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.

Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

Note: This is the first set of notes by Karen Hesting

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

Critical Thinking Institutes
Plans for the Fall Critical Thinking Institute are at the top of the agenda. Things are coming together. The ITs should not feel like the must go to the beginning session, but should get to the labs they are presenting in a bit early since they will not be used in the morning.  The machines have Office ’07 installed. When you get to the parking garage, just be sure to tell them you are coming to the Critical Thinking Institute.

Narrowing the Gulf is the Spring Critical Thinking Institute. A campaign is being started to help people to understand this.

RLOs
Right now there is WITS form (https://it.spcollege.edu/cfsurveys/survey.cfm?su_id=2727)
that can be used to submit RLOs. This is linked off of the gateway website. To share these becomes a manual process. Is there a way that this can be connected to the Project Eagle III grant deliverables? Maybe Nancy or Alan can help to figure this out.

ePortfolio
Lynn was under the assumption that the college has already spent a chunk of money on ANGEL ePortfolio that could be used, even though it does not do all that is expected until ANGEL 7.4.  Jesse kind of feels that the existing tool really isn’t what is needed. Gail shared that this just might not need to be a deliverable at this time, especially because of resources and the economy. Further discussion will happen on this.

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.

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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Quality Enhancement Team Meeting

I met with Lynn Grinnell and Gail Lancaster this afternoon to cover a variety of topics including the budget and action plan. I proposed the concept of this Blog, specific to being the liason between the WITS Department and the Quality Enhancement Committee, which was well-received. There was discussion about the purchase of Web cameras and headsets for members of the QEC, and that some of the faculty champions will be contacting their campus Instructional Technologist for training. The program Captivate, which was demonstrated by Peter Shea at Friday’s Title III Developmental Conference, is being considered. Lynn is seeking a recommendation about whether licenses should be purchased by QEP for the campus Faculty Development Centers.

There was mention of the prospect of holding a one-day mini conference for critical thinking sometime this summer. If this comes to be, the Instructional Technologists could provide a session on “Technology and Critical Thinking” or some other related topic.

The selection of the ePortfolio is still being decided. Lynn is going to schedule teleconferences with vendors in order to come to a decision. ANGEL’s 7.4 version will contain the features needed by the QEP.

Follow-up for WITS: RLO’s and the RLO Checklist, Captivate?, and “Technology and Critical Thinking.”

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