Technology Committee Meeting Minutes

11:00am – 12:30pm, March 2, 2006

Location:  AC 108

Members Present:  Windee Cottle, Victoria Coad, Frank Crosby, Steve Dodson, Chris Edmondson, Harriet Eskildsen, Andy Haber, John Hinds, Andrea Hunter, Rick Sapanaro, Ingrid Schreck, Rainer Wachlovosky

Guest Members: Bernie Blackman, VP Organizational Development, Anita Martinez, VP Organizational Learning

Members Absent:  Julie Driscoll, Patrick Kelly

Agenda Discussion Items

1. Guest Anita Martinez:

• Anita asked the Committee to give her specific info on the Distance Education liaison/coordinator position.

2. Guest Bernie Blackman:

• Bernie asked for feedback from the Committee on what software packages should be used to provide demographic, industry, occupational, and curricula forecasts and impacts by region.

3. Frank Crosby’s Audio Demo: 

• MP3 recordings of Frank’s lectures are available in his WebCT courses and a live demo was given. 
• Student feedback is positive; half of his students in his history class have accessed the audio portion of the course.  
• ADA Compliance and accessibility concerns were raised, but the needed technology for downloading recordings is minimal:  a quick Internet connection and a media player.
• Different ways to record lectures were discussed. Chancellor-supported CCCConfer has an archival method using Horizon Live which may be an alternative to recording lectures.

4. WebCT:

• Hosting through the CVC will end July 1 and will CoM self-host? Self-hosting has advantages, one being lower cost.
• Rick states that this is a short-term interim solution—a two year solution because eventually the new ERP will make possible an integrated, upgraded version of WebCT. 
• Price of server is $11,00 roughly and if this will be approved by administration, implementation will need to start by May 1^st.
• Faculty and student support of WebCT is needed, and this is an urgent need because CoM is losing students.

5. Student Domain Server implementation:

• Steve reports that a two phase plan is in the works for a student domain so that all lab across campus will have the same login info. 
  
  6. Status of Online Directory:
• Rainer gave another demonstration of the online Employee Directory which will go live this week. 
• Get the word out: Faculty, staff and administrators should add to their personal profiles via the Intranet.

ACTION ITEMS

Ingrid will draft a letter to Anita Martinez requesting the following:  1) urgent need for WebCT server 2) urgent need for WebCT support, including staff training in Media Services.

To Be Discussed Next time:

Procedures/Plan for acquiring department/faculty web sites.

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.
• learn about faculty and student technology use and what they need.