Eisenberg Celebrating Tutors' Technology Talents to Improve Tutor Training and Enhance Peer Tutoring

23/Th 2:15 PM Miller

Type_Presentation:         60-minute Concurrent Session

PresentationTitle:         Celebrating Tutors' Technology Talents to Improve Tutor Training and Enhance Peer-Tutoring

ProgramStrand_Primary:     Peer Tutoring

ProgramStrand_Secondary:   Learning and Study Strategies

Presentation_description:

Participants will learn how tutors can be involved in creating tutor training presentation involving the technology peer-tutors and students are using everyday. The presentation will include a tutor training video created by our tutors, a demonstration of the various websites tutors can use for content specific courses and time management strategies, and an introduction to TurningPoint, an audience response system that allows audiences to participate in presentations.

Purpose:  The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate to participants how tutors' can participate by using their knowledge and expertise to enhance tutor training. Students and tutors are using such current technology as computers, i-pods, and videos daily.  It is important to incorporate this technology into our tutor training and peer-tutoring, and who is better at knowing how to this then the tutors?  This session is designed to provide those training tutors  with new ideas to engage their tutors to incorporate their creative talents and knowledge of technology to enhance tutor training and peer-tutoring as well as a sharing of what participants are doing within their programs.

Learning Objectives:

1.  How a low budget tutor training video can be made.

2.  How the Internet can be incorporated by tutors and tutees for course content and

    learning strategies.

3.  An introduction to TurningPoint, an audience response system that allows           audiences to participate in presentations and record information.

4.  The sharing of ideas by participants of how they are using technology in their tutoring centers.

As Tutor Administrator I was presenting weekly tutor training sessions using PowerPoint, some hands-on activities and handouts.  After a semster I realized my tutors were beginning to incorporate more and more technology into their daily lives as well as their tutoring. At the end of the semester I encouraged the tutors to become involved in creating tutor training sessions for the following semester using their knowledge of technology to enhance our training. The tutors' accomplishmets were incredible.

This session will include a tutor training video produced and directed by one of our Film and Television tutors.  Following the short video will be a step-by-step explination of how the film was created. (The video can be seen on YouTube).

Next, a demonstration will be given that was created by a Computer Science tutor showing numberous websites for content specific courses.  This demonstration also includes the use of a Google calendaring system he uses as a time management tool with his tutees.

Third, this session will introduce TurningPoint audience response system which integrates  into Microsoft® PowerPoint® and allows tutors, or other audiences, to participate in presentations or lectures by submitting responses to interactive questions using a ResponseCard® keypad. With the use of TurningPoint audience response system, the PowerPoint presentations can also collects data immediately from the audience responses.

Handouts will be given to participants which include an explination of the making of the video, all content specific websites, and information on TurningPoint.

The presentation will conclude with the answering of  questions and the sharing by participants of their use of technology in their tutor training and in their centers.

PresenterBio:

Diane Eisenberg is the Tutor Administrator at Chapman University.  Prior to coming to Chapman, Diane was a Study Skills Specialist at California State Univerity, Long Beach for seven years.  She also taught Learning Skills and Study Strategies both at CSULB and Long Beach City College for ten years. At Long Beach City College she also designed and taught an on-ling Study Skills course.