Re: Instructional Technology Settings

My long-term goal is to become a full-time faculty member within the North Carolina Community College System upon receipt of my master’s degree. This higher education setting will be a nature habitat for me as I have taught at Pitt Community College in Greenville, NC as an Adjunct Computer Information Technology Instructor for three semesters. Through the instructional technology interview conducted at the beginning of the semester, I was able to ask and get answers to my questions about working as a full-time faculty member in a higher education setting. My work experience, the interview, and courses taken this semester have assured me that the Instructional Technology field is a good fit for me.

Instructional media and methods

Based upon my own teaching experiences, instructional media formats that I find interest in are computers, Internet, blogs, wikis, and Google docs and I hope to explore more. I am interested in exploring the virtual world, but time won't permit me to do so.

I currently use various instructional methods with these instructional media formats such as lecture, open-discussion, demonstration, and group work. When lecturing, I try to teach in segments in effort to afford students the opportunity to ask questions and allow the information to “sink in”. I usually present the information, demonstrate the concept, allow students to try it own their own, guide them in their practice, and assess their comprehension of the concepts. Sometimes I implement a group activity to reiterate the concepts covered.

In the future, I would love to have a hand-held device that each student can have at their desk that will allow them to enter anonymous questions or comments as well as log in answers to questions.