James Lee
Wallace McClendon
Jocelyn Neal
Greg Newby
Jim Noblitt (Chair) 

Call to Order
Welcome and Introductions
Announcements

- Jim met with first-year seminar program director. There is no formal technology component for the program.
- Classroom podium committee open to suggestions

Choice of FITAC meeeting locations

Bob Henshaw will check with the Wilson space and follow up with Jim.

Exemplars - Show and tell

John Smith, Computer Science

Website: www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/

In 1996, John began to shift toward programming for the web environment, mostly Java. Developed interest in large-scale enterprise computing. Most recent interest is web services (distributed data architecture tied together with XML).

All instructional materials are now web-based.

Intro to Web Programming (CS 117): Topics supported by online lessons. Pages use lots of text, but more concise than textbook. Structured so that students can move around lessons easily. Students can run code snippets from within site. Students can work ahead at their own pace if they like. Participants all have personal profiles. Course site also has links to documentation and software relevant to the course. Also uses discussion forums.

Research interest: System that would make reusing software components easier. Should be able to dynamically bring related items together based on dependencies specified in database. Great potential as a collaborative tool, system becomes "living organism". Research connection helps justify time required to develop the course model.

John strongly advocates keeping course materials in the public domain. He draws on publicly available materials, and knows that others are using his materials.

Suggestions for Next Semester's Agenda [circulated separately]

• External Grants: Short-term devices, such as foundation funding, to
  maintain faculty participation in innovation and implementation.
• Assessment: A discipline based description of the range of uses of IT
  on this campus, with particular attention to locating interesting and
  instructive exemplars.
• Guidelines & Resources: The need to document optimal application of
  existing campus resources for particular educational content. (Finding
  mechanisms for addressing academic concerns is likely to involve a
  review of central and distributed IT services.)
  
• Representation: Ways in which faculty can be involved in policy-making
  affecting educational IT. (At issue are mechanisms for informed review
  of tenure and promotion documents in digital format, initiatives
  concerning resource allocation for creating instructional materials, and
  hiring that affects the IT learning environment, such as the offices of
  CIO or University Counsel.)
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Agenda: TBA