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>> Hi.
I'm Bob Augustine, dean of the Graduate School and it's my
honor to serve as your host this afternoon and to welcome you to
the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Center for
Academic Technology Support lovingly known as CATS.
So, how is Eastern Illinois University different
on January 24th, 2012 in contrast to a decade ago?
210 technology enhanced classrooms and auditoriums,
high-end technology tools including SMART Boards and
document cameras available for teaching and learning, faculty
development and training for every technology program and
support training for students.
Comprehensive support services to launch new technology
initiatives such as laptop initiatives, use of
Turning Point and Turn-It-In technologies to improve student
learning outcomes, fully staffed web office to create an advance
web resources and the creation of My EIU for recruitment and
retention, annual upgrades in hardware to ensure that computer
labs and facilities meet or exceed student learning demands,
a comprehensive multimedia production lab with closed
captioning for all media productions.
Staff, trained in the development of mobile apps to
ensure EIU access via mobile devices, consistent electronic
and print publications.
A fully staffed state of the art center for advancing learning
technologies, technology awards, technology grants, policies,
procedures that foster and support the advance
use of technology.
Well, universities are expected to meet challenges
and they're expected to show return on investment
and they're expected to provide leadership.
But CATS, you have surpassed those expectations.
All of the technology assets that I just outlined that are
now part of our daily experience were unavailable, and generally
believed to be unattainable and unaffordable at that time.
There was no CATS, there was no plan, and there was
no vision at that particular time.
But, then as now, we had an asset that forged our future
for us that motivated important change from the state we were
in to an era of achievement.
And of course, I speak of the EIU faculty.
So I'm going to ask all the EIU faculty and department chairs
to stand right now, so we can thank you
for helping us create the future.
Please stand so we can acknowledge your contributions
to this great university.
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It was the faculty who served on that council on
academic affairs committee that created the report titled
Report of the Task Force on Technology Enhanced
and Delivered Education.
That was the catalyst for change that came from our faculty.
And here at Eastern, we have a history of achieving excellence
through this faculty leadership.
And in June of 2000, the president of the Eastern
demonstrated that excellence by acting on that CAA report.
On behalf of CATS, and in recognition of this important
step in Eastern's technology journey, I'm honored to
present a plaque to former President Carol D. Surles,
acknowledging her leadership as a catalyst for
change on our campus.
Dr. Surles was unable to be here today but it is my honor to
present the plaque to our current president
Dr. William Perry.
President Perry?
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>> Dr. Williams Perry Thank you very much Bob.
And on behalf of the university, a grateful university,
I accept the plaque in recognition of President Surles'
contribution to technology and change at EIU.
One advantage of being my age is you can remember the--
you remember you were there as technology evolved.
I remember the IBM Selectric typewriter, wasn't that awesome?
And you even had different kinds of typing balls you could put
on the typewriter.
I like the one that mimic hand writing.
Of course now we have word process--well, not word process,
we have this iPads and iTouches and iThings.
We're able to do lots of things with lots of creative fonts
and so forth and so on.
I remember--I don't remember glass plate negatives but
I do remember film, and then I remember Polaroid.
And of course now, we have digital and I don't know
of course, what's next from there.
I remember the early calculators,
the early hand calculators that cost, what Peter?
4, 500 dollars to do multiplication, division,
addition, subtraction and maybe a square root or two in a mix.
The cost has been driven down, the capability has been driven
up but it doesn't make any difference what's out there
in terms of technology if you don't plan for it
and don't take advantage of it.
And that's what's happened here at EIU.
And we really are on the cutting edge of the use of technology
for learning and teaching, and I'm very grateful for that
as all of us I'm sure are.
Now, in our strategic plan, the current draft
which was presented to the Board of Trustees
at our meeting last Friday.
And I want to thank everyone in the room who has been involved
in that in terms of the steering committee,
or being involved in any of the participation sessions.
But in the strategic planning document,
the words "ubiquitous learning" come up.
There's a desire for learning to be any place, anytime,
anywhere on any device at EIU.
And that's strategically important.
But more than that, it's a statement we could not make,
it's an aspiration we could not have, were it not for the hard
work, the great work of many of you in this room and others who
have come before you to build the platforms that we have here,
to have the drive, the initiative and the motivation
to continue to upgrade our facilities and have the best
possible learning and teaching environment at EIU.
And so, I want to thank everyone,
in particular Dr. Surles for her initial motivation
and initiation of this.
But also everyone who made it possible for us to be at this
stage now where we do indeed have an excellent learning
environment, a technological environment for our students
and faculty that are ready to take it to the next level.
Now, what that level is, we don't know.
And what the impact of it will be we cannot know,
but we are planning for that as well.
And we have a committee in place to discuss online learning and
how the technology that's available for us fits in
with our students' objectives and our faculties' objectives
in having a first rate educational experience at EIU.
If you think about the history of the university,
yes, it was founded in 1895.
Yes, old main was completed in 1898 or so.
You look at, what, a hundred and almost 20 years now
in the existence of the university.
And you look at the existence of CATS for 10 years, you can say,
"Well, 10 out 120, that's just a little under 10 percent,
it's about 8 percent of the history of the university."
But I think anytime, you do these calculations you have to
take into account the change factor, the complexity factor.
And I would argue that the last 10 years of Eastern
in terms of technology and the development of it equates to
at least 75 percent of the history of the university.
So it's been huge impact in the last 10 years.
My guess is in the next 10 years, the impact will at least
double and there's probably a Moore's law somewhere around
that that would give you a better estimate.
So I look forward to the next 10 years of CATS, the contributions
of CATS, the collaboration of faculty and staff all
across the campus to make that impact as meaningful
or more that it has been for the last 10.
So thanks very much for the opportunity to just make
a few remarks on this regard.
And also to thank everyone who's been involved in bringing
us to this current very, very good position
with regard to technology.
Thank you very much.
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>> Dr. Augustine: In academic affairs, we create
strong collaborations among faculty and staff
to translate a presidential charge into an action plan.
In October of 2000, that step was taken by
Interim Provost Dr. Lida G. Wall
when she created the Technology Enhanced and
Delivered Steering Committee, which came to be lovingly
known as the TEDE Committee.
A committee I have the honor of chairing and a committee
composed of not surprisingly Eastern faculty and staff.
Many of whom survived the committee and
are in this room today, so as I name you,
I hope you'll stand and be recognized.
The faculty included Linda Simpson, James Tidwell,
Dana Ringuette and Christie Heuser
and Ron Wilstein.
And the administer partners included Jeff Cross,
Will Hein, Elizabeth Hitch, Jim Johnson and Bill Witsman.
I wish some of you over here would stand
so that we could recognize you.
Thank you.
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The charge was "create a campus-wide conversation
in the spring of 2001 and create a new model
of technology enhanced and delivery education at Eastern
based on campus-wide input."
I communicated with Dr. Wall in December and she sent
the following message for me to share with you today.
"It is hard to believe that it's been 10 years since the Center
for Academic Technology Support was established
and I am so pleased to know that the center which was launched
as a result of the TEDE Committee Recommendation
is proving to be a worthwhile and successful endeavor."
You'll like this part, "I recall that it was launched during
a financially difficult time and that with some opposition.
I'm sorry, I won't be there to be in Charleston for the
luncheon to help celebrate the impact of the center but my
thoughts are with you and the Eastern students,
faculty and administration.
I wish you the best in your endeavors
and know that the center will prosper in the next 10 years."
So on behalf of CATS, I'm honored to present a plaque
to former Provost Wall, and accepting on her behalf is
our current Provost and Vice President for academic affairs,
Dr. Blair Lord.
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>> Dr. Blair Lord I knew I had some speaking
part today but I didn't realize I was accepting a plaque
on behalf of my predecessor, Dr. Wall.
Between Dean Augustine who has given sort of a history
of the development of CATS and the progress of technology
development and growth here at Eastern and President Perry's
remarks about his recollections of how technology has changed,
and appreciation for the faculty and leadership of CATS and
instilling that into our academic enterprise here and
instilling into the education we offer our students,
probably there's a whole lot left to say.
And in fact, I think that was, in there talking,
that there really isn't a whole lot left that I have to offer.
I do remember when I came here over 10 years ago.
Bob has talked about how that was the gestation period,
the very beginning of CATS.
The leader of CATS at that time was Mr. Technology himself,
Dean Augustine, which may say all we need to know about
how far we still had to go.
[Laughter]
I'm sorry Bob that was too easy.
I had the opportunity to supervise, to work with
the search committee that was in the process of
identifying new leadership, continuing leadership for CATS.
And after the first round of interviews,
I said, "Time out, I don't think we have the right person."
And we redid it, and I didn't have James Tidwell talk to me
for several years after that because he's the chair of that
committee and he had to redo the search so we got to do it twice.
And he's not in his head, yes, that was true.
And we run the search again, and Dr. Mike Hoadley was identified.
And I think the leadership that Mike Hoadley brought to CATS,
the ability to anticipate technology, the ability to
develop a staff that was very responsive to faculty needs,
to anticipate the changes in technology and help the staff,
and prepare themselves, and prepare the faculty to
be able to infuse that into the enterprise.
It speaks for itself, and we really are here to part,
to largely celebrate the development of CATS
and the leadership.
I'm also very pleased that I got to run another search, picked on
a different person, I let James Tidwell off the hook this time
for another leader after Dr. Hoadley left
and John Henderson is doing a fine job in that regard.
As we start up a mountain of technology, and it always seems
like a mountain, I know it seems like a mountain when I first
arrived and Dean Augustine was leading CATS
and it seemed like a mountain when Mike Hoadley arrived
and continued to lead CATS.
And we get a long way up at--in fact, President Perry mentioned
the strategic plan in the earlier versions.
I spoke with Vice President Weber and said, "It continues to
talk about all the things that we need to look forward to.
Let's not make it imply or let's not have it implied that we
haven't really scaled a long way up the mountain
and are doing very well right now because we are."
But as you go up this mountain, I swear it has an elevator under
it, it keeps getting higher and it's going to get higher.
The faculty had responded beautifully in this 10 years
to the--with the assistance of CATS
to infuse it into our education.
I want to thank all the faculty who have done that,
the people who've been recognized over the years
at this luncheon.
And I'll express my appreciation for I know it will be a
continuing devotion to working with CATS, with your students
and continuing to make the educational opportunities here
enriched with technology in your own intellectual skills as well.
Thank you, welcome for being here.
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>> Dean Augustine: It's always a humbling
experience to be around a provost.
So, from that CAA report to the TEDE Committee Recommendations,
to the legacy of CATS, at your tables later today, you're going
to get a copy of this document that you see in the screen.
A tenure retrospective and in it, you'll see
some of those important dates.
May the 1st, 2001, the TEDE Committee
presents its recommendations.
July the 1st, 2001, CATS is launched.
August the 19th, 2002, Michael R. Hoadley
begins his tenure as the first assistant Vice President
for Academic Affairs for technology and that brings me
back to my first comments.
Remember?
210 technology enhanced classrooms, technology tools,
training, web master, upgraded hardware.
Eastern achieved these goals because of a strong
and visionary leader.
He created campus-wide collaborations to advance
our academic technologies based on the recommendations of
the TEDE Committee.
Dr. Hoadley oversaw the upgrading of those classrooms.
He made the student technology fees invested
in the right properties.
He organized committees and boards to get input for
the best way to advance technology on our campus.
And he was the one who had the vision and the leadership
that brought us today, to January 24th, 2012.
Mike was to be here today but drat that darn Wisconsin,
snow and ice prevented him from being with us today
so we could thank him in person for an amazing period
of leadership on our campus.
But accepting on behalf of Dr. Hoadley this afternoon is
our current Vice President John Henderson, John?
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>> Mr. Henderson: I received an e-mail from
Michael this morning.
And he said to send his regrets that he could not be here
for today's celebration.
And he also said, "I see roads drifting snow
and high winds made travel impossible yesterday."
Why would you move to the tundra?
I don't know, you know.
But he is definitely honored that this is named after him.
The faculty award will be named after him.
And he said it especially reflects well on his staff.
So, if that staff would stand and recognize Dr. Hoadley?
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Could you come up here, please?
You've heard the first real director of CATS was
a non-technologist.
Well, he really did get that organized and going.
I remember I had left for Wisconsin and I was part
of that committee.
Bill Witsman finished up for me but
I've been on several committees for this gentleman since then,
and he's just a task master.
He just makes you work, work, work, work.
So, we would like to present for, Dr. Augustine, for
your outstanding leadership and commitment to the success of--
>> Dr. Augustine: Thank you, thank you.
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Well, you know, I had to work all those months
with James Tidwell. it wasn't easy, let me tell you
[laughter].
I'm still on therapy
[laughter].
So you've learned from Vice President Henderson that
one of the ways we plan to honor Dr. Hoadley is
to recast and rename our technology awards
in his honor as the Michael R. Hoadley Technology Awards.
But, before we got to today, there were many, many faculty
and staff who earned awards for technology in the past
under Mike's tutelage.
With all those who have earned technology awards who are
in the room today, please stand and let us recognize you.
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Another reflection of Mike's great work.
So, the inaugural recipient of the Hoadley Instructional
Technology Award is Dr. David Gracon,
professor of communication studies for his project titled
"The Reconceptualization of Communication Studies 3500
Electronic Media Relations."
Dr. Gracon, will you please join me on the stage.
And I don't know, are we going to be able to show the video?
Okay.
Before we show the video, I wanted to tell you something
about Dr. Gracon's project.
Dr. Gracon writes, "in this course students construct
projects by actively implementing the ideals of
social advocacy, social justice, or some other community-based
initiative by producing a series of multimedia projects
incorporating new media technologies which
are then distributed on a WordPress blog.
Each project requires a self-introduction video,
a digital photography to master composition and framing,
a digital slide show requiring audio narration,
and a mini documentary.
This approach has transformed the course from one that
required completion of a traditional research paper where
only the professor would read and evaluate the project to one
in which the research project is a flowing visual artifact
distributed to a worldwide audience receiving responses
from many constituents.
The new approach directly relates to the university's
integrative learning initiative where the students interact with
the community and with the social organizations
while mastering both research and multimedia skills.
Students completing the course have noted these particular
things about the course.
The skills that I learned have increased my range of tools that
I can market for future employers and having experience
using Final Cut Pro has given me the crucial competitive edge
that I need.
In his closing comments, Professor Gracon noted that he
will be organizing a workshop for the Annual Allied Media
Conference at Wayne State University to discuss this
innovative use of technology and pedagogy.
Congratulations Dr. Gracon.
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>> Dr. Gracon Okay, thank you all very much.
I'm very honored to receive this award.
I feel very appreciated and it truly validates the hard work
that went into the electronic media relations course.
I would like to thank CATS and Dr. Hoadley
for this opportunity.
I would also like to thank the Department of Communication
Studies and our chair, Mark Borzi, for nominating me
for this award.
I would also like to thank the other communication faculty
members that helped with the design of this course.
This course was a collaborative effort, it wasn't just my doing.
In particular Carrie Wilson-Brown whose expertise
with the new media helped shaped the course.
I'd also like to thank the students of the 3500 class.
If it wasn't for their patience, drive, and initiative,
I wouldn't be standing here right now.
And I often tell them, when we talked about filmmaking
practices that it's filmmakers that make films not cameras.
And this is actually a quote from somewhat famous, somewhat
underground filmmaker, Maya Deren, but it was this idea that
the technology itself doesn't drive the innovation, it's your
ideas behind it and using it as a tool to effectively use
it is what is most important.
So that's a philosophy of the course and I think it's
something that we like to think about in our department as well.
I would also like to thank the educational institutions that
helped me to get to this point.
That would be the University of Oregon School of Journalism
and Communication--go Ducks--
and also, the Department of Media Studies at SUNY Buffalo
and to a lesser extent, Go Bulls.
And some--I'd like to make a quick note about integrative
learning, I feel that this is a very powerful pedagogical
initiative and it really helped me to conceptualize the link
between local communities and hands on new media practice.
I hope this initiative will continue to gain more strength
in the future and I'm hoping this course serves as a lucid
and effective example of integrative learning.
If you have any other questions or would like more information
about the course or the kind of projects we did,
feel free to get in touch with me.
Thank you for the consideration
and for the recognition in this award, thank you.
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>> female speaker: My new media project is about
the revitalization of the Charleston Downtown Square.
The Downtown area is meant to capture the essence of the town
and draw the community together by providing a
visually encapsulating place to walk, eat, shop,
and socialize with friends.
The Charleston Square has the potential to establish
this type of atmosphere.
It has strong buildings with beautiful old architecture as
well as antique shops that capture the importance of
history within the town.
These buildings also established the small town feel as there
are local shops and minimal flashy signs drawing attention
to the space.
Despite the beauty they display, many of these buildings are
vacant or out of business.
Very few people visit the square and even fewer appreciate
the beauty it displays.
The tension lies in keeping the beautiful old buildings
while still developing stores to fit the modern era.
The focus of my project is not so much on replacing
the existing stores but I'm filling the empty ones.
The vacant buildings create a deserted fill that repels people
especially young college students.
Since Charleston is very much a college town,
it is important to target this audience in the design
and layout of the downtown area.
The goal of this project is to show the potential of the
current downtown square in Charleston and to build off what
it already has to create a more popular gathering place
for both students and members of the community.
>> Dr. Augustine: Before we finish this afternoon,
would you join me in thanking the incredible work of
the Center for Academic Technology Support staff
for all that they've done for this university.
Thank you.
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I believe I have fulfilled my obligation,
is that right?
Get a book and enjoy the rest of your day.
Thank you.
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