How CMC transitioned from incorporating technology into curriculum to adopting technology in everyday life. Micheal Malsed, Assistant Director for Student Technology Services Ben Royas, Instructional Technology Specialist Melissa Zhuo, Instructional Technologist Copyright Claremont McKenna College, This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

 Background FITness – Fluency in Information Technology Based on the NRC Report Program begun in Feb 2001 Student abilities  Specialized knowledge – video games, word processing, downloading, instant messages.  Little useful business/academic knowledge

 FITness focuses on increasing student fluency by incorporating technology into curriculum Faculty based/student end Smooth incorporation

 Grants to faculty to incorporate tech  Faculty approached Not OUR tech – THEIR tech We support, we grant, we assist  Student outcomes  Assessment – difficult Faculty – self assessment Students – longitudinal, qualitative

 Online Communication  Technology Enhanced Presentations  Structured Documents  Data Analysis  Electronic Research and Evaluation  Online Ethics (including Plagiarism)  Databases

 Unanimous faculty acceptance and adoption May 13, 2003 Unanimous faculty vote  Student computer usage up  Lab usage up  Student expectations rise dramatically Snapshot Reports from 2003/2004

 Time to move from faculty oriented/student ended program to student oriented/student ended program

 A three year $500,000 grant from Fletcher Jones foundation  Focus on promoting Peer-to-Peer (student to student) mentoring and learning

 To develop a group of trained FJ Technology Consultants  To offer students the opportunity to attend workshops that meet their schedules Program Goals

 To create a series of Online Study Guides for each of the seven FITness goals  To spread student IT fluency across campus in various academic/non- academic capacities

 Away from structured teaching and learning within the classroom (faculty to student)  Toward informal teaching and learning anywhere (student to student)  STAT students are key to spreading tech knowledge across campus in a variety of settings and situations

 Received first installment of grant in 2004  Workshops Covered each of the seven FITness goals in-depth Half an hour to an hour per session : Mini-Camp workshops offered to STAT students over the course of a few days. Primarily staff- taught with some student taught workshops and : were student taught with only one staff-taught workshop

 Non-core workshops taught “on-demand” by students Students were asked to request workshops that they were interested in such as video editing, filming, specialized software (STATA, SPSS, MATLAB)  Incentives to encourage participation Students paid for attending and instructing Upon completion of all core workshops, students earned a per hour pay raise and became FJ Tech Consultants Qualified FJ Tech Consultants could attend three or more non- core workshops to earn an additional per hour pay raise

 Online Study Guides created and produced by students Cover each of the seven FITness goals Interactive, step-by-step, multimedia guides Incorporate text, images, audio, and video Can be easily updated for future users Accessible to all students via the FJ webpage:  Fletcher Jones Online Study Guides Fletcher Jones Online Study Guides

 Senior Thesis Workshop on RefWorks & Word presented in conjunction with CMC’s Writing Center Offered multiple times at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters ( )  Freshman Workshops on RefWorks & Word Offered over the course of the fall and spring semesters ( )

 High Demand for more Senior Thesis and Freshman RefWorks & Word workshops  Information Technology Advisory Board (ITAB) Silicon Valley trip

Results & Successes  STAT Personal Management Package (PMP)  Fantasy Congress ( Started by CMC students Andrew Lee, Ian Hafkenschiel, Arjun Lall, and Ryan Wilson