Internship+Field-Based+Activities+Summary

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 * Lamar** **University** **– M.Ed. in Educational Technology Leadership**

We discussed the research that would be conducted, and Dr. Brandt was interested in finding out how other schools are using WimBa, and to what degree they are using it. She also suggested that it might be helpful to make up a tutorial on Camptasia about Wimba and Skype to show how to use each of them. We also discussed the benefits of WimBa over Skype. WimBa allows communication with the students like Skype; however, Skype does not allow the sharing of work on the screen. With WimBa, teachers can share Power Points lessons, and discuss them in real time with the students. Skype only provides for talking face to face without the ability to put up work on a board. There are 3 core faculty in the BAT program, and they all know the value and need to increase technology in their online classes. The problem lies in the adjunct faculty that teaches classes for the program, like the local attorney who teaches Business Law. Some of these adjunct faculty have no desire to learn how to present classes online. They are underpaid as it is, and do not have the motivation or desire to spend more time learning the technology for on-line classes. What this does is hamstring the BAT program from going totally online because the adjunct faculty that teaches some of the required courses for the BAT program are not required or willing to put their class on line. This is causing a problem with the BAT program going fully on-line. We discussed the possibility of filming some of these classes and putting the videos online. Another thought was improving our knowledge of WimBa so other teachers that are not in this physical area could be recruited to teach full time online for the BAT, without coming physically to BrazosportCollege. ||
 * Internship Field-based Activities Summary Report and Validation ||
 * || Brief Description of the Activity || Date Activity Completed  ||  Internship Hours  ||
 * StandardI. Technology Operations and Concepts ||  TF- I.A  || Meet with B.A.T. (Bachelor of Applied Technology) faculty to discuss nature of online program and gain understanding of current technology use and technology expertise of faculty. || 10.24.2011 || 3 ||
 * ^  ||^   |||||| Reflection: On October 24, 2011, at 4:30 P.M., I met with my Site Mentor, Dr. Brandt, and Dr. Li in Dr. Brandt’s office in BrazosportCollege. We began our meeting by reviewing my Internship Plan and Action Research Plan. Dr. Brandt was already familiar with these two plans, but we discussed some of the ways these plans could be implemented. During the meeting, Dr. Brandt told me Terry Commingore will not be available to provide any data for research for this internship. It was decided all data about the students and faculty in the Bachelor’s of Applied Technology (BAT) program will be gathered by surveys, questionnaires, personal e-mails, and face to face conversations.
 * ^  ||^   |||||| Reflection: On October 24, 2011, at 4:30 P.M., I met with my Site Mentor, Dr. Brandt, and Dr. Li in Dr. Brandt’s office in BrazosportCollege. We began our meeting by reviewing my Internship Plan and Action Research Plan. Dr. Brandt was already familiar with these two plans, but we discussed some of the ways these plans could be implemented. During the meeting, Dr. Brandt told me Terry Commingore will not be available to provide any data for research for this internship. It was decided all data about the students and faculty in the Bachelor’s of Applied Technology (BAT) program will be gathered by surveys, questionnaires, personal e-mails, and face to face conversations.
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