Action+Planning+Template

Review current resources related to educational technology available to Brazosport College’s online instructors |||| Joanne Puryear Dr. Dorothy Brandt Terry Comingore || October- November 2011 |||| IT – Terry Commingore will share data available and training on WimBa and Campasia || I will write a research paper listing resources and training available to Brazosport faculty and students that enhance distance learning that includes software, hardware and individuals.
 * Action Planning Template ||
 * **Goal: ** The personal face-to face interaction that happens in traditional classrooms is absent in distance learning. How does this affect student learning, and how can Brazosport College create that connection between the student and teacher, and the student and student, in the on-line classroom to enhance student learning? The goal of this plan is to determine it value of adding collaborative elements in Brazosport College’s distance course and help teachers incorporate more of these tools into their distance classes. ||
 * **Action Steps(s): ** |||| **Person(s) Responsible: ** || **Timeline: Start/End ** |||| **Needed Resources ** || **Evaluation ** ||
 * 1.Research -1

|| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Literature search on WimBa and Campasia. Find out what this technology will do. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Li || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">October- November, 2011 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">( I have already met with Dr. Li on several occasions to investigate some of the capabilities of WimBa and Campasia |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Both WimBa and Campasia software is available to students and faculty at Brazosport || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Have additional literature available in faculty wiki showing examples of capabilities of software in the research paper || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Literature Search- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Investigate what is the advantages to multimodal elements in distance learning and disadvantages <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Search on-line, RSS feeds, |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Joanne Puryear || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">November 2011 |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IT department <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Internet <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; text-decoration: none;">[|U.S. Department of Education's National Forum on Education Statistics] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">US Journal of <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Academics:usjournal. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">com || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This information will also be included in the Research paper || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Brandt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Li || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">December, 2011 |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Brandt will be a source for me as to who is using no, a little or a lot of technology. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I will collect surveys and graph the data. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Once I have done my research and understand what technology is being used in classes, I will meet with Dr. Brandt to discuss ideas that could be useful to on-line learning and work out plan to implement them in classes. If all the instructors are already using and familiar with Power Point and other Microsoft Office, we will discuss what would be the next tool to introduce to the online classes. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Brandt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Li <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IT and all instructors || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">December, 2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I will need the surveys and data |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr Brandt will review the analysis and suggest software and hardware. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Brandt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Terry Commingore <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Betty Ross || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">December || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Power Point and a room already equipped with the hardware for Campasia. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I will have the faculty evaluate the usefulness of the meeting by filling out survey. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Monitor the implementation of technology in classroom, by email, observations, monthly meetings designed to share progress and or problems. Continue to post progress on school wiki, and encourage teachers to share their success and problems on wiki... |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">De. Brandt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Li || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">January, 2012-May, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Faculty Wiki |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Review postings, emails, and information shared at meetings to see if there is any problem that needs to be addressed as far as using the technology. || My qualitative data will be collected through interviews, observations, and surveys of students and teachers. My quantitative data will be assessments from IT at Brazosport College. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. Brandt ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">January 2012 /May 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IT <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Surveys, postings, observations, and all communications on the subject of technology implementations. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Evaluate if teachers are taking advantage or technology. If there is no posting on wiki and no changes in classes. I will discuss with Dr. Brandt what she suggests to stimulate technology ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2.Research -2
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.Research 3
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4. Determine the level of use of technology in online classes at Brazosport College. This will be done by having a survey to pass out questioning what technology is included in each teacher’s online class to teachers and student, and questioning if they think more technology would enhance student learning? |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Joanne Puryear
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5.ANALYZE DATA
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6. Make a presentation of the results of my research .to faculty. Discuss the advantages of technology, what is available at BC and what is being used by faculty. I will also ask Dr. Li to show what she has been doing to add technology to her online classes. AT this time, set up individual meetings with faculty and IT to equip classrooms and download any software necessary to use WImBa and Campasia. This is a good time for teachers to try out the software. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dr. L1
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7.MONITOR
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8.EVALUATE