Los Angeles Mission College

Technology Committee Report to College Council 4-17-08

The Committee met on 4/09/08 – Hanh gave the committee an update on the new phone VOIP system which will be implemented the weekend of May 5^th, and available on May 6^th. Maury will email faculty and staff about training on the new VOIP system. Nick Minassian prepared a flash based tutorial which will be available on the internet soon. There will be training on 4/21 in LRC 330. Saved voice mail messages will not be carried over to the new system.

The Library Room 330 will become a high definition video conferencing room and possibly running by the summer. The Library in conjunction with the Tech Committee will provide its library databases through the moodle course system and will be accessible to students. Many students cannot attend the library workshops so it would be good to also upload the workshop content to the web portal. Tech Committee is looking into doing another Tech survey of students and faculty and staff, and will include questions about computer competency. We would like to make the next survey web-based and provide some incentives to complete the survey.

The Technology Education 2008 Conference was held in Ontario this week, and several faculty and staff attended.

Here are some ideas gleaned from attending the conference we can discuss and consider implementing at Mission

1. Provide for staff development online with flex credit given for faculty who develop web based content for their students

2. Discuss a “Just in Time” help desk for students doing online classes

3. Develop a “How to be a Successful Student” modeled on the book “Becoming a Master Student” by Dave Ellise. Make this a 3 unit on campus and/or online class, and require EOPS students to take it. Include also a section on “Beating the Mean Math Blues” by Sheryl Ooteen, Santa Ana College to assist our students with math anxiety. This class will include test taking, note taking, etc. the skills needed to do well in an on campus and an online class

4. Look into the use of “whiteboard” technology for use by our math instructors. You can record both audio and screen capture of the whiteboard to show how to solve formulas and math problems.

5. Establish Technology Boot camp for Department Chairs and Administrators to train them on the use and implementation of web 2.0 tools including wikis, blogs, listservs, podcasts, videocasts, and to provide back up support for posting content to these tools

6. Set up an eportfolio system on the Mission server and link it to an initial assessment of writing, and based upon the assessment then develop content which is self-paced and customized to the individual student needs. This will be especially good for use in Basic Skills

7. Work with the LRC and Library in developing “online tutoring” and a web portal content modules for use in training our on campus tutors.

8. Have the Library link up with other local community college libraries through the use of social bookmarking (i.e. the del.icio.us program) – eg. See http://del.icio.us/bridgeslibrary

9. Develop a Think Tank group in conjunction the Educational Master Plan committee which includes students to determine what are the “four or more driving forces” in the community and from that develop new curriculum, classes and then consider which web 2.0 tools to use in each new class. The Core principle is that “Curriculum should drive Technology, and not vice versa”

10. Create an educational social network using the program http://puyple.com developed at Chabot College and integrate it into our web 2.0 tools for students. Encourage faculty to use the social network for assignments.

11. Get students engaged in the Technology Committee so they can provide input and ideas

12. Put together a Diversity Chart of all campus or college groups, activities, clubs, etc, and form a Diversity Group whose charge is to develop a common calendar linking all of the activities of the college, and creating an electronic college community amongst the diverse college groups and activities.

13. Adopt Core Technologies and seek to support those through IT

Including the following:

- Lamission directories

- Moodle course management system

- Wikis (wikispaces)

- Blogs (wordpress)

- Social Network (puyple)

- Diversity Calendar Commons

- Irubric – outcomes assessments

- Phplivechat for Admissions and Counseling

14. Work on developing a grant for a Center for Teaching and Learning

15. Leverage technology through our grants and at the District Level – eportals and eportfolios and single signon

16. Create a “creative commons” space for faculty to create their class web based content

17. Collaborate and coordinate with Admissions and Counseling to use “live chat” with students over the internet to provide easy access for students

18. Train the faculty on the http://irubric.com on how to set up, and grade an assignment and provide aggregate results over departments and disciplines so it can be reported to the SLO Coordinator and the Accrediting Commission.

19. Create a Student Success Group or Committee with student participation and focus on how to implement the web 2.0 tools for students in the classroom

20. Work on developing incentives for faculty, staff, and administrators to implement web 2.0 “interaction” in the classroom and on campus

David Jordan

Co-Chair of Technology Committee