TLTR Meeting Minutes

September 13, 2005

Attendance:

Melba Tomeo-Library, Jennifer Foster-Communications,TLTR co-convener, Paul Mullins-Computer Science, TLTR co-convener, Dean Lindey-IT, Brian Danielson-Collegis, Tom Shannon – IT, Brandon Himes – PTA, Rebecca Zahora – PTA, Katie Lang-TLTR graduate assistant

I.       Regular Business Reports

A.        Welcome from Jennifer Foster 3^rd year co-convener; introductions of Paul Mullins 2^nd year co-convener; Joanne Leight 3^rd year co-convener is unable to attend today’s meeting; Rebecca Zahora (rjz6028@sru.edu) and Brandon Himes (bchim11@sru.edu) the new Personal Technology Assistants (PTA’s); and Katie Lang (TLTR Graduate Assistant)

1.  The PTA’s will work from the Help Desk under Tom Shannon’s supervision.  The PTA’s can provide help to anyone with questions regarding technology enhanced learning.  In the past they have been utilized for questions about I or H drives and multimedia digital conversions.  Feel free to contact them at x4948 with questions.

B.        Report from IT-Dean Lindey

1.   Welcome: happy to announce that work orders are <200 at this time…a great improvement over last year at this time.

2.   Upgrades were made over the summer including:  separated residence hall traffic from academic traffic; replacement of wireless nodes in library with the goal of opening network to outside wireless devices with SRU logon access.

C.        Report from Collegis – Brian Danielson

1.  Collegis at SRU now has 3 people in the department: Russ Dively, Brian Danielson, and a student worker.

2.  Collegis has been holding new faculty workshops with approximately 10 people/session.  Also if new or returning faculty have questions or problems the colleges staff has been making office visits.  With all of the new faculty workshops full to date it seems that Blackboard is becoming more of the culture here at SRU.

3.  Working on enrollment grafter which will allow enrollment from all course sections to be viewed together.

4.  Also still working on the Turn-it-In project which enables papers to be uploaded from Blackboard.

D.        Report from Technology Advisory Committee – Paul Mullins

1.  TAC met to determine plan for next year, discussion regarding IT strategic planning act as advisory committee

2.  Student technology fee up to $25

3.  Discussed policy of replacement of equipment versus complete overhaul with new

4.  Web policy committee is currently waiting to hear from the state

E.         Taskforces

1.  Paul discussed the need/interest for the following taskforces:  Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Blackboard, Grants, Plagarism

II.      New Business

A.        Grants –

1.  Dollar figures are unconfirmed to date because still waiting on current budget numbers

2.  Current Deadline for RFP’s is November 7, 2005

III.    Program

Melba Tomeo, Educational Librarian at the Bailey Library here at SRU presented on Blogs and RSS feeds.  Her presentation is available at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/melba.tomeo/tltrblog.htm for those who were unable to attend or those who want a closer look at the specifics.  Melba’s presentation utilized the new Blog run by the Bailey Library: Cytes and Bytes: http://baileylibrary.blogspot.com/

Next meeting is Thursday October 6, 2005 in Spotts World Culture Auditorium!