I'm sorry I didn't get to respond to your first message. I really appreciate the work you have put into this. Based on the input from other members of this group, I am thinking now that we need to go even simpler than your version. I'm hoping to come up with another draft tomorrow and then we can look at all the different versions and see what we want to go with.
Thanks,
Bill
http://indirector.blogspot.comOn 5/22/07, CHRISTIANSON Mark <markc@icu.ac.jp > wrote:
Hi everyone,
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
>>
>> 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
>>
>>billh@icu.ac.jp <mailto: billh@icu.ac.jp>
>>http://indirector.blogspot.com
>>
>
> >
>
--
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English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
Tokyo 181-8585
+ (81) 422-33-3219
billh@icu.ac.jp
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English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
Tokyo 181-8585
+ (81) 422-33-3219
billh@icu.ac.jp
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