TLTR Meeting Minutes:

September 17, 2009

Attendance: Jon Anning, ERS; Danette DiMarco; Joanne Leight, PE; Istvan Kovacs, PE; Padma Anad, SEFE; Amanda Reynolds, English; Jason Stuart, English; Timothy Rupport, English; Lynn Hoffman, Library, Brian Danielson, Ed Tech; Debbi Hutchins, PREE/TR; Wei Bian, PE; Nancy Barta-Smith, English; Keri Smiell, TLTR GA and PT Student

I. Introduction:

a. Introduction: Jon Anning welcomed everyone back from the summer vacation. He emphasized the new direction of TLTR such as making TLTR more focused to faculty needs and more discussions as opposed to presentations.

b. Survey: A survey was administered to gather the interests of TLTR members in order to allow TLTR to supply the resources necessary based on faculty interests.

II. New Business:

a. Dr. Danette Dimarco – CETET Updates:

i. Teaching Communication Circles are being formed in order to allow faculty to gather and discuss topics of interest such as new courses being taught, new professors needing assistance, teaching larger class sizes, or anything that faculty would like to discuss or need assistance.

1. Teaching Circles will allows professors to discuss ideas and generate new skills in pedagogy

2. CETET is aiming to allow TLTR and CETET to gain a fresh base

3. Eventually trying to make website information with a list of what all faculty members are participating in.

4. Would like to take the discussions and turn them into valuable presentations or the opportunity to publish into scholarly journals with collaborative work.

ii. TLTR Grants

1. Couple grants with the opportunity to provide scholarship teaching

2. Teaching with technology for specific departments

3. Utilize money to purchase technology and evaluate impact on students then try to implement campus wide.

4. Main concern is that assistance is needed to carry out ideas and assist with implementing technology

b. Brian Danielson – Educational Technology

i. June 30, 2010

1. Contract with Blackboard is ending

2. Taskforce statewide in which Brian is part of that is trying to determine which Learning Management System will be implement for Fall of next year

3. In the spring time, there will be a taskforce for students and faculty to see what LMS is preferred

4. Blackboard contract is expended for 12 months in case new LMS doesn’t work as desired

5. Not sure if it will be possible to paste information from Blackboard into a new system if a different LMS is decided upon

a. Want to disassociate file cabinet that is now in Blackboard from the classroom

b. Will purchase a new storage in which will automatically update on Blackboard

6. Blackboard 9.0

a. In late October of this year, the new version of blackboard will be available to test (Blackboard 9.0)

b. SRU will be presenting the new blackboard to universities this fall.

ii. Media Site:

1. Lecture and power points are synced – 14 professors are now using MediaSite

2. Builds a catalog for students to view and watch the videos

3. Call Brian to schedule an appointment if interested

iii. H1N1:

1. What do we do if you cannot attend class campus wide?

a. Blackboard

b. Power Points

c. Media Site

d. Phone Conferences

e. Web Cams

2. We need a plan so that if the university must shut down we have adequate methods to effectively teach students

a. However, we do not have enough space to store all professors lectures, etc

b. Need to find a solution and soon so the university can be prepared not only for H1N1 but other campus wide emergencies.

III. Announcements and Upcoming Meetings:

a. Date: October 15, 2009

b. Tentative Topic: Information Technology at SRU

c. Presenter: Simeon Ananou

d. Location: CETET Conference Room of Bailey Library