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Seven
Principles home page l Seven
Principles Collection of Ideas for Improving Teaching and
Learning with Technology
After your institution introduces the idea
of the seven principles (click
here for workshop ideas and materials), here are two
related ideas for increasing faculty interest in these kinds
of incremental ways of improving teaching and learning with
technology (TLT).
1. Frequent, brief, clear emails to
your faculty, each e-mail describing one idea from the
Collection
Email ideas from the Collection, one at a
time, to interested faculty - perhaps every week or two.
Make the mailings as short as possible, with informative
subject lines, so that their content can be appreciated in a
glance. The email should also include a link to that section
of the Collection, in case the faculty member wants to skim
other, related ideas. You could start with a single
e-mail to all faculty, asking whether they'd like to
experiment with getting such e-mails; reassure them that the
e-mails can each be read in seconds, and that it's easy to
get off the list!
Each institution could create its own
emails. But if you try this, and like it, it may make sense
to team up with other institutions, to share the work of
creating the emails. Contact us to see if we can help. Or,
if you're part of a system or association and there's wider
interest in the seven principles, work with sister
institutions in the group. For example, each institution
could specialize in creating e-mails on one of the
principles.
2. Harvest such ideas from your own
faculty, and add their ideas to the stream of e-mails
One way to spread and maintain interest is
to periodically ask your faculty to 'publish' their own
teaching ideas as part of this stream of emails. They send
the TLT idea to you, and you pass it along to other faculty.
We've created a survey that you can use to
collect 'seven principles' ideas from your faculty. Here is
a version of the survey that's been edited and used by Steve
Ehrmann as part of his keynote of the 2005 SUN Conference at
the University of Texas El Paso. Here are the LTAs that were
collected from conference participants. As you'll see below,
the full template is a bit longer than this edited version;
it also includes questions about what kinds of LTAs that
respondents would like to receive (Step 3 below). [This same
strategy could also be used by a professional association to
collect LTAs for the seven principles from faculty who teach
similar courses to share with one another.]
If you'd like to use Flashlight Online to edit this survey
and administer it to your faculty, and if you already have
an authoring account, then log-in, create a new survey,
answer the three questions on the survey properties page,
click OK, and then click the Template button. Choose
Template ZS33515. Here is
some sample text to use as an introduction.
If you would like to chat about this or need clarification,
please e-mail flashlight@tltgroup.org and we'll get back to
you.
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