Educational Technology Committee

Minutes of the EdTech Committee meeting Tuesday, Sept 7, 2004 

Attending: Mike Battig, John Devlin, Greta Pangborn   
ad officio members: Bill Anderson, Susan Breeyear, and Joanne Snyder

1. Mike Battig was chosen to be the chair by the committee.
2. Greta Pangborn will update the website.
3. Mike’s initial comments on the year:
   1. We should follow up on the grant given last year to Richard Kujawa.
   2. We should have another lunch to follow up on the experiences of the laptop workshop participants (as soon as possible).
      • Susan Breeyear will bring this up at the TRC meeting on Monday.  (Doug Green chairs the TRC and participated in the workshop.)
      • Potluck refreshments worked well last time.
      • We should consider having this in one of the new technology classrooms (JEM 281).

4. Bill’s initial comments on the year:
   1. He will discuss the budget with Jan.   
   2. There will be a conversation about creating an intellectual property policy this fall (this has been driven in part by eCollege). Joanne brought up the additional work that must by done to have copyright policy comply with the TEACH Act.
3. There may be a conversation about using email as the official means of communicating with students.
4. The bandwidth policy may be revisited.
5. This is year two of the JEM renovation project.