Academic Technology Services

Academic Technology Support team:

  • Jennifer Adams, Educational Technologist
  • Rose Alessi, SINC Site Manager
  • Marla Gorman, Testing Center Coordinator
  • Jennifer Jaiswal, Blackboard Specialist
  • Tara Mazovec, Student Helpdesk Supervisor
  • Pamela Michaels, Assistant SINC Site Coordinator/Student Payroll
  • Paul St. Denis, Teaching & Learning Lab Developer
  • 150 Student Technologists
  • Diana Voss, Manager

Accomplishments:

During the 2014-15 academic year:

  • celebrated SINC Sites 30th Anniversary with DoIT OPS – Desktop Engineering group
  • 3,253 courses received support (over 30,400,000 views per semester in Blackboard)
  • 22,200 unique logins for SINC Sites (Public Computer Labs managed by TLT)
  • Provided 4,167 technology consultations
  • Scheduled 5000+ echo recordings (over 800,000 views)
  • Captioned ~40 videos for Courses for ADA compliance
  • Scheduled 322 meeting times (academic classes, workshops)  that require computer classrooms (SINC Sites)

Every year, Team members work together to support: 

Student Employment:

  • Recruit, Hire, Supervise, Develop, & Mentor 150 student employees a year.
  • Each Spring , TLT holds Info sessions for students who are interested in working in a SINC Site…~300 students attended.
  • 185 students were interviewed by staff and TLT student leaders….150 hired
  • 20 Professional Development opportunities for student employees each semester….all students must take 3 workshops a semester.
  • Assessments of each workshop so student demonstrate what they learn.
  • Formal evaluation process for all consultants for raises.  All evaluations are kept in student employee’s file.
  • TLT Student Leadership Program (Spring, 3 credits)

Operations:

  • Schedule student employees to cover 11,168 shift hours a week each semester
  • Manage all supplies for 18 SINC Sites & ~70 smaller departmental/graduate student labs as well as 62 printers to support Print From Anywhere.
  • Expanded hours so that the Melville Library SINC site is open 24 hours/5 days a week
  • Frey Hall Testing Center began it’s pilot stage. In Spring 2015 – 600 students took Midterm & Final exams for MAT 125  & LIN 110.

Advisory/Working Group Involvement:

  • Lead DoIT’s Student Advisory Board
  • TEDxSBU
  • TEDxSBU Women
  • Teaching & Learning Colloquium
  • Student leader advisory board, Dean of Students
  • Opening of School Committee, Student Orientation
  • Undergraduate Colleges Curriculum Committee
  • S-Bold, Provost’s office
  • Service Management
  • 25Live
  • Mobile Digital Now
  • Open SUNY – IITG Grants ; COTE;
  • Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
  • Womens Leadership Institute
  • SUNY Korea (since inception)
  • Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering Online (since inception)
  • SPD Online
  • Faculty Center
  • JACOOL – Joint advisory council for online learning
  • Club Red

Outreach: 

  • Conduct satisfaction surveys for SINC sites, Academic Technology tools and Technology workshops. Worked with Desktop Engineering and Computing Center systems group to improve services.
  • 371 students attended Technology workshops
  • 120 workshops for WRT 101/102 courses on ePortfolio (In class visits) (2400 students)
  • Presentation and Hands on Assistance at all Freshmen Orientation Sessions (Winter & Summer)
  • Technology orientation for all ADV 101 Fall/Spring classes (in class visits)
  • Organized TEDxSBU (2nd year) – 264 attendees / over 940,000 views
  • New Faculty Orientation

Growth Opportunities for Staff:

  • TLT student leader intership program
  • ePortfolio / Digital Footprint initative
  • MDN “genius bars” around campus
  • Develop building blocks for Blackboard
  • Manage the student workforce and development for all of DoIT (students helping students)
  • Develop Technology courses in collaboration with EST & CSE for SBC credit
  • Pilot emerging technologies

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