Faculty Transformations - Integrating Technology
1) Use the Internet daily for communication, news, and recreation. Play.
2) Subscribe to and use listservs (scholarly networks) in your field (as well as ones that focus on distance education and using technology in the classroom).
3) Develop web pages and sites. Focus on creating useful sites for your work and teaching, but don't be afraid to create sites for fun and pleasure (test your limits and play).
4) Collect online resources in your discipline. Collect the best resources and put the links on a page for your use and your students. Challenge your students to find better resources (discuss and evaluate the ones they find; it can be a great learning experience).
5) Keep current with the literature about computer-assisted instruction (both print and online materials).
6) Write for online journals. It can be a fast and fun way to publish your work.
7) Incorporate technology into your classes. As we know, the best way to learn something is to teach it. Do not be afraid to let students be the experts and to help you. Having students help can be a great way to work toward a student-centered classroom.
8) Re-orientate the paradigm of the classroom for students to include technology. For instance - class discussion - instead of class discussion as something that happens in class, have students discuss materials virtually before and after class. Make those discussions an integral part of the class and revisit the discussions that happen there.
9) Integrate technology slowly into the classroom. Create a resource that can be augmented every term and integrate new technologies as they are mastered.
10) Partner with a graduate or undergraduate student(s) to build classroom or discipline based resources. This student should know technology, but be within the discipline.
11) Integrate technology into your research and work. Use the computer to write, model, and analyze. Use the Internet for research and scholarship.
12) Use technology to re-contextualize research for multiple audiences and outreach:
- Allow us to make our work public and accessible to multiple audiences from k-12, to college groups, to researchers, to public groups, and interested individuals.
- Help us to find specialized constituencies.