Meetings

=Project Kaleidoscope Instructional Design Meetings= These are some notes about our previous meetings. Dates are linked to the archive of the meetings in CCC Confer (Elluminate).

//Next Meeting//
Send Geoff Cain your availability for this week if you have not already.
 * Thurs. Sept. 8, 2011. 10:00 AM (PT) **

We will meet on Thurs. at 10:00 AM on Sept. 8 using the CCC Confer connection link that will be sent out with the final agenda. I will send that out when I am sure that we have enough folks agreeing on a time. So far, the agenda items we have include:
 * Sakai communication tools review - how to get the most out of them
 * More lesson tool work-arounds (a closer look at running a course from the syllabus ala Moodle)
 * DE 101 - supporting students
 * AND your faculty's concerns, issues, tragedies and triumphs

We are at a place now where your faculty should be in on their first weeks of class. We can talk about some of the pitfalls in grading. Let me know if you are available for this meeting; and if you are not, __what would be a better time,__ and //when// we can talk. Earlier is better than later.

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//Previous Meetings//

 * Thurs. Aug. 18, 2011. 09:30 AM (PT) No Archive (Only Dan F. and I showed.)**

We will meet on **Thurs at 09:00 AM (Pacific), Aug. 18th**, using the connection information below. The meeting will be recorded and linked to the wiki here: http://kaleidoscopeproject.wikispaces.com Again, this is a flexible agenda, but some of the items that have come up this week include: A few of you have just gotten your installations of Sakai and will have had your first training on the 15th. This would be a good week for us to talk! Let me know if you are available for this meeting; and if you are not, __what would be a better time,__ and //when// we can talk. Earlier is better than later.
 * Sakai Training Issues
 * Lesson Tool Work-Arounds
 * Browser –Related Issues in Sakai
 * Course Development Rubrics and Checklists (Thanks Bob!)


 * [|Thurs. Aug. 4th 2011, 09:30 AM PT (Archive Link)] **

We will meet on **Thurs. at 09:30 AM, Aug. 4th**, using the connection information below. The meeting will be recorded and linked to the wiki here: http://kaleidoscopeproject.wikispaces.com

Again, this is a flexible agenda, but some of the items that have come up this week include:
 * ADA compliance and review
 * Tools for creating or editing modules (such as Nvu)
 * Rubrics for quality online courses (Chico State rubric)
 * Any challenges you may have so far (especially since some of you are going through your first week in Sakai)

Bring to the meeting any of your faculty concerns, issues, as well as successes.


 * [|Friday, July 29th, 09:00 AM PT (Archive Link)]**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I want to thank everyone who got back to me with your availability information. I cannot stress how important it is that we meet and talk because the timelines for this grant are short.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">We will meet on **Friday. at 09:00 AM, July 29th** using the connection information below. Once again the meeting will be recorded and linked to the wiki here: http://kaleidoscopeproject.wikispaces.com/

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">If you have not joined the wiki, please do so ASAP.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Again, this is a flexible agenda, but some of the items that have come up this week include:


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Creating tests with test pools and managing the metadata involved
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sources of “modern” texts and designing assignments for public domain documents
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Moving courses in Sakai – archives testing
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Using templates for learning modules
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Identifying instructors that may need help with online teaching and how we make that help available (Chico State rubrics?)
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Any challenges you may have so far (your questions and concerns)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bring to the meeting any of your faculty concerns, issues, as well as successes.


 * <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">[|Thurs. July 21, 2011, 10:00 AM PT (Archive Link)] **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">We will meet on **Thurs. at 10:00 AM, July 21th** using the connection information below. Once again the meeting will be recorded and linked to the wiki here: http://kaleidoscopeproject.wikispaces.com/ If you have not joined the wiki, please do so.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Again, this is a flexible agenda, but some of the concerns that have come up include:


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Finding appropriately licensed images (I have a page up in the wiki for this – lets add to it)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Templates for lessons in HTML or the Lessons tool?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Identifying instructors that may need help with online teaching and how we make that help available (Chico State rubrics?)
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Any challenges you may have so far (your questions and concerns)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Please bring to the meeting any of your faculty concerns and successes.

===[|10:00 AM (PT) July 12th, 2011 (Archive Link)]===

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">We will meet on Tues. at 10:00 AM, July 12th using the connection information below. It will primarily be a phone meeting but if you are able to connect to the website, you may find it helpful because we may want to look at some of the materials that I have gotten from instructors. If you can only do phone, it won’t be too much of a problem because I will record this and send out the link to the meeting later. CCC Confer is the state of California’s implementation of Elluminate.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a flexible agenda here, but I am particularly interested in: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I think it is important to also share some of the successes because that may give others an idea on how to keep things moving forward. I have some examples here from our faculty that I think might be useful.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Faculty issues and concerns around Sakai (and resources to address them)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Faculty concerns about content and how to find it
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Selecting a place for posting problems and solutions (is this a wiki? Kim’s wordpress blog? or what?)
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Any challenges you may have so far (your questions and concerns)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please feel free to send this email to anyone else who is supporting this grant that you think should attend or would be interested.