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EdTech Minutes for
Tuesday, 9 November 2004
Attending: Mike Battig (chair), John
Devlin, Joe McLaughlin, Greta Pangborn; and ex officio
members: Joanne Schneider (Libr), Dennis Voight (CEPC), Sue Breeyear
(IT).
- Minutes of
the last meeting (19 Oct 2004), previously distributed, were
approved as submitted. Joe was appointed scribe for today’s
meeting.
- Review of
EdTech-TRC brownbag seminar on last summer’s Laptop Workshop
Commendations
were given for the brownbag seminar held on 28 October, which over a
dozen attended. Wishes expressed that a larger numbers of possible
new participants in this summer’s Laptop Workshop had attended. Sue
has not yet advertised for this summer’s workshop and suggested that
a new name (in place of Laptop) was desirable.
- Review and
approval of FDC/Ed-Tech proposal from Carolyn Lukens-Olson
Mike had
distributed before the meeting copies of a proposal from Carolyn
Lukens-Olson (chair, Modern Languages), dated 31 Oct 2004, for a
workshop on educational technology for adjuncts. Her proposal,
similar in content to one Sue had presented to EdTech (see 19 Oct
Minutes item B,4), was submitted to FDC, which forwarded it to Mike
for deliberation by EdTech. It was the only proposal received in
response to Mike’s faculty email of19 Oct. calling for technology
proposals. In response to a question about the inclusion of a
scanner, it was agreed that as it would serve the entire faculty it
was appropriate. In response to a question about saying the two-day
workshop would be on ‘two consecutive Saturdays’, it was agreed to
delete ‘consecutive’ to permit more flexible scheduling. With this
change, EdTech unanimously approved Carolyn’s proposal. Mike will
present it to the Provost for funding ($2k) from her non-FDC funds;
he will also notify FDC and inform Sue of Jan’s decision.
4. Review and approval of ‘Faculty
Development Lab Service Level Agreement’
Sue’s draft
‘Faculty Development Lab Service Level Agreement’ had been
previously distributed (19 Oct). She called attention to some
further changes introduced during IT review, and after discussion,
EdTech unanimously approved the amended lab agreement. Sue will see
that it is duly posted so that it can serve as guidelines for
faculty using the Lab.
- Other
business
a/ After discussing Richard Kujawa’s
report (6 Oct 2004) on his EdTech grant of last year, it was agreed
to ask Rich to present what he learned about the various
technologies he employed in the project at a future brownbag seminar
to be sponsored by EdTech.
b/ Mike reported he is serving a new
subcommittee of the Tech Steering Group (TSG) exploring the
feasibility of the College supporting alternative platforms to
Microsoft and he welcomed input from EdTech. Discussion followed
c/ Joe distributed a memo (9 Nov),
for future discussion, seeking to determine EdTech’s role and
responsibilities in light of the Faculty Regs, Faculty
Assembly Bylaws, the College’s changed IT environment, and the
role of TSG. Discussion followed, and Joe offered to seek
information on TSG’s status and responsibilities so as to assist
subsequent discussion.
- Next meeting
was scheduled for Tuesday, 23 November, at 11:30 am in STE 361.
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