Academic Computing Policy Board

ACPB Meeting Minutes September 21, 2005  

Present: Roberta Lembke, Gary Miessler, Meg Ojala, and Barbara Reed

The board welcomed new member Gary Miessler.

Minutes

This was the first meeting of the year. We had no minutes to approve from the last meeting of 2004-05 that dealt with technology requests.

Report from Roberta Lembke, Director of IIT

  • Brad Mikkelsen is in training in Augusta, Georgia and will be deployed to Iraq until sometime in 2007. Steve Engle, St. Olaf graduate ’04, was hired to fill Brad’s position.
  • The college’s auditor audited IIT this summer. The audit emphasized the need for continuing to tighten security measures and plans.
  • Roberta has been working on a Disaster Plan and she is now expanding the security document that will include a 24 point checklist for employees.
  • A lightening strike destroyed the sound system and damaged the organ in Boe Chapel. IIT has installed a temporary sound system.

Report from Roberta Lembke the status of 2005-06 Projects

  • A CD created by IIT was included in the incoming students binder. It instructed new students on how to prepare and secure their computers to eliminate viruses before coming to campus. The CD was successful in greatly decreasing the number of infected computers this fall compared to last year.
  • The new login system was completed for Macs in all labs and public areas on campus. The new system tightens security because users must login with campus user names and passwords.
  • Thorson and Kildahl are now wireless. The Math building and Dittmann Center were given wireless capability this summer. A project for next summer is to provide wireless capability to all other academic buildings.
  • Equipment in Old Main 15 had been in use for 5 years and was updated this summer. The new technology includes a Sympodium digitizer tablet. It makes it possible to add notation and save notation on computer projections.
  • Science Center 182 is now equipped with tables that can adapt easily to both computer use and non-use. When table surfaces need to be utilized monitors are housed underneath but can be raised up when needed for a computer based class.
  • Rolvaag 420 is complete.
  • Steensland is complete.
  • Work on Internet 2 is in progress and expected to be live by the beginning of October.
  • Work on the R25 Campus Roll Out is in progress and will provide campus wide information on the scheduling of classrooms.
  • Rolvaag has a new, improved media lab with more computers and video editing capabilities as well as a large screen for small group viewing. There is also a new cinema and presentation room with access to the campus cable system. The cinema room can be used for group work that is technology based such as practicing a power point presentation, or watching an assigned video. It has comfortable chairs for informal work and cinema viewing.
  • Items to be completed: Jacks for internet access points in dorms, a campus calendaring system, rebuilding Macs in Dittmann 100.

Discussion of “The Student’s Perspective” by Carie Windham
from Educating the Net Generation.

Roberta provided articles for the board to discuss. We touched on several issues related to our new students’ relationship to technology and what we can do as a board in response to those issues. This will be an ongoing discussion.

We hope to gather student feedback on topics such as “dos and don’ts” for faculty when working with Moodle. What are the most valuable uses of technology in courses from the student’s perspective? Faculty can give each other helpful feedback on what works and provide support in the face of the steep learning curve that some of us face.

Our next meeting will be October 5 at 1:15.

Respectfully submitted,

Meg Ojala