Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Met with Lynn, Gail, and Jesse. We reviewed the latest draft of the Gateway Web site. All noticed the overlap of text in the left-hand “post-it” note and some other alignment issues that Faith is still working on. It was proposed that the menu items along the top green bar be rearranged to match the headings on the three main “post-it” notes, including that the heading will be “Critical Thinking Resources.” Lynn will relay those suggestions to Faith.

Lynn reviewed the WordPress blog for RLO’s. She’d like a different photo and is curious about other widgets. She will get with Nancy Doolittle for assistance.

Nancy has created an SPC iTunes U area for QEP. Gail’s podcast on critical thinking is up and running.

Janice is still working on the online notes for Nosich’s Critical Thinking Institute.

The date for the summer Critical Thinking Institute is still being determined. It will most likely be on a Friday in June. On the agenda is a time slot for technology and critical thinking which will be presented by the Instructional Technologists.

Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Met with Lynn, Gail, Jesse, Peg Connell, and Maggie Tymms.

Perkins/DAP-Funded Online Workshops: Peg reiterated the desire to collaborate Perkins and DAP grants with QEP goals of critical thinking. Peg stated that funds are available to help fund the creation of online workshops that incorporate accessibility standards. Lynn and Janice will meet later to outline specifics (i.e., length of workshops, materials, payment/PAR, etc.). Most likely, the notes taken at the two Critical Thinking Institutes will be converted, and possibly some workshops will be developed from this summer’s event. Janice will talk with Karen Hesting about the work she’s done in the past for Peg to help clarify the process and accessibility standards.

RLO Guidelines: The group reviewed the RLO Guidelines document. Feeback was positive overall. A few suggestions were given: Add an area for comments; Add places for Name, Date, RLO Title, RLO Location, and way to indicate whether this RLO was created in-house or located outside SPC. Jesse suggested that this may be able to be created with the WITS survey builder to facilitate data collection. Janice suggested there also be a printable version to make completion easier for faculty.

ePortfolio: Lynn has registered for the TLT Webinar on ePortfolios that she and Alan will attend for three consecutive Wednesdays 12-1 p.m. beginning 4/16. Lynn will call Alan to arrange a rendezvous viewing location to help facilitate discussion after each one-hour session.

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Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Met with Lynn, Gail, and Jesse. Lynn has delivered cameras and headsets to Faculty Champions (she gave Janice sets for Ann McNicol and Nancy Watkins). Faculty Champions will contact their Campus Instructional Technologist if they need assistance with hardware installation or SPOCing.

The ePortfolio evaluation (ANGEL, LiveText, and Chalk & Wire) is scheduled for Wednesday, April 9 beginning at 1:00 p.m. at the Seminole Campus in UP 301. Lynn has drafted an Evaluation Scorecard. Jesse will take a closer look to refine the scorecard.

Technology topics are welcomed for this summer’s Mini-Conference, for example “RLO’s,” “Critical Thinking and Technology,” etc.

The online materials for the two Critical Thinking Institutes that Janice has/will develop will be relayed to Provosts once Nosich’s is complete. These will be provided via an ANGELtraining link from the Gateway Web site in order to promote the site.

Luis created a WordPress blog, and Lynn is investigating if WordPress will work for housing RLO’s. Nancy Doolittle has agreed to give Lynn some pointers with this.

The Instructional Technologists are commenting on a checklist/guidelines for evaluating RLO’s. Janice read off the list of standards and these seemed well-received by those in attendance. Lynn confirmed that no scoring was necessary, and felt just having N/A, No, Somewhat, and Yes was appropriate. Janice will forward to the Quality Enhancement Team as soon as possible.

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