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Sustainable Faculty Technology Development to Facilitate a New University Culture
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Context
  • Polytechnic campus part of the University system
  • Campus size
    • 3,448 Students (2007-08)
    • 39 FT Faculty
  • Regional information
    • Center of the High Tech Corridor
    • 8.5 m people live within 100 mile radius
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Faculty Technology Integration Institute (FTII)
  • Design Based on
    • Florida Professional Development Protocol System
    • National Staff Development Standards
  • Voluntary
    • Through application
    • Slots funded each year
    • Faculty or other instructional employees
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FTII Characteristics
  • Intensive Academy
    • 5 days (non-consecutive)
    • Interdisciplinary
  • Monthly meetings
  • Mentorship
  • Semester Reflections
  • Action Research
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Intensive Academy
  • Included presentation by many campus units
  • Vendors and Partners
  • Needs Assessment
    • Review of topics covered


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Participants
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Participant Technology Skill
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Program Learning Objectives
  • Participants will be able to….
    • Implement new technologies in the process of scholarship, discovery, application, and teaching during each semester.
    • Implement new technologies that are facilitated through the use of incentives, a peer learning community, and interdepartmental support made possible with USFP resources.
    • Present, publish, and communicate with peers and the scholarly community to measure the successes and challenges of using the learned technological innovation(s).
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Outcomes
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Other Introduced Skills
  • Webquests (6)
  • Educational Research (11)
  • Web 2.0 Tools (4)
  • SoftChalk (5)
  • Smart Podium and other tools (20)
  • Student Response System -CPS (6)
  • SMARTboards (5)
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FTII testimonials
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Media Services
Faculty successes after FTII sessions:
  • Increased awareness of classroom technology offerings and technical support services.
    • Asking for help
      • One on one teaching moments
      • Help calls
        • Phone call (room phones)
        • Help button (on Crestron)
      • Technical support during instructional sessions
        • Media personnel assigned to support classrooms
    • Online AV requests
      • Extra classroom technology (not in podiums)






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Media Services
Faculty successes after FTII sessions:

  • Comfort level with the smart podium classrooms.
    • Operation of various technologies
    • Understanding the technologies available


  • Comfort level with the other classroom technology offerings.
    • Digital document cameras
    • Laptops hookups
    • Smartboards (Sympodiums)


  • Comfort level with the Videoconference classes to distant sites.
    • Best Practices
    • Technical support
    • Operation of stand alone unit or a full service unit
    • Responsibilities of faculty for both types of VC systems





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Library
  • Faculty requesting information literacy sessions for their students that never had before
  • More requests for help by faculty and division directors for T&P
  • More requests for help in digitizing media for use in online classes à policy + process with TLT and Media Resource
  • More webquests à faculty more attuned to information literacy and validated scholarly sources of information
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ERDC
  • Faculty Technology Integration Institute (FTII) members require less “Level One” support.
  • Creates the opportunity to disseminate updated policies and procedures.
  • Creates the opportunity to demonstrate new technology resources.
  • Encourages participants to utilize resources readily available and with reduced need for assistance.
  • Establishes campus wide technology standards.
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On-line Surveys - IREP
  • Observations:
    • Improved quality of survey design.
    • Recognition of the survey tools available and how to use them.
      • IREP’s there to help
    • Significant increase of on-line survey use.
    • Improved decision support
    • Better understanding of IRB and its process.


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Results
  • Interdisciplinary connections
  • Reduction of fear and increase of risk taking
  • Self-reflection
  • Increase of online course development
  • Culture change
    • Technology (in many formats) has generally been accepted as an integral part of the academic future of the USFP by faculty and other instructional staff.

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Future Steps &
Program Success
  • Student Development Program
  • Adjunct Development Program
  • Future Sessions on New Applications


  • Awarded a
    • 7th Annual Excellence in Employee Development Award (University of North Florida)
  • Cross Campus sharing and collaboration


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Contact Information
  • Naomi Boyer, nboyer@poly.usf.edu
  • Kevin Calkins, kcalkins@poly.usf.edu
  • Karen Konrath, karen@poly.usf.edu
  • Catherine Lavallée-Welch, clw@poly.usf.edu