ACRL Instruction Section
Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee
Conference: ALA Annual 2003
Committee/Task Force: Emerging Technologies in Instruction
Meeting Session: First
Meeting Date: Saturday 6/21/03
Scheduled Time: 2:00-4:00 PM
Meeting Location: Marriott Bloor Yorkville, Summerhill Room
Members Present:
Lori A. DuBois
Melissa H. Koenig
Jennifer E. Knievel
Norman I. Buchwald
Carrie Kruse
Leslie Murtha
Francesca Lane Rasmus
Janelle Wertzberger
Mark Szarko
Members Excused:
Judy Smith
Kathy Magarrell
Erin Daix
John Hickok
Members Absent:
Sharon L. Verba
Visitors:
Jenn Jasinski, Brian Bell, Patricia Kelley, Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit, Susan Scott, Holly Eggleston, Marilyn Ochoa, Caroline Cason, Emily Horning, Margaret Porter, Dianne Cmor, Cindy Shirkey, Paul Pormen
Text of Minutes:
1. Housekeeping
· Introductions were given all around
· Announcements
o From ACRL Leadership Advisory meeting: ACRL is working with a consultant on a new strategic plan, and they would like to get feedback from the bottom up via focus groups, phone interviews with non-members, and a web survey. The draft strategic plan will be compared with what ACRL staff are already doing and presented for feedback at Midwinter on the Friday from 2-4. Comments may be sent to the consultant, Paul Meyer, at pmeyer@techer.com. Please use the subject line: ACRL Strategic Plan.
o From ACRL Section Council: ACRL Board documents are available in the members-only section of the ACRL web site. The first 30 minutes of the board meeting is open mike. There will be electronic balloting for the next elections. An ACRL Virtual Meeting Task Force will be looking at ALA's policy on virtual meetings.
o ALA website: a group will be invited to discuss the problems with the new website. Rhoda Channing from Lake Forest will be leading the discussion. They are working on shorter URLs.
o ACRL Membership: if your membership has lapsed, you will not be added to committee rosters until membership dues are paid.
o Update on IS Executive Committee decisions regarding the Emerging Technologies committee since Midwinter: We submitted the revised committee charge to the Executive Committee, but were told to hold off on making the change because the IS of the Future Task Force would be looking at all committee charges. This decision also impacts changing the name of the Internet Education Project. We also requested assistance in moving the Internet Education Project database from Colgate to the ALA server. Due to changes to the content management system for the ALA web site, we were told to wait until that system was up and running.
2. New Technology of the Month Column
· Plan from midwinter meeting was to be more proactive about emerging technologies by creating a column on new technologies in or for instruction, or technologies that affect the content of instruction, to be distributed on ILI-L.
· Discussed frequency of column. The committee decided to do a quarterly column instead of monthly. Possible topics: wireless technology in instruction classrooms; course management systems (e.g. WebCT, Blackboard); web authoring and graphics tools; proxy servers; link resolving programs; ideas gathered from IEP site of the month project.
· Discussed project name. "InfoTech Tips and Trends" was suggested. Column should provide practical tips or start a discussion about a problem.
· Assign months to continuing members:
o Melissa - August (wireless classrooms)
o Carrie - December (course management systems)
3. Internet Education Project Reviews
· Report on reviews completed during Spring 2003 round
o Score of 33 = acceptance
o 15 out of 40 sites accepted from most recent round = 38% acceptance rate
o Some server problems in submitting reviews, which will hopefully be solved by an eventual move to ALA servers
· Timeline for next round of reviews
o Submission deadline 1 December 2003
o Reviews finished by Midwinter 2004
o Call for submissions will go out by 1 November 2003
o In addition to the usual self-submission of sites, the committee will be more proactive in soliciting nominations of exceptional sites (Need a nomination form)
· Still working on trying to move files to a different server to get it out of Colgate
· Discussed how to handle sites that get negative comments from reviewers but still get high scores for certain pieces. Weighting certain criteria would be the only workable solution, but would be very complicated. Criteria will remain as they are. Having three reviewers per site helps minimize problems, and scores are quite consistent.
4. Survey of Accepted Sites
· Lori will send link to survey with acceptance letters. Survey responses will feed into a server at DePaul.
· Melissa and Lori will send out letters and put survey up at DePaul
5. Rejected Sites
· Discussed what should be included in the rejection letters. Currently letters do not include explanations of why sites are rejected, and site owners can find out more by asking the chair. Group decided to continue excluding reviewer comments.
6. IEP Site of the Month Column
· Discussed a standard format for the column
o Good questions from last profile: How did it come to be? What was the motivation? How long did it take? Was it challenging to integrate with the technology? What are the future plans?
o Written in Q&A format
o Could include 1 or 2 unique questions specific to projects being profiled.
o Five questions is a good number to ask. Not too many for the interview and not too long to read when profile is distributed.
o Interviewer can use survey as the basis for asking questions
o Would be nice to have surveys linked to sites in the database
· Assign months to continuing members
o Make sure we're not all doing the same project. Try to do one near the top of the list that you reviewed for the project.
o Judy - July
o Norman - next (August) doing it from the new batch - copyright primer
o Jennifer - September "Research the Next Generation"
7. Wrap-up
· Review decisions and action items from meeting
o Melissa will do the first new technology column on wireless in August (depending on results from IS Exec)
o Carrie will do the next new technology column on course management software in December
o Logo and name change are delayed pending IS of the Future Task Force recommendations
o Site of the month column set: Judy will do one for July, Norman for August, and Jennifer for September
o Lori will send acceptance and rejection letters with URL to survey to IEP applicants
o Melissa will set up online survey
o New committee members will get notice to join a Yahoo group
o Lori will send list of accepted sites to the IS Newsletter
o Current members will stay on the distribution list for a month until minutes are posted
8. Meeting adjourned 3:45 PM
Minutes submitted by Jennifer Knievel, jennifer.knievel@colorado.edu, Emerging Technologies in Instruction intern.
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