{"id":89,"date":"2014-04-08T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/cis\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-04-08T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:09:41","slug":"minutes-2014-04-07-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/cis\/minutes-2014-04-07-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Minutes 2014-04-07 (approved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tPresent: Chris Simpson (SOC), Sonja Walti (SPA), Craig Hyden (SIS), Alan Isaac (CAS), Erran Carmel (KSB), Brian Yates (CAS\/Psych), Michael Jee (GLC), Nancy Davenport (Library), Terry Fernandez (OIT), Alayne Mundt (Library)<\/p>\n<p>Note taker: Alan<\/p>\n<p>Chris reviewed today&#8217;s agenda. We skipped approval of the February minutes until next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Brian attended the LMS presentation. Asked how the LMSs handle extra credit.\u00a0 Got no answers.\u00a0 Rather liked Canvas.\u00a0 Canvas offers pilot sites.<\/p>\n<p>UMD migrated from Blackboard to Canvas last year.\u00a0 Nancy said it went quite well.<\/p>\n<p>Chris says the Collaborate appears to drop to the lowest speed connected device, although this seems unlikely.\u00a0 In any case, meeting with audio and video on Collaborate is almost impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Brian emphasized the importance of be able to choose and switch among plug-ins. In particular, being locked into Collaborate has been a problem, and people are just leaving the Blackboard environment to use e.g. Skype.<\/p>\n<p>General discussion of needed LMS features emphasized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>operating system agnostic<\/li>\n<li>browser agnostic<\/li>\n<li>device agnostic<\/li>\n<li>possibility of e-reserve integration<\/li>\n<li>support (by plugin) for high quality video conferencing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sonja discussed ATSC being tasked with a Social Media Guide for the extended classroom.\u00a0 ATSC drafted guidelines (but not a policy), Teaching and Learning with <em>Social Media: Guidelines for Use in the Classroom<\/em>.\u00a0 Chris suggested that CIS should have been involved in reviewing this draft.\u00a0 Alan suggested this task really belonged to CIS, even though it was an administrative initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Chris discussed whether time conflict of interest raises issues relevant to CIS. Overall sense of the committee was that although the topic was important, it was not in CIS&#8217;s purview.<\/p>\n<p>Chris asked about progress on accessibility in the Library.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy addressed accessibility. Physical accessibility: two doors have not been accessible; those are being changes this summer.\u00a0 Technological accessibility: along with Office of Campus Life, Library acquired an accessible scanner. Accessibility software: Library is working to acquire Dragon (unresolved: number of licenses).<\/p>\n<p>Chris asked about accessibility issues with Library-hosted data bases (e.g., International Financial Statistics).\u00a0 Nancy will look into this.<\/p>\n<p>Chris raised again the issue of color-contrast choices on AU websites.\u00a0 They still don&#8217;t pass basic tests.<\/p>\n<p>Craig reviewed beginning of year goals: software licensing, LMS issues, and accessibility.\u00a0 Student pictures on rosters proposal was a big win: OIT plans to implement this this year.\u00a0 CIS also provided guidelines for what we would like to see in e-portfolios.\u00a0 Craig will put an initial draft of year&#8217;s outcomes on WordPress.\u00a0 Committee is urged to edit and add to this list.<\/p>\n<p>Brian asked for a clarification of the MOOC ban at a future meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Our next meeting is May 5.\u00a0 Possible (?) meeting June 2.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Present: Chris Simpson (SOC), Sonja Walti (SPA), Craig Hyden (SIS), Alan Isaac (CAS), Erran Carmel (KSB), Brian Yates (CAS\/Psych), Michael Jee (GLC), Nancy Davenport (Library), Terry Fernandez (OIT), Alayne Mundt (Library) Note taker: Alan Chris reviewed today&#8217;s agenda. 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