Just to clarify, I agree with the idea to go with a simple proposal in
next Tuesday's meeting.
I thought a short document with 5 Q&As would be one way to go. A rough
possible five question Q&A version is below. (same as what I sent earlier)
What does everyone think about the Q&A format and the questions?
Mark
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Mark Christianson, Instructor
English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8585
Tel: 0422-33-3497/Fax: 0422-33-3500
http://edublog.jp/mark/
CHRISTIANSON Mark wrote:
> Mark's ideas:
I agree to make a proposal that is
> 1) short with a Q&A format
> 2) focuses mainly on what we propose people "should" do, know or learn,
> 3) avoids mentioning unknown vocabulary words except for the few things
>
> How about if we answer the following basic questions.
> Q1. What is the aim of the C3 committee?
>
> The C3 committee (Bill, Ged, Dave, Owen and Mark) has been meeting over
> the past two months to try to explore new ways to help ELP staff and
> students work together collaboratively, possibly using new types of IT
> technologies. The C3 committee is examining how we currently work
> together in groups such as committees, how we share, collaborate on, or
> archive key documents, how we coordinate calendar scheduling of
> meetings, how we use multimedia, and how we conduct and share results of
> research. (See chart)
>
>
>
> Q2. What should the role of IT be in the ELP?
>
> The C3 committee believes that all ELP teachers should try their best to
> learn how to use new technologies that can increase collaboration and
> productivity in the department. At the same time, the C3 committee
> understands that adoption of any new technologies or methods is a
> challenging process, and that there needs to be a clearly identifiable
> advantage to the new technology. Furthermore, if any departmental
> adoption of technology is to occur, all staff must clearly understand
> that need, vote to accept it, and be given the necessary support and
> training to make the transition.
>
>
>
> Q3. What IT technologies could possibly help the ELP and its staff
> function more effectively in the future?
>
> The C3 committee believes that a variety of Internet-based tools could
> be useful for us. Some of these names may be familiar, while others may
> be completely new. You may remember when "Xerox" or "email" was a new
> term, and all language is language learning.
>
> 1. Google Groups seems to have many functions very useful for organizing
> group collaboration for committees or classes.
> 2. Google Calendars seems very useful for helping us share our teaching
> schedules.
> 3. Google Office seems very useful for sharing and collaborating on
> documents such as course materials.
> 4. Online blogs such as Blogger seem very useful for staff or students
> to write journals and respond to each other.
>
> If you are interested, some other tools we are exploring are Survey
> Monkey (online surveys), Wetpaint (wikis), Del.ici.ous (social
> bookmarking), Diigo (social web annotation), RSS feeds and so on. Moodle
> is also useful tool, but has limitations and seems gradually replaceable
> with the Google related tools mentioned above.
>
>
>
> Q4. What does the C3 committee propose that all ELP teachers try to
> learn this year?
>
> The C3 committee proposes that all ELP teachers make an effort to...
>
>
> Q5. What does the C3 committee propose that all ELP teachers do as the
> first step? Why is this necessary?
>
> 1) Create a Google account by accessing www.
>
>
> Gotta go to sub for Lynn's class, so let me leave it here.
>
> Mark
> ____________________________________
> Mark Christianson, Instructor
> English Language Program
> International Christian University
> 3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8585
> Tel: 0422-33-3497/Fax: 0422-33-3500
> http://edublog.jp/mark/
>
> Bill Harshbarger wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Thanks to all of you for your input on the draft of our report to the
>>ELP on this topic. At this point, I think the message that we should
>>keep the amount and complexity of information given in the report to a
>>minimum is clear.
>>
>>We have two basic proposals floating at the moment:
>>
>>1. Owen: I think 12 months is long-term enough and I suggest we focus on
>>4 main things. These 4 things will be detailed in the report to the ELP.
>>This document here is for C3 only and is built iteratively as our
>>understanding of who we are and what we want to do develops over time.
>>The 4 actions I recommend are: 1) Server space (@icu.ac.jp
>><http://icu.ac.jp>), 2) ELP Goffice (i.e free Education Edition of
>>Google Office + Delicious), 3) Support for individual practice, & 4) new
>>ELP Website (Wordpress-blog based). These four actions need to be
>>undertaken in sequence (and then maintained simultaneously), the second
>>requires the first, and so on. In the report to the ELP I recommend we
>>try to show the 4 actions and how they connect visually, because these
>>four actions represent a lot of very fundamental change to the work
>>individuals do and how the ELP manages information. Careful planning is
>>required. During and after implementation these 4 actions will require a
>>lot of on-demand support to succeed. In other words, I think we should
>>not underestimate the kind and scale of change that these 4 actions will
>>produce.
>>
>>2. Start with Google accounts and calendar function only and then
>>gradually build toward more usage of other Google services and Web 2.0
>>tools..
>>
>>As I see it, Owen's proposal would be largely invisible to the staff and
>>would allow proposal #2 to be primarily what people would be aware of
>>initially. However, it does have some potentially significant issues
>>attached to it, such as who would be assigned to do the set up, support
>>and management of the server space and eventually the ELP Website. I am
>>pretty ignorant of what is required along these lines, but if there is
>>sufficient to be gained, I'm willing to give it a try. I may be able to
>>enlist Suzaki san's help if the work is not too technical.
>>
>>Therefore, I propose a rather general and simple proposal for the ELP
>>meeting. It would outline our recommendation to work toward gradually
>>integrating Web 2.0 tools and services into the workings of the ELP,
>>starting with use of Google Calendar along with a Google account for all
>>ELP staff. We can then work out whether this will be arranged through
>>the separate server space and free educational version of the Google
>>services, or through individually set up Google accounts if the server
>>option proves to be too complicated for us to handle.
>>
>>Your thoughts, gentlemen....?
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Bill Harshbarger, Director
>>English Language Program
>>International Christian University
>>3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
>>Tokyo 181-8585
>>+ (81) 422-33-3219
>>billh@icu.ac.jp <mailto:billh@icu.ac.jp>
>>http://indirector.blogspot.com
>>
>>--
>>Bill Harshbarger, Director
>>English Language Program
>>International Christian University
>>3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
>>Tokyo 181-8585
>>+ (81) 422-33-3219
>>billh@icu.ac.jp <mailto:billh@icu.ac.jp>
>>http://indirector.blogspot.com
>>
>
> >
>
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