Minutes, Sept. 21, 2005

prepared by Sharon Huston

In Attendance:

  • Sherry
  • Ivan
  • Sonya
  • Jim
  • Sharon
  • Lee
  • Sequetta
  • Joe

Agenda:

  1. Emotional Intelligence
  2. LC Application
  3. Learning Consortium CD
  4. Squares Checkup
  5. Innovator of the Year
  6. Virtual Communities
  7. Values and Cohorts
  8. Seattle Workshop

 

Notes:

  1. Emotional Intelligence
    1. Need to start promoting this event!
    2. Sonya and Jim will get food from Boston Market
    3. Tea, cookies, and ice from Subway
    4. Sherry is checking to see if Pat will take our RSVPs
    5. Need a flyer -- Sharon volunteered to make one this evening. Organizational Learning needs credit in flyer!
    6. Email notifications will go out to 7FACULTY and 7ADJUNCT beginning ASAP.
    7. Lunch will be from 12 - 1:00, presentation from 1:00 - 4:00.
    8. George and Sherry are shaping the assessment based on objectives given to them by speaker prior to workshop.
  2. LC Application
    1. Ivan received an application for a Learning Community from Zena Jackson.
    2. We are returning the application because we do not feel the courses under consideration are indeed an LC.
      1. Classes do not have integrated material
      2. No cohort or co-requisite classes
      3. Taught by only one instructor
  3. Learning Consortium CD
    1. Ivan received (via Zena Jackson) a CD from the South Texas Learning Community Consortium.
    2. Sharon is trying to secure additional CDs or permission to copy the CD.
  4. Squares Checkup
    1. Everything proceeding well.
  5. Innovator of the Year
    1. Sherry wants us to apply for Innovator of the Year.
    2. We agreed
    3. We have until November.
  6. Virtual Communities
    1. This discussion stemmed from several events.
    2. As a group we feel a need to publicize our activities to the campus.
    3. Discussion of email format and online discussion group format.
    4. At this point we will start with email, possibly growing to a forum as time passes.
    5. We want to connect with people throughout campus, not just faculty.
    6. Basic idea (at this point) is to find a way to
      1. Send an email from 7TLT.
      2. Send to everyone on campus
      3. Allow people to "opt out" of future mailings
      4. Send out one "general" email each semester thereafter, asking people to "opt in" instead.
    7. Want to have three or four parts to each newsletter:
      1. Cool Classroom Stuff
      2. TLT News
      3. Conferences/Workshops on Teaching & Learning
      4. Food for Thought
    8. Ivan organizes content, Sharon deals with technical.
    9. Oct. 30 is our target day for the first message.
  7. Cohorts - Discussed need to re-examine the value of learning communities in light of specific, track-able cohorts. More on this next meeting.
  8. Seattle Workshop - deadline is fast approaching, we need to develop criteria for selection, coordinate with administration on how many will be going, and get word out to faculty. More on this next meeting.