February 2, 2005 Minutes

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY

COMMITTEE

2/02/2005, 12:30-2:00 pm

ATTENDEES: Kim Chief Elk, Tom Dolen, Jamie Doll, Linda Elvin, David Gillett, Jeanine Hawk, Scott Heffner, Chuck Lindauer, Willie Pritchard, Jefferson Shirley, John Swensson, Kristin Tripp Caldwell

GUESTS: Sharon Luciw, Gerry Gyuire, Wayne Chenoweth

Convened: 12:36 pm

1. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING

· Will stand approved as posted

2. GENERAL NEWS

· No news updates since the Monday, January 31st distribution of NewsBytes

3. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS – HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE STANDARDS

· Hardware & Software Standards Committee (Willie) – met on Tuesday, February 1st

The committee reviewed the hardware standards for both the Mac and PC platforms

Apple has announced a new MAC Mini

Lists for $499 without a monitor, keyboard or mouse
Committee had an extensive discussion about using the Mini

Favorably inclined to change, but not prepared to at this time because ETS doesn’t have one to test
Currently working with Apple to get a test machine

Priced out the OptiPlex (marketed by Dell as a model that has its components changed less often) vs. the Dimension and there is only about $100 difference in price

Due to a lack of time, the committee will continue to discuss on line

The committee still needs to do more research on spyware before coming up with a recommended solution
Any new machines that come in from here on, will be deployed with Office 2003 on the Windows side and Office 2004 on the Mac side

If a user requests the latest version it will be installed

4. REVISIONS TO SECTION 508 POLICY AND REPORT ON TRAINING – WANE CHENOWETH

· Wayne reviewed the changes that were made to the last draft of the section 508 policy

ETAC members would like to see that the section 508 information gets out to the general faculty

There are resources on the web at: http://ets.fhda.edu/508

There currently isn’t a policy in place for compliance when creating teaching materials
The committee accepted the changes to the policy and Wayne will get a copy of the final draft to Pam for posting to the web
There was a suggestion that there should be workshops for 508 compliance that are on the same scale as those for sexual harassment

5. TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC PLAN – WHAT ARE OUR ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE DISTRICT? ABOUT OUR FUNDING? ABOUT OUR STUDENTS? OUR FACULTY? OUR STAFF?

· During winter quarter need to come up with goals and strategies for effecting those goals

May need to do some work on line
By the beginning of spring quarter, need to have a draft ready to take to the appropriate governance groups
Need all committee members to advise their constituency groups about what is discussed in ETAC meetings

· Each campus group discussed and came up with their assumptions about the budget for the next 5 years (2010) – where will we be five years from now?

Willie and Pam will compile the two lists and send them to the committee for review

6. OTHER ITEMS FROM THE COMMITTEE

· There were none brought up

Adjourned: 1:55 pm

Next Meeting: Wednesday, February 16, 12:30 – 2:00 PM via videoconferencing

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