Meeting Notes

From ETS

Meeting Notes - 13 August 2009

• Welcome & introductions
• Meeting dates/times
  • Biweekly on Thursdays from 2:30-4pm in 202K Rider unless otherwise noted.
• Getting Started!
  • Michael Wesch (confirmed)
  • Lunch panel?
  • RFP to go out Sept 15-17
  • Rubric

Thoughts on Lunch Panel

• Several people said that they would like to see/hear from more students
• Find out Wesch’s main topic/talking points so that we can get an idea of a lunch speaker/panel that will supplement
• Student/faculty/staff documentary that would follow throughout a semester and then present the outcome at lunch
  • Perhaps a better word for this is "case study" rather than documentary.
• Get two faculty members from two very different disciplines and make a case study where they then (with students) come in and give us the good/bad/ugly --- two different ways the same type of technology is being used.
• Panel on LA101 where “typical” classes “went digital”
  • This is the course that will fulfill the requirements of both English 30 and CAS 100 by using digital artifacts.
• Could students make a documentary over the fall semester in preparation for the symposium? Could we tie this into the Sparky awards where students are making 2-minute videos?
• A chat on thoughts about what is expected of instructors (new and old) as far as technical ability and teaching methods with technology inclusion in mind

Request for Proposals

• We'd like everything to go out between September 15th and 17th.
  • Tuesdays-Thursdays are best to send out items of action
  • Want to avoid the chaos of just after Labor Day
• RFP could go out in the Thursday, 17 September Newswire
• Derick can place in other locations the 15th and 16th
• Close off around end of October --- extending to mid-Nov.

Rubric for Proposals

This year we need to create some guidelines for what we are looking for in potential presentations. Each submission will be graded against this rubric to determine which ones are selected as sessions/posters/etc.

• Thought: Is there a scope/mission description for the conference itself? Or stated goals (or unstated) for this theme?

Examples

• For a sample rubric for grant proposals (different than conference proposals, of course), see

http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/pdf/TeachingGrantsRubric.pdf Some of the criteria could be adapted for the symposium, like "Importance and Scope" and "Alignment with [Symposium] Goals."

Poster Session

PSU Behrend has a undergraduate conference with posters - they are sending out the 2010 guidelines soon it says at http://www.erie.psu.edu/research/undergradresearch.htm Maybe their guidelines are useful for size etc...

• We will work to manage the poster submission process more carefully
  • Provide more detailed information to poster presenters (images, videos)
  • May have posters submit file prior to Symposium and then add to webpage; could include thumbnail and single paragraph write up of the session
  • May look into printing and mounting posters for presenters