Theme V: Incorporating Technology With Teaching
Support for Faculty Development
The Faculty Training & Development Laboratory
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ait/ftdl/index.htm
The Faculty Training and Development Lab (managed by AIT) gives faculty access to
hardware and academic software, as well as training and support in the effective use of
contemporary computer technology.
Faculty receive assistance with specialized, state-of-the-art equipment and software
for Web page development and management, video capture, digital imaging, optical
character recognition, desktop publishing, creating 35mm slides, authoring multimedia, and
mastering CD-ROMs, as well as more basic applications such as word processing,
spreadsheets, presentation software, and FTPing.
Staff (including Web and multimedia design specialists) generate documentation,
provide training, and support faculty in a variety of settings: small group instruction,
individual tutorials, office visits, telephone calls, and e-mail.
Our move to relatively remote temporary quarters-spaces that lack the "heart of the
campus" location of the once-and-future-library-has only increased telephone contact and
requests for "house calls."
Library Systems staff are available to provide technical support to faculty, resolving
hardware, software, and application development problems.
The Multimedia Classrooms
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ait/multimedia/index.htm
Some faculty who are using technology to teach do so synchronously rather than
asynchronously. The College's two Multimedia Classrooms are popular venues for this type
of instruction. AIT staff schedule these spaces and maintain the hardware and software
installed there. Staff meet with faculty to ensure that the classrooms are appropriately
configured for their classes. They acquire and load the software that faculty require.
These spaces are heavily booked. The classrooms also support WebCourse, the Faculty
Workshop series, and the Virtual Core Project.
The Morton & Angela Topfer Library Café
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ait/librarycafe/index.htm
The Library Café supports faculty engaged in Web-based teaching by freeing them from
the necessity of using class time to teach their students the technical "basics" for using
the course sites instructors have created. Faculty may send their students to the Café
for one-to-one instruction, or arrange group training. For more information, see "Theme
VI: The Morton & Angela Topfer Library Café," which follows.
