Monday, April 14, 2008

IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting
Attending: John, Jared, Travis, Janel, Ken, Dorothy (Marc attending Web Advisory Meeting)
  • Travis - His department is planning Distance Ed retreat on Friday July 18, 8 am to 3 pm. Secret agenda will be submitted to John when completed
  • Janel - CLSS class proposal to be launched spring semester.
    • As instructor initially wanted fall semester, was sent to Elizabeth
    • 24 spring sections, 36 fall sections
    • Dual approach: Online coverage and Navajo cultural orientation (geared toward Navajo culture; culturally sensitive. Some questions as to what this entails)
    • Travis wondered if any studies about how to make this culturally sensitive have been done; John thought that studies have already been completed
    • Jared says we need to determine if the class is to be a) culturally specific (Navajo culture) or b) cross cultural (any culture)
  • Ken - Internship training (Marsha Haynes)
    • Students fill out form including coordinator, who they are working for, sponsor
    • Automatically goes to Moodle
    • Students take quizzes, orientation, get certified
    • Coordinators are able to check on students, make change
    • Time frame to complete:
      • One day to get running, one day to style
      • Needs to find out what they want for pdf certificate
      • Will e-mail Marsha directly for list
  • John
    • Interested in tutorial on logins. Advantage is you don't have to manage logins; it shares it out of database
    • Discussed future of Distance Education server
      • Interaction with account management system; a new version of old contract management system that works
    • Web Advisory Committee support- Ken (?) wanted Blackboard; ended up looking at Wikis, Blogs
    • Would like an institutional Blog for staff, students
      • Would be easier to implement, more successful for faculty, students
  • Jared - WordPress Blog
    • Open source Blogging software
    • Has a couple of versions, great features, good content management systems
    • Would like this for Dist Ed because you can create pages and also give permission to someone make new pages and edit pages

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