ComETS History & Timeline of Events

Date Event ComETS Contact person
Jan 04 Planning group for Paul Hagner event forms; staff from across campus invited to attend. Carole Turner
Apr 2004 ComETS Kick off event: with guest Paul Hagner: Faculty Engagement and Support Carole Turner
May 2004 May T&L Symposium: Membership brainstorm ComETS direction Lisa Jansen, Irene Golembiewsk
Aug 2004 ComETS Event: Instructional Design Workshop Les Howles, Catherine Stephens
Sep 2004 ComETS invited to join T&L Council, Office of Provost Catherine Stephens
Dec 2004 Introduction to Engage Tools Christine Lupton
Jan 2005 Wiki Tools presentation; ComETS Wiki goes up Lisa Jansen, Bruno Browning
Mar 2005 ComETS Event: Chat and IM Tools presentation Lisa Jansen, Jeff Bohrer
May 2005 ComETS Sampler session for 2005 T&L Symposium Mike Pitterle
May 2005 Survey membership, and next steps Mike Pitterle
June 2005 Evaluation of Engage tools and process Jan Cheetum
July 2005 Getting Ready for the Next Big Thing: CMS Future Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Aug 2005 Open Source Tools and Potential Impact Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Aug 2005 Sakai demo and discussion Dirk Herr-Hoyman
August 2005 Lessons Learned from a VCOP (ComETS) at D2L User Conference Cheryl Diermyer, Catherine Stephens
Sep 2005 Moodle demo and discussion Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Oct 2005 The Inclusive Learning Exchange (TILE) E-learning to Meet Individual Needs and Preference (cosponsored by DoIT) Cosponsored by DoIT
Nov 2005 ComETS Planning Group Retreat
Nov 2005 ComETS Event: How Faculty Like to Learn Renee Schuh
Jan 2006 ComETS Annual Membership Meeting Materials (for members)
Feb 2006 ComETS Event: NetGen Students: How Teens are using technology Renee Schuh
Mar 2006 Steering Committee meets with IT External Review Team
April 2006 ComETS Event: Colleen Carmean – Next Generation CMS tools Carole Turner
May 2006 ComETS Sampler Session at 2006 T&L Symposium Steve Frye
Summer 06 SIG meetings (Clicker shootout, Open source, new media centers) http://comets.wisc.edu/public/sigs.shtml
Summer 06 Planning group responds to the TEL report
August 06 ComETS Steering Committee meets with the CIO
October 06 ComETS Event: Larry Johnson : Learning Technology Horizon Alan Wolf
October 06 Open Source SIG group conversations with faculty about Moodle Dirk Herr-Hoyman
Fall 06 Active SIG work, including eLearning Trends, Wikis, Clickers, Simulation and Games http://comets.wisc.edu/public/sigs.shtml
Fall 06 Planning group devises new web structure for ComETS
January 07 ComETS Membership Meeting Materials (for members)
January 07 ComETS Planning Group retreat
Spring 07 Launch new ComETS web site and SIG sites http://comets.wisc.edu/
Spring 07 TEL Shaping Committee Lillian Tong, Eric Alborn, Doug Worsham
April 07 Showcase 2007 Joyce Tikalsky, Catherine Stephens
April 07 ComETS Event: Emerging Trends Mashup Joyce Tikalsky, Amanda Werhane
June 07 2007 T&L Symposium – ComETS Sampler Paul Oliphant, Catherine Stephens
June 07 2007 T&L Symposium – poster session Lillian Tong
June 07 ComETS Event: Aaron Brower, Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning Carole Turner
August 07 ComETS Event: Collaborative Tools Cheryl Diermeyer, Rich Berg
November 07 Conversation with UW-Madison CIO, Ron Kraemer Paul Gunther
December 07 Emerging Trends: Cool Class Cases Joyce Tikalsky, Catherine Stephens
January 08 ComETS Membership Meeting Materials (for members)