Introduction

=Educational Technology Book=

(developed by the students of EDIT 620 Role of the Computer coordinator Spring 2012)
=Welcome to our collaborative project=

Our NYIT Ed Tech Book is a collaborative student project designed to provide a sustainable resource that can be used as a reference in professional contexts by technology coordinators, school administrators, teachers and other school leaders. It also serves as the course content for the Spring 2012 Role of the Computer Coordinator course taught by Professor Martinez. Each "chapter" of this "book" is aligned with the rubric for the keystone project of this course which is a Technology Plan for a real or "case study" school.

The basic idea of this wiki-based multimedia "book" is to create for ourselves an authentic collaborative learning experience (none of us knew before hand what we would create other than a "book") and for the learning to reflect our "real world" context. We wanted to produce an artifact that was reusable and relevant to our professional situations. To produce this "book" we have had to engage many challenges including understanding what each chapter needed, conceptualizing the overall purpose and audience for the book, identifying appropriate platforms for content development and final presentation. Our collaborative efforts were not by any means easy: group decision making i.e. what would our final delivery platform be, was an intense process. We collectively created the time and space to consider and evaluate our options and have inclusive discussions regarding both our process and our final choice.

In our wiki you will find that each "chapter" reflects the unique approach that each group took with their chapters and the technology that they decided to employ to express or display the content of that chapter. Writing and design styles vary, some of the content is easily available in PDF form and some of it is only accessible via Web 2.0 tools on the Internet.

Our long term strategy is to keep the document relevant and accessible to the current authors of this document and future authors and editors. As part of his service and commitment to the community of students and alumni at NYIT Dr. Martinez has agreed to act as a steward of the document. It is our hope that the ongoing creative activity, conversation and collaboration that we have started continues as we make this document available to a broader audience and invite the audience to contribute comments, thoughts and ideas.

Initial revision May 2012 Revised June 2012

Student Reflections Spring 2012