Technology Committee Minutes

October 22, 2004

10:30 a.m. – Central Campus

 

The organizational meeting of the Technology Committee met on October 22nd, 2004 in the Board Room at Central Campus.  Members present:  Jeff Montgomery, Louis Mays, Julia Basham, Sherry Stout, Denise Decker-Flum, Nicole Roades, Jody Gray, Dennis Griffith, Shirley Cornwell, Virginia Ferguson, Kristi Hall, Josh Montgomery, Bob Snellman, Terry Flum, and Cathy LaParl.  Michele McCarren, and Cathy Kelly.

 

Chairman Jeff Montgomery called the meeting to order and passed out an agenda.  Sherry agreed to chair the committee for the upcoming academic year.  Louis will be the recorder for the meetings of the committee.  Shirley made a motion to close the nomination, and Jody seconded the motion.  The motion passed.

 

Review of academic computing:

 

Dennis passed out the attached review of the progress the college has made in technology over the past few years.  The review concentrated on account 3510 for academic computing.  He also passed out the Annual Projected Equipment Costs for academic computing.  Louis and Dennis discussed the implications of membership in Internet2 for the college, and the current fiber optic connection between North and Central and South and Central. Commercial Internet traffic continues to increase, so the college is either going to add one more T1 to the commercial Internet, or establish a fiber connection to OARnet, our Internet Service Provider, via the Third Frontier Network in Ohio.  All of the handouts from Dennis are attached.

 

Mobile labs at Central and South are used extensively.  The new mobile lab is in, and will be used at Central, and the present lab at Central will be transferred to North.  North and South Campuses are totally wireless at this time. 

 

There was a discussion about nursing software. Access to the software at South Campus is in room 118, but additional points of access can be made available on PCs in the campus LRCs.  Brenda Tilton is the liaison between nursing and academic computing.

 

Brainstorming session:

 

Jeff asked this question: “What do we want to accomplish this year?”  The Technology Plan is online and needs to be updated.  It is also located on the web under general information, college reports.  A sub-committee for the plan needs to be set up.  What do we want in the next three years?

 

  1. College-wide wireless access
  2. Laptops for students (lots of discussion on this, a sub-committee will be established)
  3. Distance education (the college needs to make a commitment to this). Their first charge is to determine where we are currently and where we need to be three years.  Distance education gives students an option.  Faculty may teach in any way they want, but this option is viable for students.

 

There will be an academic technology sub-committee that will review the technology plan among other things, web development sub-committee, distance education sub-committee, and student laptop sub-committee.

 

Laptop Sub-Committee:

 

Laptop Committee: members will be Josh Montgomery, Cathy Kelly, Ric Shrubb, Don Storer, Janeen DeAtley, Bob Snellman, Terry Flum and Nicole Roades, who will chair the first meeting.

 

Distance Education Sub-Committee:

 

Distance Education: members will be Annie Rankin, Cathy LaParl, Denise Decker-Flum, Michele McCarren, Virginia Ferguson, Julia Basham, Jody Gray and Sherry Stout.  Virginia will chair the first meeting.

 

Academic Technology Sub-Committee:

 

Academic Technology: Jeff Montgomery, Sherry Stout, Kristi Hall, Louis Mays, Josh Montgomery, Dennis Griffith, Cathy Kelly, and Bob Snellman.  The first meeting will be chaired by Jeff.

 

Web Development Sub-Committee:

 

Web Development: Josh Montgomery, Nicole Roades, Annie Rankin, Shirley Cornwell, Louis Mays.  Josh will chair the sub-committee. 

 

Sub-committees should meet monthly and are encouraged to use the ITV system to save travel time.  The whole Technology Committee should meet every other month.  Next meeting will be Friday, December 3rd at Central Campus.  It will be a luncheon meeting in the Board Conference Room, beginning at noon.

 

Communication among all of these sub-committees should be done via email at tech@sscc.edu

 

The meeting was adjourned.

 

Louis E. Mays, Reporter