What Do the Instructional Technologists Do? 
Instructional Technology is a broad-based concept. Mostly, we help to make instructional applications available to faculty, staff, and students for teaching and learning. However, that entails several different responsibilities, including:
• Shares information about what technologies are available and promoting their use. This means letting everyone know what we have, where it is, and how they can access it.
• Instruct and support faculty, staff, and students in the use of technologies. Expect to see workshops, the Canvas certification courses, weblinks to information and resources, FAQs, and other ways to empower all users to make the most of our technologies. If you're an expert with a particular program, application, or system, let us know so that we can draw on that expertise for the benefit of the whole campus. If you'd like to become an expert with a system, let us know and we can help you work toward that goal.
• Recommend the acquisition of technologies to both the local and district administrations. If we see or hear about something that would prove useful on our campus, we'll advocate for its adoption. Likewise, if you see or hear about something that you think would be useful, let us know so that we can get the process of evaluation and possible adoption started.
• Support distance education. We work with the Dean of Distance Education and the Distance Education program in order to help improve effectiveness and accessibility.
We aim to be facilitators, advocates, and partners with everyone involved in instruction. We already have some plans underway that should get us off to a good start, and we hope to work with the campus community to make technology a valuable part of life at MC.
Contact
Instructional Technologists/Designers: Tracie Bosket and Richard Feilden
If you are interested in teaching online or hybrid courses, register for the Online Teacher Training Course in Canvas