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
