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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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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!