Report on IDS's End-of-Semester Planning Meeting (End of Summer 2007)

Summer 2007 Accomplishments

We related our semester accomplishments to the IDS unit's primary responsibilities as an arm of UVSC Distance Education:

• Janel - Comm 2300; as online instructor and instructional designer this course has been redesigned/enhanced. (IDS responsibility 1)
• Dorothy - Contributed to course maintenance and redesign, particularly BIT courses. (IDS responsibility 1)
• Clark - Contributed to course maintenance and redesign, especially BIT courses. (IDS responsibility 1)
• Eric - Contributed to course maintenance in Vista. (IDS responsibility 1)
• Golf - Contributed to course maintenance in Vista. (IDS responsibility 1)
• Ken - Contributed to course maintenance in Vista. (IDS responsibility 1)
• Jared - Designed and managed production of JPNS 1010 online (IDS responsibility 1, 3, 4, 6)
• Eric - Developing JPNS 1010 (IDS responsibility 1)
• Eric - Began learning Flash. Of particular use in new JPNS 1010. (IDS responsibility 4, 1)
• Ken - Began learning Flash. Of particular use in new JPNS 1010. (IDS responsibility 4, 1)
• Clark - Developed PHP and MySQL functionalities for Flash-based tools in JPNS 1010 on Moodle. This constitutes a major contribution to innovation for language learning and Moodle. (IDS responsibility 1, 3, 4, 5, possibly 7)
• Marc - Faculty training! (IDS responsibility 5).
• Jared - Faculty training for JPNS 1010, ENGL 2200, BIOL 1010, etc. (IDS responsibility 5)
• Janel - Encouraged faculty use of Vista tools. (IDS responsibility 5)
• Jared - Conducted 3 departmental cross-training sessions (Openlearning, Moodle, PowerPoint). (IDS responsibility 9)
• Marc - Transcoded user authentication credentials in Vista (IDS responsibility 9)
• Clark - Developed and maintained Driver's Ed online functionality. (IDS responsibility 7)
• Jared - Coordinated, managed, and assisted on China video production for COMM 3320. (IDS responsibility 1)
• Cheri - Completed captioning of SOC 1010 TV. (IDS responsibility 1, 2)
• Cheri - Improved approaches to captioning with technology (IDS responsibility 3)
• Dorothy - Transcribed video lectures for captioning (IDS responsibility 1, 2)
• Janel - Coordinated TTIX planning meetings and staff assignments. (IDS responsibility 8)
• Jared - With DE Admin directed and planned TTIX 2007. (IDS responsibility 8)
• All - Assisted in execution of TTIX 2007. (IDS responsibility 8)
• Jared - Presented information and training sessions at TTIX 2007 (IDS responsibilities 7, 8)
• Golf, Eric, Clark - Maintained and updated TTIX, DE, and other web site pages and functions (IDS responsibilities 7, 8, 9)
• Jared - Designed and managed new projects and processes for the unit and the department, e.g. Google Docs & Spreadsheets, planning of Intranet site, DE web site, etc. (IDS responsibility 4, 9)
• Golf - Installed, upgraded, and maintained unit hardware and software. (IDS responsibility 9)
• Golf - Discovered an effective web-cam monitoring system. (IDS responsibility 9)
• Golf and Jared - Set up a G: drive backup system (IDS responsibilities 1, 9)
• Clark - Programmed DE web site interfaces and systems. (IDS responsibility 9)
• Jared - Planned and coordinated opencourseware efforts with UVSC administration and Utah State University. (IDS responsibility 6)

Summer's Objectives

We also examined how well we met our Summer objectives. In general, the conclusive answer was, "Not very well."

• Objective 4 was removed in liu of full participation in DE departmental cross-trainings. Be aware that some of you may be called upon to teach one or more cross-training sessions to satisfy my intents for ongoing teaching and learning in our unit. Cross-trainings should be broad enough to appeal to the entire department, but specialized enough to make them attractive and interesting.
• Objective 6 Was removed from the list. The unit agreed that our pilot of Google Docs & Spreadsheets for project, task and time sheet management is satisfactory.
• Objectives not accomplished were held over for Fall 2007.