Technology Advisory Committee

Unapproved Minutes of the Technology Advisory Committee 2 May 2000

Members present: Michael Bennett, Terry McClannon , John Tashner, Richard Riedl, John Spagnolo, Roberto Muffoletto, Fred Badders, Joe Murphy

Minutes:

The group reviewed the minutes of the previous meeting, got an update on equipment and began a discussion that lead to the following suggestions.

Suggested steps and TAC's role in the allocation of technology funds for the college:

1. create and approve a technology plan
2. make college wide request for technology needs, both departmental and individual (wish list not guarantee)
3. gather and organize information from all possible sources for needs assessment
4. TAC establishes priorities based on needs and technology plan
5. specifics of allocations developed by small group ( subset of TAC)
6. TAC reviews detail of the technology descriptions and allocations
7. send to Dean or back to subcommittee

The group turned its attention to creating a plan for informed, meaningful and useful discussions of "technology integration" and for faculty development around the effective use of technology.

It was agreed that John S., Dick R., John T. and Robert M.( and anyone else interested) would meet a few times in various combinations over the next two weeks to create a draft document for the initiative

The identified and discussed components include:

• identifying roles, goals and common vision
• timeline and benchmarks
• identification of conference opportunities
• team creation and leadership
• team conference attendance
• evaluation: "Does classroom behavior change?", Does dissemination occur? , Is classroom visitation and sharing evident?
• Colloquia, seminars, breakfast chats and opportunity for sharing and discussion.

John T. ended the meeting by commenting on the usefulness and University wide acknowledgment of the interactive document review technology used by his committee on the evaluation of faculty's IT utilization. He encouraged further comment on the draft document linked above.

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