Minutes of Technology Committee Meeting – 3-24-10
present: David Jordan, Maur Pearl, David Garza, Curtis Stage, Adrian Gonzalez, Roza
Ekimyan, Martha Rios, Johnny Phung
Absent: Joe Ramirez, Richard Rains, Hanh Tran, Saul Perez (ASO), Robert Payne,
Kathy Dawson, Ramon Suarez
1. Moodle contract – 2010-2011– David presented the current quote for the
2010-2011 moodle contract. The cost is - $8705 – for LAMC – bill is due – we
need more information on usage - college budgeted for etudes from last year
– about $16,000 so net savings, even if we have to pay – swap out with etudes
bill. This is first time we have had to pay for moodle. The District and other
sister colleges paid for our usage. Maury said to contact VPAA and have her
add it as a prioritized expense for Academic Affairs (after the fact).
Bill also needs to go to Budget and Planning. It is less an issue in finding
money since it was allocated to etudes. The money can be shifted over to
cover the bill – it has to be a line item in the operations plan – we need to get
idea of future bills. Also we need to send a copy of the bill to Karen – VP
Admin Services.
2. 508 policy – Accommodations and Web Access Policies– The Committee
reviewed LATTC policy on Accomodations see http://missionitac.pbworks.com/f/lattc-5090001.pdf . Adrian Gonzalez said
that DSPS would review it and suggest changes. Maury feels the Trade Tech
policy is too qualified, - what is mandate of the law? – what is a good faith
effort? – It is not good enough to just state intention – also not “wherever
financially feasible” – focusing on one population – veterans are not part of
DSPS – should be focused on all students – We need to develop a process and
guideline – We should check online for distillation of the process – get one or
two page outline of the law – Technology Committee could provide links
LAMC website was re-designed in last few years. We now use Omniupdate
which is 508 compliant. Adrian said there is the Hi Tech center in Cupertino,
and they provide software to check our 508 compliance at lamission.edu
college websit. Nick in IT can install software and evaluate the website. Have
Nick be responsible to check the website – Maury is reluctant to have Nick do
this. Can software do a report. We will have Nick look at the software and
report back Adrian will send information to the Technology Committee. The
software program is called ACT Verify.
Roza said that Adrian in DSPS will do a Faculty Success Center workshop on
Weds. April 14th at 1 – 2 pm - CC#2 which will be announced in Mission
News. We also need to look at our current web access policies and review
them – see current policies at http://missionitac.pbworks.com/acceptableuse
3. MS Academy – IT academy – IT is working with Staff Development to log into
a web-based portal and take training in MS Office products for classified and
faculty to receive MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist Certification – see
http://www.certification-crazy.net/mous.htm) which will include video
tutorials – take quizzes, certification possible? The first stage is to provide
the portal access and training. Curtis s said it is good for basic skills and it
should also be rolled out to students, and student success and to include
excel spreadsheets.
4. FTLA – report – only meeting once a month. May 26th is the
commencement ceremony in WLA – Over summer the next FLTA at
Southwest will be for faculty in math and science. Our FTLA faculty are
currently using Facebook – check with Angela Echeverri – Academic Senate
President. She is using it extensively in her science (Biology) classes. FTLA
will do a presentation on what they have learned. It is suggested that they –
next one at Southwest.
faculty is using facebook – check with Angela – FTLA will do presentation to
all of Faculty – suggest it be made in our next Flex Day
5. Weave Online – This is a program we can use for linking college master
plans – It is very expensive $16 M per year. David suggested we set up our
home grown system, with a “findings” evidence functionality to input
validation. Maury said he is sitting down with Hanh and working on a system
– an objective table, action plans, all captured in a data base. Hanh will take
information from the tech plan and put it in that outline, there is tool –
Ironspeed (see http://www.ironspeed.com/default.aspx) . It is a web
application which takes a database and writes functional displays for use. We
could then configure it to link our master plans. The software is $3000 and
so reasonable.
Curtis asked if it was linked to other master plans – eg. EPC and EMP
what gets linked to each other – objective of TMP with EMP – related
objectives – how do you report this out at the end of the day? And status of
those items – how do you want to develop this linkage?.
FTLA – Time Management workshop for student success went well. Next
Month planned workshop for students – “What kind of learner are you” and
on 3-25 “Finding Main Ideas in paragraphs” - posting it around campus
we need to use calendar on campus – to get it on calendar – Mission News
Next meeting – 4/14 at 12 noon
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