Meeting Notes

Sue Goodman
Charlie Green
Bob Henshaw
Vicki Kowlowitz

Call to Order
Welcome and Introductions

Announcements

• Results of meeting with Judith Wegner
• Rumors about CCI laptop replacement cycle discontinuing are unfounded

Classroom Design and Advisory Committee Update (Scott Adams, SILS)

• Scott replaced Rick Peterson as committee chair this summer.
• Would like to have more faculty members serving on the committee. Interested FITAC members welcome.
• Major classroom players are faculty, students, facilities planning, classroom design, classroom hotline, Registrar, and Facilities Services. There is a major management component to this job which is often overwhelming.
• General-purpose classrooms are CDAC's primary responsibility. 65% occupancy, 35 hours a week (between 8am-5pm) is considered a good use of classrooms.
• Minimum specs for technology presence have been established. Over 110 classrooms have technology now. Up from 75 last year.
• $1.2 million over the next three years budgeted for. New budget formula takes into consideration life-cycle expenses for technology.
• What about classrooms outside the bond? Funding unlikely.
• Wireless? CDAC is appropriate point to request wireless access point.
• Are technology classrooms being fully utilized? Registar is currently in charge of assigning media classrooms.
• Some faculty members are penalized because they have to teach the same class in two different classrooms, forced to develop two different sets of materials/approaches.

Show and Tell (Sue Goodman, Math)

Has integrated technology into several of her courses. See Powerpoint presentation.

Among her technology-enabled goals for Math 125:

• Give students easy way to view third dimension (e.g., instructional software like Mathematica)
• Immediate feedback on solutions
• Paperless classroom

Unintended consequences

• Students spend longer time on exams because they can check their own formulas now.
• More of them also seem to work beyond the specified assignment. Generally higher enthusiasm for the course.

Lessons Learned

• Very time-intensive, and content must be sustained and developed further if course is to be taught more often.
• Would be most helpful to be able to use pre-developed problems, more real-world data.

Math 10 (Algebra)

• Several sections are offered as online self-paced courses that offer on-campus study hours and a proctored exam.
• Students taking this course have generally scored higher than the traditional sections.
• Some students are uncomfortable with this approach.
• ECON 10 has referred students to this site as an external resource.

Future Agenda Items

• Consider bringing in a speaker on the scholarly use of technology
• Instructional document storage

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Agenda: Chris Columb from ATN will talk about spam