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Computing Steering Committee
(AcCSC) Minutes of Meetings: Present: virtual meeting Review of last meeting's minutes. 1. Budget issues.
It is way too early to tell what effect the current college budget
discussions will have on IT. We
are fortunate to have an endowment for IT, even though it is not big
enough, yet. 2. R25. Work
is proceeding on installation, testing, and staff training for the new
scheduling and online calendar system, Resource-25. For an example, see
the Middlebury
calendar. Note the list of
filters (different calendar views) available on the list at the right. 3. e-Portfolios.
We have signed our pilot e-Portfolio agreement with Connecticut College.
The pilot will involve roughly 5 advisors and 50 students, and will
begin Winter or Spring term. More
information at: 4. Web Archiving
update. The next stage of the web archiving project (Mellon
sponsored) will be at Skidmore College on November 21.
More information at: 5. Upcoming
webcast. Whatever
Happened to Technology? Some argue that the education and technology policy concerns identified in the December 2000 report of the Congressionally chartered Web-based Education Commission are being ignored. Others suggest that these issues are secondary compared to state budget problems, which have played havoc with technology spending in schools and colleges. Others note that the events of 9-11 have shifted the technology discussion to homeland security. Register at http://ready2net.net As a reminder, several
weeks ago we found that, Realplayer works better than Windows media player
to receive these webcasts. The webcasts are also archived at the ready2net
web site. 6.Department web
sites. Departments have not been overwhelming in their response
to Tom Smith's offer to help them upgrade their websites.
As Tom says, perhaps we need to be more direct, and tell
departments to upgrade, rather than making the offer.
If you know of departments or programs in need, let them and Tom
know. (Refer to our notes
last Spring on the status of websites.) 7. Curricular
Conversations - Gen Ed and Tech Lit. Kimmo Rosenthal will host one of
his "Curricular Conversations" on Thursday, Nov. 21, from 2-4pm
in CC410 (for faculty and staff; sorry Josh).
The topic is the future of Union's General Education Curriculum.
This conflicts with our meeting time, but it might be an opportunity for
us to raise the issue of technical/information literacy and its place in
the College curriculum, if indeed it still has a place.
As Tom M. has noted, this topic has all but disappeared from the
1st-year preceptorial syllabus. 8. Pervasive
Computing. Felmon Davis's new Pervasive Computing course will be
offered Winter term: >
Phl 48: Philosophy and Current Affairs: 9. CT. With my CT hat on, I am interested in collecting "converging technology stories" about students, faculty, staff, alums, who are teaching or working in interdisciplinary areas (especially humanities and social sciences). For example, Ted Gilman (Political Science) told me that one of his senior thesis students was studying how Tibetan exiles are using the Internet in their political struggle to free Tibet. And East Asian Studies is hosting a conference here in the Spring called "Serious Pop". It will focus on how popular culture, especially technology-driven culture, is shaping society and politics in Japan and the rest of East Asia. If any of you know of any good CT stories, send them my way. 10. Bibliography of IT information. LETTER URGES UNIVERSITIES NOT TO MONITOR
FILE SHARING Internet cheating. Tom M. alerted us to a November 2, 2002 NYT article on internet plagiarism: The New York Times, "With
chearing on the rise, more colleges are turning to honor codes", by
Kate Zernike REPORT ENVISIONS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES
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