New Faculty Orientation Welcome to Providence College

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New Faculty Orientation--Welcome to Providence
College

• Wednesday
• August 28th, 2002

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Stay In Touch!

• Chuck Haberle Assistant VP for Academic
  Administration
• Phone a x 1154
• Email CHaberle_at_providence.edu
• tom king Chair, Instructional Technology
  Committee
• Phone x 2385
• Email TRKing_at_providence.edu
• Harvey Varnet, Director, Phillips Memorial
  Library
• Phone x 2280
• Email HVarnet_at_providence.edu
• Ed Morin, Manager, User Support, Computer
  Services
• Phone x 1425
• Email EMorin_at_providence.edu
• Bernie Colo, Coordinator, Academic Media Services
• Phone x 2118
• Email BColo_at_providence.edu
• Michael J. Fimian, Instructional Technology
  Design Specialist
• Phone x 1832
• Email MFimian_at_Providence.Edu

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ITeC Overview

• Instructional Technology Committee
• Chair tom king
• Ongoing recommending body for all instructional
  technology

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ITeC Overview

• 13 members representing
• Academic Media Services
• AVPAA
• Computer Services
• Faculty (6 rotating)
• Instructional Technology Design Specialist (ITDS)
• Library
• SCE
• Student Congress

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ITeC Overview

• Recent Accomplishments
• Created a report based on responses from
  full-time faculty
• Exploring and attaining external resources (Davis
  Foundation Grant)

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ITeC Overview

• Recent Accomplishments
• Recommendations from the report that have been
  implemented
• reformulating ITeC into an ongoing committee with
  wide representation
• purchasing course management software
• hiring a full-time ITDS who develops and
  coordinates an Instructional Technology
  Development Program (ITDP)
• developing consistent policies for request and
  purchase of
• campus-wide and departmental software
• portable computing hardware

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ITeC Overview

• Current focus
• Developing a 5-year plan for instructional
  technology
• Building the IDTP over the next three years
• Upgrading our learning spaces (classrooms, labs)
  with up-to-date technology

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ITeC Overview

• Overall we
• Strive to be inclusive, involve everyone across
  campus
• Seek an appropriate level of up-to-date
  instructional technology for PC
• Continually stress that it is about the teaching
  and learning, NOT about the technology

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Phillips Memorial Library - Intro

• Welcome to PCs Library!
• Main Library Web Site
• http//www.providence.edu/library/
• Remote Access
• Bar Codes / IDs

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Phillips Memorial Library - HELIN

• HELIN -- Higher Education Library Information
  Network
• Brown University
• Bryant College
• Community College of Rhode Island
• Johnson Wales University
• Providence College
• Rhode Island College
• Roger Williams University
• Salve Regina University
• University of Rhode Island
• Faculty have direct borrowing privileges from
  these eight member libraries.

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Phillips Memorial Library - CRIARL

• CRIARL -- Consortium of Rhode Island Academic and
  Research Libraries
• A CRIARL card allows full-time faculty borrowing
  privileges at member institutions. Borrowing
  rules of the lending institution apply.

• Brown University
• Bryant College
• Community College of Rhode Island
• Johnson Wales University
• Naval War College
• Providence Athenaeum
• Providence College
• Providence Public Library

• Redwood Library Athenaeum
• Rhode Island College
• Rhode Island School of Design
• Rhode Island State Library
• Roger Williams University
• Roger Williams University School of Law
• Salve Regina University
• University of Rhode Island

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Phillips Memorial Library - Support

• Research Support Ingenta
• http//www.providence.edu/library/ingenta.htm
• Acquisitions book buying
• http//www.providence.edu/library/pml2acq.htm
• Library Liaisons
• http//www.providence.edu/library/liaison_a-c.htm

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Phillips Memorial Library - Prof Staff

• Edgar Bailey Reference/Instruction Librarian
  ebailey x2580
• Paul Bazin Periodicals Librarian pbazin
  x2592
• Connie Cameron Web Services
  Coordinator ccameron x1252
• Norman Desmarais Acquisitions
  Librarian normd x2241
• Jane Jackson Director, College
  Archives jjackson x2578
• Maria Posteraro Reference Librarian mpostera
  x2891
• James Salisbury Access Services
  Librarian jsalisbu x1622
• Martha Sanders Coordinator of Collection
  Services msanders x1996
• Janice Schuster Coordinator of Reference
  Services jschustr x2631
• Julia Tryon Government Documents
  Librarian jtryon x1990
• Harvey Varnet Director, Library
  A.M.S. hvarnet x2280
• Maureen Whalen Executive Assistant mwhalen
  x2244

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Phillips Memorial Library - Support

• Bibliographic Instruction
• http//www.providence.edu/library/library-instruct
  ion-explained.htm
• Interlibrary Loan
• http//www.providence.edu/library/pml2ill.htm
• Reserves
• http//www.providence.edu/library/pml2circ.htmres
  erves

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Academic Media Services - Intro

• Academic Media Services Purview
• Everything that plugs into the wall - except
  computers
• Director Bernie Colo

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Academic Media Services - Offices

• Interactive Media Learning Center
• Feinstein 310 Vilma x1270
• Media Presentation Services
• Feinstein 211 David x2311
• Creative Imaging Services
• Feinstein 105 Paul x2117
• Main Office
• 300 Feinstein Vilma x1270

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AMS Staff and Services

• Bernard Colo, Coordinator x2118
• Paul Bienvenue, CIS x2117
• David Perkinson, MPS x2311
• Bill Stepka, Repairs x2102
• Vilma Gagnon, Admin. Asst. x1270

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Media Presentation Services

• Office is located at Feinstein 211
• Staff brings Basic Media / AV equipment to the
  classroom
• Staff provides instruction on the use of
  equipment
• Services are provided One-On-One, as needed

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Requests -- Lead Times

• At least 24 hrs notice!
• Less than 24 hrs?
• Well still try, but cant promise
• Earlier is better
• Larger tasks take longer
• Were only human

Book Early, Book Often
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Classroom Equipment and Services

• Video broadcast
• Classroom control of media playback
• Cable TV system
• Teaching technology in classrooms

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Timed Event Control

• Media Playback over CATV
• Viewed in dorms or any classroom
• Runs 24/7
• Automatic
• Booked in advance

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InterACtiveTVNetwork

• Allows playback of any media type in all
  classrooms
• Full remote control
• Booked in advance

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Level 0 Classrooms

• Overhead Projector
• Screen

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Level Ia Classrooms

• TV
• Cable connection
• Remote media playback control
• Overhead Projector
• Screen

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Level Ib Classrooms

• TV
• Cable Connection
• Remote media playback control
• VHS-VCR
• Overhead projector
• Screen

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Level II Classrooms

• Video / Data projector
• VHS-VCR
• Audio Cassette player
• CD player
• Full sound system
• Dual slide projector
• Cable Connection
• Remote media playback control

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Level III Classrooms

• Video / Data projector
• VHS-VCR
• Sound system
• PC Computer
• Cable Connection
• Remote media playback control
• Wireless keyboard/mouse

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Level III Classrooms

• Video / Data projector
• VHS-VCR
• Audio Cassette Player
• CD
• Full sound system
• PC Computer
• Wireless keyboard/mouse
• Cable Connection
• Remote media playback control

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Interactive Media Learning Center

• Feinstein 310
• Study carrels for audio tape listening
• DWC recorded classes
• Language programs
• Video tape playback viewing
• In carrel playback
• Remote control playback
• Student use can be reported out

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Video Editing

• 3 linear / analog editing bays
• 2 non-linear / digital editors
• Avid PC Express
• Final Cut Pro MAC
• Audio mixing voiceovers
• Student editing

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Creative Imaging Services

• Feinstein 105
• Workstations for Graphic creation
• Assistance in
• making color and BW transparencies
• posters and larger color prints
• computer scanning of flat artwork
• computer scanning of slides and negatives
• dry mounting of graphics and flat artwork
  lamination
• One-on-One software assistance and instruction

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Computer Services

• Ed Morin, Manager
• User Support, Computer Services
• External resources for students and parents
• Computer Lab information
• Helpdesk and Tech Support
• Telecommunications
• Internal resources

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Computer Services

• External resources for students and parents
• www.providence.edu/compserv

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Computer Services

• Computer Lab information
• Hours of operation
• http//www.providence.edu/compserv/index.html
• Room location and availability
• http//www.providence.edu/compserv/index.html
• Resource 25 Scheduling software

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Computer Services

• Helpdesk and Tech Support
• Call 865-1144 between 800am 430pm (M-F)
• Call 865-4357 after hours (Student Help Desk)
• Types of assistance includes
• Virus removal McAfee w/EPO agent
• Text Processing etc Microsoft Office 2000
• Internet browsing Internet Explorer
• Email Eudora light
• Network File Storage Novell
• Printer repairs and support
• Just ask and we will try to help with items not
  listed above!

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Computer Services

• Telecommunications
• http//www.providence.edu/telecomm/
• Dialing instructions
• Voice mail information
• Repairs and assistance
• Call 865-2686 for assistance with voice mail
• Call 865-1234 for telephone outages and repairs

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Computer Services

• Internal Resources
• http//internal.providence.edu
• Email Address Search
• Student and Employee Telephone Directories
  http//postoffice.providence.edu/cgi-bin/emailsear
  ch.cgi
• http//internal/cgi-bin/photosearch/photosearch.cg
  i
• Helpdesk online - http//internal/helpdesk/index.h
  tml
• (Under construction)
• Support Documentation http//internal/helpdesk/doc
  s/index.html
• Software Download Repository http//internal/helpd
  esk/ftpsite/index.html

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Faculty Using Technology I

• What we do here at PC...
• Doing things we couldn't do 2-3 years ago...
• Becoming increasingly digital with time
• Some Distance Ed, but mainly through the SCE
  day program uses Angel
• Faculty training starts this year
• Instructional Technology Design Program
• Other support staff
• Using the Librarys E-Classroom
• Lunchtime Brown Bags, 1200-130, TWTh
• graphics, video, Angel, PowerPoint, audio

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Faculty Using Technology II

• Face-to-Face regular lectures
• Still primary method of instruction at PC
• Course Support
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Excel Spreadsheets
• Access Databases
• Special Software (SPSS, etc.)
• Angel
• ElementK accounts
• Others

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Faculty Using Angel

• Angel
• Courseware Program
• Binds all the other files together
• Internet delivery of Support Materials
• Presentations, audio, video, online chats,
  threaded discussions, drop boxes
• Grade Book functions

WWW.Providence.Edu
Angel.Providence.Edu
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Student Use

• Many Students are coming in with good skills
• Some are not
• But picking up quickly
• Students are increasingly using presentations in
  their classes
• Approximately 30 classroom sites across campus
• Wireless in the library now
• Possibly some model classrooms in next few years
• Many students have purchased laptops this week
• All students are linked to PCs network via dorm
  rooms

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On the Horizon

• SmartBoard
• Sympodium
• Easier-to-use classrooms
• Instructor Interface
• Wireless (???)

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Banner Web for Faculty

• What is it?
• Parts of
• Rosters
• Advising
• Online Grading
• Web Registration

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Helpful Sites for Faculty
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Helpful Sites for Faculty
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Helpful Sites for Faculty