Serving on the Campus & District IRB Boards

Three years ago, our district finally outlined a process to set up an Institutional Review Board. They set up the “full-board” as a overall district entity; but, also set up campus boards for both faculty and student projects. As a more active scholar on my campus, I was asked to do the reviewer training through CITI and serve on our campus IRB (called the College Research Review Committee). Basically the college level IRB could approve exempt and …

...Continued | June 26 2010 | Comments
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What I Learned this Past Summer (2009)

I gave me brief presentation about what I learned at conferences this past summer. I talked about listening to Bill Cope present at the Computers & Writing Conference. I really liked his presentation about New Learning and immediately ordered the book. Today I had folks discuss the various differences between in education between the modern past, recent times, and new learning. Since I was asked to present because I’m the tech geek, I also worked in some technologies. I constructed the presentation in Prezi, …

...Continued | August 29 2009 | Comments
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MCCCD Faculty Developers Retreat 2009

Faculty Developer’s Retreat 2009

...Continued | August 28 2009 | Comments
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Survived and Can Never Go Back

I’m still not quite sure how I did it, but I survived the 2007-8 academic year as Mesa Community College’s instructional technologist. First, this actually needing to be somewhere specific for 30 hours a week...nearly killed me. Yeah, I’m so spoiled being regular faculty. But more interesting to me is the “politics” I played this year. Not that I haven’t known politics existed, or that I haven’t played them before, but this year I got them front and center. And the problem is that once you start playing politics somewhere, even …

...Continued | May 16 2008 | Comments
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Reciprocal Learning

I complete the first of three workshops on Google Apps that I’m doing for faculty in the Maricopa Community College District. I’m focusing on the applications that exist in the educational instances of Google Apps, not the “everything” that we get in a regular google services account. I was surprised at how few faculty I had in the room; instead, I had a bunch of librarians, some people from training, institutional advancement, an administrator, to name a few. I did learn that Google didn’t like having too many accounts being opened …

...Continued | March 09 2008 | Comments
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WWDD?

I’ve been “successful” as a two-year college faculty member. After five years, I just gotten “tenure” (or out of probation status). I’ve been teaching, researching, and doing institutional and disciplinary service. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been successful with finishing my doctorate. When I was hired I had just finished my doctoral coursework. Over the past five years I’ve completed my comps, proposed my dissertation topic/project, and collected data. I have been sitting on my data for two years now. I’ve gotten some writing done, but obviously not all of it. …

...Continued | September 17 2007 | Comments
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LMS Crash, Are you Ready?

This morning I met with our district CIO, Darrel Huish. We talked about a variety of things, include some of his ponderings with how Blackboard ran, or did not run, during the first couple weeks of school. Those of us at Mesa, where we have the Blackboard labeled system formally know as WebCT, just breathed high sighs of relief. However, Darrel had a wonderful point today. Do faculty really have a “back-up plan” if IT goes down. It can (I firmly believe it’s only a question of when)! So how are …

...Continued | September 11 2007 | Comments
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MCLI/Ocotillo Jetsons Workshops

So…I facilitated two “new” technology workshops in our district this semester (2/24 and 3/1). I forgot what I originally wanted to name the workshops; however, because people wanted the name more descriptive, we got: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and Social Bookmarking. Since I still think “Keeping up with the Jetsons” rings true; that was the working title in the workshop itself. Overall, I thought we did a good job of trying to cover four technologies in three and half hours. According to the workshop evaluations, only …

...Continued | March 17 2007 | Comments
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