Education Sub Committee Meeting

Attended: Kathy Dutton, Dave McQuinn, Pat MacNeill and John Kane
The following items were discussed:

• Survey of faculty, staff, and students on technology needs. It was felt this would be more appropriate for Applications/Equipment committee. It would be helpful to have this done before Winter Breakout. Pat will discuss this with Natalie.
• Look at clicker systems -- or look at cloud-based or cell phone system? (Dave McQuinn)
• Mobile device networking issues on campus. I.e. iPads and iPhones not connecting (more appropriate for Applications/Equipment committee?) - Pat will discuss with Natalie
  
  Perhaps more appropriate for the Ed Committee would be a discussion of the use of mobile devices. Offer workshops. I.e., How are you using mobile devices? - in the classroom, in teaching, general use.
• Virtualization Project - Aaron Reece is leading this project for CTS. John will invite him to do a presentation to our committee.
• Smart Classrooms -- Suggestion - Getting available information to faculty on what is in smart classrooms. This info has been on the website for a while. Suggestion -- email to dept heads when schedules are due to remind them of this information
  • subtopics:
    • what is the optimum size of a podium in classrooms?
    • is document camera still needed?
• Portal Report - Web team is looking at different products for single sign-on functionality.
• eBooks - schedule workshops. John noted that a Kindle book for economics cost more than the hard copy.
• Elluminate project - going well; CTS did a presentation for the School of Ed
• Meetings - Wed., Nov 2, 9 am and Wed, Nov 30, 9 am. in Penfiled 123. These are immediately following the Appl & Eq committee meetings. Pat will post on the web page.
• Winter Breakout will be Jan 17-20
  Workshop Possiblities:
  • Ebook readers;
  • using ebooks in classes
  • Elluminate presentation
  • Web/Ingeniux classes offered in the past:
    • Getting Started with Ingeniux (90 min)
    • Ingeniux Components (60 min)
    • Images for the Web (30 min)
    • Laker Apps Forms (45 min)
    • Accessible PDFs from Word (30 min)
    • Embed an ... RSS Feeds using Google Gadgets; Laker Apps document; Picassa Slide Show; YouTube video
    • Advanced: Create image rotator; Insert 3 columns using
      tags
  • iPads uses
  • Karen Wolford and Haiti project