Instructional Support Committee

Attending: Bill Francis, John Kalkbrenner, Richard Fyffe, Jon Chenette, Cecilia Knight, Dan Reynolds, Keri Kornelson, Terri Phipps

Minutes of 29 November approved.

Copyright Task Force: The committee has made good progress on a draft policy.
Author management section: encourages faculty to retain rights in negotiations with publishers
Fair Use: more options are available for faculty member determination of fair use
Section on student work is under discussion, specifically regarding work done not-for-hire.
There is a broad interpretation of student work used for assessment purposes. Students would have to voice objection to use their work rather than signing a waiver of consent. It was suggested to check on an opt-in/opt-out procedure. We might ask the Institutional Review Board to look at the student work section.
The policy should make the procedures easier to follow. We hope to minimize forms required.
Draft policy should go to President Osgood and ISC in early spring 2007.
The draft will be tested against FERPA policy.

International Conference on Interdisciplinarity: It was duly moved and approved to fund up to $2000 for faculty member to attend this conference. The Committee was confident the faculty member could find a lower airfare to bring the cost into compliance with CSFS and ISC guidelines.

Faculty Writing Lunch Series: The first three lunches were well attended and positively received. The Writing Lab requests funding for five additional lunches.
It was duly moved and approved to fund up to $600 total for the additional lunches.

PioneerWeb: Templates created for Spring 2007 help make PioneerWeb more user-friendly.
Suggestion to change E-Reserves button to "Reserves". Not all reserves are electronic. The Library will make the link to Courses Reserves clearer on their pages.
Course Tasks are faculty-generated. Bill will check into how to submit works for public view (peer-reviewed) or private submission (homework).
Problem: When students switch sections of a course, their grades disappear. Bill will check into this.
Is it possible to create a contact list to send emails to multiple classes at once? Bill will check.

Pod-casting tool: Not in use yet.

Science Building AV: ITS is trying to make interfaces as similar as possible throughout the building and across campus to make it easier to teach in other buildings. The goal is to have a certain number of standard functions in the rooms, with specialized features in designated rooms.
Current cabinets do not have enough surface space-monitor, keyboard, laptop, notes, phone.
There is currently no budget available to retro-fit rooms-new system for new spaces.
Multi-region DVD players will be incorporated - JRC should have them by next semester.

LASR: Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository
Tool that holds digital material in multiple formats intended for world-wide access and accompanied by cataloging information. Sponsored by NITLE. Indexed by Google Scholar.
This tool makes scholarly work more visible and archival, and allows sharing of work with partner institutions.
CTS and Library will start identifying possible work to incorporate into LASR.
It will be important to follow copyright procedures.

Respectfully submitted,
Terri Phipps