e-Portfolio Turgut Tezir

Visit: Center for Teaching and Learning
Visit: LaGuardia Community College

I have four years of experience as a technology mentor. I worked for Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College in New York. I prepared technology workshops and trained faculty and students on various software and hardware packages. I designed numerous web sites at the college, and I published digital media online. My previous job required me to go on educational field trips with a digital camera and video recorder. I shot many events and worked with the images by using image editing programs such as Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks and other tools. I also worked with the sound files with Sound Forge and digital movies with Windows Movie Maker. I led and managed many web projects. I prepared web design workshops for faculty and students at the college. My Staff Profile

Center for Teaching and Learning: Last Day of Work Video File. "What my previous co-workers say about me"

Project Plan: Office for Student with Disabilities (OSD) Web Site’s Project

Microsoft Project Plan: Tasks -- Office for Student with Disabilities (OSD) Web Site’s Project

• Assisted faculty member to design and develop educational web pages.
• Assisted faculty with design and creation of PowerPoint classroom presentations.
• Provided tutorial assistance on various technology tools.
• Provided assistance in various software applications in the Information Technology Labs.
• Provided assistance in software applications and course management tools to Continuing Education students.
• Assisted students in the use of Wireless technology in the English Writing Center
• Provided technical assistance to the English as a Second Language Lab.
• Provided assistance in the Library conducting database searches.
• Assisted Instructional Design Assistants (IDAs) to conduct workshops for faculty.
• Assisted students and faculty with ePortfolio.
• Assisted faculty in the Center Lab.
• Assisted faculty in the ePortfolio Studio
• Assisted DFL by entering data into Blackboard and managing the content.
• Assisted students during class periods.

Following applications/learning tools I used as an Instructional Design Assistant:

MS Word MS Publisher MS Excel MS Outlook MS Access MS FrontPage MS Movie Maker PowerPoint

Web Authoring HTML DreamWeaver Fireworks Photoshop Internet Explorer Netscape Composer FTP Networking Java

Scanners Sound Recording Movie editing E-mail Chat Groups Blackboard Wireless Technology Smartboard Digital camera Portfolio Templates

Information technologies and computer have made revolution in education. We cannot think life and education without computers and Internet. Student and teachers are responsible for learning this technology. Otherwise, we cannot lead our society.

LaGuardia Community College is a very good example. Teachers attend technology workshops and trained by Student Technology Mentors (STM) and Isntructional Design Assistans (IDA). They learn advance technology and bring this technology to a classroom environment. Now, most of the teachers at LaGuardia have online courses, webpage, and they are more knowledgeble about educational technology. They are learning technology to teach better. This is a wonderful thing for our society, students, teachers and others.

LaGuardia Community College was one of the three colleges nationwide to receive a prestigious honor recognizing innovative faculty-training programs that enhance classroom instruction and student learning. Winner: 2004 Theodore M. Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence.

STMs and IDAs play very important roles for learning and teaching at LaGuardia. They are connecting faculty and students with technology. Their role in LaGuardia is like a bridge among students, faculty and technology.

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Computer and information technologies have made revolution in education and our social life. I cannot think life and education without computers and Internet. Student and faculties are responsible to learn this technology. I feel that all college and universities need technology mentors because they play important roles for learning and teaching at a college. Technology mentors are connecting students and faculty with technology.