Minutes from TCT Meeting:
Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 12:45P-1:45P

Members Present:
John Chavez, Chrystle Hall, Cathy Hart, Kurt Hill, Loretta Mondragon, Jim Patterson, Rick Sheets, Jennifer Strickland, Casey Durandet

Issues/items discussed:

1) Ocotillo Update:

Ocotillo web page located at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/.

Jennifer and Jim updated us on the following:

a) Ocotillo covers the NMC Conference on Visual Literacy, april 5-6, 2005
This wiki will be used by our Maricopa Ocotillo Emerging Technologies Team to share notes from the april 2005 NMC Online Conference on Visual Literacy. The conference will explore how emerging ideas, constructs, tools, and theories are fueling new interest in visual communication. For more on the conference and format, check out http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/emerging/wiki?VisLitConf and http://www.nmc.org/events/2005visual_literacy_conf/index.shtml. Our very own Jim Patterson , Donna Rebadow, and Jennifer Strickland were part of the Maricopa team. Just as a heads up, in order to post anything on wiki, you need an account

b) Jim said that there will be a conference on Ethical Hacking from June 27 - July 1. More information will be forthcoming.

c) Digital Days - scheduled for May 21 and 22 (Saturday and Sunday) - Jim said it's still up in the air and will report back on its status at our next meeting. The plan is to hold this in the studio theater. The cost is $139 for two days, without the discount. Jim will look into the discount.

2) SPT and PBRC:
Cathy informed us that SPT will be meeting today and will check into the situation about the final decision regarding funding. PBRC has not met yet this spring semester.

3) StudyMate/SoftChalk:
Chrystle reported about a StudyMate workshop where there were 5 participants. The general consensus was that they were not impressed with the Learning Units. Feedback will be provided from the participants.

Jennifer reported the John Lampignano of GateWay is going ahead with purchasing SoftChalk.

4) Summer Technology Fun Week:
Chrystle reported that the website has been updated for 2005. Check out http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/~training/sti/index.html for more information and to access the survey. She said the survey that was mailed out earlier will be available through the weekend (see attached on today's agenda handed out at the meeting). The results will be tabulated on Monday.

So far there are 15 responses. Of those responses, people are tending to favor the following proposed workshops: Blackboard, Blogging, E-Portfolios, Inspiration, Cantasia, DreamWeaver, PhotoShop Elements, and StudyMate.

Chrystle et al. will have a meeting Monday to determine what will be offered and who will do the workshops. Registration announcement will be coming soon.

5) Updated TCT Web Page:
Many thanks to Rick Sheets for an excellent job on the TCT web page! It's located at http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/~tct/.

Rick has updated the "TCT Minutes" link. He requests that if anyone has any past meeting minutes from 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 to please forward them to him.

6) Library Printing:
Tabled until next meeting.

7) In the Year 2014...
Check out http://www.broom.org/epic/ for a look into the tech future.

The next TCT meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 12:45P-1:45P in the G-conference room (G126).

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 @ 7-6651 or e-mail me.

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Recorder: Casey Durandet

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Casey Durandet, Ph.D.

PVCC – Physics Department

602-787-6651

http://www2.pvc.maricopa.edu/ms/phy