Instructional Academic Computing Committee

Minutes

June 14, 2007
Meeting in AH-1120 at 1 p.m.
John Ross and James Frazee, Co-Chairs

Chancellor's Office IT Survey - John Ross
The Chancellor's Office IT Survey is nearing completion, as ITS (Carol Tohsaku) works with John Ross on the last few details.

New Survey - John Ross
It was announced that a new survey would be sent from Academic Affairs to the colleges and departments IT staff. Questions will focus on the deployment of McAfee EPO and other anti-spyware software.

Deep Freeze - John Ross
Contract is signed and John is working on the media distribution plan.

Macromedia Software Requests - John Ross
Looks like we will get the quantity requested. Need to call Celia, as to when installation of requested copies can begin.

ATI update - Jim Julius
Carol Redding is coordinating ATI submittal of first versions of the plans due June 15. She coordinated the writing of the Web Accessibility Plan, which mainly addresses the evaluation and remediation of 15 web pages. These are primarily administration type pages and there are still a few sites left to do. The plan pulls together our remediation experiences and best practices. Instructor authored web sites fall under the Instructional Materials portion of ATI, and Mary Shojai is coordinating the writing of the Instructional Materials Accessibility Plan (IMAP).

Cyndi Chie and Helen Habermann are working to have more tools and information on the access.sdsu.edu web site. Cyndi noted that the campus templates have been removed as they were not-ATI compliant. She believes that Keith Parks is working on their replacements. Also, Cyndi is coordinating an ACCVerify training session the last week of June. It will be a repeat of the last 3-hour webinar.

ITS update - Jim Julius
Among other projects, ITS recently has been involved with filming for the Monty awards, working on the 150 seat conference room, creating 4 or 5 classrooms over Starbucks and Physics, and working on several other smart classroom projects across campus.

Course Design Institute for faculty interested in course redesign process went well. The focus was on blended learning. May 21st had approximately 150 in attendance to hear open presentations, including one by Chuck Dziuban of University of Central Florida (DVD of this will be available for checkout from ITS soon, by the way). May 22-24 saw 13 faculty from across the university plus 17 from College of Education participating in intensive faculty development activities around course redesign for increased online delivery.

Mark Laumakis of Psychology is a pioneer in clicker usage and hybrid course design and attended the Sloan-C national conference on online learning in higher-ed. He presented as a Keynote Speaker, and was well received. Mark is establishing connections with the Sloan Consortium, which will benefit SDSU.

Rich Bakken has been hired and will start in early July, filling Don Fera's old position as Coordinator of Instructional Resources and Technology Systems. We will have a facilitators' meeting after his arrival to introduce him and discuss training and support for this fall.

Please work with ITS when your college/department is updating any local smart classrooms. Working with ITS and the vendors, who have partnered with ITS, will help you to save funds, reuse existing support resources, and provide a more consistent experience to your faculty and students.

Next IACC meeting - July 12, 2007 at 1 p.m. in AH-1112.

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