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Appendix A: Budget History and Impact
Audience: Budget Committee, PRBC,and Administrators
Purpose: This analysis describes your history of budget requests from the previous two years and
the impacts of funds received and needs that were not met. This history of documented need
can both support your narrative in Section A and provide additional information for Budget
Committee recommendations.
Instructions: Please provide the requested information, and fully explain the impact of the budget
decisions.
Category
Classified Staffing (# of positions)
Supplies & Services
Technology/Equipment
Other
TOTAL
2011-12
Budget
Requested
1 part-time
Spanish
adjunct for
lab
2011-12
Budget
Received
none
2012-13
Budget
Requested
1 part-time
Spanish
adjunct for
lab
2012-13
Budget
Received
none
$800
$0
1. How has your investment of the budget monies you did receive improved student learning? When
you requested the funding, you provided a rationale. In this section, assess if the anticipated
positive impacts you projected have, in fact, been realized.
Staffing: We have been requesting the hiring of a Spanish adjunct to work part-time at the lab to
respond to student lab needs by offering a more flexible schedule. Currently, students have a very
limited lab schedule available to them.
Technology/equipment: We have requested Camtasia Studio and Screencast Pro as well as Wimba.
Critical Technology support needed:
A. Camtasia Studio ($299) and Screencast Pro ($99.95)
Two full-time instructors (C. Moon and C. Parrish) are teaching online and need the
tools necessary to provide student-centered lectures on Blackboard. As of now the
District does not offer resources nor software for :
a) video and screen capturing. This is essential in providing the instructor the tool to
record an online lecture from their computer screen with audio commenting with
editing capabilities. Thus the following software is needed ASAP: two licenses of
Camtasia Studio ($299 x 2 = $598 + tax).
b) Online video and content hosting with adequate storing capacity and bandwidth to
accommodate the high volume of students accessing and downloading the video
lectures ($99.95 x 2 = $199.90 + tax). This is a yearly license for two instructors.
We currently have to accommodate at least 200 online students accessing online
video lectures.
B. Wimba Voice needed
We have communicated to the Chabot Technology Committee the need of voice
discussion tool on Blackboard such as Wimba voice. The committee agreed that it
will be useful tool but we need the monetary support to at least pilot this tool as a
viable tool for not only our online students but for all Chabot students.
Some of the possible benefits of this tool are:
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Enhance the instructor’s presence and involvement with course materials
Add additional, re-usable explanations of complex concepts
Personalize engagement between instructors and students
Teach correct pronunciation and provide audible learning cues to students
Enhance the instructor’s ability to reach students who learn best by hearing,
To better address students with visual and print disabilities,
Add energy and interactivity to class discussions
2. What has been the impact of not receiving some of your requested funding? How has student
learning been impacted, or safety compromised, or enrollment or retention negatively impacted?
Lack of staffing: Due to the limited resources, currently the lab schedule does not promote studentoriented learning environment.
Campus server that would support the uploading of video/audio files needed
Because of our large amount video files that we use for our hybrid/online courses, we can not
load them on Blackboard. We are using outside servers (paid by the individual instructors) to
host our videos for our students. We need a dedicated server for our increasing need of
video/audio files.