1.  What is the best time to schedule future faculty symposiums?

best time - period

best day?

2. How did you hear about the symposium?

3. What motivated you to attend?

4. What other type of presenters would you like to see in future symposiums?

5. Training topics you would like to see offered in the future or speakers you would like to hear.

• I like CC faculty because they understand our teaching environment. Scenario/role based workshops.
  More of the same - couldn't attend everything I wanted to due to time constraints & teaching. Need to learn Adobe Premier
  incorporating technology in the classroom
• I always like learning about the latest technology. I also like to repeat some seminars every 2-3 years since I forget some of the things if I don't use them. I would like to learn Dreamweaver and Flash real well, but I think I will take them as a continuing education class. I would also like to learn Photoshop Elements but I know these power programs take more than a day to learn.
• Dealing with Grief & Loss Handling Student Crisis Situations
• More on tools/techniques on classroom management
• technology available to us
• Future research concerning students achievement and success.
• user pc computer security, protecting one's privacy
• PageMaker (or any type of layout software), any video editing application, any image editing application, camcorder training (to tape our classes), presentation technology, using the media carts to show DVDs, using ITV, digital photography, etc. We need LOTS of technical training for us non-geeks because we want to use technology in our teaching.
• Interactive Whiteboard Training Imovie or Windows Moviemaker Creating forms with Adobe Acrobat Speakers: Dr. Paul Resta, Director of the Learning Technology Center (college of education) at UT Note: below link is a sample of the innovative things happening here. This guy has vision and I would like to hear what he has to say: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/Ideastudio/projects.php
• More on e-Portfolios

6. What instructional tools/technologies would you be interested in using to help your students master course objectives?

• Anything that is supported & doesn't require me to schlep a bunch of hookups in/out of class.
• Video! Need to learn this as well. Please offer workshops in Adobe Premiere elements!
• Blackboard, videos, powerpoint, webpage
• I want to use the projector for power point presentations more and I would like to be able to tape programs on PBS and shoe portions of them in my class.
• Blackboard, Blogs & Wikis
• I just need to become better informed about what is available, and then figure out how to learn about it all, and how to implement it. We are talking huge learning curve here.
• including video in power point
• Apple's Final Cut Pro in order to create edited video lectures.
• Websites, web gaming, interactive websites
• Teaching style
• Student course response clickers (don't remember the technical term, but I went to Herb Coleman's workshop on Oct. 20)
• blackboard, technology to catch plagiarism,
• Blackboard
• Animation with power point.
• camcorders, digital cameras, media carts, etc., + relevant software
• Streaming media, Podcasting
• Podcasts---would love to learn more! Herb's intro was excellent.
• e-portfolios

7. What are the current barriers to using new technology tools for teaching?

7a. If you answered "other" in the previous question about time spent, please describe. 

• I just don't have much free time (not that the technology takes too much time, just that I personally do not have much free time).
• Need more time to learn & practice hands-on...
• The barrier I have is the lack of interest and understanding of my method of teaching by my supervisor and peers within my department.
• Media carts are difficult to use, and hard to arrange when you teach on multiple campuses and have classes back-to-back
• I'd like to comment on my response to #7: We need all classrooms set up fully media-equipped, and that should include the student response clickers, or at least there should be more of the type that Herb Coleman recommended as easier to use available at all campuses. Instructors should not have to carry heavy briefcases full of equipment across campus to class.
• not enough institutional support for making media accessible
• Need training on setting up and using the media cart, need to know how I can make things on my laptop and connect it to the classroom TV for presentation.
• I have begun to use more technology in my work, it's more than doubled--considerably more than doubled--the amount of time I spend in preparation for my classes. I like much of what I'm using, but it's not unusual for me to work a 14 or 15 hour day.

8. Which class formats to you teach/have you taught? (check all that apply)

9. Which instructional strategies do you use?

10. Which delivery methods to you use?

11. What problems or limitations, if any, have you encountered with these current practices?

• None
• I spend a minimum of 30 mins getting a media cart, taking it to the classroom, plugging everything in & then all in reverse. If I want to project a DVD & Inet I need two carts. A third set up if a guest wants to do video, inet.
• Getting equipment from the media centers is always a problem! (Equipment doesn't work, no help available, time consuming, heave to lift, etc.)
• I need to update them since the students are so technologically wise.
• I would like to learn how to use streaming video/audio but I don't want to have problems with the equipment during my class.
• need more training for myself
• I only taught an IVC class one semester; we had multiple problems using the technology throughout the semester. I attended training the semester before that to learn how to use the IVC classroom. It would have been really helpful if we had been given multiple opportunities for guided practice. It was really intimidating for me.
• see above! Each classroom should be self-contained technology wise.
• The limitation is time to research all areas I am interested in and how much will students participate.
• Classrooms not fully equipped, need to check out key in one building and push carts down hall from media closet, equipment neglected in media closet, need assistance sometimes in reconnecting equipment, don't know how to use streaming video/audio or live chat or videoconference
• Boring
• They all take time and detract from focus on the instructional materials.
• NA
• adds various ways for my students to learn, audio tapes, white board conferencing
• Lack of training, unable to get media carts at non-traditional hours (before 8:00am, etc.), equipment on media carts doesn't work and I don't know how to fix it
• Technology not working
• Student use issues. Lack of some basic computer skills/competencies
• Time allotted to class
• Blackboard doesn't always work; it's spotty. Some students have problems opening documents, others don't.

Comments, suggestions, ideas, or other feedback.

• If resources allow, please repeat sessions at least twice. There were some sessions that sounded great, but I had to choose just 1 in each time slot. I had 2 time slots that had sessions I did not feel fit my teaching situation. I learned a lot in the sessions I attended and will be able to apply what I learned immediately. Thanks
• I have time for about 1 innovation per course per semester - if all goes well. If a hitch occurs it may take 2 or 3 semesters. Example, turning point or CPS student response systems require IDS Tracking with me. Just getting a workshop & a url doesn’t not usually get me all the way to a successful class demo.
• Please offer Adobe Premiere Elements workshops so we can make instructional videos for our students.
• Some of us have limited technological knowledge hence I suggest you have more of the basic training in areas as Blackboard, Webpage etc with more hands on practice/activities.
• It was a very good conference & I appreciated having the new information...thanks!
• I am adjunct faculty and also work for continuing education but I am not teaching a course this semester, so answers for Question 12 are based on previous semesters. I thought that the sessions I attended on Tech Trends Day were useful and on the whole well presented. It seems to me that figuring out all the technology can end up being a full time job and interfere with teaching and learning if you let it. With people coming in from a variety of disciplines and all different skill levels, it was very interesting to watch how the presenters handled questions.
• see above
• I like the idea of creating custom videos for my classes. I am using Final Cut Pro to create them.
• I have found that a department which focuses on very traditional practices can be very resistant to new technologies unless the department Supervisor and Dean present the new technology as a positive and alternative way of teaching the old technology. Apparently some faculty members fear that the new technology will replace the old technology.
• The information was too general. I know that it wasn't supposed to go into detail but more information on the subject matter would have helped. I am familiar with such technology so I thought the workshop would talk about the extent of such use.
• I often spend 40 hours per week for one course, but not every week. I don't keep track of it in the categories you suggest above, but I spend more time preparing for class and administering grading, feedback, testing, and assessment than on students meetings per se. My course uses Blackboard heavily, and I spend a lot of time with email, discussion forums, announcements, task descriptions, managing tests that students can take at their leisure online, etc. Sorry to say this, but most of your professional workshop staff in the two divisions (tech and instructional design) do not make clear or good presentations. One IDS Staff does.
• no more activists who preach w/o sharing hands-on hard-core tech tips
• None!
• Excellent workshops and presentations.