D’Arcy Norman Dot Net » Blog Archive » Faculty Technology Days session on Weblogs and Wikis
I was thinking as I read about this upcoming session at the University of Calgary, what would happen if I proposed something like this for the faculty at my school? Maybe I’m just in a negative mood, but frankly, I think most of them would stare at me as if I had grown a second head. Faculty as a whole are very, shall we say, low tech. I mentioned the word ‘wiki’ a couple of times in some IT meetings and was greeted with the “two-headed-stare.”
On the positive side, I have been able to participate with other librarians in training sessions on new technology for faculty each summer. This year in addition to a mini-conference called “Technology for Teaching,” a new opportunity for faculty technology learning is being planned. This session will be on hands-on, one-on-one learning opportunities. I’m not sure whether or not I will be asked to participate in this yet.
My overall frustration is with the technological illiteracy so prevalent at my school, especially among faculty. This, in spite of the constant pep talk by one or two IT-related administrators about how great we are, how we are doing such great things, how we are so advanced technologically. Bunk.
