Warlick's CoLearners

Contact: Amy Brown, Coordinator, Distance Learning, Instructor, Communication

Content Notes:

We'll be spending the morning with course development and the afternoons doing one, two, or three presenations for faculty!

Challenges of the grant proposal

Using student-centered technology in vocational education
Providing comprehensive professional development for faculty
Improving academic and technical skills of our students

Objectives

develop a self-paced module that instructs participants how to create an educational podcast from idea to distribution {Grant Swaim and Josh Gilbert (automotive instructors) with Amy Brown and David Warlick, will produce the training module.}
develop a self-paced module that demonstrations how podcasts can be incorporated into coursework for various technical and vocational courses.{Grant Swaim and Josh Gilbert (automotive instructors) with Amy Brown and David Warlick, will produce the training module.}

Time Line:

September 2006: Swaim, Gilbert, and Brown will attend Podcasting & Portable Expo in Ontario, California.

October 2006: Group will create course content including writing literature, show notes, assessments, and editing sample podcasts.

Warlick will present several workshops to GTCC faculty about the use of podcasts and how this medium is effecting current community college courses. (recorded)

November 2006: group will fine tune the course (blackboard).

Want me to do some presentation

Developing a course whose audience is the faculty

Update and schedule:

Here are hopefully the final details for your November 8-10 event. GTCC is located at 601 High Point Road in Jamestown, NC. You will need to come to the LRC building (library), 3rd floor, Distance Learning at 8am all three days. Here is a map to our campus. You are coming to buidling #4 - Learning Resource Center. I would suggest that you park in Lot E in a non-faculty/staff spot. (Please note that this map is a bit dated. We knocked down Furniture Hall - labelled as #2 this summer.) http://technet.gtcc.cc.nc.us/about/police/campusmaps/jamestown.htm

Our goal is to have you work with our NC-NET group in the mornings and give presentations in the afternoons. Our NC-NET group consists of myself, Grant Swaim, Josh Gilbert and 4 additional representatives - 2 from Stanley Community College and 2 from Wake Tech Community College. Right now, Josh, Grant and myself are creating the structure for this course. November 8-10 is our time to add content from everyone. Later, the group will fine tune this Blackboard-based course. Once we have a basic structure in place, I will email you your own access information. I am not asking you to work on this outside of the November 8-10 timeframe - it is simply there if you want to sneak a peek before you arrive.

Here is your afternoon presentation schedule: Wednesday, November 8 1:00pm - An Educator's Guide to Podcasting 2:15pm - An Educator's Guide to Blogging 3:30pm - An Educator's Guide to Web 2.0

Thursday, November 9 1:30pm - An Educator's Guide to Podcasting 2:45pm - Learning and Literacy in the 21st Century 4:00pm - Combating Plagarism in the Classroom

Friday, November 10 12:30pm - An Educator's Guide to Podcasting 2pm - The New Shape of Information (Technology Committee only) 3pm - Teaching and Learning on the Edge of Change (Developmental Faculty only)

Technology Committee - only members of this committee and myself will be present for this presentation. This was the idea of our VP to understand how our students are using technology and how other schools are preparing for this change. This presentation looked like the best fit for this group, but you can think of another approach for this group, let me know. Developmental faculty - our VP wanted a special session just for these faculty members since they seem to embrace technology the slowest on campus, they are the fastest growing department based on student numbers and need an inspirational push to incorporate technology in their classroom. All other sessions are open to all faculty and staff.

You will be in the same room everyday for these presentations - and I will be at everyone one of them to answer questions for faculty and staff about GTCC's priorities. The enrollment limit per session is 24 people. This room is equipped with a data projector, computer, and is located in the instructional technology department so that if you need anything else, staff are close by and can locate it quickly. We will be videotaping these sessions (thank you for your kind permission) to load to our iTunes U site just for faculty members.

You mentioned in our phone call that you need to know all the recording options that we are offering our faculty. Starting in November, faculty will have 3 recording options if they use the equipment that we provide them on campus.

1) LRC 325 (the room that you are presenting in) - this is our NCIH room (North Carolina Information Highway) that can be connected to every communinty college in the state of North Carolina. It has a 2-way video system. Faculty can reserve this room to record themselves both video and audio, activity on the whiteboard, overhead and computer and edit their audio clips on Audacity. At this time, we do not offer video editing options for our faculty. If they need video editing, a member of our instructional technology department can do this.

2) LRC 325 - Studio A - there is a small recording studio being created off LRC 325 for faculty looking for a quiet place to record their audio for podcasts. Faculty can reserve this space to record and edit.

3) iPods - We have 24 ipods with 24 Belkin TuneTalks and Griffin Lapel microphones in small storage bags for faculty to check out for extended periods of time. (We believe that this will be the most popular option with our faculty due to its highly portable nature.) This summer, 28 faculty members volunteered their time to learn more about iTunes and these faculty members will be the first to check out these iPods (once all the parts come in). We have 12 computers in our Teaching and Learning Lab where our faculty can sync their iPods to store their content and receive assistance in editing. We are recording voice memos on the iPods - loading them to iTunes - importing into Audacity for editing and moving the final clips into iTunes U. Each faculty member will have one or more course-specific iTunes U sites to store and distribute this content to their students.

Here is a link to an Apple demonstration that we recorded on how faculty will edit their iTunes U sites and load their media content. http://webster.gtcc.cc.nc.us/distance/training/itu1.html

Let me know if you need anything else. I have suggested to the folks coming from Stanley and Wake Tech (4 total) to consider booking their hotel at the same place you are. Maybe we could meet for dinner one night as a group if you like.