Demonstration Project
Demonstration Project
Survey Course Advisory Committee
Persons present: Angela Williams-SCC, Paul Blais-VCC, Pat Ius-UCF, Pete Miniscalco-DBCC, Lucy Morse-UCF, Jacques Dubois-BCC, Barbara Truman-CFCHE
Dubois opened the meeting at 1:10. He showed the opening demo of the "Beyond Chalk" tape. Members liked the tape and the music. Dubois said he was surprised to hear how many times several faculty members used the actual phrase "beyond chalk" in their interviews.
Dubois passed out the matrix of the production schedule. There are still some faculty that need to be covered. Williams thought that several people still need to be interviewed. Dubois said he thought the only two still not interviewed were UCF's PE teacher, Debbie Mitchell and Steve Sorg's WWW class. Dubois said they may come back and get some people to fill in the holes. He has spent much time reviewing tapes. Parts are now being made as discrete pieces through traditional editing then all the pieces will be dropped in with non-linear editing.
Morse asked Dubois for an abstract of actual content of each case study & interview. Dubois said some written materials were submitted incomplete and some fully developed. The actual case studies will show only one person who developed Power Point or who uses ADAM medical software instead of several.
Morse asked who is going to name each video? Dubois said titles should reflect the four class environments. Later on, catchy names may be added. Morse suggested marketing soon before the videos are done. Dubois stressed the importance of tying the print that will be marketed to the Web and contact information. Morse said she thinks making a brochure would be appropriate to market the course in June.
Dubois said the categories on the video include: the basic level - a faculty member using a computer on cart from a media center; middle level - some planning system involved; third level - need institutional help in the way of equipment and facilitation; and the extended classroom - which involve the same planning process.
The question arose about episode 9, which has blanks. This was left open for accommodation of schedules. Dubois said that some high schools are doing neat things which will be included in the video course. The Merritt Island elementary school will also be included.
Dubois passed out draft legislation for the state-mandated technology course. The matrix of the video production covers it all. Issues have arisen such as the amount of interactivity. Designing for the extended classroom forces dealing with these issues.
Seminole has put in for a grant with area for high school/K-12 schools for teacher recertification. The proposed legislation will probably impact teachers who have not taken the technology course. Teachers will have to prepare. Pat Ius said she has seen many teachers who want to interact on a satellite conference, but need to get prepared. They need instruction on how to prepare for interaction.
Morse said job aids have been very popular among the Faculty Development training team. In fact a magazine wants them to publish an article on them. The question arose as to when and how the materials produced by the Consortium would be copyrighted.
Blais commented that it was important to show examples of high school students on the videos who community colleges' faculty may expect to teach. Dubois said the year 2008 will be the crest of the baby boom. There will be 140,00 high school graduates. Now there are about 90,000.
Dubois said the deadline for deliverables has been extended from May 8 to May 31. He said that Tracy Bailey's part may be extended to June 15.
Williams asked what Morse would like the colleges to write about how they plan to use the course. Blais said he sees three applications: course, teacher recertification, and faculty professional development. Ius said she is concerned about administrators who won't buy equipment. Dubois spoke about Carol Twigg's thought about bolt on technology that costs more, but doesn't serve any more students. Distance learning must have a systems view.
Members discussed what each college is doing to offer classes. Williams said SCC has 10 pilot distance learning classes, it's uncontrolled. Everybody is doing their own thing. She said the faculty drives the technology. Dubois said technology support must be an institutional agenda. At BCC, he did three presentations to the board of trustees. This has been the most helpful in gaining institutional support.
The next meeting will be May 31st at 1:00 pm room 100 of the UCF Research Pavillion.