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I-Share Instruction Team Minutes
Minutes: 04/22/08
Conference Call; 11:00 a.m.
Present: Susan Avery (UIUC), Kent Carrico (Benedictine University) Amy Glass (Illinois Central College), Kathleen Haefliger (Chicago State University), Joe Hardenbrook (Millikin University), Terry Huttenlock (Wheaton College), Chad Kahl (Illinois State University), Randi Sutter (Heartland Community College), Keith Eiten (interim IUG Liaison, Wheaton College), Lorna Engels (CARLI).
Absent: Molly Beestrum (DOM)
Announcements:
CARLI Report
- The CARLI office move scheduled for the middle of May has been postponed until later in the month. This move will combine the user services office with data services, systems services, and administrative services in the same building.
- Training has begun for the new libraries that are coming onboard in July. The new libraries are; Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Harrington College of Design, Rush University, and Principia College.
- The Board also accepted the recommendation that no new institutions will be added to I-Share next year.
- VuFind should be coming to early adopters by end of this month and then by mid-late summer to the general population. This will not be a required front end, but will be optional. VuFind is a more intuitive user interface that was created at Villanova University. VuFind is being modified to meet the needs of the consortia and universal borrowing as well as connect to SFX.
- CARLI is looking for committee volunteers.
IUG Report - Keith Eiten is the interim liaison to the Instruction Team while Stephanie Graves is on maternity leave.
Old Business:
Each subgroup facilitated a discussion based on their conference call meetings.
Tutorials Subgroup:
- Tutorials subgroup tried to have a conference call meeting on April 16th. Not all subgroup members were able to attend.
- Kent and Terry attended a LIBRAS seminar on online tutorials presented at Elmhurst on April 1. The meeting affirmed the need to make tutorials focus on specific courses or a specific assignment and follow good instructional practices.
- Kent talked about ANTS (http://ants.wetpaint.com), a collection of open source tutorials that are available online. The site also includes guidelines for animated tutorials, Google Analytics, publishing ideas, 2.0 resources, etc.
- Links to tutorial tools, sites, etc. were emailed to the instruction group.
- It was discussed that the focus of the subgroup is unclear. It was agreed that the action plan for subgroup should be determining after the form and the deployment of VuFind. VuFind may change the face of what may need to be done.
Forum subgroup.
- Conference call meeting occurred on April 17th.
- Forum tentatively scheduled for July 16 at Illinois Wesleyan.
- Ideas for the forum were discussed:
- Public services group had a forum on social technologies and we do not want to repeat this.
- Look at ideas and examples of how to use technology in instruction; active learning, video, games, Facebook applications, in-person and online reference, clickers, podcasts, etc.
- Look at different ways to engage students, rather than just presentation-type instruction.
- Demonstrations on how people use social technologies in instruction.
- Bring in a speaker who can talk about why and how to use gaming.
- Ideas on how to tie this into I-Share instruction.
A discussion followed about possible keynote speakers. Jenny Levine (ALA- Shifted Librarian) was recommended. Lorna will start an email conversation with her. She will talk to Jenny to see if she is interested and then we can work out the specifics.
People will be going to LOEX and they can bring back ideas.
Other things to think about before the next meeting:
- Name/title for the forum.
- Roundtables, breakouts, etc.
- Focus of the keynote speaker.
In conclusion, it was agreed that everyone needs to focus on the forum.
Next Meeting:
Next conference call meeting scheduled for Monday May 5 at 1:30pm.
Meeting adjourned at 12:00.
Respectfully submitted,
Terry Huttenlock
Wheaton College
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