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2003 ALA Midwinter Conference
Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee: Meeting I
Saturday, 25 January 2003
2:00-4:00 PM
Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 204 B
Members Present: Lori DuBois, Melissa Koenig, Jennifer Knievel,
Erin Daix, Carrie Kruse, Francesca Lane Rasmus, Norman Buchwald, Judy
Smith, Kathy Magarrell, Janelle Wertzberger, Leslie Murtha
Members Excused: John Hickok
Members Absent: Sharon Verba
Visitors: Leanne VandeCreek, Melissa Kalpin, Lydia Motyka, Kate
Adams, Cynthia Jordan, Cheryl Kulakoff, Mark Szarko, Gary Hunt
Agenda:
- Introductions, Announcements
Lori announced that the committee was reversing the two agendas since
the configuration of the room was more conducive to the next meeting's
agenda. Introductions were given all around. Lori and Melissa made
the following announcements: ACRL conference registration due 7 February,
ACRL looking for mentors for spectrum scholars contact Teresa Byrd,
Deadline for reappointment to committees is 1 February - fill out
the online form, ACRL pre-conference at ALA annual about targeted
instruction, Various announcements about ACRL programs happening that
day. Lori and Melissa handed out copies of agendas, committee charge,
flyers for ACRL programs, minutes from Annual, and Annual Planning
Form.
- Technology survey
The committee at one point planned to do a survey about technology
needs. They were going to use that to create various tip sheet for
teaching with technology: tip sheets, how to guides, etc. Decision:
That need is already being met, so the project was dropped.
- The committee broke up into small groups for discussion of possible
new projects.
- Visit from Debbie Tenofsky, member at large, and our liaison to
the IS Executive Committee. As a developer of IEP in the beginning,
she was interested in how much it has already changed. She reminded
us to submit our committee reappointment forms by 1 February 2003.
Nearly the entire committee is at the end of term, so we have some
continuity problems.
- Wide ranging discussion and brainstorming (before and after Debbie's
visit) about
- what members were expecting when they joined / visited the committee
- how to be more proactive, rather than reactive, about alerting
ourselves of new technologies
- how to communicate better with other committees and interested
librarians about new technologies
- the inherent conflict between "emerging" technologies, and the
"best practices" reflected in the Internet Education Project
- ways to reach out to membership between conferences
- how to expand IEP to include WebCT and Blackboard-style instruction
- how to publicize sites included in the IEP
- what to do about the name of IEP, which was originally about
teaching people to use the internet, and has moved now to mostly
information literacy tutorials, so the name no longer reflects
what the project is about.
- Decisions
- We want to keep the Internet Education Project as part
of the committee's main focus, though we may want to change
it somewhat
- We need to be more proactive, rather than reactive, about
emerging technologies
- Possible methods of reaching the membership with information
from Etech: a listserv, newsletter, pushing to people's desktops,
looking at programming possibilities both at and between conferences,
more extensive use of our web site, lists of grant and funding
opportunities, open source software available, bibliographies
- Include technology survey in the application for IEP so
we know what they used to create it and we can tell if it's
innovative or not.
- IEP reviews decisions and action items
30 reviews completed in Winter 2003 round, still waiting for
one set. Next round will be right before Annual. Submission
deadline 15 May, so we have 1 month before annual to do reviews.
- Background survey for IEP accepted sites
IS Executive committee does not have a record of approving
our survey, so we need to re-submit it. Discussion about possible
changes to the survey.Decisions and Action Items: Move technology
part of the survey (Roman numeral I) to the application form
so we have it to for the review.Remove II A, II B, and III
A since we ask those in the application form. Divide III A
on application form into two questions. Create a new category
for maintenance. Move current III B and III C to maintenance.
Move current IV A to maintenance, and change "creation" to
"maintenance".Move current IV C to maintenance, and change
"create" to "maintain". Add some questions to "evaluation"
about target audience's responses, successes, and failures,
and how feedback has changed or improved the project. Modified
survey will be submitted to Debbie Tenofsky to take to the
Executive Committee for approval.
Announcements:
- Lori announced that the committee was reversing the two agendas
since the configuration of the room was more conducive to the next
meeting's agenda.
- Introductions were given all around
- Lori and Melissa made the following announcements
- ACRL conference registration due 7 February
- ACRL looking for mentors for spectrum scholars -- contact Teresa
Byrd
- Deadline for reappointment to committees is 1 February; fill
out the online for
- ACRL pre-conference at ALA annual about targeted instruction.
- Various announcements about ACRL programs happening that day
- Lori and Melissa handed out copies of agendas, committee charge,
flyers for ACRL programs, minutes from Annual, and Annual Planning
Form
Action Items:
We want to keep the Internet Education Project as part of the committee's
main focus, though we may want to change it somewhat
Include technology survey in the application for IEP so we know what
they used to create it and we can tell if it's innovative or not
IEP Submission deadline 15 May, so we have 1 month before annual to
do reviews
Make several changes to survey before submitting it to Debbie Tenofsky.
The meeting adjourned at 3:51 PM EST.
Respectfully submitted,
Jennifer Knievel, Intern
jennifer.knievel@colorado.edu
3/3/03
Approved 2/28/03
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