Keeping Up with the Jetsons:

Incorporating "New" Technologies into your Teaching & Learning Practices FPLC

This group is a part of Mesa Community College's Faculty and Professioanl Learning Communities (FPLC, pronounced "fip lick")

What the Jetsons FPLC is all about?

Admit it, if you are considering participating in this FPLC, you are probably a little geeky. That's ok...you're in good company. Our hope is that we can share experiences learning about and exploring new technologies. We also hope that everyone will get to think a little more thoroughly, reflectively, and systematically about how and why they decide to incorporate a new technology into their teaching or other work processes.

Some Driving Questions:

• How do you learn about new technologies?
• How do you learn new technologies?
• How do you decide whether or not to adopt a new technology?
• How do you incorporate a new technology into your teaching and/or other work processes?
• How do you assess whether or not the new technology is achieving your goal/s?

Possible Group Goals

By the end of the 2007-2008 academic year, participants in the Jetsons FPLC will have:

• learned about various "new" technologies;
• implemented one "new" technology into one of his or her classes or work processes; and
• assessed the implementation of the "new" technology.

Resources

• Fall Schedule --Doodle Poll to Schedule Fall meeting
• Spring Schedule
• Web 2.0 Apps for all
• Live Like the Jetson's (a fun article)