Last night my colleagues and I presented our semi-annual plenary break out on Academic Technology at Palomar College. It was well attended, but necessarily by only a small percentage of the enormous number of adjunct professors employed by the college. As a reference for those who did not attend, here is an encapsulated version. We conducted our workshop using the sandbox AT@PC workshop course we had developed. Each professor at Palomar College has an account on our sandbox system. We set the course up for self-enrollment through the Academic Technology Training course, also on the sandbox system. One...

Here is the second part of my interview with Lee Hoffmann, Audio Visual supervisor at Palomar College.  In the Q&A section I try to summarize Lee’s responses to some specific questions about AV technology on campus, and at the end the audio of the interview is available. Q: Would you support purchase and installation of newer AV technologies like short throuw projectors onto smart boards, or large screen LCD monitors in place of digital projectors? A: Yes and No.  Smart Boards are good in certain instances, but the ADA laws requiring that the bottom of the board limits their utility.  Their...

I sat down with Lee Hoffmann, supervisor of our Audio Visual department, to talk about the AV profile and plan for Palomar College over the next several years.  I am part of a small committee responsible for writing a new technology master plan for the campus, and we are in the information gathering phase of our project.  Lee’s input, then, is critical.  When you ask professors about classroom technology, the first thing they mention is “the projector.”  In informal surveys when we have asked professors attending our semester orientations if they use a digital projector to teach, we...