Teaching and Educational Technologies Committee Meeting

Greensboro, NC

July 14, 2008

 

Committee Members present:  Karen Vines (NE, Chair), Matt Hanson (NC), Greg Hoover (S), John Dorner (ex officio member, NACAA)

Committee Members absent:  Janet Schmidt (W)

Various NACAA members also in attendance

 

Committee Issues

Recruitment information for potential future committee members.  Committee members serve 2-year terms and can serve two 2-year terms before having to step down from the committee.

 

Bill (?, NJ) will be stepping in to finish Karen's term.

Greg Hoover is the incoming Chair of the committee.

 

Sessions in 2008

Sunday:  Beginner and Intermediate Powerpoint sessions

    Filled to capacity in 2007

    Only about 7 in each in 2008

 

Tuesday:  Turning Tech, Web 2.0, and eXtension

 

Thursday:  Hands-on workshop on Web 2.0 (John Dorner)

 

On-line Proposal Submissions Review

Need to be able to save and go back later to review (may already be possible but individual was unable to figure out how to do this).

Formatting needs to be the same for both electronic and paper book (though paper book may be going away).

Separate field for authors from main body of abstract.

Need to be able to list multiple authors for any submission.

Require online submission to have more uniformity - don't allow people to send in paper copies that then have to be scanned in.

Firm due date (March 15), promote through regional and state coordinators.  Will remain March 15 in 2009 despite meeting not being until September.

More proposals than slots this year, allowed combination of similar topics (eXtension, Web 2.0).

Need feedback form (via e-mail?) to confirm receipt and allow person to see what their submission looks like.

 

Discussion on submission of abstracts to one vs. several committees:

Issue: One presentation may be delivered several times, resulting in repetitive programming.

    If limit to only one committee, some authors will change a few words and title to also submit to another committee.

    Allow to select several committees but rank in order of preference.  Only one committee can accept a proposal - first committee to review proposals would be able to accept/reject, potentially preventing a "more appropriate" committee from accepting.  First come, first served.

    Could require committees that have been selected to discuss abstracts that are cross listed to decide where it would best be placed.

    Could require the author to pick one but have committees consider if a given abstract would be better suited elsewhere.  Potential issue is a committee meets late and "more appropriate" committee has already made all selections.

 

No real decision was made on this subject.

 

Communications

Teaching and Educational Technologies State Chair representatives need to be listed on website so that they will receive communications about developments.  All correspondance is electronic, should flow from NACAA to regional to state representative?

 

Promote Wiki to distribute information to members in general.

Allow members to listen in on teleconferences (must get dates out to them ahead of time).

Consider creating mailing list on eXtension - someone else would be responsible for updating list membership and would allow industry representatives to be involved.

 

Strategic Planning

 

Ideas for 2009

Though Sunday session not well attended this year, need another year or two in order to get a real feel for how useful they will be.  Keep Sunday program in 2009.

 

Keep Tuesday and Thursday sessions.

 

Potentially set up a spouses or Life Members session?  Not primary audience, but could be useful.  Could cross-list in program.

 

Record Teaching and Educational Technology meeting and post to website.  Also, record prime programs and post to website.  The committee would be responsible for recording, editing, and getting the edited program to the appropriate person for posting on the website.  Craig Yohn (WV) will send examples of recorded programs for committee review.  The committee is tentatively planning on recording 2-3 presentations in 2009 for later posting to the NACAA website.

 

Make meeting notes available to members so that new members can see what's been done in the past.  Previous years' meeting notes are, but have not created an archive of older meetings.  Will begin this now.

 

Potential Sunday topic - Camtasia Demonstration.

 

Web conferencing - different states use different programs, but could do session on how to make such technology effective.

 

Discussion on use of indiviudal laptops vs. pre-loaded laptops.  Pre-loaded most likely better due to system and software differences and conflicts.

 

Generate survey to get feedback on desired topics.

 

Session on hands-on interactive skills to help with distance programming efforts (Sunday session?).

 

Technologies Session

Teaching Methods Session

 

 

Transcribed by SP (VA): 7/14/08

 

 

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