NicTAC meeting #1!

 Attendees:  Sara Ashenburg, Tom Crowley, Jon Goodall, Bryan Clark, Aparna Bamzai, Elliott Hazen (via VTC to Marine Lab), Susan Gerbeth-Jones

 Welcome and introductions – 5 minutes

 Mission and goals of NicTAC: – 10 minutes: (Some of these ideas are taken from: Advice for IT Advisory Committees, by William H. Pritchard, Educause Quarterly, Number 1, 2005, p. 52-53.)

• Details: See Charter (approved on December 4 of 2003 by NICTAC and Dean Schlesinger)
• Provide guidelines and policy on matters related to the use and implementation of technology in the Nicholas School
• Focus on strategic direction, not on procedures
• Since we will be looking at the “big issues,” we will rarely be involved with technical specifications or requirements
• Discussion & questions (Who is the chair of NicTAC?)

NicTAC Membership:

• As members, we each represent a unit which is part of the Nicholas School and at times we may have to compromise to “serve the greater good.”
• It’s our responsibility to communicate with those we represent!
• Membership is a one year term, with optional two years.
• Send a substitute representative if you will be absent.

Communicating with each other:

• NicTAC@nicholas.duke.edu
• One hour meetings, the third Wed. of the month
• At the “water fountain”
• Minutes & agenda at http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/it/nictac/

 Status of NicTAC 2005 projects – 15 minutes

• Ergonomics and PhD students
  • Modelling students in particular are affected because they spend so much time at computer - BC
  • Desks aren't made for computers-vintage 1950s - EH
  • Paul Stoy talked to students in labs - AB
  • Is University addressing this?
    • BC will talk to Paul
    • SG-J will talk to Molly
• MP database – Plone and www.eprints.org (Law School)
  • Need to require students to submit
  • Scan previous years
  • Does library have a setup?
  • JG suggested looking at Drexe 
• Course/teacher evaluation system

Discussion:

– add midterm evaluation

- Evals for courses-online link to BB

- require ea. student

- release forms to be signed

- faculty don't always handout

- Blackboard stock questions

- official?

- others don't see

- anonymous submissions

- captive and last day -get more feedback

- may not get responses electronic

- should be free choice

The State of IT in Nicholas School – 20 minutes

eLearning

• Blackboard

Sara DEL faculty use it a lot.

Tom-docs & msgs - pretty good

STORM -info about students - majors, -quizzes, post grades

Aparna -not cross-platform- her pages-format messed up.

- profs-prospective

- Discussion board - post questions good

- if integrated w/ storm (look up permission #) would be nice

- Bryan -mostly used for message dump

- class grades posted -

Sara-working on tutorial on BB for DEL - can share with all

Elliott - undergrads at DUML say few profs use BB

• Other - Jon would like mics on students so remote site can hear questions

 OIT Announcements at Duke – 10 minutes

• Web conferencing, Elluminate contract signed, process of phasing in the use at Duke (http://www.elluminate.com/)
• iTunesU – see Duke’s site (http://www.duke.edu/ddi/itunes/duke.html)
  and Fuqua’s site (http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/itunes/)
• Wireless upgrade
• E-mail quota tool – can increase e-mail quota by 100 MB up to a total of 2 GB
• Lectopia - to capture the audio, video, and/or computer screen content in a classroom or auditorium (http://www.oit.duke.edu/dms/dukecapture/)
• DukeCast - http://www.oit.duke.edu/dms/podcasting.html