New Faculty Orientation (Aug 2020)

Dina Vyortkina, FSU COE, August 2020

Technology at COE: Enhancing and Empowering Instruction, Research, and Innovation Section 1 While Working and Teaching Remotely 1. Equipment for checkout: LRC (STB 1301) has equipment available for checkout by any COE students, staff, or faculty members. Students will need a faculty authorization form. The most popular items are laptops, webcams, voice recorders, and camcorders. There are more than 100 items for checkout in the LRC .

Equipment can be booked online.

2. COE conference rooms: All COE departments have their own room(s). If needed, LRC staff can reserve STB 2206A (seats up to 20) or STB 2206D (up to 10). Both have projectors and designated laptops. Rooms can be booked online.

3. Access the LRC desktops remotely (for software).

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MyFSUVLab: FSU expands offerings for students via its virtualized lab environment. As of August 2020, there were about 40 types of software loaded, including several statistical packages (STATA, SAS, Matlab, SPSS, StatTransfer). Working with ITS, COE created a virtualized lab component for COE students and expanded software usage by including MPLUS and HLM.

5. TeachLivE Lab (mixed reality, hosted by UCF) housed in STB 3302. TeachLivE™ enables FSU College of Education students to “virtually” practice their teaching, classroom management, behavior management, and other skills in an environment resembling a classroom or other academic environment. The remote access option is available.

6. Training resources focusing on technology-enhanced teaching (campus-wide): We actively promote profession al development! FSU offers LinkedIn Learning, Gartner, and other training resources. FSU students have access to all resources for 1 year following graduation.

7. Canvas (FSU Learning Management System) training resources a. Faculty: http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152 and https://fsu.instructure.com/courses/63. b. Students: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10701 and the orientation course https://fsu.instructure.com/courses/15 8. COE is offering remote observation of teaching (we do ours with FSUS). We are planning to engage with other schools in Florida.

9. GoReact (video assessment and feedback).

10. One Button Studio: This is a mobile studio with recording equipment and blue/green screen capabilities.

Housed in STB 3304. More details here.

11. Sharepoint (SP): The College is using SP for many business operations and information sharing. Accessible with FSU employee credentials only and as set by access permissions.

12. OneDrive: part of Office 365 available to FSU staff, faculty, and students. A great way to store (5TB) and share documents.

13. Tech Fees: departmental, COE-wide, and FSU-wide applications. In 2010-2019 we secured about $680K in competitive projects and received about $860K from FSU in blanket allocations to the College.

14. Videoconferencing: Zoom (free accounts for each faculty, staff, and student). ODL offers BigBlueButton in Canvas.

15. FSU Drobox: Use to send and receive large files (up to 3 GB), encryption enabled.

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Dina Vyortkina, FSU COE, August 2020

Section 2 Welcome back to Your Normal Life!

16. COE computer labs (105 Win machines) for students and faculty: College of Education maintains a computer lab with 23 computers in 2016 Tully Bldg and a Learning Resource Center (LRC, in 1301 STB) with a total of 80 computers. The latter also has facilities for reserve materials in various media types, and tele- and videoconferencing capabilities, bookable study areas (STB 1302 A and B), and common study areas designed for collaborative work. LRC and Tully are open M-R 8am-10 pm and till 6 pm on Fr. All labs, study spaces, an equipment can be booked online.

Labs have Faronics Insight to enable instructors to monitor student computers, blank student monitors, mute audio, remotely access student computers, and open, close or block applications and web activity on user workstations. The system is great to share instructor’s screen with students as well as to share a student’s screen with other students in class. *** In addition to the COE computer labs, students can use one general use FSU computer lab (74 machines) and the FSU library (about 400 computers on the floors) later at night, over the weekends, and selected holidays.

17. COE TechSandbox (STB 3201, 644-TECH): COE maintains the Sandbox to create a dynamic learning environment where College of Education students could learn and practice using various instructional technologies and tools and have clear understanding on how they can be embedded into real life teaching, learning, assessment, and research. In addition to walk-ins, Tech Sandbox staff conduct group professional development sessions and individual training on various tools and technologies. Tech Sandbox can be booked online.

18. Annual technology related events: a. FSU Digitech (April) i. 2019 event b. FSU Day at the Capitol and TechDay at the Capitol (April annually)

Section 3 Nice to Know a. b. c. d.

Check out this collection of resources (on Diigo) for IT related issues (OIIT and FSU resources).

Collection of resources for students.

All faculty computers are on a 4-year rotation/replacement cycle, budget permissive.

Faculty can use “Microsoft W ork at Home” program to get software for their personal machines at highly discounted price. e. FSU offers VPN, Eduroam, and FSUdropbox. f. Guest wifi is available for FSU visitors. g. Raise awareness about copyright regulations (software, teaching materials, etc.). See Library Guides for more details. h. Raise awareness about accessibility of course materials. Resources are available here. i. Use Turnitin (writing tool and plagiarism detection software). j. Use COE conference rooms and study areas for group office hours if needed. k. Raise awareness about safeguarding one’s data. More resources are available from FSU ISPO and on the FSU Office of Research website. l. You can save your research data (if appropriate) and teaching material on your OneDrive (5TB). More storage options are available at ITS (for a fee). m. We are for green IT! n. Statistical and research design consultation services (at COE) are available for all students working on the projects and dissertations (not your trivial homework) and faculty (projects, publications, etc.). o. Qualtrics research suite is available to all at FSU. p. MS Office 365 ProPlus is available to all at FSU. q. The Sunshine Law and your FSU email in connection with official business is a public record. r. Textbook adoption: October for Spring semesters and March for Summer and Fall.

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