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EdTech Meeting
Thursday, February 16th
2005
Attendance: John Devlin, Jo Ellis-Monaghan, Sue Breeyear, Greta
Pangborn, Steve Burks, Bill Anderson
Bill Wilson
accepted our proposal and approved $5000 for the Teaching With
Technology Workshop.
There is an
educause workshop on mobile computing in
Maryland
on March 29th – 30th. Sue Breeyear is
considering attending the workshop, and IT might consider sending a
faculty member as well.
Tablet
Discussion:
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Tech
Steering is working on the big question of what a proposal should
look like.
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There is a
meeting next week with the wireless vendor, which should help us
answer a few of the infrastructure questions.
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The capital
budget depends on the enrollment / financial aid picture for next
year, so it is an open question what we will be able to fund
(tablets for all vs. a pilot program). One possibility that the
replacement cycle will be extended by a year, but this could cause
trouble since failure rates are MUCH higher in year four. (We are
already seeing a spike in battery failure, for example.)
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One proposal
involves a student mandate along the lines of a ‘really should
buy’ recommendation for Fall ’07 and a ‘must buy’ requirement in
Fall ’08. Another possibility might be to go for an ’09 target
rather than an ’08 target.
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Wireless is,
even under the best scenario, not nearly as fast as Ethernet. We
might need to advertise what the limitations of some of the new
technologies are, so folks do not think these issues were created
by our implementation.
There was
surprise expressed by some faculty members that the faculty email
list includes some nonfaculty members (i.e., administrators) and we
were asked to consider this topic in ed tech.
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Since this
list does not have a single “owner” monitoring the recipient list
would be challenging.
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It might be
useful to offer faculty some instruction on creating their own
distribution lists.
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We are also
concerned that some folks might have a false sense of privacy when
writing to such a list. If you are going to email something to
that wide a distribution list (even if it contains only faculty)
you need to be aware that your email might be forwarded.
We will have
an expert on campus for a workshop on copyright issues on May 24th.
We will meet
on March 2nd to discuss the updates on the pilot program
and the faculty assembly announcement for the March 3rd
meeting. (In the meantime Greta will meet with Will Mentor & Mark
Lubkowitz of the tech steering committee.)
submitted
by: Greta Pangborn
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