Welcome and introductions

Issues

• Virtual meetings
  

  • Online collaboration area for Tech Committee

  • Senate need for virtual meeting

• Solutions being observed
  

  • Office Communications Server  (OCS)
    • In pilot for 6-8 months within ITS
    • Email and phone tie-in
  • Skype
  • DimDim  
• Need for Technology Committee  to help establish process and practices for virtual meetings
• UPDATE 20080216 ITI has a focus group starting very soon
  • Can sign-up via the web site

• Remote U drive usability
  

  • Carry over from last year

  • Action
    

    • Meet with ITS; review this interface with Mark Sivy
    • Form review team?

• Google Tools
  

  • Available to students

  • Pilot for faculty under way

  • Action

    • Mark Sivy will establish accounts for committee members

    • Recommend to begin familiarizing yourself with

  • UPDATE: committee members have been added to this pilot

• Seats on Technology Team; ex Academic Advisory Technology Team

New issues and recommendations

• Senate committee verbiage
  • Proposal from Senate that it have a more direct say in the college's technology recommendations, not only as one voice to Academic Tech Team
• Action; recommend team to review the existing verbiage and prepare notes or change needs for next year's Senate review of constitution.
• Online attendance system
• DELTA storage 
  • set storage limitations?
  • action: take to online discussion or emails
  • action: write recommendation for unlimited storage 
  • action: guidelines
    • Get Google accounts for committee members
• Bb upload in Firefox issue
  • Action: Adam will make sure info goes out from eLearning
  • Update: Firefox v2 is okay
• Communications policy
  • Need review of college's policies for web content, social networks, etc. 
  • Action: Mark to share immersive environment-related policies
• Moodle
  • Upgrade is coming this Friday
  • Sticky block option
    • Note: no objections
  • System-wide announcements tool in Moodle?
• Next committee meeting will be near end of January.
  • If you wish to Skype in, please let Adam Brooks know.