!!" Chief Technology Officer: "As NITLE goes forward, it is important that they retain an annual function like the Summit. We sent a new faculty member with our team and that was highly effective. She came away with many great ideas about how to use technology in her teaching. Perhaps faculty attendance should be more strongly encouraged?" IT staff member: "I was in the minority at this conference, as a person who works in what might be called 'systems.' … I think it would be good to expose system administrator/network administrator types to what is happening in the academic side of university communities…" Librarian: "I think the most beneficial part of the event was the opportunity to talk with colleagues from my own institution without the usual work interruptions and commitments, and to be able to discuss what we had heard and how it might or might not work for us." Faculty member: “This was my first NITLE event. I came expecting to be an outsider among tech-heads. I came away totally enthused by the commitment of EVERYONE to use technology to improve teaching/learning. I was very impressed and am filled with ideas on where to go from here. I'll be back!”The NITLE Summit facilitates networking across professional lines toward the collective goal of advancing teaching and learning in the digital age. By bringing together a range of perspectives to look at the big picture of advancing teaching and learning at small, undergraduate-focused institutions, the Summit offers an annual opportunity
to see and hear what is happening, to get feedback from people with different perspectives, to make connections with unexpected allies, to solidify connections with long-time collaborators, and to learn about new challenges and opportunities made possible by the changing networked digital technology environment.The 2009 NITLE Summit will build on what we have learned from previous events. It will include
highly interactive sessions facilitated by NITLE staff and leaders from participating campuses engaging, forward-looking, and relevant presentations by teaching faculty, IT staff, and librarians from small, undergraduate-focused institutions a major presentation to help the group look farther into the future and more broadly across sectors a poster session geared toward participants with related interests learning from each other