Minutes of 7-30-07 Technology Committee Meeting

Present: Hanh Tran, Maury Pearl, Robert Payne, Kathie Dawson, Curtis Stage, David Jordan

1. Technology Infrastructure Project - Hanh gave an update on the Tech Infrastructure Update, it has started, but there is no estimated completion date. It will include also wiring the campus for "wireless" . Because Hanh and IT had the foresight to adopt MS network system and to move away from Novel networks, this allows us then to have a wireless access system, with faculty using the same username and passcodes they use for their DEC and faculty email on campus, and students will have access to the wireless campus access with their Student ID numbers and normal PIN they use in the LRC Commons. Great foresight and work Hanh!!

2. Access Speed for Internet in Faculty Offices - the IT Dept. has replaced a computer network for Faculty, and now the access speed for internet in the Faculty offices is in excess of 11,000 kbs - That is very fast folks. I have just less than 6,000 at home. So that is fantastic, and really "smokin" - thanks Hanh and IT.

3. Smart Classrooms - Hanh said that 11 of the classrooms in the IA Student building now have projectors, CD, etc. as smart classrooms. Terry Carter will help to train interested faculty, and at Flex Day there will be instructions on how to use these classrooms.

4. New look of campus webpage - Maury said that the District is piloting a new "uniform look" for all LACCD campuses through a "content management system" - provided by Omni-Update - This will allow us at Mission to distribute the updating of web page content throughout the campus to interested units, departments, and the like. The campus will get 25 licenses at first for content management, and more licenses in the future. There is not date of completion on this project. Very nice work Maury and Hanh and IT team. This will help us to keep the webpage updated at Mission.

5. Flex Day Schedule - the committee reviewed the Flex Day schedule and discussed the Technology training. Curtis suggested we change the training on "Quick Time" Videos as we do not have the CD programs to distribute to faculty on flex day, making it a bit difficult to train. Also David suggested that we are not set up for developing podcasts yet, and possibly faculty would not embrace this yet. Training on the filing of grades electronically is important, and it was pushed up to the front so all faculty could be trained in this. Admissions has been contacted and they will help with this training. See the new updated Flex Day 2007 - at http://flexday.pbwiki.com - updated 7-31-07.

6. Accessibility - Rick Scuderi reviewed the language for "accessibility and assistive technology that should be recommended for inclusion in faculty syllabus, and handouts will be distributed on this at Flex Day. Rick and Adrian will run the breakout session on Accessibility on Flex Day. Rick provided "redacted language" for accessibility for the Tech Master Plan that will be inserted into the plan.

7. Departmental Technology Needs - David will discuss with Alma and Kathleen in Academic Affairs the Committee recommendation that a survey be taken in early Fall Semester for determining the Technology needs for training and Technology Goals for each Department for 2007-2008 so that this can be included in the Tech Master Plan.

8. Permanent Chair Elections - David indicated that the Technology Committee is a College Wide Governance Committee and as such has two chairs. One chair is our Adminstrator - Maury, and the other co-chair needs to be elected. David has been the interim chair for the last semester pending the completion of the restructure of the College Wide Governance Committees. Now that has been completed, election for a permanent chair needs to occur in the first few meetings of the committee in the Fall. The Committee in its next meeting will discuss the election process. David indicated that he will run for that position. Other good candidates should be encouraged to run also for the position.

9. New meeting time for the Committee - Curtis said that he cannot attend the Monday meetings. Maury suggested that Curtis should be considered as a permanent member of the committee in his position as Chair of Multimedia. This should be discussed and implemented in the new Technology Charter re composition of the members of the committee. This new charter needs to be adopted in the early Fall. One idea is to have the permanent chair position be filled every three years, instead of the current two year period, and also that after two consecutive terms, a new chair should be elected to bring in "new leadership" to the committee -(a form of "term limits" in our committee structure, organization, and charter.). The Committee will discuss this new time at College Council along with the idea of a 3 year term and the "term limits" as part of charters for all of the College Wide Governance Committees.

End of meeting at 2:15 pm

our next meeting is on 8-13