Goals

• Check-in with ComETS community leaders (SIG captains) - share plans, hopes, and dreams for the summer and next semester
• Share community building features of new website
• Generate ideas for building community and improving the site
• Generate ideas to help launch the Learning Spaces Community
• Old business / new business

Attending

Alice Anderson, Paul Gunther, Josh Harder, Moira Lafayette, Paul Oliphant, John Thomson

Agenda / Notes

• SIG check-in
  • What are SIGs up to? Any summer plans? Plans for next year? Hopes, dreams, and fears?
    
    • Accessibility - Alice Anderson -
      • Event coming up May 14 - Ben Caldwell - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
      • Upgrade coming to 508 standards
      • Also working with campus accessibility / usability committee
      • Difficult to find accessibility resources on campus - may be using KB for a campus knowledge-base
      • This year - a focus on captioning - looking for a campus solutions - Ken Fraiser wants captioning on iTunesU -
    • Clickers - Dan LaValley
      • Next project - re-examine e-Instruction recommendation
    • Media Shops - Josh Harder -
      • just moved content over from OSX wiki
      • monthly meetings with presenters drawn from groups - events lead into discussion
      • great job plugging events and pointing to the areas for discussion
      • Wants to take advantage of Public/Private possibilities of the site
      • Directories of Knowledge and Equipment
      • CS - existing spreadsheet is a good resource
    • OpenSIG - Paul Oilipant -
      • active community - most efforts working on Moodle -
      • Drupal Camp WI in June,
      • Engineering TEL grant - creating a code repository - ready perhaps this month - probably open to UW Madison only
      • AA - Fluid / U Toronto - open site for code sharing -
      • Summer meeting?
    • Sims & Games - Dan LaValley / Catherine Stephens -
      • 2L island project -
        
        • classes / groups meeting
        • Play@Pyle
        • Engage Awards
    • Social Networking - Steve Krogull -??
    • Moodle Council? -
  • From SIGs to communities - what can the new site do for communities? How can each group make community happen on the site?
    • Website overview
      • logging in
      • updating your profile
      • ...
    • Communities and Working Groups
      • SIGs to communities
      • What's a working group?
      • "My communities"
      • "View all groups"
      • Joining
      • Creating a post - associating with a group, making it public
      • Subscribing
      • Adding new members
    • Brainstorming - building ComETS communities and working groups
      • ....
      • ....
• Paul Oliphant - What's on your mind?
• Website updates
  • Certificate
  • E-mail digests
  • Form a design team? Discuss formation of a short term working group to identify areas of improvement in the design / theme / css of the ComETS site
  • Brainstorming: How to continue promoting interest / getting the word out / helping people get work done on the new site?
  • Policies for working groups / external groups using the site
• New CoMETS Community - Learning Spaces - how can we help them get started?
  • Jo Ann Carr - "We are proposing the formation of a Learning Spaces SIG in ComETS (see
    theComETS web site at http://comets.wisc.edu/). We need a a planning
    group for the SIG. This group would develop a proposal for the ComETS
    Steering Committee that will include our mission statement and potential
    projects and goals.
  • Examples of projects could include a web site with
    faculty and  student responses to specific learning spaces (TLE), a virtual
    tour of learning spaces on campus (TLE), identification of faculty who could
    share their experiences in teaching in  specific spaces (TLE), etc. We will
    also need to have a liaison to the ComETS Steering Committee."
  • Use TLE site as a resource
  • Connect with Media Shops
  • What do you want to get done?
  • SofEd to install interactive whiteboards
• Subcommittee websites (jt): a number of our SIGs and subcommittees have specific website needs that don't quite fit the model of the current site.  Some have existing static webpages, which they will need to edit, while others appreciate the CMS flexibility and would like to individualize a bit and push things further. The question is more technical than political--how can we make this work for everyone?
  • Suggestions:
    • meet with all SIG capts to make sure they have a

• Member Survey - working with events to put together a survey of ComETS members. Brainstorming a list of questions: http://comets.wisc.edu/groups/231/97/brainstorming-membership-survey-questions

If time:

Action Items from previous meeting

Assessment Council Grant (Moira)

• 8 attendees - Nursing, Libraries, DoIT, CALS
• Discussed the need for tools to track progamatic objectives, learning outcomes
• Where are surveys being done? Who's collecting what? Is it possible to share data across groups?
• creating a course description database for Engineering and CALS - with learning objectives

New Action Items

• Look into options for KB to push into other sites - cross-training on KB -