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TLTR Meeting Minutes

April 24, 2008

Attendance: 14

CDEV: Padma Anand

CETET: Brian Danielson

English: Stephan Schaffrath

ERS: Jonathan Anning

GGE: Abigail Amissah-Arthur

History: Eric Tuten

IT: Dean Lindey

Library: Cathy Rudowsky, Melba Tomeo, Judy Silva, & PJ Tramdack 

Nursing: Joyce Penrose

Professional Studies: Lori Zulauf

PTA: Christine Senko

 

Regular Business: 

- Blackboard upgrade

- Completely new features Discussion Board

- Questions contact Brian Danielson   x 4220

New Business:

New Business: The power point presentations for TLTR Faculty Roundtable Session 1 will be posted on the web soon.  Please feel free to access any of the power point presentations for personal use.  

Judy Silva: Digital Collections

Lori Zulauf: Homework Manager

Joyce Penrose: Elluminate [Desktop Conferencing System]

 

TLTR Meeting Minutes

March 18, 2008

Attendance: 12

SEFE: Jocelyn Kramarik

PE: Joanne Leight, Istvan Kovacs, Marybeth Miller & Wei Bian

PTA:  Christine Senko

IT: Bill Huber & Jake Skiba

Dance: Jennifer Keller

ERS: Jonathan Anning

CDEV: Padma Anand

Nursing:  Kerry Risco

Regular Business: 

- Technology Grants Committee Taskforce: Choose a time to meet for an hour the first two weeks of April to discuss upcoming grants; E-mail Jocelyn with a date and time

- Planning Taskforce: Choose/elect co-conveners on April 24th for upcoming school year.

- Blackboard Users Group Taskforce: Met on February 2oth and tested new version of blackboard.

- New version 7.3 is being tested for Fall 2008

- Free session hour demo available [ April 7th at 1:00, April 8th at 2:00 and April 9th at 3:00] Bailey library 2nd floor

- Sessions will discuss issues pertaining to the message board re-design as well as alert methods if students are not logging in when necessary

- Contact Bill Huber ext. 4220 with any additional questions

 

New Business

- Dr. Wenhao Liu presents 'Activity Monitor Project for First-Year Physical Education Majors' 

-  Discussed participants of the project

- Background information

- Procedure

- Requirements for Project Paper

- Outcomes of the Project

- Project-Related Research

- List of Expenditures

 

 

TLTR Meeting Minutes

February 21, 2008

Attendance: 17

New Business: The power point presentations for TLTR Faculty Roundtable Session 2 will be posted on the web soon.  Please feel free to access any of the power point presentations for personal use.  

    Jonathan Anning: Computer Performance System

    Stephan Schaffrath: Introduce basic principles of information literacy

    Melba Tomeo : Building Your Own Search Engine  

 

TLTR Meeting Minutes

January 24, 2008

Attendance: 13

Biology: Enefiok Ekpe

CDEV: Padma Anand

Dance: Jennifer Keller

English: Stephan Schaffrath & Frederick White

ERS: Jonathan Anning

INST. TECH: Brian Danielson & Bill Huber

Library:Lynn Hoffman & Judy Silva

Nursing: Deb Lewis

PE: Joanne Leight

PTA: Christine Senko

SEFE: Jocelyn Kramarik & Junko Yamamoto 

Regular Business:

- Blackboard Upgrade Spring 2008

7.3 Newest Version on the market

Most significant difference [discussion board forums]

Scheduled training for faculty in Spring

- IT Hire

Bill Huber  [SRU Graduate]

 New Business:

- Microteaching with Digital Movie and Online Discussion Forum for Pre-service Teacher Training

- Digital Microteaching justification: increased frequency, ease of sharing and no need to rewind

- An example research question: Is the frequency of microteaching correlated to performance improvement?

- Change on Technology

* Digital DV camcorder was purchased for the project due to compatibility with the aged computers in the labs at the time of camcorder purchase.

* New Pc's in MEB 123 can read movie files created with hard drive camcorders.

* Hard drive camcorders recommended.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TLTR Meeting Minutes

November 8, 2007

Attendance: 

CDEV: Padma Anand

CFIT: Brian Danielson 

Communication: Jennifer Foster

English: Jace Condravy

ERS: Jon Anning

Library: Judy Silva & Jessica Marshall

PE: Joanne Leight

PT: Barb Billek

PTA: Christine Senko

SEFE: Leigh Forbes & Jocelyn Kramarik

New Business: 

      A. Brian Danielson presents "Shoe String Solutions to Creating Great Online Content"

            - Introduces Second Life (virtual campus) to facilitate distance education

            - Generation Now: students are more comfortable with technology and are beginning to learn better from it

            - 95% of people believe there are some significant barriers

                    * Students need more distance education to succeed in online courses

                    * Greater faculty time and effort required to teach online

                    * Lack of student demand for online course & degree

                    * Online costs more to develop and deliver

       B. Discover Learn and Apply 

            - Theory, practice & new tools

            - Functional & Strategies

            - Development & Evaluation 

       C. Technological tools that can be easily integrated within the curriculum

            * Audacity = audio recorder, editor & publisher [Free download] 

            - Most popular for podcasting  

           * Cam Studio = how to's in Blackboard

            * Flash Spring 

            * PP

            * Gimp = open source version of photo shop

Next Meeting will be January 24th Digital VIdeos for Production and Utilization of Instructional Technology by Dr. Junko Yamamoto

 

TLTR Meeting Minutes

October 18, 2007

Attendance: 

English: Stephen Schaffrath

Exercise & Rehab Science: Mark Schofer

GGE: Abigail Arthur

Info Tech: Henry Magusiak 

Instructional Tech: Brian Danielson 

Library: Melba Tomeo, Judy Silva & Lynn Hoffman

Physical Education: Joanne Leight & Wei Bian 

PTA: Christine Senko

SEFE: Leanne Forbes and Jocelyn Kramarik 

 

Regular Business: 

A. Report from Henry Magusiak 

- Hiring more IT staff

- XP/ 2007 Office is a necessity

- Citrix upgraded (more administrative) 

-Makes computer processes more efficient 

B. Report from Brian Danielson 

- Discusses VISTA and visual text box

- Disable textbox to access VISTA (Refer to blackboard website for further instruction) 

New Business: 

A. Dr. Istvan Kovacs presents 'Motor Skills Analysis in Physical Education Teacher Education'

    -Focuses on Biomechanical movements and skills

    -Introduces and discusses the benefits of Dartfish (a computer generated program that enables the educator to assess student 

       progress via data collection )

    - Discusses pre-assessment and post-assessment as well as project effectiveness

    -Share student reflection responses and future plans for Dartfish

 

TLTR Meeting Minutes

September 20, 2007

Attendance

Academic Services: Annette Salsoric

CDev: Padma Anand

English: Frederick White & Stephen Schaffrath

GGE: Abigail Amissah-Arthur

IT: Dean Lindey & Brian Danielson

Library: Melba Tomeo &  Lynn Hoffman

Modern Languages: Eva Tsuquiashi-Daddesio & Ana M. Caula

PE: Joanne Leight

PT: Barb Billek & Nancy Shipe    

PTA: Christine Senko

SEFE: Leigh Forbes& Jocelyn Kramarik  

 

Regular Business:

A. Report from Dean Lindey

Discusses upgrades in the lab

Move away from Microsoft XP

Move Office version to Office 2007

Office 2007 puts a four letter extension at the end of each document versus a three letter extension.  If encounter problems complete the following:

Search Web for application

Download 3-4 minute

Convert newer files from older files

B. Report from Brian Danielson

Addresses VISTA-Turn off old program utilize Mozilla so program is accessible 

VISTA information available on blackboard

Fall 2007 Blackboard Administration joining Brian Danielson

Verify 654 Sections use blackboard (Over 33%)

C. Taskforces Introduce and Sign-ups requested

 

New Business:

A.     Dr. Padma Anand presents Course Genie

Four Step Process

Installation of Course Genie

Getting Started

Transferring to Blackboard

Integrating Interactive Components

*Follow-up presentation [Course Genie] September 26th 

Room 105 Maltby 9:00 am-11:00 am

Next Meeting October 18th Motor Skills Analysis in Physical Education Teacher Education 

 Room 119 Field House by Dr. Istvan Kovacs


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