• Brownbag lunches; wine and cheese gatherings at the end of the day. Nothing works like free food to bring people together and help them bond. TLT Group resources almost always involve people working together in groups that wouldn't normally form: faculty and librarians working together to develop information literacy strategies; TLT Roundtables; coalitions developing the scholarship of teaching; virtual teaching, learning, and technology centers...  That's one of the strengths of TLT Group strategies - collaborative change - but it's also a challenge. How do you get new coalitions to form? Breaking bread together is an important step.

• Encourage staff and faculty to become (free) TLT Group individual members.  They'll get announcements about subscriber benefits directly.

• Incorporate TLT Group news and training materials in your web pages.

  • Bucks County Community College has developed a web page for faculty about "low threshold activities/applications" (LTAs), adapting this concept to disseminate "bite-sized" ideas for using technology.

  • Here's a site at Judson College, an Alliance subscriber, that interweaves TLT Group materials along with other resources to create a carefully designed teaching improvement resource organized around the 7 principles of good practice.

Many institutions have Flashlight materials in their web sites.

Do you have such a web page - we'd love to post it here, too! 
 

• Put links to key TLT Group web pages into your institution's web site. (For starred items, make sure you tell people what the user name and password are but please don't include that information on an open web page)

  • For faculty members:

    • Seven principles of good practice article - technology as lever.

    • * "Seven principles" library of ideas for teaching with technology

    • Flashlight Online log-in (if your subscription includes Flashlight Online); this could be linked through your portal, for example.

      • For links to recent archives of webcasts on Flashlight Online 1.0 and 2.0 that you can link to from your web site, click here.

    • * Classroom assessment techniques (a chapter in the Flashlight Evaluation Handbook)

  • For departmental and institutional committees working on curricular reform, there may be interest in the section of our web site on the implications of technology for curricular goals and program strategies.

  • For assessment offices and committees

    • * Flashlight Evaluation Handbook

    • * Flashlight Cost Analysis Handbook - for studies modeling how time and money are used to help programs achieve better results with lower stress
       

• Create your own e-mail distribution lists that you can use to pass along e-mail: one list for people with faculty development responsibilities, one for those interested in information literacy, etc.  You might also have certain web pages where you post some of these materials. 
   

• Make use of institutional or faculty newspapers or newsletters: such publications can post notices about new and existing benefits (e.g., spreading low threshold teaching ideas) as well as about workshops.
   

• Encourage people to subscribe to The TLT Group's free online publications:

  • TGIF is a weekly announcement of free TLT Group activities.

  • TLT-SWG is a carefully moderated listserv comes out about once a week and covers the full range of issues around teaching and learning with technology.

  • F-LIGHT features useful studies of benefits, costs and problems of technology use in education, and comes out about 8 times a year.

  • Steve Gilbert and Steve Ehrmann write a blog; take a look at their observations, their questions for you, and post  your own comments! Encourage others at your institution to sign up, too.  Add 'Two Steves and a Blog' to your reader.
     

• Use The TLT Group's subscriber bulletins.  Each institution has at least two contacts who get all our e-mail updates: reminders about particular subscription benefits, notices about benefits that have been added or upgraded, and announcements of new workshops. Forward these e-mails to the people who need them.  You can also suggest that people sign up for updates only about issues that interest them: e-mail online@tltgroup.org and tell us for which topic(s) you'd like updates.