C3 meeting notes for 12/14/07

C3 meeting notes for 12/14/07


We briefly reviewed the compiled equipment survey report.  Bill will further refine the information and prepare a draft report.

We adjourned to the computer lab to continue looking at the big picture of what we want to achieve through changes in work practice.  The general idea is to establish a community of practice within the ELP which leads to and supports an on-going process of collaboratively produced materials for use in our teaching as well as for administrative and professional purposes.  The main features of this community of practice will be:

1. Use of Google accounts including Google calendar, Googledocs, Gmail, and Google Reader.  Ideally, these would be run on Firefox browsers as standard practice to help ensure maximum compatibility and ease of training.

2. Individual teacher-created Blogs for each course and administrative function. These will be used as course homepages and will be open, social and accessible

3. Use of social bookmark (Delicious) tagging employing a common set of tags

4. A materials development and revision process that emerges from the three areas of practice listed above and which includes a design template that encourages adherence to common professional standards

This overall vision will need to be presented in such a way as to maximize teacher interest and willingness to engage in a necessary learning curve.  Successful implementation of the vision will also require careful planning and a fair amount of teacher and student training.  Our goal is to begin implementing as much of the vision as possible by April, 2008. 

We have 70 minutes on January 22 plus the possibility of setting up personalized sessions with instructors at their computers in order to get ready for an April launch.

We felt the need for another meeting before the break to continue planning.  The only shot at a time for all of us to meet next week that I can guess at is Monday 5th period.
Please let me know if that won't work for anyone.  Otherwise, we could meet Friday 1st sans Dave.






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