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Weston Taylor

Lab and Instructional Technology Specialist 

What I Do

  • manage all public labs on campus
  • manage student workers for public labs
  • provide on-campus professional development opportunities for faculty and staff via Tech Tuesdays
  • course support – I help faculty
    • incorporate various technology tools into their courses to improve student learning
    • develop assignments using technology and assessment mechanisms for those assignments
  • research technologies and practices that may be useful for teaching and learning
  • develop new ways to use technology to improve student learning
  • collaborate with colleagues at other institutions to develop resources for use on all campuses
  • manage specialized software licenses
  • advise disability services office on technology needs and see that accessibility software is installed in labs

Weston Taylor, Lab Guy Extraordinaire

Liliana

Tutt Library 153
719-389-6159
Weston.Taylor@ColoradoCollege.edu

Mailing Address:
The Colorado College
attn: ITS
14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Publications and presentations

Tech Tuesdays, 15-20 minute presentations and demonstrations on technologies which aid work and learning, 2011-2012 Colorado College WES Room, Worner Center

How we do what we do (prezi), an overview and survey of lab management tools, techniques and policies, Labman 2011, June 2011 Spelman College

Student Information Technology Exchange 2.0 For Professional And Academic Development (link), A virtual multi-school partnership for training, ELI Annual meeting January 2009, Orlando, Florida

Accessible Technology at Colorado College and Beyond (prezi), Presentation to the Special Education Advisory Council for District 38 Lewis Palmer School District, December 2010 Monument, Colorado

Academic Background

  • B.A. German Teaching (minors in Humanities Computing and English Teaching), Brigham Young University, 2002
  • M. A. coursework completion, Educational Technology, De La Salle University, 2005
  • Graduate, Instructional Design, Western Governors University, M.Ed. 2014
  • Project Management Certificate, Villanova University, 2010

Specialties

  • Hardware and software recommendations
  • PROWL
  • PDF and ebooks
  • Instructional design
  • File format conversion