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Minutes of September 7, 2005
Noon
Faculty House
Attending: Mark
Schneider, Anatoly Vishevsky, Kara Lycke, Margarita Pillado, Jen Green,
Jon Chenette, Bill Francis, John Kalkbrenner, Justin Abramson, Terri
Phipps
Minutes of August
31 approved as distributed.
Jen will be leaving
the College at the end of October. FOC will appoint someone to compete
her term on ISC. [NOTE: as of 9/13/05, Cecilia Knight has agreed to
take over Jen's position on ISC.]
Classroom visitor
proposal (Psychology):
In the past, classroom visitors have been funded following guidelines
similar to course-related field trips; that is, funded once with instructions
to include in the departmental budget if the faculty member foresees
the need on a regular basis. Typical funding includes $75 honorarium
plus $50-$75 for travel and modest meal expenses. ISC is currently the
main source of funding for classroom visitors. Public speakers are funded
through the Academic Speakers fund.
Jon will expand
the field trip guidelines to include classroom speakers. Both categories
are for new, unexpected expenses. Recurring expenses should be funded
by the host department.
Proposal is approved.
Jon will contact faculty member.
Burling 1st
floor renovation:
The Planning Committee will meet on Friday, so more information will
be available at the next ISC meeting. Workspace, additional computers
and a scanner have been added near the Reference Desk area. This space
is quite often filled to capacity. It is very important to note how
spaces are used to see how to make them most effective. The Circulation/Reference
Desk area renovation, which will add two group study spaces, is currently
scheduled for Summer 2006, though the timing may be readdressed to lessen
disruption of service.
Teaching and
Learning Technology Support:
The Classroom AV committee met in the spring semester to discuss campus
media support, and forwarded a list of recommendations to administration.
Bill distributed the list to ISC and noted that this academic year has
gotten off to a good start in regard to classroom media support.
Ralph Helt has been hired as Audio Visual Services Coordinator.
Two satellite dishes have been added to ARH.
Project rooms in the AV Lab have been upgraded.
Media in a number of classrooms was upgraded over the summer.
A Cultural Education Center has been created in the Sony Lab.
This space will allow students access to foreign language media: films,
news broadcasts, etc., as well as being a comfortable space in which
to meet. This will be a space where international students and the student
community can come together.
Language houses can show film series in this space, though they
should check with Ralph Helt first to make sure proper equipment is
available.
Copyright guidelines for digital media need to be clarified.
For now, groups should follow past practice regarding advertising of
films.
Language faculty envision photo and artwork displays corresponding
to languages, perhaps rotating on a monthly basis, in the Cultural Education
Center, as well as a computer station. This space will be a wireless
area so that students can bring in laptops.
The Cultural Ed Center space is ready for scheduling and programming.
The AV Center staff will be responsible for reservations. ISC members
agreed that a committee needed to be formed to have oversight of the
programming. This committee should consist of representatives from the
foreign languages, ISC, Center for International Studies, foreign language
SEPCs, houses, and student groups.
Teaching and Learning
using images:
Considerable progress
was made over the summer to digitize images. These images are being
stored in ARTstor and/or PDID (Pioneer Digital Image Database). ARTstor
allows image collections to be shared with other colleges. ARTstor is
a paid service according to usage, so not all images will be uploaded
for storage. PDID allows multiple levels of sharing controls. The CTSs
held workshops on ARTstor and PDID over the summer, and plan to do so
again as more faculty become aware of the databases.
Grinnell will host
the MITC (Midwest Instructional Technology Center) conference entitled
"State of Art History" at the end of this month. Various presentations
and discussions of ARTstor are scheduled, and representatives from ARTstor
will be attending the conference.
Respectfully submitted,
Terri Phipps
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