Minutes from TCT Meeting:
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Members Present:
John Chavez, Chrystle Hall, Cathy Hart, Linda Lawson, David Matus, Loretta Mondragon, Mary Lou Mosley, Carol Myers, Jon Storslee, Jennifer Strickland, Casey Durandet

Issues/Items Discussed:

1) Summer Technology Fun Week (C. Hall):
Chrystle provided us with the Summer Technology Fun 2006 report. I quote her handout: "Our fourth annual Summer Technology Fun Week was held Monday-Friday, July 10-14, 2006. Summer Technology Fun Week was 5 days of focused hands-on technology workshops and assisted practice lab time. When selecting workshop topics to present, a number of the workshops presented were also appropriate for attendance by staff."

"This event was approved for up to 28.3 clock hours toward Non-Academic Professional Growth Credit for RFP faculty. The number of hours awarded to individuals was dependent on the number of workshops and practice labs attended. For Adjunct Faculty, a small stipend was paid through the EOL Adjunct Faculty Initiative."

"The Grand Finale of the even was the Munch & Share Luncheon held on the last day, 7/14, from 11:30-1:30. This gave the participants an opportunity to share something they learned and/or how they plan to implement new technology projects to enhance teaching and learning at PVCC."

There was a total of 140 participants at this year's event, compared to 121 the year before, and 94 in 2004. It's growing in popularity!

2) Technology Budget Requests (C. Hart):
Cathy informed us about the draft of the dates for the budget cycle. Here are some dates:
APB opens on September 28 for budget requests.
Deadline for technology/Occ.Ed. requests is November 27.
TCT will begin review of the requests in Spring 2007.
Recommendations are due to PLT on March 9, 2007.
Divisions notified of technology purchases on Wednesday, May 9, 2007. (This is too late to notify the divisions since it's during final exam week. TCT recommended that it be moved to April 20th. That means the following proposed timeline: PBRC completes their review and recommendations and give to the President by Monday, April 6. President responds by Friday, April 20th - just for Fund 7 technology/Occ.Ed.)

Cathy will send us via e-mail a draft schedule of the proposed dates.

3) Course Management System (C. Hart):
Cathy informed us that there have been no major problems with the BlackBoard system. It was recently upgraded and runs on a new platform. The bugs that were inherent in the 7.0 system have been resolved.

Changes with Midas => The license will cost more than in the past. District will not renew it. The original fee was approximately $40,000 and has been bumped up to approximately $600,000! Midas is going away, and therefore new changes/implementations will occur. Summer of 2007 will see re-development of the courses. A budget request will be put forth for faculty development. The faculty has not been notified of this situation yet. Cathy will keep us posted.

4) WiFi and VoIP (C. Myers):
Carol updated on WiFi's status: It's now available in KSC, E (in the outside area between the two buildings), and in A. Carol said that access points are on order for G, J, and the CPA. The access points should be online within the next month. The Fitness Center and M building will not be outfitted yet (M building has the mobile labs to cover the instructional needs for now).

VoIP has come to a standstill. The district has come up with a demographics. We've moved to Mesa CC support, but Mesa's bandwidth is full; they have a lot of down time. District is still moving forward to implement it, but this will more than likely occur in about a year.

5) Web Development Committee Meeting Update (J. Storslee):
Jon informed us that a sub-committee has been formed to re-design PVCC's main home page since it has not occurred in about 3 or 4 years. The first sub-committee meeting will occur on September 26. Jon also said that he will have his students working on the re-design.

6) iGoal and Content Tools (J. Strickland):
Jennifer informed us that that are over 550 iGoal users. Jim Rubin and Jen are providing many training sessions for students and staff. iGoal is a "home grown" product, written by George Mathew. The next step will be to work with advisors and counselors. The ultimate "goal" is to make it available to other colleges in the district.

Jen is working with Roger Yohe regarding district's trying to implement an Elluminate pilot in January. Issue of potential funding for Elluminate. NB: The bb alliance uses Elluminate.

7) Other Items:

a) Cathy's position has been posted. The new person will probably not be on board until maybe July 2007.

b) Ocotillo is "dead in the water" as of this writing since Alan Levine's position has not been filled.

8) Next Meeting:
Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 1:00P-1:45P in the G-conference room. Note the new starting time of 1:00 PM.

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, September 13, 2006
Recorder: Casey Durandet

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