 Hello, and we have another transatlantic, but but in this case we actually have we have a duo here a double pair So we have Jeff and we have Lee and I know they're dying to have a go with another couple of fuckl I don't our coop couple of wards Oscar. Yeah, so we're all ready. Are we all sitting up straight boys and girls? Well, then we begin We start off with one two three four five, but as I said in urge. Are we ready? Hey Oh All right. Hi everyone My name is Lee Scalera basset and I am a learning design specialist at Georgetown University, but previous to that I was at the division of teaching and learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington Hi everyone, I'm Jeff McClarkin. I'm a professor of history in American studies and chief of staff to the president the University of Mary Washington But my previous job was the special assistant to the provost for teaching technology and innovation and What we're going to talk to you about today is the 15-year journey To incorporate digital fluency into the gen ed requirements at the University of Mary Washington And so prepared a timeline We're not going to have time to get into all of it to say it's just this is just a shout out But please do visit the full timeline to see the the course of events at 15 years to digital fluency and the bit. Lee Will work and is also case sensitive so To get started One of the first events and how we can sort of say how do I know 15 years is in 2004 Staff at DT LT got their very first web spaces to be able to Play with the web and what was really exciting to them is that they were able to Move past or beyond and think beyond the learning management system the LMS as we call it here in North America And so growing from that the DT LT staff get DT LT staff gets web space Then select faculty get blogs in 2005 a year later As well as select academic departments begin introducing digital literacy into their programmatic learning outcomes which includes history, which is Jeff's home department and He played a pivotal role in that as well more most importantly perhaps was in 2007 we launch UMW blogs or University of Mary Washington blogs one of the first WordPress multi-site installations for Educational purposes and I have to say that the group of Jim groom Martha bird is Tim Owens and the rest of the DT LT team from then was really making it up as they went along Because the infrastructure didn't exist yet They built the infrastructure from the ground up to be able to do what it is that they wanted to do with the blogs There is then an ad hoc provost committee on digital initiatives There was the year of the digital campus at University of Mary Washington as we moved through But then during that three-year period or four-year period We see a lot of grounds. Well, the the skills are improving Faculty are learning students are learning And so in 2012 we find we have moved into the domain of one's own pilot So what if every single faculty? Student and staff at the University of Mary Washington could make their own domain and have their own domain space What would happen? And so this is the beginning of a domain of one's own as we know it now At the same time so we're looking at working at digital infrastructure now. We have physical infrastructure with the breaking ground on the ICC ITC ICC center As well as the creation of a digital studies minor so we see the infrastructure physical And digital as well as the academic infrastructure coming together So we moved through domain of one's own going campus-wide the ITCC now known as the HTCO Another important one is the opening of the digital knowledge center where peer peer tutors student peer tutors Tutor other students to help them do their digital projects in order to be able to fully embrace the affordances of Digital literacy and domain of one's own We now have communications and digital studies Digital fluency becomes a part of the 2020 strategic plan There's then a report on incorporating it and then we end up with these 15-year journey in 2009 where the new digitally intensive gen ed requirement is Approved and so now all students at the University of Mary Washington have to take courses a certain number of courses that are labeled digitally Intensive and so we have gone from 2004. We're starting to play with blogs to 2019 where now It is fully integrated into the fabric of the University of Mary Washington Jeff Thanks, Lee So in the spirit of GASTA a few quick takeaways about what it takes to achieve digital fluency First of all, you've got to engage faculty with play Not everything needs to be focused on teaching or on their research directly one of the best faculty development models That we engaged in with something known as the faculty initiative where faculty created their own domains Not necessarily for their own classes, but for their own personal professional development and that resulted in many faculty Be willing to try these tools in their teaching and to expect more students to engage with concepts and practices of digital fluency You've got to build out curricular support. So that includes encouraging departmental Digital literacy or fluency discussions or even requirements We've been very much supported by connections to the digital studies minor and then the common digital studies major and then including digital fluency in your general education or Equivalent programs. You've got to build out infrastructure support. We talked about DT LT our faculty tech support unit We talked about the digital knowledge center to provide support for students Those are critical in providing faculty and students with the support and advice that they need throughout this process And then finally you've got to engage in strategic planning I know lots of people blow off strategic planning, but this is how you can advance programs get digital Literacy fluency plans for digital centers get digitally enabled programs mentioned in your strategic plan And not every strategic plan item gets funded or completed, but it's always a defensible position to say we have to move forward on this It's in the strategic plan So with that it's been a long road at UMW, but I'm proud of where we are Thank you for your time and we appreciate it and Lee and I are happy to answer any questions that people have