LTDC Online News

LTDC General Membership Teleconference
9-17-07 2:00pm
New officers announced:
Carole Turner- Secretary
Pat Fellows- President Elect
LTDC Conference in River Falls Oct. 11-12, 2007:
Jim has met with the Executive Board, Pod Casting Planning Group, and Karen Ryan, UW-River Falls
Podcasting agenda has been modified-will be finalized soon by Podcasting Planning Committee
Day 1 Approximate start at 9:00am (don’t forget hotels) Karen Ryan (host) will take care of registration,
Alan will take care of budgeting issues.
Podcasting workshop goes from 9:10-1:30- includes lunch, agenda will be formalized, Jim will e-mail out
invitation for participants for podcasting, Karen will send out conference invitation
Ron Legon, Quality Matters goes from 2pm-4pm
Tours to begin at 4:00pm4+
Dinner- to be arranged by host campus-UW-River Falls- Karen Ryan
Day 2 UW- System topics, CRD, Grants, reports
Campus reports should be sent to the list serve- Pat Fellows will follow up to make sure LTDC membership does this before the RF meeting.
Discussion on utilizing the LTDC.
Communications Planning Group identified: Carole Turner, Penny Ralston-Berg, Pat Eaton, and Jim Jorstad
Campus Reports:
Green Bay- Andy S.-education wiki, clickers,
Eau Claire- Donna R.- new faculty learning committees-certificate program includes25 new
faculty, assessment presentation
River Falls-Karen R- campus review NCA, faculty

Learning Innovations, Penny R-B- second life multi-user virtual environment, extension,
UW-EX, ICS, Rich- extend LMS, Breeze 500-1000 virtual licenses

UW-Stout- Margy- new faculty and staff, 42 participants, laptops 2 weeks, photographer
retiring, not replacing him
Colleges- Pat Fellows, ready to launch iTunes, Course casting- home grown, can lock down or
have open access, 6 campuses, library course pages tied into, integrated into D2L, rubrics,
UW-Milwaukee, Bob K- things going well, D2L, clicker, new person-ID person for 3-year grant,
2 faculty brown bags, podcasting and clicker
UW-Stevens Point, – Mary M.-clickers, gotten away from selling to leasing, telephone office (cell)
UW-Whitewater- Lorna- on vacation
UW-Superior-Lisa- new center for excellence and learning, advisory meeting, Provost
assessment workshops, rubrics in assessments, content mapping tool, wikis
UW-Madison Carole Tuner-, Learn at UW, centralized help desk, consultations, customized road
shows, D2L, grants applications, Madison, ELI proposals
UW-La Crosse-Jim J.- looking to fill our Sr. Video Producer Position, continuing with classroom
design, currently conducting a survey on technology development areas on LTDC
campuses- members are encouraged to submit their survey info, Jim will share results

LTDC individuals going to EDUCAUSE: Pat Fellows, Sharon McCarragher, Carole Turner, Alan Foley, Jim Jorstad- hope to convene a meeting place or time.

Meeting concluded 2:45pm

Learning Space Design is an important element when developing effective and innovative learning environments. A presentation entitled, “Innovation in Learning Space Design-Developing Collaborative Opportunities” showcases national and international trends in developing effective and engaging learning enivronments that enhance the teaching and learning process. Jim Jorstad, Director of Educational Technologies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse provides a Mediasite presentation on Learning Space Design.
http://www.uwlax.edu/edtech/sat/learningspaces/

LTDC Executive Committee Meeting Notes September 12, 2007
Members Present:
Jim Jorstad, Pat Fellows, Carole Turner, Pat Eaton, Alan Foley
(Donna Raleigh e-mailed comments to Jim Jorstad beforehand)

- Selection/Election of president elect and secretary
- Finalize Podcasting expectations and workshop
- Finalize fall conference agenda
- Discuss and finalize logistical needs to be forwarded to Karen Ryan
- Additional items
- Selection/Election of president elect and secretary

Election of Secretary and President Elect

Secretary – Carole Turner
Pres-Elect – Pat Fellows

- Finalize Podcasting expectations and workshop, Finalize fall conference agenda

Podcasting agenda
Day One, October 11th

Balance the length of the podcasting session with the LTDC business

Do the walk-through late in the day.

Start at 9am, welcome by Provost, Karen, JJ

Have a podcasting handout and go right into the podcasting session
Podcasting session is three hours, plus one 15 minute break and one hour lunch (table topics). Podcasting committee can plan the time accordingly.
9:15am- start the podcasting session
includes short break 10:30am-10:45am
Make the move at lunch at 12:30-1:30pm, do podcasting topic tables or something. that the podcasting committee decides.
1:30pm short break
2pm Quality Matters
4pm Walk through, tour of River Falls

Dinner

Perhaps LTDC Executive Committee meets after dinner, or the next morning.

October 12th

Day Two
Start at 8:30am.
Topics: Update on System topics, Budget, Curricular Redesign, LTDC Tech Grants, 1 hour campus updates and sharing (Send documents beforehand).
JJ work with Karen on her topics (1/2 Hour or so) and the agenda for Day Two

Finalize fall conference agenda

Send out reminder: Make accommodations ahead of time. Please send out campus reports ahead of time. Post campus reports to the blog. (Carole to send out)

Registration, Karen should send something out about registration and dietary needs. (JJ to talk to KR)

Additional items

Blog, Faculty request.
Faculty has project where they buy publications for STEM, for schools. Has different faculty placed at higher educations? Want to share projects with LTDC. JJ post to blog.