Ocotillo Chairs Meeting

March 8, 2002
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
District Office Room 311

Welcome, Introductions
Doug Sawyer

Ron Bleed - District Office
Sheila Brandt - Scottsdale
Steve Budge - Mesa
Pat Case - Rio Salado
Teresa Leyba - South Mountain
Alan Levine - MCLI
Pam Petty - Chandler-Gilbert

Tracy Price - MCLI
Doug Sawyer - Scottsdale
Carol Scarafiotti - Rio Salado College
Gene Schmidt - Scottsdale
Gloria Stahmer - GateWay
Jon Storslee - Paradise Valley
Roger Yohe - Estrella Mountain

Recap of Technology Visioning Forums
Doug Sawyer
Review evaluations from Forum 2.

What topics have been taken back to the colleges?

Overall, colleges feel they are going in the right direction.
They are discussing partnering, portals, and shared services.
Scottsdale is looking at issues for Internet-Based and Internet Enhanced classes.
Chandler-Gilbert is creating a workshop to prepare faculty for hybrid courses.
Should there be cross-district definitions? We should start at the campus level and then combine.
See the March 1 Online Learning Groupmeeting notes for more examples.

Ideas about the Hybrid Course matrix?
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/tv/docs/ww_hybrids.doc
Review a Hybrid Course site with gallery.
Please promote the site on your campuses; encourage people to submit more examples.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/hybrids/
Online Learning Group March 1meeting- panel discussion on Hybrids
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/olg/notes0203.html
Online discussions?
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cgi-bin/bbs/oco_tv1.pl
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cgi-bin/bbs/oco_tv2.pl
What are emerging themes? Shared Services? Swirling Students Idea

Also, review list of possible topics from the menu offered by Michael Dolence:
http://www.mgdolence.com/services/emerging.htm

Topics that the group agreed upon:

Learner Centered Environments
Modularized Curriculum
Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM)
Virtual Learning Environments

Ocotillo Retreat Planning
Alan Levine
Goals are to further develop ideas that emerge from the visioning forums. Perhaps it is coming up with a process/structure for a shared help desk system. Perhaps it is a recommendation to partner with a service such as SMARTHINKING. Perhaps it is developing the matrix of Hybrid Courses so that we have working models for hybrids that will guide schedculing and planning.

We reviewed the retreat logistics following a site visit to the Windill Suites (see location information)

Alan November (Educational Renaissance Planner) will speak as a May 14th morning kick-off session, which means we will start earlier (10:00 or 11:00 AM), have lunch at the hotel and then dinner on our own.

What are our priorities? What is our ultimate goal? What can we do together to be more efficient? We need to come up with issues/areas that are important to all of us and take these back to our campuses. Shared and extended services, resources, what are they? Which services need to be 24/7? Jon Storslee suggestes we look at technology to create and save energy.

Please send a list of topics that are currently being discussed addressed at your campus and overall goals we'd like to accomplish to Alan prior to April 10th so we can start developing the activities.

Tentative Agenda

May 14

Registration 10:00 AM
Alan November presentation / discussion 10:30 AM
Lunch at hotel
Mixed college group work - in topic issue groups, use laptops for notes, compile and print over night
Break
Mixed college group work - topic issue groups,
Dinner on your own

May 15

Continental Breakfast is delivered to rooms
College group work
Summarize as a group, define goals/plans for next year

March 29 Technology Dialogue Day
Charlene Almenderez, Alan Levine
Update on Spring Ocotillo Dialogue Day at GateWay Community College, which has the theme of "Technology by the (Discipline) Slice.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/dd/tech02/

Please advertise on your campuses! Tentative upcoming dialogue day in Fall 2002 in conjunection with Faculty Developers on Electronic Portfolios.

Pool Information on Tech R&D
Doug Sawyer, Alan Levine
We need to be more strategic in our evaluation of new programs. We need to share what we are interested in reviewing with each other. Chairs need to share this information with their campus groups on a regular basis. We should also share our information through web sites (see below), as an Ocotillo Spotlight, and maybe even come up with a Teaching and Learning Technology Portal.

Here are some others ways of sharing this kind of information:

Ocotillo Pulse - shares updates from individual college roundtable activities and processes.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/pulse/
Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) - is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources about learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/

From now on, at the Ocotillo Chairs meetings, there will be a "round robin" on technologies that are being reviewed/researched at each campus.

Some technology ideas we have been asked to review:

SmartThinking, see OLG notes for info on creating demo accounts. (currently being piloted with English Departments at Scottsdale, and Rio Salado is investigating as well)
League of Innovation online library of all publications.

Former Student Technology Survey Report
Doug Sawyer
Doug briefly went over the Survey Results and showed everyone a tentative presentation.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/ae/survey2001_results.html

Doug would like to know who would benefit from his presentation? How can it be better? The groups suggests simplifying the slides to illustrate the major findings.

April 12, 2002 Meeting
Doug Sawyer
We will process the third Visioning Forum, continue Retreat planning, and outline future goals for next year.

For your Calendar...

March 29: Ocotillo Spring Technology Dialogue Day, (GateWay, 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM)
April 4: Ocotillo Online Learning Group Meeting, MIDAS/Blackboard feature comparison (Paradise Valley, 2:00 - 4:00 PM)
April 8,9: Technology Visioning Forum with Michael Dolence. April 8 at Red Mountain; April 9 at Estrella Mountain.
April 17: Tangled in the Web: The Impact of the Internet on Individuals, Families and Communities (Honors Forum) Kimberly Young, (7:30pm - 9:30pm, Bulpitt Auditorium, Phoenix College)
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/honors/forum.php?yr=0102&id=6
May 14-15: Ocotillo Retreat, Windmill Inn, Tucson.