This week, we went over a lot of different types of software and the professional staff. Victoria and Jim went over the software catalogs on the Stony Brook DoIT Webpage and explained that if it is supported by Client Support, we as Senior Consultants should be the ones to take care of it, or at least understand the basics of it. As a student and as a regular consultant, I came across the DoIT Webpage very often as it was the first page that would open up whenever I opened a web browser, and I never really paid much attention to it. However, after Jim’s detailed explanation of the page, I realized how beneficial the page actually is. It’s not just a page, it’s more of a huge encyclopedia of what DoIT is all about. It serves as a reference and a tool for the whole community. It baffles me how many students (like me before) overlooked the DoIT web page. Almost every page on the website has a link to a different website that can tell you more about how Stony Brook works and how the DoIT department runs.
In class, Chris, the Instructional Technologist, came in and gave a presentation on how to give powerful presentations. He taught us that in order to give a good presentation, we need to come prepared with documents. He showed us how to create and use a template under the TLT heading and how images make documents much more legible and easier to follow. For homework, we were assigned to create our own document through Google’s “Google Docs” to teach others how to log in to a certain program. I was assigned to document, how to teach someone to log in and use Print From Anywhere via the Email option. We had to make sure we were using proper formatting of certain abbreviations, such as CoLA (Collaborative Learning Areas) is spelled with a lowercase O and isn’t written in all capital letters.