Minutes from TCT Meeting:
Wednesday, September 15, 2004, 12:45P-1:45P

Members Present: John Chavez, Cathy Hart, Kurt Hill, Rich Lang, Mary Lou
Mosley, Jim Patterson, Rick Sheets, Jon Storslee, Casey Durandet

Issues/items discussed:

1) Alan Levine had invited PVCC to host Ocotillo 2005. A single-meeting
committee (consisting of - Cathy Hart, Rick Sheets, Patti Marsh, Loretta
Mondragon, Michaelle Shadburne, Jennifer Strickland, Casey Durandet) was
formed to determine the logistics and feasibility of hosting this event.

Due to the HLC self-study re-accreditation process, the New Student System
implementation, and staffing shortages, PVCC will not host Ocotillo. We
let Alan know, though, that we are interested in hosting Ocotillo in the
future. Alan's response was gracious and understanding.

2) Cathy brought in copies of the corrected (Appendix C) Technology Strategic
Plan 2004-2007. She will e-mail me a list of the names of individuals on
SPT who have not received the corrected version. I will distribute copies
to those on SPT.

3) BlackBoard: Jon stated that he's been experiencing problems using the
new BB version with their method of user IDs. The identity management is
an issue. Please e-mail your concerns regarding BB usage to Yosef Morgan
at the district office.

Some recommendations presented today with respect to more efficient user
IDs could be our employee ID #s, maybe our e-mail addresses? Cathy has
already forwarded to district personnel concerns raised about BB discrepancies.

There is a recommendation for implementation of an "improved" BB in F05
to align with the NSS.

4) Ocotillo Reports/Status: Just a reminder to contiue to visit the Ocotillo
web page to see what all 4 Action Groups are doing. The web address is
http://graphite.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo

Jim reported that he's looking into getting guests for his discussion boards.
Larry Johnson has been invited to provide a hands-on demonstration of emerging
technologies.

Chronicle of Higher Education - Jim reported that there's a section about
Technology Tools for Learning - learning or enrollment generator?

AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education) - will
be coming to Phoenix March 1-5, 2005. Jim will submit a proposal. Any
others? Visit
http://www.aace.org
for more information.

ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) - Jim will be presenting
at this conference in February 2005 in Las Vegas. Visit
http://www.astd.org/astd
for more information.

5) EDUCAUSE: The 2002 Summary Report was distributed and briefly perused.
We will discuss this report in more detail at our next meeting after we've
had time to read it in more detail. We will use it to look at how to approach
the staffing issue.

Rick wil bring in some background data related to our requests for our next
meeting. Specifically, he will bring the following data: (1) System Support,
(2) Dean Team Standards, (3) Staffing - Current level - front end and back
end, and (4) Future staffing needs.

6) HEWAC-WiSE Status: John reported that he's still waiting to hear more
about this application process. So far, the proposal is a contract to manage
Wireless and charge the students to access it. Feasible? For discussion
at our next meeting.

7) Current Equipment Replacement Schedule (Appendix D of Technology Strategic
Plan): Cathy brought in a copy of the "Computer Obsolescence Snapshot"
for review. She left the copy with me. If you would like a copy of it,
please contact Cathy.

8) Continued discussions on:

a) NSS - Cathy said that updates on NSS's progress will be provided. The
plan is for the cutting over of SIS to NSS to occur during Spring Break
2005. The NSS will be operational the Monday after Spring Break. Prior
to that, SIS will be offline to perpare for NSS.

It will be put in the schedule that student registration will be closed
during Spring Break for the change-over.

NSS will not be piloted at any campus.

Cathy reiterated that Spring Break was chosen as the change-over due to
less disruption for students in terms of summer class registration.

b) Wireless - Jon is looking into a grant opportunity application. He
will bring in a copy of the application for our next meeting.

Rich stated that they're working on the process of portals, patches, anti-virus
ability, access codes, implementation, etc. for Wireless.

Currently, Chandler-Gilbert and Mesa are doing Wireless. Mesa's tool is
"Blue Socket."

c) Student Authentication System - A portal/link will be provided. We'll
need a repository for this. The thought of piloting an active directory
tree was discussed. The earliest that this could occur would be during
the F05 semester or S06 semester.

The next TCT meting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 12:45P-1:45P
in the G-conference room (G-126).

This "Meeting Report" is my interpretation of what occurred during this
meeting. If you would like to correct an error(s), make an addition(s),
or have any questions, please call me at 7-6651 or e-mail me.

Thank you!

Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Recorder: Casey Durandet
--
Casey Durandet, Ph.D.
PVCC - Physics Department
602-787-6651
http://www2.pvc.maricopa.edu/ms/phy