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Minutes
of the EdTech Committee meeting
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004
Attending: Mike Battig,
John Devlin, Greta Pangborn, and Father McLaughlin
ad officio member: Susan Breeyear
The Laptop workshop
brown bag lunch is a week from Thursday in JEM 281.
1)
Susan Breeyear has lined up a list of
speakers: Amanda Amend, Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Richard Kujawa,
Collin Pillay
2)
Susan Breeyear will send Mike Battig an
announcement to forward to the faculty. Mike will send an initial
note on Monday and a follow-up note on Wednesday.
3)
There will be a short video shown from
this summer’s workshop. Media services will tape the brown bag.
4)
We will provide food and drink
5)
Christine will be holding office hours
in the faculty lab as part of her role as a mentor.
Discussion of the
budget / funding questions
1)
Mike provided background on emails he
had received from the Provost and Liz Inness-Brown of the FDC.
2)
Father Joe pointed out the funding
prioritization in the FDC minutes:
Prioritization for Jan: The committee looked at the list of items
Jan wished us to prioritize, and prioritized them as follows:
- Top
priority: Junior faculty summer stipends
- Next:
Student research and travel funding
- Ed Tech
funding
3)
Mike will send a note this afternoon to
the faculty pointing out that the FDC called for proposals included
technology proposals.
4)
It appears the mini-laptop workshop
proposal should be submitted to the FDC.
5)
We should coordinate next year’s call
for proposals with the FDC this spring.
Topics of discussion
for our next meeting
1)
The Faculty Development Lab
2)
Report from Richard Kujawa
The end of modem dialup
service was announced at the Tech Steering meeting.
1)
The plan to phase these out was already
in place – though this has been driven by security breaches rather
than hardware failure.
2)
If a faculty member requires dialup
access, they should discuss this with their department chair and
contract through an ISP.
3)
There is again some confusion with
respect to the Ed tech role versus the Tech Steering role. |
