Re: C3 Meeting Notes from 5/16/07

Thanks for the minutes, Bill. I have no requests for corrections.

I enjoyed the C3 meeting today. I'm always amazed by the new ideas Owen
comes up with. Many of ideas are difficult to visualize and take time to
sink in, so I hope to keep learning and improving my ability to help
with designing a collaborative environment.

As the next step, I'm looking forward to collaborating on the proposals
for new equipment acquisitions and the recommended long-term plan for
the use of IT in the ELP.

For "new equipment," my feeling is that a full proposal might be
difficult since we have not surveyed the needs of the staff yet. I
wonder if it would be best to suggest/report some possible purchases and
then also announce that we will conduct a survey. Just an idea, and I
will look forward to your proposal draft.

For "the long term IT plan," I imagine it will be challenging to draft a
proposal that is "just right" in terms of what it actually proposes as
new IT requirements for staff to learn or do. I hope we will find a good
balance that is not overly threatening for staff members who are not
into new technologies.

Good luck to us!
____________________________________
Mark Christianson, Instructor
English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8585
Tel: 0422-33-3497/Fax: 0422-33-3500
http://edublog.jp/mark/

WCHarshbarger@gmail.com wrote:
> I've shared a document with you called "C3 Meeting Notes from 5/16/07":
> http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df8mx5rb_38fx5d3m&invite=d9j3pg4

> <http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df8mx5rb_38fx5d3m&invite=d9j3pg4>
>
> It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs &
> Spreadsheets. To open this document, just click the link above.
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>
> Here are my notes from today's meeting. Please let me know of
> corrections or other changes. Since it is not too big, I'm also
> including it in the email message you will get, so you can access it
> either in googledocs or as an email.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> C3 Meeting Notes from 5/16/07
>
> Bill distributed hard copies of the googledocs document he had drafted
> called C3 What do we want to do?, and which Owen had already added to
> and commented on.
>
> Owen provided an additional list of items to consider:
>
> 1. Connective Reading and Connective Writing as new genres that our
> students will need to learn. These involve more distributed and linked
> information than traditional text-based reading and writing that calls
> for a single package of information presented in intro-body-conclusion form.
>
> 2. New literacies to help our students develop skills for understanding
> and participating in a "3rd space" for learning. The 1st space is
> independent study and the 2nd space is the classroom. The 3rd space is
> a networked online environment. To fully participate in this 3rd space,
> students may need to be required to develop new literacies/skills in
> such things as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, etc. Part of the
> purpose and goal of this kind of literacy training would be to empower
> and encourage student initiated application of these tools to their own
> learning.
>
> We discussed whether instruction related to these literacies should be
> incorporated throughout the ELP, focussed on in ALS, or perhaps provided
> outside the ELP. Dave mentioned that he thought that such a course might
> already exist as a requirement at ICU , but we will need to get more
> information on it.
>
> 3. USB drives as portable Personal Study Places (PSPs) These would
> provide a relatively standardized, portable and efficient access to the
> 3rd space for students and teachers.
>
> Owen recommended that we try to utilize Web 2.0 tools to facilitate the
> retreat this Friday, but we decided that it is too early for this.
>
> We also discussed establishing what basic infrastructure will be needed
> before we begin implementing any Web 2.0 tools across the ELP such as
> determining whether we need to standardize MAC vs PC platforms,
> browsers, calendar systems, etc. in order to maximize successful
> implementation. We also determined that making a report and then
> formally announcing any implementation of Web 2.0 tools as part of our
> C3 efforts was preferable to just starting to use them.
>
> We finished our discussion with some thoughts on how to proceed from
> here. Bill mentioned that we need to provide two reports at the next
> ELP meeting on May 29 -- one on a recommended plan for new equipment
> acquisitions and the other a recommended long-term plan for the use of
> IT in the ELP. We agreed that Bill would produce report drafts that we
> will then collaborate on editing through Googledocs rather than having
> additional meetings before the 29th.
>
>
>
>
> >

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