Spring+2012+Minutes

Minutes for Spring, 2012 meeting:

(In attendance: Karen Alman, Bob Billings, Beth Hill, Forrest Huff, Dave Knoblach, Carlea McAvoy, Corrie Martin, Rick McKinnon, Eric Oderman, Randy Riness, Kaidren Sergienko, Deb Smith, Olivia Strout, Patrick Taggesell, Bryce Winkelman.)

1. System Check (dashboard, reminders, etc)

Communication channels seem to be working. Links are available on dashboard arriving via email so faculty can find them easily when they need them.

2. LMS update and Canvas Migration

The state-wide selection for a new LMS to succeed ANGEL has completed, and the winner is Canvas by Instructure. A contract should be in place with Instructure by July 1, 2012. Our contract with ANGEL continues until 2014. [|A survey of the faculty] shows that there is support for piloting some classrooms in the Fall of 2012, and moving all courses either in Winter or Spring of 2013. That was also the recommendation of the group.

Proposed plan is as follows:

Summer, 2012 Fall, 2012 Winter, 2013
 * Intensive Canvas bootcamp to train the 30 faculty who have volunteered to pilot in the fall.
 * Use public sandboxes to migrate/build content for deployment in fall.
 * Run up to 30 courses in Canvas as pilots.
 * Bootcamp training for remaining faculty on Canvas.
 * Training on advanced topics for initial group of faculty.
 * Migration of all ANGEL content into Canvas.
 * Training in advanced topics for second group of faculty.

Spring, 2013
 * Discontinue active use of ANGEL.
 * Train new faculty in Canvas as needed.
 * Train on special topics in Canvas as new features are developed.

Course for faculty in Canvas being completed by State Board eLearning. Should be done by June, 2012.

3. iPad update

30 iPads were deployed for faculty use on 1 wk. check out. All iPads are currently checked out. We developed [|a website] to support use of iPads on campus. We've done some experimenting with using Apple TV to mirror the iPad wirelessly. It seems to work well, and we'll be piloting one classroom using multiple iPads and Apple TV this summer (Intro to Art by Joe Batt).

4. Tegrity Conference --[|Archive of Recordings]

Eric Oderman attended the Tegrity User Conference in Seattle in April

Summer 2012 Update: Tegrity developers are working on upgrades to bring feature parity across all supported platforms. PC recorder will feature dual screen support. iPad app will allow for instructor recording. New app for Kindle Fire.

Attended three days of Tegrity training session. See above link for recordings of all sessions. 5. Student Survey Data

One suggestion from the group was to convene a panel of students to talk about LMS usage. Might generate more/different information about student skills/attitude that would be helpful for planning.

6. Faculty Survey Questions


 * Maybe survey not best tool.
 * Focus groups may be better.
 * Grouped by division?
 * Training with follow up (not a one-time hit)
 * Advertise that we will train groups AND individuals (not groups only)
 * What tools are you using?

8. Strategic Plan for Technology at SPSCC

Use information collected from student and faculty focus groups to create plan -- use teaching and learning as starting point.

9. Faculty Training: Bootcamp for summer.

Weekly in the summer. Maybe several days, based on division.