intro program manager presentation

Effective Instructional Technology in Decentralized Environments

Lindsey M. FreerThe City University of New YorkMay 2014

1. Intro: Making Instructional Tech Work For A Decentralized Urban University

2. Establishing A Campus-Wide Presencea) Cross-campus collaborationb) Awareness of technological changec) Strategic marketing

3. Collaborating With Facultya) Assessing faculty requestsb) Facilitating connections

3. Making InTRO Sustainablea) What success looks likeb) Data collection, evaluation, reporting

4. Conclusion: Transferrable Values

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CUNY & Macaulay are city-wide

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Macaulay Night at the Museum, 2013

F2F: Collaborative “making”

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Digital “doitocracies”

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Internal Conferencing/Sharing

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Usable Archives

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Strategic Marketing

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ReasonableAspirational

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Small changes

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Partial successes & debugging

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“WordPress beginner” site was practice for faculty member

student sites: sources & drafts

2009

2010

Thesis Colloquium 2009-10

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2013

2012

2011

rich presentation of thesis text

content adapted for digital audience

interactive elements extend core claims

Slow, cumulative growth

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class site hosts lively discussion, projects

thesis site articulates and proves new/additional claims

Thesis Colloquium 2014

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Student-focused, process-oriented

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Conclusion: Transferrable Values

• Use open-source & open access tools

• Focus on UX & process-oriented pedagogy

• Success is iterative• Collaboration is

essential• Be willing to

experiment

Thank You!

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Past and present colleagues at the Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, with special thanks to Jill Belli, Jen Corby, Jeff Drouin, Karen Gregory, Jenny Kijowski, Lauren Klein, Ben Miller, Emily Sherwood, John Sorrentino, and Kara Van Cleaf

Mentors Ammiel Alcalay, Lee Quinby, Joseph Ugoretz, and Margaret Vandenburg

Faculty and fellow students of the English PhD Program at the CUNY Graduate Center

All my wonderful undergraduate students!