Directors Mtg Area Report

I'll post up my quick notes for each week's DE Directors Meeting held Monday mornings. Here's the first:

1. Need dP on new server


2. Need logo for wikilearn


3. Faculty training


4. TTIX updates


5. OER published


6. Hammond ITR


7. dP tasks


8. Report ideas on openconference


9. Openspource

IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: Jared, Marc, Janel, Ken, Dorothy


In the future, will combine this meeting with Directors' Meeting, Monday mornings at 9:00 (both meetings covered duplicate material)

Ken

• Japanese - Some underline problems; may be font related. Ken to investigate.

IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: Jared, Marc, Janel, Travis, Ken, Dorothy

Jared

Financial Responsibility Letter (Val Peterson)

Jared discussed specifics of Val's letter:

• All purchases or approved finding to be analyzed, deemed necessary
• Destruction of assets unacceptable
• Properly execute and record transactions
• Make notes of P-Card items purchased
• Be prepared to explain all P-Card purchases
• All transactions should be reasonable
• Ethical behavior
• Expendable resources not to be used for employees' personal use or on personal time
• Questions about expenditures? Talk to Jared

ENGL 2020

Met with Kirk Rasmussen on ENGL 2020 IN - structural changes helpful; implement this semester

TTIX

• Call for proposals 9-08-08 - View at TTIX.org. Click on rate proposal; see summary of all proposals; click on title to see entire proposal, can make comments
• Ken - in presenter submission, include instructions to choose K-12, Higher Ed, both, or other
• Conference Theme? - Contact Jared if you have a good theme idea
• Lends air of variety
  
• Should not be exclusionary
  
• Should be really great, or do not have a theme
• Need generic business cards to give to sponsors and attendees
• Small and postcard sizes
• Travis - draft some ideas, submit to Jared
• June 3-5 (Wed - Fri) scheduled by Janel

Course Proposal Signatures

• Click, get printable sheet, deliver signatures to Jared when they meet
• Jared to talk to John (printed version more compact, but still complete)
  
• Copy to Janel, Vicki first?
  

No new TV courses - Instead, video-enhanced courses, Online courses with video segments

ANTH 1010 - David Knowlton may be interested in online course- find out his track record in online courses

Marc

Need to contact all instructors (has only met with Shawn Peppers)

• Set up a couple of days for this instruction

Moving to library, possibly this Friday (this is sad news...)

Janel

Fine tuning new courses

• TECH 3850 - Leonard Pavia
• 7 videos, Oct 7
• Need planning meeting with Janel, Will, Travis & Len Pavia. New video segments planned for class filming, but Jared suggested we do it in-studio for a better quality product.
• MGMT 3600 - Harry Taute
• Needs guiding content for class
• Build text-based lectures
• Use Camtasia to narrate PowerPoints
• Travis pulling publisher's content to streaming video (Scott)
  

ITR

• Not ready for ITR reviews - Need to review courses to given instructors input
• Meeting Monday with instructors who want to increase ITR levels
• CLSS 2100 - Rick Mossholder, Marsha Haynes
• DGM 1010, 2010 - Carolyne Kuehne

Ken

• Working mostly on Japanese - Moodle issues
• RJ to work on OpenMod (Open courseware - a modification of UCLA program)
• Work with RJ Tuesday morning at 9:15
• Developers meetings Thursday mornings at 10:00

Travis

• Working on videos for Janel - meeting with Walker about videos
• Jared reminded Travis to take care of the staff management issue


• keep all on schedule with projects

Bb Vista and Relative Resource Manager

Because it's database-driven, Blackboard Vista doesn't use real paths like WebCT Campus Edition did. Instead, it uses a "relative resource manager" to refer to the current Vista course section's root folder. Use the following URL to refer to the root of a particular course section:

/webct/RelativeResourceManager/Template/

Custom Links in the Course Tools Menu

If you need the entire URL (e.g. for custom links in the Course Tools menu [Manage Course > Add Custom Link]) simply add the server URL before the relative resource manager:

https://online.uen.org/webct/RelativeResourceManager/Template/

...and append your filename:

https://online.uen.org/webct/RelativeResourceManager/
Template/myfile.html