CIT Advisory Board Agenda Feb. 18, 2008

1. Overview of applications to CIT Grants program this spring

Guest: Amy Campbell

Document: 2007-08 Grant Summary as of 2/12/08 (This summary of CIT jump start proposals, strategic initiative proposals and Blackboard Great Ideas submissionsill be distributed at the meeting)/

CIT staff are consulting with the faculty who applied, with other IT groups on campus and with relevant Deans to gather more information about project plans and needs. At the March 17, 2008 CIT Advisory Board meeting, we will provide more detail and get your input on pending proposals. Once decisions are made about all the proposals, we will post a list of awards on the CIT website.

Discussion:

Some of you have suggested that it would be better to do our call for proposals in the fall. What would be the best schedule for next year's grants cycle?

2. CIT current tool investigations

CIT has one of the new Kindle e-reader devices. We also have a Sony e-reader.

The new WIMBA tool, which allows live voice recording on the web, is available to any instructor with a Blackboard course. Courses in Writing, Nursing and Languages are all using WIMBA this semster. The Center for Instructional Technology's office visit program includes training on WIMBA. See: http://cit.duke.edu/tools/digital_media/wimba.html

CIT has ordered one of the new LiveScribe Smart Pens, a penlike device that (supposedly) records words and can pinpoint their location in the recording when the user taps the handwritten version on a sheet of paper. It can also do rudimentary language translation or act as a calculator. The company is making a software development kit available to allow third parties to develop their own applications for the device. See three short demos of how this device could be used by students: http://www.livescribe.com/sneakpeek/index.html

Discussion

- What educational uses (in or out of courses) can you imagine for these types of tools?

- What would be the best way to make these devices available to faculty for experimentation?

3. Faculty focus groups summary

The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) conducted three focus groups with faculty in December 2007 and January 2008, held at three different locations on East and West Campus, to find out more about faculty needs and interests regarding using instructional technology. A summary of those session is available in this document: Document: Focus Groups Summary 2008

Discussion:

- Do these ideas seem consistent with what you know about faculty in your department or faculty colleagues from other departments?

- What would be some action items you’d like to see CIT take in response to the ideas faculty shared at these sessions?

Note: CIT would be glad to hold a focus group in your department or school and share the results back with appropriate people in your department/school.

4. Remaining meetings

March 17, 2008 from noon - 1, Perkins Tower Room 201, lunch provided.

April 14, 2008 from noon - 1, Bostock 024 (CIT Lab), lunch provided.