C3 Meeting Minutes from 11-2-07

C3 Meeting Minutes from 11-2-07

We first discussed the revised Equipment Survey and decided it was ready to use.  Bill will send an email requesting that instructors fill out the survey.

Bill reviewed his proposed plan to implement Google accounts and the use of an ELP Events calendar on Google from next April with any needed preparation for that to happen to take place in winter term. These are proposed minimum goals, with many more Web 2.0 resources and practices still to be worked on.

Owen proposed a plan for moving forward first within C3 itself on a limited set of skills and practices.  If this plan is successful, we may be able to propose more for ELP-wide implementation next Spring than Bill's minimum goals. The purpose of the plan is to move us forward in a more focused manner, following the period of consciousness raising we have been muddling through up to now.  It is also important that we develop significant first-hand experience in the use of these skills and practices in order to truly understand and appreciate their value before we attempt to spread them further within the ELP.

Owen's plan indicates that all C3 members do the following as soon as possible starting today:

1. Use Gmail as their primary email system.
2. Use, maintain and share among C3 members a personal Google calendar and that we use these calendars to set C3 meetings.
3. Use Googledocs for all file creation and that these files will have an RSS feed share as well as being posted to email.
4. Use a personal blog and share the url within C3
5. Use Delicious bookmarking and share our user names within C3
6. Use a Google Reader
7. Use Firefox on a memory stick as our default browsers

Not everyone in C3 understands what all of these points mean or entail at this point, and certainly we are at different points in our ability to implement them.  In order to determine where we all are, Owen will create a form on a web site for us to fill in. This will enable us to determine who needs what and track our progress towards what is needed.

We will also need learning sessions, both as a group and as individuals, to get us fully operational with this set of practices.  Owen has a number of  on line training resources that we can use from his SE class.  There are additional resources at the University of Manitoba site:  http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Workshops_and_Resources

The first training session will be Monday 11/5 at 11:00 in ILC 131. We should all fill in the "where we all are" form prior to then.

The plan is to establish our ability to do all of the seven things listed in the plan as quickly as possible and to continue with those practices until the end of the New Year's break.  At that point, we will determine what we want to do in terms of launching any of these practices within the wider ELP context.





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