I believe that one of our overall goals is to create opportunities for collaborative interaction between faculty, tech staff and students in ways that they couldn't do by themselves. This approach would break down artificial barriers between the groups and allow everyone involved to participate in a creative process that generates growth, excitement, goodwill and suites of tools that can be reused for future projects. Joint group teams force everyone involved to think outside their traditional environments.

BRAINSTORMING ON OUTREACH AND COLLABORATION WITH TEACHING FACULTY.

    We choose one of the technical projects we talked about last meeting and create an oversight team of people to build a prototype of that project. In using either the wiki project or homework project, as an example that I previously suggested, we would put together a small group of interested faculty members to brainstorm what type of real classroom world assignments that could be served by one of these proposed projects. Their objective would be to define the requirements, goals and expected results from students recruited to complete the prototype assignment.

BRAINSTORMING ON OUTREACH AND COLLABORATION WITH TECHNOLOGY STAFF ACROSS CAMPUS.

    We would next pull together a small group of interested technology staff members to meet with the faculty group to gain an understanding of the prototype assignment. The technology group would then brainstorm ways to use wikis for a collaborative group project or set up a suite of tools appropriate to the prototype homework assignment.

BRAINSTORMING ON OUTREACH AND COLLABORATION WITH STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY.

    Once the two groups finalize the details of the prototype project, we would solicit participation from a group of students to apply the tools and actually do the prototype assignment with the prototype tools. We could offer gift cards for local restaurants on campus or bookstore items as an incentive to participate.

BRAINSTORMING ON ASSESSING THE SUCCESS OF OUR EFFORTS.

    When the above prototype assignment/project is complete, we put together some simple questionnaires asking each of the three groups their opinions about the prototype assignment/project as to what worked, what didn't and what could be improved. Also ask if there is an interest to participate in any such future projects.

    Feedback anyone?

Brainstorming: Assess the Success of our Efforts

Question: How can we assess our efforts to enhanceinformation literacy with educational technologies, encourage faculty to
integrate infolit into the curriculum, and the strength of our collaborations?

Brainstorming: Expand the Library’s Outreach and Collaborate with Technology Staff Across Campus

Question: How can we strengthen communication andcollaboration among various campus technology partners (ITS, pICT, and others)?

Brainstorming: Expand the Library’s Outreach and Collaborate with Teaching Faculty

Question: How can we effectively encourage faculty to integrate information literacy into learning outcomes and the curriculum?

Meeting Notes and Brainstorming March 23rd

March 23rd

People With Whom We Should Meet

Instructional Technology and Support (ITS) http://its.sdsu.edu/:

James Frazee, Director (coming to our April 6th meeting) (jfrazee@mail.sdsu.edu)
Jim Julius, Associate Director (jjulius@mail.sdsu.edu)
Jon Rizzo, Blackboard Administrator (jonrizzo@mail.sdsu.edu)
Marc Pastor, IT Consultant

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) http://ctl.sdsu.edu/:

Brock Allen, Director (brock.allen@sdsu.edu)

pICT (people, information and communications technology) http://ctl.sdsu.edu/pict/:

Cathie Atkins, Director (catkins@sunstroke.sdsu.edu)
Suzanne Aurilio, Assistant Director (mailto:pict@rohan.sdsu.edu)
***Both are coming to our April 13th meeting.

EdTech Faculty (http://edtec.sdsu.edu/):

Bernie Dodge (Webquests): bdodge@mail.sdsu.edu
Phil Molebash (does a lot with Bb): molebash@mail.sdsu.edu
Marcie Bober (does work with assessment of learning): bober@mail.sdsu.edu
Donn Ritchie (Linda Salem says he's amazing and we must meet him): dritchie@mail.sdsu.edu
Farhad Saba (does an online distance ed journal): fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu
Allison Rossett (instruction): arossett@mail.sdsu.edu
Minjuan Wang (adjunct): mwang@mail.sdsu.edu

Library Faculty

Marilyn Hall, Instruction Coordinator (mehall@mail.sdsu.edu) (coming to our April 20th meeting)
Joan Goodwin, Media Center Supervisor (jgoodwin@mail.sdsu.edu ) (coming to our April 20th meeting)
Librarians at a Faculty Meeting

Other/Maybe Meet or Maybe Market Finished Services To:

GE Committee
Associated Students GE Committee
Student Learning Outcomes Committee

Brainstorming: Two Technology-Based Ideas

Think of at least two technology-based ideas that support research, outreach, infolit, etc that you would love to see implemented in the library. Feel free to think big, look to the future, and suggest ideas that may even seem nutty (i.e. – pretend there are no boundaries to what we can feasibly do and share what you would really love to see). You can post them here or bring them to a future meeting.