CIT Advisory Board Meeting Agenda Oct. 23, 2007

1. Announcements

Notes from last meeting are posted – let me know if you have corrections or additions.

2. CIT Grants - final review for this year’s offerings

A. Demo of Visualizing North Carolina in the Global Economy project (guest: Shawn Miller, CIT Academic Technology Consultant for social sciences)

Example of Visualization Grant project
Connected to university strategic plan goals of increased understanding of visual information, undergraduate students doing research, service to the community

B. Updated program for CIT grants for this year

See document Duke Center for Instructional Technology grants and support programs for 2007-08, which reflects suggestions from our discussion at the last CIT Advisory Board meeting.

Discussion:

Any final recommendations or comments?
Best way to advertize and encourage faculty proposals?

3. Consulting with faculty on Web 2.0 / non-Duke tools

See draft document CIT Support for Web 2.0 Tools which reflects suggestions from our August CIT Advisory Board meeting and our discussion with Bruce Cunningham, registrar. After this meeting, we will ask Bruce to review the documents to make sure they fit with the requirements of his office, edit as needed and post on the regular CIT website.

Discussion:

Do these tips seem reasonable?
Are the case studies useful?

4. Faculty outreach plans – follow up to discussion item at previous meeting

At our August meeting, we discussed the need to get broad faculty input about instructional technology planning. The document CIT faculty outreach efforts underway as of Fall 2007 lists some of the things CIT is currently doing. We’d like your feedback on ways to make these outreach efforts successful, and also get ideas for other ways we could get more faculty input.

Faculty discussion groups on image use, related to planning for Visual Studies Initiative
Faculty focus groups on instructional technology November 2007 – January 2008
BB Advisory Group monthly meetings
New faculty reception Dec. 2007
Faculty Ambassadors program

Discussion:

What would be the most effective way to get faculty to attend any of these events?
Would you be willing to host a focus group in your building or area of campus?
What else could we be doing to make sure we hear from a wide variety of faculty?

5. Future agenda items

November meeting:

Graduate student technology training

current activities
future possibilities

Mobile computing

update on activities at other schools
brainstorming on what we could be doing at Duke

Reminder: Remaining CIT Advisory Board meetings for 2007-08 (Perkins Tower Room 201)

November 27, 2007
January 22, 2008
February 26, 2008
March 25, 2008
April 22, 2008