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I want to welcome all of you to the, what we're calling the
First Annual Technology Day here at Eastern Illinois University.
My name is Michael Hoadley.
I'm the assistant vice president for technology and also
director of the Center for Academic Technology Support.
Today's activities really, I hope, is going to be a
culmination of many things that have been going on this past
year that we're very proud of and also moving ahead with
what's happening at Eastern in terms of technology.
Couple of housekeeping things to take care of first.
There is a sheet of paper on your table that asks you
to sign a subject release that says we can actually
take pictures of you here.
If you don't mind doing that, we would be pleased.
We did leave a pen there for you that you can take with you
afterwards, so we're hoping that you will use the pen and then
use it on your own.
And then I'll be talking about later, too, but just as a
reminder--the technology fair will continue after
the luncheon, so from 1 to 3 o'clock, we will be
over in the vendor area.
There are a lot of products and a lot of things
to see and talk about.
And then at 3:00 we will have a special round table discussion
across the hall in the 1895 Room, and all of you are welcome
and anyone else on campus is welcome to attend that.
And we're going to be talking about, the title is "Dead and
Emerging Technologies in Higher Education", and so we hope
that's going to be a fun discussion about what's
available and what's going to be out there in the future.
My last comment would be, just to let you know the goal of this
event is to celebrate and recognize the efforts of many
individuals, groups, programs, departments, and organizations
who are contributors--and that would be from the past, the
present, and in the future--who have worked to shape the
technology vision and its reality on this campus.
I'm very pleased that all of you have taken the time to join us
for this luncheon.
You have been invited as our special guests, and I will be
recognizing people throughout the luncheon
for what you've done.
And we have a very busy agenda and we are a little bit behind
schedule, so we need to move ahead with that.
Right now I've asked President Hencken to give a few remarks.
[audience applause].
Thank you very much.
I just want to tell everybody here that my father used to own
a furniture store and because he used to own a furniture store,
we had the honor and the privilege of having the very
first television set in the entire neighborhood.
People came down, everyone in the neighborhood came down at a
quarter to five to look at the test pattern because the first
TV, the first station, came on at 5 o'clock out of St. Louis.
There was one TV station, and at 10 o'clock it went off.
Now I'm not going to give you a life history here.
I'm not going to begin to show pictures of my family vacation
or anything like that.
But I want to let you know how far we have come in
the area of technology.
From the first television set, imagine that, and it was not
that many years ago, ten years ago when I was only 8, is when
we had the first television set.
But you think of where we went in technology, where we
have come, because of the fact that somebody saw something
in technology and said we can do better than that,
we can make it better.
And so now we've gone from a television set that was on for
four hours with one channel to satellite television, TV's,
flatscreen plasma TV's, TV's that can broadcast satellites
over 200 channels, still with not much more on to watch than
the one TV channel that we watched back then.
The people who won the awards today--the faculty members, the
16 faculty members, I wish to congratulate each and every one
of them--are people who took what they had and they wanted to
improve upon it and they wanted to use what they had to make it
better for somebody else.
Very similar to the television set, the increase in technology.
We are a better institution because of the hard work and
dedication that you have used with using technology.
And so with that, I congratulate the 16 award winners and
thank you very much for making this a better institution.
[audience applause].
Thank you, President Hencken.
And now I've asked the Provost, Dr. Blair Lord,
to make a few remarks.
[no dialogue].
As you all know I came here just two years ago, and as I look out
across the room right now I reflect back, could we have
had a gathering like this when I arrived.
We didn't at the time, and I don't think we could have.
Where we were two years ago is a very different place than where
we are now in terms of organizing ourselves and
being prepared to talk about and recognize people who
pioneered in integrating technology into the
instructional mission of this campus.
A year ago I was asked to try to write down some thoughts
on a vision for technology.
Among the things I wrote were we should seek to integrate
technology in institutionally appropriate ways into the
academic endeavor, and secondly we should develop a seamless
integration of classroom technology support user
services, media services and support provided to the faculty
by the CATS operation.
I think we have accomplished, or at least we have come a long way
toward achieving those things.
And I think that's a real testament to the fact that
we have brought in some of the right people.
We also had a lot of the right people.
And that's what this is about, to recognize folks who in
many ways were pioneers in bringing this to the
campus and helping others.
We've done a fairly recent count of the number of courses
that are in some way augmented by technology, that have
some element of something delivered over the web
through WebCT and the like.
And I think it's now probably over 400 courses that have
some augmentation of what we do in the classroom with the
technology, something that's been technology-delivered.
I think that really speaks to the efforts of this faculty and
the leadership of the CATS staff and the pioneers.
So I too want to honor, recognize, the 16 folks that are
being honored today.
I also noticed as I turned over the program, it has a listing
of all these people and all the different committees
that are involved in technology, and I thought this looks like
about half the campus.
And that's good.
Again, thank you.
[audience applause].
Thank you, Dr. Lord.
Okay, before we begin recognizing the people on campus
I want us to show our appreciation to the vendors
who are here today.
So I'd like all of them to stand up, please, all the vendors.
[audience applause].
We really do appreciate you taking the time
to be here with us.
I hope everybody gets a chance to go over to
the Technology Fair.
There is another copy, I know it was sent to all of you
on campus, but another copy with the names and contact
information for those individuals who are here today.
So let's look forward to making some good decisions about
purchasing technology equipment.
I also want to recognize John Looby and John Henderson,
if those two people would please stand up.
They have done--John and John, there we go--they have done an
excellent job in organizing...
[audience applause].
...the technology fair.
They have also been very much involved in what's going to
happen with the round table discusison.
I will say to John Looby, we really appreciate your help
in terms of this audio-visual setup that we have today,
because he's been working with the CATS staff.
We're trying something new, and we're hoping it's going to work
very well as we go through this afternoon.
Now I'd like to acknowledge a few groups and committees
that have worked with CATS this past year and ask them to
stand and be recognized.
A year ago, I knew very few people on this campus.
I feel very comfortable right now that, at least in this room,
I probably know 80 percent of the people in this room, and
I plan to contact the other 20 percent.
It's very exciting for me, but one of the things as
President Hencken and Dr. Lord both pointed out is that
this is a celebration of what we can do together.
And there are a lot of people on this campus who have worked
very hard and I know I have appreciated this year their
support and the collaboration.
One group is called TECnet, the Technology Enhancement in
Colleges through Networking, Education, and Training.
That was created last fall.
That's primarily, it started out with the instructional support
specialists in the colleges.
It's been expanded to include people from continuing education
and ITS and of course CATS, and this past year we did
over 100 free workshops on campus and trained
well over 500, 600 people.
And that's not counting the people who came to the
information sessions as well.
So would the people, anybody who's worked with TECnet
this year, please stand up.
[audience applause].
It's a great group, and it's because of their expertise
that we have on campus that makes the difference.
Then there's the Academic Technology Advisory Committee,
known as ATAC.
They have been involved for several years now since,
I believe, 1995, 1996.
Campus-wide discussions related to the development of academic
computer labs and the use of technology in the classrooms.
And that's a very diverse group of people that help us
in the decision-making process.
So would all the people who are on the ATAC
please stand...everybody.
[audience applause].
Very good.
And then we have the Comprensive Technology
Planning Committee, CTPC.
We've been meeting every week since the 1st of February as
part of the systematic process to gather data and then we're in
the process right now of gathering more data,
and we'll be drafting recommendations to the
president and the vice president the ideas about creating
a technology vision at Eastern.
So would everybody who's on CTPC please stand up.
[audience applause].
Very good.
Now we have the TEAM grants council.
One of the recommendations was to put together a campus
committee to help in working with what used to be called
the TEDE grants, and now that's transformed into what
we call the TEAM grants, Technology Enhancement
and Management grants.
And this past spring they started the first wave of
looking at proposals and for the funding and the professional
development grants and they're working with me right now as we
start putting together criteria for the planning,
implementation, and evaluation grants for this year.
So would those 10 people please stand up.
[audience applause].
And then finally I'd like to acknowledge a few campus
resources and service providers that have worked
with CATS this past year.
First of all would be the staff at Booth Library Media Services.
They've been instrumental obviously for many years in
terms of supporting the installation of multi-media
equipment on campus, and they've obviously been
very directly involved in the support of over 100
technology classrooms at Eastern.
And as you noticed on your program the 100th technology
classroom was just designated, and Dr. Baharlou's
geology/geography lab is where that is set up.
So would the staff from Booth Library Media Services
please stand up.
[audience applause].
And obviously they do lots of other things that
I didn't mention but they're very, very critical to what
we do on campus.
And then the staff at Information
Technology Services, ITS.
I wanted to recognize, Chat and I talked about this and wanted
to recognize the Help Desk staff.
That group working this last fall really put together a great
resource for the campus to answer questions every day
and direct individuals to appropriate resources.
And then we also have the Distributed Computing Group,
and they're responsible in case you're not aware of it, helping
with the academic servers on campus and working with
WebCT and those types of things, so supporting our
academic missions that way.
So would the people from ITS please stand up.
[audience applause].
Very good.
And finally I just want to recognize the students
who are here today.
We asked some representatives from the Student Senate and a
student who was last year on the ATAC and then we also asked the
Deans to invite students from their colleges and we have some
representatives here today.
Very important, we do need to acknowledge, we all know why we
are here, and it's to work with the students in terms of their
academc careers and moving forward with their professions.
They also support us in terns of the networking fee and
the technology fee.
And it's really critical because all of our accomplishments, many
of our accomplishments I should say, are because of that vision
of being able to use those fees and support enhancement here.
So would the students who are present please stand up,
undergraduate and graduate students.
[audience applause].
Very good.
And now we're going to move on to the academic spotlight
for this celebration, which is focused on faculty members
who are being recognized for excellence in
the use of technology.
The colleges have identified individuals who they believe
have made a difference in the classroom through
their use of technology.
Four faculty members are being recognized from each of the
colleges at Eastern today because their efforts in using
that technology have proven to be not only beneficial to the
students in their programs of study, but also for achieving
the goals and acaemic mission of this outstanding institution.
I'd now like to ask each Dean to come forward one at a time.
That Dean will make the announcements about
the faculty members.
If the Associate Dean would move over to this table with the four
faculty members, we're going to try something here in terms of
the presentation that way.
So the first Dean would be Dean James Johnson from the
College of Arts and Humanities.