June 22, 2004

ITF Brown Bag Notes 22 June 2004

12-1:30 in 2041 Public Policy Bldg.

Attendees: Shizuka, Mary, Mike, Zoe Borovsky, Howard ??, Lindy Leong, Ted Liu, Joan Kaplowitz, Esther Grassian, Ruth Sabean, Rex Lorenzo, Alan Wood

Spent most of the time going around introducing ourselves and giving an interesting personal fact. After the session, we had a quick demo of how to use the wiki site to create and edit new web pages to share information.

ITF Brown Bag Meeting 2004/06/22

Shizuka, Mary, Mike, Zoe Borovsky, George Helfand, Lindy Leong, Ted Liu, Joan Kaplowitz, Esther Grassian, Ruth Sabean, Rex Lorenzo, Alan Wood

Intros and interesting facts
Shizuka - History Dept.

"The Parrot Who Owns Me"

George Helfand, Head of Operations of UCLA Photographic Services http://www.uclaphoto.ucla.edu

Lindy Leong, TTAC Film & TV
intranet http://tft.ucla.edu

Joan Kaplowitz - heading up eLearning Task Force - objects, SCORM players,

Esther Grassian - Information Literacy - definition - the ability to evaluate, ... (get from her)


Ruth Sabean two hats - possible workshops
Syllabus Conference will be in L.A. in 2005, Day on Conference at UCLA this time. Show and Tell?
Trying to negotiate Breeze Pilot
*get her diagram for notes

Rex Lorenzo just finished first quarter with new, homegrown course management system.

Orachat - general SEASnet programmer and systems administrator, just last Fall got IEI fee approved. Spring 2004 was first quarter using their new home-grown course management system.

Jarett - SSC Lab Manager

Margaret Ebersole - Dept of Medicine, Clinical Trials Mgr. got masters in Educational Technology

Julie Austin - SEASnet Computing Resource Manager -

Lucy Lu - CDH leaving for SAKAI conference tomorrow, eCampus programmer

Jessica Tiregol-Mente.. - CLICC Classroom Coordinator - on front lines with instructors - "class is like a show, and the show must go on" Lab open 24 hours most of the quarter. Had classes from every dept on campus at least once. Sees reactions of students.

Joseph Chiu - Psychology Dept Network Systems Administrator - 3 labs being used by Extension, which he handles.

Chris Nguyen - Psychology - in charge of course web pages, working with Stephen Schwartz, Curtis Fornadley, Howard Batchelor on (SCORM test) Rat Brain Project

Stephen Davison - Digital Library Project?
Architecture, Urban Design project
campaign literature
having their digital objects used in classes would be their highest goal?
Starting in July, Digital Library will be a unit of UCLA's Library
Frontera Project streams complete audio of songs, only 50 seconds off campus.

Alan Wood - Design | Media Arts Dept. short movies, animation, print work, creative new ideas. MFA exhibition in Wight Gallery through Friday. Scholarship Competition now online.

*** Future Brown Bag Topics

Orachat - courseweb demo sometime in July

Esther - library resources and how to use them in instruction - August

Tips and Tricks

Jessica - what she's seen that worked and hasn't worked
GACnet classrooms, and what works and doesn't work - Aug or Sept

CLICC can host brown bags

OID AVS charges for equipment, CLIC does not. Will send laptop carts.

Computer Labs at UCLA

wiki demo - made Brown Bags wiki page

neutral questioning - Esther - let the person asking the question make the decisions. Present options and then ask them to decide. When you're done, ask "Does that completely answer your question?" Except for that question, avoid yes or no questions.

usability testing -
Biomed Library
Digital Library did Mellon funded usability testing


Google restricted to UCLA

Is anybody doing surveys of faculty or students or evaluation of their course management systems?