DE ANZA COLLEGE
Question 4:
What new initiatives requiring technology do you/your department wish to implement over the
next three years?
Responses
A program for loaning technology when staff or faculty needs it for a limited period. For
example loan of a laptop for a single quarter to a staffer who has to work away from their
desk temporarily.
additional online sources,
Adoption of open source online text books in house publishing of student lab manual for
organic chemistry
Again. The English Department should not be using a Yahoo Groups list-serv, from a
private, for-profit company, to conduct official business and official business communication.
What would also prove useful is a De Anza-owned, INTERNAL tool that allows instructors to
share and post documents to one another. Currently, some official document-sharing is
taking place on WORD PRESS.com. De Anza needs its own, INTERNAL, version of
something like WORDPRESS. I would also like to see what the new CANVAS platform is
going to look like, and I hope there will be many training workshops available.
an easy to generate report that picks up student-athletes attending tutoring. This requires
Banner and SARS to speak to each other. Currently an ETS staff member must do this
manually every week.
Automated attendance taking using DASB ID card readers.
Better communication between Clockwork and all of our other systems (Banner, Outlook,
Degree Works)
Better telephone system, with easier to use phone set-up
Canvas as a course management system, smart boards, apple TV in all classrooms, iPads
for students
CMM Software simulation
Do not know exactly long range plans for my division. I know that we will be getting high-def
for the tv's installed.
electronic signatures from students in clockwork
Everyone should be required to use some kind of college-wide technology platform, such as
Catalyst and/or Canvas.
Extra key boards or Tablets to have the students log in to their portal.
Frequent, in-class quizzing.
giving workshops online
Grades First or a product like it that would help us link faculty, students and staff
Hybrid classes
Hybrid classrooms is the new buzz word. Access to teaching on-line courses for adjunct
faculty
I am not sure about my department, but I am taking a course to learn to integrate on-line
teaching into my skills package.
I think a high percentage of online courses should be required; this would alleviate the
problem where rooms are unavailable too
I would like to have the department require graphing calculators for students in Math 114.
I would like to personally see configured all instructor workstations configured with
Powerpoint as is done in industy. The powerpoint speaker notes should be visible on the
instructor screen along with slide. This allows instructor to view their notes at same time as
viewing slides to provide a superior presentation. The only way currently to have this
capability is to lug a laptop to class each time I teach. After a while, I gave up... Too much
work because I only get about 5 minutes to setup for my class and setting up a laptop takes
about 5-8 minutes. this causes extra pressure for instructor and time precision.
I would like to see more social media training and webinars.
If we had a better computer system, we will be all using Adobe Reader Pro, MS Excel
spreadsheets with macros, and running reports more often.
Increase use of technology to flip classes and manage learning.
increased resources for classroom use: films, etc.
Information Literacy hybrid course
Initiatives to allow for virtual meetings and presentations. We do have access to Zoom, so
that is a good first step.
instructional videos, i pad learning, web conferencing
iPads in the classroom
Java for Banner is always saying there is updates but it doesn't seem to get updated See
above
Learning how to extract data to generate reports is something that is much needed for
EOPS. Currently we monitor student units and GPA manually and that is very time
consuming. A database that is more up to date and user friendly would help. This would be
a good beginning.
Maybe an Ipad initiative for students to use in the classroom?
Microphone for large lecture classrooms.
More mobile technology.
old equipment.
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