learningTech News

Due to layoffs as a result of budget cuts, there is no longer a Learning Technology group. Administration of the Broadcast Media Center has returned to the De Anza campus.

training materials, and other resources

We organized the best of our projects, training materials, and other resources into this web site to provide you with examples for your use. The Dean of Learning Technologies (Cindy Vinson), the Instructional Development Group (Robert Griffiths, Ana Gamaza, Heidi King, Drake Lewis), and the Technical Trainers (Kathy Fransham, David Garrido, Janet Davis) want to thank the FHDA community for the privilege of supporting your efforts in using technology to improve instruction, communication, and productivity. We are proud of our accomplishments and proud to have been part of the transformation that continues to take place everyday in your classrooms, online, at the colleges, and in the district.

Highlights of our Accomplishments

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Developed in collaboration with faculty award-winning courses and sharable learning resources for students:

Nursing Project

Statistics Course

Children's Literature

Applied Pharmacology

Case Study

Course templates

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Language Arts Library of pictures

Physics instructional videos

Spread and Distribution learning object

Pop-up book learning object

Ed plan learning object

De Anza virtual tour

Build a folktale machine

Folktale Archive Database

English writing project

Clip Art Gallery

Solved instructional and organizational challenges

Manila faculty web site project

Central Services web site project

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Designing Hybrid Instruction Course

Instructional Design Intensive

Faculty consultations

Promoted collaboration and the sharing of best practices

Best Practices Workshops

Discussion groups workshops for Manila and Etudes

Manila magic workshop

Manila Users' Group

ETUDES training workshop

Provided technical training, just-in-time training, consultation, and user documentation

Over 300 technical training workshops presented during the last two years at Foothill and De Anza.

More than 2000 attendees at these training workshops.

In just 2.5 weeks, 40 people in central services were trained on Manila and are now able to independently update, maintain, and add pages to their website.