Technology Committee Meeting Minutes

11:00am – 12:30pm, October 27, 2005

Location:  HC 124

Members Present:  Windee Cottle, Frank Crosby, Victoria Coad, Steve Dodson, Harriet Eskildsen, Andy Haber, Andrea Hunter, Patrick Kelly, Jeff Peck (in Rainer’s place), Rick Sapanaro, Ingrid Schreck

Agenda Discussion Items

1) Committee Goals/Timeline

• Ingrid reported on established shared governance process and the first meeting of the Institutional Planning Committee.
• Discussed need for written recommendations to be sent to the IPC.
• Discussed Two Major Goals of the Committee:

Goal 1: assessing and developing faculty tech support and training.

Discussed grant proposals recently submitted as well as categories for funding.

Discussed need for standardized training and a Technical Support Center.

Goal 11A: assessing campus-wide tech support needs and developing self-service applications for faculty.

Discussed progress of web template.

2) Web Pages

This item will be tabled until Nov. 10 meeting when members can “show and tell.”

3) ERP Update

            Debriefing of ERP systems will take place on November 10^th.

            Discussed differences between sytems.

4) WebCT Merger

            Discussed possible alternatives.

June 30^th is the date by which we need to renew the WebCT license.

5) marin.edu

            The new URL for the College may be implemented in Spring 06.

6) Access Taskforce

Frank Crosby is on the Access Taskforce for the Educational Master Plan and will share new information.

7)Tech Sub-committees

            Committees will show and tell at the Nov. 10 meeting.

Meeting Recommendations

• identify a Web Support Coordinator for faculty professional development.
• investigate Instructional Technology support structures at other schools.
• develop a Tech Web Page to provide faculty with technology instructions that are unique to to CoM.
• implement more flex activities to provide faculty with technology training.