Technology Council Minutes, UW-Green Bay

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Monday , February 11, 2008
11:00-noon
CL 735

Present: Diane Blohowiak, Sharon Dimmer, Scott Furlong, Sue Keihn, David Kieper, Kaoime Malloy, Dan McIver, Kathy Pletcher, Uwe Pott, Meir Russ, Tim Sewall, Jan Thornton. Not Present: Scott Hildebrand, Fritz Erickson, Shaun Raganyi

The meeting was called to order at 11:00 am

Minutes of the December 6 meeting were approved.

The Council reviewed and approved the Computer Lab plans for 2008/09. The plan eliminates the GIS teaching lab and reallocates 3 of the computers to a GIS project room (MACH 229) for students to be able to work on projects with the map collection. The plan also reduces the number of computers in the Language Lab from 8 computers to 5 computers and recovers two off-net Windows PCs, moves the 6 PCs in the Physiology Lab to the surplus groups, and adds one PC to the Social Science lab project rooms. The approved plan provides 110 networked PCs in 8 locations; 76 surplus PCs in 5 locations and 41 Macintosh computers in 7 locations. The total cost to the revised plan is $85,000 for 2008/09, which is taken from the Lab Mod Fund.

Diane reported that the pilot clicker project was going well. There are 5 faculty participating in the pilot with 9 class sections and 563 students. The LITC and LTC will co-sponsor a forum for the faculty to discuss their experiences. We will expand the pilot for the summer and fall and will request faculty to make their plans known so that we will be able to order equipment ahead of time if needed.

The Council reviewed progress on the technology plan: 15 projects already completed; 4 projects in the implementation phase; 3 projects in the pilot phase; and 8 projects in the research and development phase. Based on the evaluation of the User Support Staff the decision has been made to postpone deployment of Vista operating system until the summer of 2009. There are numerous problems with incompatibility with campus software applications and peripheral equipment. The Council was supportive of this approach. Microsoft Office 2007 is still scheduled to be rolled out summer 2008. The interface is very different from the current version and User Support is gearing up to provide new documentation and training sessions.

The Council discussed doing a student and/or faculty technology survey for late March and decided to defer these surveys to the fall. This is partly due to other surveys this spring and also the desire to get new faculty and students input at the beginning of the academic year rather than at the end of the year.

Next meeting March 3, 11:00-noon, CL 735

Respectfully submitted,

Kathy Pletcher, Chair