Educational Technology Committee

Minutes for Meeting #1, 10.19.00

 

(Unofficial until approved at 11/16/00 ETC meeting)

 

Members Present:

Paul Moosman, Will Baty, Jennifer Royal, Robert Ethington, George Sturr, Russ Bowden, Renata Breth, John Hemenway, Linda Hemenway and Kathy McGreevy

 

Members Absent:

Ataiiyan Younes, Gary Brown, Doug Garrison, Bev Hinkle & Tim Bosma

 

Minutes taken by Robert Ethington

 

Overview of ETC for new members given by Russ Bowden

 

Agenda Topics

 

Approve Minutes/Select Minute Taker:

 

No minutes/Robert Ethington

 

Co-Chair Selection:

 

Jennifer Royal and Robert Ethington volunteered to be co-chairs and the rest of the committee supported their self-nominations.

 

Review This Year’s Planned Activities:

 

As a group we decided on the following topics as goals for the academic year 00/01.  We also agreed to have the co-chairs develop some type of prioritization survey to be sent out and completed before the next meeting.

 

Instructional Computing Issues

            The need to establish educational requirements related to instructional computing.

Possible timeline issues:

            ·Review the needs assessment tool

            ·Getting Support from the Academic Senate

            ·Distribution and Analysis of Results

            ·Survey policy and standards at other institutions

            ·Develop performance expectations

 

District Resource Project

            Developing a continuously updated online resource directory.

            Current needs include a timeline and a survey instrument.

 

ETC Communication Issues          

            The need to look at ETC procedural and communication issues such as:

                        ·Member participation

                        ·Academic Senate appointment of members who don’t show up to ETC

                        ·New academic year exchange of information

 

Student Technology Support

            Developing student technology support and literacy.

                        ·Establish a formal subcommittee

                        ·Survey other institutions

                        ·Develop a list of recommendations

 

Brown Bag Lunches

            Providing educational discussions and/or speakers; looking at other formats.

 

Review of Master Plan

            Review and updating the Master Plan and determining how it interfaces with ITG.

 

Standardized I.D. Cards

Using student/staff I.D. cards to access the mainframe database by use of a barcode reader.

 

Items for Next Meeting:

 

Tech II presentation by Will Baty

 

Report from Russ Bowden on Instructional Computing Support

 

Continue setting priorities

 

Review functions of committees