"Even simpler" sounds good to me. I'll look forward to the new draft of
the proposal.
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 Mark,
>
> 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
>
>
>
> On 5/22/07, *CHRISTIANSON Mark* <markc@icu.ac.jp
> <mailto: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
> ____________________________________
> 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>
>> >< 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>
> <mailto:billh@icu.ac.jp <mailto:billh@icu.ac.jp>>
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>> >
>> >--
>> >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> <mailto:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> --
> 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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