COE Technology Committee Minutes
Monday –March 5, 2012
3:30 p.m. – SEC 137
Present:
Maxine Davis, IRTS
Mindy Noble, IRTS
Neil Clopton, IRTS
Amy Staples, Special Education
Daniel Mourlam – TQP Tech Specialist
Jason Vetter – ITTC
Josh Mitchell – Graduate Student
(Instructional Tech)
Robin Galloway, C & I
Absent:
Mary Herring, Associate Dean
Josh Hanna, PLS
Brandi Delveau, Undergraduate Student
(Elementary Ed)
Linda Rosulek, OSFE
Vickie Robinson, ELPSE
Rodd Grady, IRTS
Michael Fanelli, Ed Psych
Fabio Fontana, HPELS
Chelsea Marzen, Undergrad Elementary Ed.
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Maxine opened the meeting by informing us Chelsea Marzen will be joining the committee.
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Updates – Maxine updated on the Crestron project and on room 137. Equipment and supplies are in the process of
being ordered.
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JoshM provided SCAC report. Committe is discussing ways to cut down on printing costs in the labs. There is
software that could be implemented that will only allow students to print a certain amount of copies. Neil discussed
how the software would work. Discussions on how many pages a student is allowed to print took place. Faculty and
staff would get emails on how many pages they would be allowed to print.
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JoshM reported that committee feels it is important to promote use of Google Apps and Lynda.com. Josh reported that
there was concerns regarding how googlemail opened directly into email…you can now setup stop screen before email
is displayed. JoshM also reminded us the date for Oracle Calendar cut off is May 7th.
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Neil added that people are starting to open up talks with him via Google Talk instead of calling or emailing.
Discussion ensued about using Google talk.
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JoshM also reported that there have been problems on campus with Dell computers. Neil commented the problem is
much larger than what has been anticipated. The mother boards are not working correctly. Dell has known about this
problem for about a year and they are still sending mother boards that are not working. It has been
extremely disruptive.
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Robin reported that the TPP is meeting and discussing several tools, such as, TPACK and TIM. Committee discussing
and developing Status Report on Technology Premier Points (started by Leigh Zeitz) which will be submitted to the
Dean.
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Planning for FY13 – Maxine stated next FY would be cycle for request for proposals. She asked if any changes in the
process needed to be made. Discussion on whether or not include additional requirements ensued. Committee agreed
that proposal process should include presentation/summary on how project was implemented and used. The committee
will review and rewrite the RFP to include this info at the next meeting. A google doc of the current RFP will be
distributed to committee to review in preparation for April mtg.
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Robin asked status of COE Tech committee request for integration specialist to the Dean. Maxine stated committed
though that request be outline in TPP report. Robin suggested that a letter from COE Tech would be in support of
report from TPP which is also indentifies need for integration specialists. Committee will work on this at April mtg.
Next meeting: Monday, April 2 at 3:30 in SEC 137.
Respectfully submitted,
Mindy Noble