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CRT Mtg., 9/3/10, Learning Support Ctr.  Present: Ruth F., Kevin K., Paula H., Bruce S., Chai R., Lara C., Trisha C., Dan G., Doug K.

 1. ePunahou: no word on exact date of phase-out, but not really being updated. Advice: support current users, steer to Moodle.

 2. Doug: Photo Booth Activity: easy way to elicit and archive student responses.
 * Make short 30 second Quick Time movie using prompt: what we do as a CRT.
 * Drag to desktop and email to teacher; file approx. 1 MB.
 * Teacher linked the student responses using iMovie.

 3. Overview of what we hope to accomplish this year:
 * Support for faculty
 * Cross-training during mtgs.: 1/2 hour of training + 25 minutes of nuts+bolts. DK mtg. w/ individual CRTs for assessment.
 * Assessment of 1:1 program/tech use.
 * Mentoring/training of CRTs: 3 year cycle, excepting DK.

4. Kevin K.: Moodle
 * Began as pilot w/ Lisa Stewart; gained momentum.
 * Successful, but little oversight or control.
 * Shelley Fey bought commercial Moodle course to use in PE course: people starting to
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Downfalls of unlimited use: no real standard as to course creation, organization, maintenance; we're finding out pitfalls of program, because it's the beginning of the year and entering 5th year of use.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">IT working on pre-enrolling students for particular courses, terms; cobbling together modules; pro-actively monitoring, repairing, and upgrading popularly-used modules, e.g. Journal; plans to regularly mtg. w/ CRT group to dialogue.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">DK: CRTs currently standardizing course titles: date+course name+teacher name in parentheses.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Maintaining a balance btw. transparency and collaborative nature of the system and beauty of being able to see good models of Moodle pages vs. security/privacy/teacher control over page, participants who were added w/o permission; protecting electronic psychological safety of classroom, maintaining intellectual property rights (lessons being taken and used by teachers who didn't create materials); keeping confidential the pieces you want to keep private; keeping a real dialogue and conversations btw. users rather than unilateral moves made digitally. KK notes that we can put whatever controls we we want on the system. DK: analogy of Gary Larson re: Far Side cartoons as children: need to know where children are.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Kevin noted quirk re: CRT group: granting admin. privileges caused changes to front page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">DK: can click eyeball to hide teachers' names from showing up.

5. DK: My Backpack (reporting for Francis Aiu)
 * Can change order of modules displayed in My Backpack Home Page.
 * Can change preferences
 * If email function not working, update Java from Apple menu using Software Roster.
 * Use Firefox as default browser.
 * DG: For Excel users, get in class rosters, view report in .xls. Submit: comes out in .xls part. Delete "part" portion, and file will open up.

6. Capital Budget Requests in October.

7. iPad pilot program: issued to interested faculty for a qtr. to play w/. To be used as classroom set thereafter.