Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

RLO Form

The WITS department is still working on the development of a searchable learning object repository specific to Critical Thinking activities. The process has been postponed due to other projects taking precedence.

QEC Meeting

Instructional Technologists Nancy Munce, Karen Hesting, Tim Godcharles, and Alan Shapiro attended the QEC meeting held on September 25, 2009. WITS would like to stay involved in the plans for Professional Development and the possible creation of Center for Teaching & Learning.

Fall Critical Thinking Institute

Instructional Technologists Alan Shapiro and Tim Godcharles were able to attend the Fall Critical Thinking Institute on October 9th and reported back on its success. It was nice to see faculty sharing the implementation of tools in Critical Thinking, such as Jing, learned through the WITs department.

Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Met with Janice, Lynn, Jesse, Maggie and Gail.

ePortfolio
Janice met with Ken Pereira on 12/2. Ken is planning to activate ePortfolio for the Fall 2009 semester with the ANGEL 7.3 upgrade. The ePortfolio will be activated for the ANGEL 7.3 pilot during Spring 2009 so that Alan Shapiro and others can investigate its capabilities. Janice is still seeking clarification on this and will keep us updated.

Faculty Champion Guide
Karen H. will be meeting with Janice on 12/16 to discuss the creation of the Faculty Champion Guide (course) in ANGEL.

QEP Update Meeting

Attended QEP Update Meeting on Friday, August 8, 2008, during which Lynn provided an update to Drs. Cooper and Olliver. Also in attendance was Gail, Jesse, and Maggie Tymms.

Tasks for WITS:

• Plans are being made for a Fall Critical Thinking Institute (November). Another presentation by the Instructional Technologists is requested.
• Lynn is adding content to the QEP Web site. She needs to know what the URL/Web address for the site will be so she can disseminate this information in materials provided at next Thursday’s Fall Faculty Meeting.
• Dr. Olliver suggested moving forward with using ANGEL Dropboxes as an ePortfolio system, rather than waiting for ANGEL 7.4. 
• Jesse inquired about the possibility of WITS personnel programming a Web submission form based upon the print-based Critical Thinking Rubric for faculty use.

Critical Thinking Resources Meeting

Regarding the Summer Critical Thinking Institute, positive feedback continues regarding the technology session presented by Karen Hesting and Nancy Doolittle. On June 26, Lynn reported, “I just analyzed the end-of-workshop surveys from last Friday, and 28 out of 33 said the most important or valuable thing they learned had to do with technology. Nineteen want more hands-on-workshops in using technology.”

Karen and Nancy are going to provide the next article for the QEP e-Newsletter. They are going to write a brief summary of the technology piece they did for the Summer Critical Thinking Institute, perhaps including a couple tangible ideas for faculty. Lynn would like to have this by Monday, if possible.

Nancy is going to work with Lynn on turning the Lesson Plan template into a PDF form. Nancy is acting as Lynn’s IT on this one – teaching her how to do it. Nancy will also work on the blog which will an informal RLO repository.

Lynn and Donna will be making modifications to the gateway Web site as well as including 2nd level pages for many of the links off of the Web site. It was felt that these 2nd level pages were good areas for expanding on information before sending folks into ANGEL for the Instructional Portfolio component of this project. An Instructional Portfolio will be a folder that members of the Academic Round Table will maintain in ANGELtraining containing critical thinking activities, assessments, course syllabi, etc.

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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.