Judith Kirkpatrick and Susan LangTechnorhetoricians in the age of support service crises across campuses today often find themselves in the role of technowizard amongst scholars who are technically challenged. To create activities and ventures for competent teachers who are interested in using media in their teaching, but haven't quite started, the technorhetorician can apply many of the rhetorical theories we use in our classrooms for our colleagues as well.
This 1/2 day workshop will be designed to identify the modes of training that evoke change and the modes that don'ts. The workshop participant will learn successful strategies that will result in developing a critical number of colleagues who have similar goals, skills and research interests.
In interviews in the 1995-96 school year with 60 community college faculty who had gone through intensive Internet training activities in the summer of 1995, Kirkpatrick noticed certain patterns emerged from faculty who had made or had plans to make significant changes in what they taught, how they taught and what their expectations were for their students.