IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: Jared, Marc, Janel, Travis, Dorothy

Discussed move from current offices. There will be a meeting this week to decide where Dist Ed will be relocated. Move probably by July 1. Possible new office location in Foundation Building or Advancement Building (Some confusion about which buildings these are- maybe old warehouse building or a building across freeway?) There may be more available space, but that may not include classroom space. Basement space may be difficult because of water problems.

Reviewed status of fall courses
Janel:

• BESC 4705 (JR) Resorting content. Course is partially programmed; will be ready for JR next week
• BIOL 1010 (Ken) If Heather used Camtasia, could probably produce content quickly (Carolyn used Camtasia successfully)
• ESMG 3100 (310G) E-mails sent to John Pepper. Handed off new content, 14 lessons. Work with latest submission. Not yet assigned to programmer.
  
• TECH 3000 (RJ) We have content; RJ programming.
• CA 1310 (JR) Full content in; JR will finish programming next week. Janel asked if all four videos are in (2 Harmons, 2 Val Brown) She needs them by July 1. Travis said all are done. He will tell Walker to put them together in time line- he can start editing interviews even without the graphics.
  
• TECH 3000- Just waiting for 5 videos to come back. Raw footage is in. Cheryl is waiting for content based on final videos. Travis said we are only waiting for support materials. We need to communicate deadlines clearly.
• Travis: give all raw audio files of video interviews to Dorothy for transcription

Marc

• CA 1150 - Some material sent but we need more
• PHIL 3450 (Karen Mizel) this course won't fly
• TECH3010 - Receiving constant material. Plans to use WIMBA. RJ is programming initial lesson.
• Note: All TECH Management should be use same format in VISTA

Jared

• Nutrition 1020 - E Pack course- Jared will take this one if it comes. Janel has course content (CD) for Jared to review to use for fall. Cost probably based on per student usage.
  
• BESC 481R - Will have complete content soon. Needs some prototyping
  
• ENGL 4210 and ESMG- Have not looked at yet
• Nutrition, PSY- no content
• SSY/SW - Not for summer (has disappeared)

Janel wondered about banners for all classes. Travis will check Google Docs for banners for fall courses- he is waiting for Monte to give G-drive. He will ask Shawn to link Janel to Travis' computer so she can check. Travis: check the look of all 084 courses (Spring, in yellow in Google Docs)

Janel wants archive for all Spring courses

TTIX

• TTIX Website has general survey for all participants- they have been spammed to complete survey.
• Janel wants to have a staff meeting to talk about successes and suggestions for '08 TTIX- possibly next week?

Changing from Blackboard? Luke Fernandez wants statewide LMS to be Moodle or SAKAI. Probably premature to go down that path- the State would have to be pushed to change because there has been so much time and money invested in Blackboard. When new version of Vista comes down, that would be the time to make a change, instead of renewing contract. If we have to have another LMS, be sure it is what we want- may not be Blackboard.

Still discussion new part-time web developer

Discussed Online Learning Book (95 new ideas) Jared pared information to 31 best ideas (others not so good.) Summary is posted on Jared's Blog. Janel is to review book, then pass on to Marc for his review.

Moodle Conference: UCLA has developed Open Courseware modification. We will likely scrap much of ours and use the best of theirs. We still need approval on Open Courseware procedure.