Present:
Mary Ellen Birkett, Eric Brewer, John Davis, Chris Gole, Nicholas
Howe, Sam Intrator, Thomas Laughner, Gary Lehring, Eric Loehr, Katwiwa Mule,
Herb Nickles
Student
Representative: Megan
Gallo
Minutes
of April 27, 2007
The minutes of the April 27th
meeting were approved as written.
Introductions
and Welcome – Herb Nickles
Herb asked everyone to introduce themselves
and say where they work. Returning from sabbatical
are Mary Ellen Birkett, Chris Gole, Sam Intrator, and Gary Lehring. New members of CET this year are John Davis,
Associate Provost/Dean for Academic Development and Megan Gallo, student
representative.
Herb then asked if any faculty member
wanted to nominate someone to chair the CET this year. Nick Howe said that he would be willing to
act as chair and the committee unanimously voted that he be chair for 2007-2008
academic year.
Discuss
the CET grants and the work this committee was doing at the end of last year to
rethink grants – Tom Laughner
Tom provided the committee with a summary
of the process that had been underway last year:
a)
Grant
proposal may be submitted at any time during the year.
b)
Project
planning process: Educational Technology staff members meet with faculty to
review their grant proposals prior to those proposals coming to CET
c)
ETS
can determine if the funding should come through CET or through departmental
funds.
Tom had the committee review the document
that he prepared describing the new grant process; the committee made a few
additions and revisions to the document and it was agreed that Tom would make
revisions and email the new document to the committee in advance of the next
CET meeting.
Suggest
a new sub-committee for Moodle (along with a suggestion to expand its
membership beyond CET) – Tom Laughner
Tom suggested that CET host a faculty
advisory subcommittee looking at Moodle course management system. He said that he would like to see the group
include non-CET members of the faculty that use and don’t currently use
Moodle. The target size of this
committee would be between 8-10 people.
Herb asked who this committee would report to, Sam suggested that there
should be student representation, and Chris Gole offered to be a member of this
sub-committee.
The committee decided that this was a good
opportunity to determine membership in the sub-committees for this academic
year. The faculty/staff volunteered as follows:
Moodle: Chris Gole and Mary Ellen
Birkett
Learning Spaces: Gary Lehring, Eric Brewer,
Eric Loehr, and Nick Howe
Faculty Development: Sam Intrator and
Katwiwa Mule
Tom and the ETS group will work with all of
these sub-committees as needed.
Grant
proposals
Thomas Ciufo’s request for $6,000 to
purchase 6 digital cameras and accessories for use in his digital media classes
was approved with the disclaimer that the equipment is to be returned to the
CMP (Center for Media Production) at the end of the academic year. This is the CET policy now that equipment be
housed and maintained for service in the CMP when not in academic use.
Don Siegel’s request for $3,750 to purchase
3 additional copies of Dartfish (a biomechanical analysis program) was
discussed at much length by the committee.
This is not a new initiative and the committee asked Tom to get more
information about whether this software can be keyserved, what will the effect
be on athletics in general, whether or not this is a departmental priority and
if so, are they prepared to share in the cost, and where will the funding come
for future upgrades. The committee voted
that if the responses were to these questions were acceptable, they would
approve funding 2/3 of the request and Don should get the department to fund
the other 1/3.
The meeting time for this semester was
discussed briefly because there are a couple faculty members that have classes
just before and right after the meeting and it doesn’t leave much time for
lunch. Herb asked Connie to look into having
lunch delivered to each meeting to make this easier for everyone.
The next meeting will be October 31st at 11:00 AM in Stoddard Hall G4 conference room.
Respectfully submitted,
Constance McGinn, recorder