What do Faculty do with Technology anyway?

This session was run by Patricia McGee (U of Texas at San Antonio) and Veronica Diaz (Arizona). I really like a lot of Patricia McGee's stuff especially around next gen learning management systems so I was interested to see what she was like face to face. The session was very full and basically "handout central". so if you're interested in any of the following:

• student survey on ICT
• staff survey on ICT
• faculty: then and now (btw "then" is mid 90s)
• methods for ascertaining what faculty really do
• teaching styles and technology adoption
• instructional strategies and emerging technologies
• technology teaching and learning continuum (based on Bloom's taxonomy)
• emerging technologies: definitions and applications
• tablet PC pedagogical applications
• annotated resource list by pedagogical area

then check out http://ltc.eller.arizona.edu/news/preConfSeminar2006.aspx cos it's all there!

Just a bit of light reading then....

btw - one guy in the audience said that the most innovative staff he has to support (and struggles to keep up with) in their application of learning technologies are those within 5 years of retirement who can't get enough of the new technologies and feel they have nothing to lose in being truly experimental to push the boundaries of learning and teaching - yes, you're right, it was met by about a hundred gasps of disbelief around the room.