Bush IT Core Group Meeting

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
3:30 PM
Location: Faculty Center , East Annex

The meeting began at 3:30 PM.

Bush IT Core Minutes10/25/06
Pederson distributed the Bush IT Core Minutes for review; unanimously approved.

Sungur reviewed the timeline for the 3 rd year of the Bush Grant and the Statement of Interest. The Statement of Interest will include the following revisions.

• The focus of this project for this grant round is Content Delivery.
• Some of the Expectations from grant participants in addition to their project work
• Participation in all relevant workshops and training activities
• Completion of project assessment and evaluation instruments
• Dissemination of project results

With the noted changes to the Statement of Interest, members approved the following timeline for the next round of the grant.

December 18, 2006

• Mail the call for Statement of Interest by hard copy, e-mail, and posted on the website.

January 16, 2007

• Statement of Interest Deadline

January 16-24, 2007

• The IT Core Group will meet and evaluate the Statement of Interest submitted

January 24, 2007

• Decision for second stage

January 24-February 14, 2007

• Detailing of projects, IT Core Group Members will interview each applicant

February 21, 2007

• Selection of projects
• Projects selected will determine the Consulting Group members

February 22, 2007

• Mailing of the "Got the Grant" letters to project participants

February 28, 2007

• First get together for the participants

March-May

• First stage training

June-August

• Support/Assistance

September-December

• Implementation

Sungur said we have money to support five projects, but hopes to receive additional money to support 2-3 additional projects.

Brady Alsaker will replace Molly Kloek as the student manager. Alsaker said at this time he has found no students for the summer, Boleman suggested a student to contact for summer work. Members discussed how to achieve a constant flow of work for the student consultants during the summer. Suggestions included:

• On-line Calendar. Project participants sign up with students
• IT Core Group meet time to time with students
• Students should check in with project participant - go to the participant office

Sungur shared information (on behalf of Karen Cusey) about the Instructional Technology Meeting.

Other Issues

• Sungur said grant participants should be encouraged to apply for MAP and TEL Small Grants
• We need to prepare templates - examples of how to use tools for 'Content Delivery'
• Encourage participation at the Academic Distinguished Teachers Conference in TC (April 2007), Sungur said the Keynote is 'Concept Maps'.
• Start to work on proposal for Bush Grant (January 2008)
• Apply for NSF Grant as well as Bush Grant

Meeting adjourned at 4:20 PM.

Submitted by:
Linda Pederson