MAC - Month 11 - Week 4 - Publishing-Leadership Project - Part 1 of 2: The Broadcast

I can envision taking the work complied throughout my Action Research journey to facilitate the growth of our hybrid and distance education programs at Keystone College. The Media Services department serves in many roles at the College, but the primary function is the integration of instructional technology into the educational structure. The first step is to find a means of broadcasting the existence of the support materials available on the Media Services website to the campus community. This would include redirecting links from the main Keystone website’s technology and support pages to the MS website. Also redirecting the support links within each of the various management software systems utilized and supported by the MS website.

In addition to the virtual networking and linking to the MS website, I would like to publish a quarterly announcement in the K.C. Morning E-Notes. This is a daily email publication containing current events, campus news, and upcoming activities on campus. It has proved to be a very effective way to communicate information to the entire campus community. I feel that rebroadcasting the link and function of the MS website prior to the start of each semester will promote learning of our various course management software systems, and allow users to realize the potential of these educational tools.

There are also several organizational meetings of faculty and administration that would also be a good opportunity to announce this project. This way the background behind the project could be presented and a live demonstration of the websites functionality could be shown. I hope that this would inspire several established initiatives in the realm of our online and distance education programs to use the MS website as a tool to support the growing number of students in these programs.

This will be presented in three steps. The first is to provide the physical connections between the software systems and the support website. The second is to tell the campus where the website is and what it can do. The third is to show the community how it works. This process would at least ensure that the campus is aware that these support tutorials are available to them.

Here is a link to the Media Services website. Be advised, the site is in a live working beta stage and there are some links that are not working.