Minutes-091208

From NW-DCSD

Minutes for Sept 12, 2008

People present: Scott, Jenny, Rob, Ashley

Agenda:

• Evaluation/Assessment tools
  • For the community building
  • For the curriculum
• Modules for Spring (to be developed in Fall 08)
  • Scott - games (used by Rob in spring 09)
  • Jenny - Computational art
  • Rob & Jenny - airport simulation (used by Pamela in spring 09)
• Outreach activities with OCSTA (Ron Tenison)
  • How to reach teachers:
    • HS teacher workshop at CCSC-NW (Oct 10)
    • CSTA meeting at Willamette Programming Contest
    • HS Game Competition
• Need email with instructions for marratech

Action Items:

• Done - send out task list to core team (Scott Wallace)
• Done - send out wiki access info to core team (Scott Wallace)

Agenda for next meeting:

1. walk through Project Task list
2. wiki uses and access (brief)
3. find out who has module topics to work on this year
4. find out who wants to work on module assessment this year
5. Set up permanent monthly video conference meeting times for core team (early am ok? 7am?)
6. Set up quarterly video conference times for module developers/users
7. Core team recruit other discipline partitipants
   1. action items for participants
8. Core team check access to Marratech rooms:
   1. what is reservation policy
   2. how many participants can be online at once?
   3. Is there a way to accomodate larger groups perhaps for a fee, if so what cost
9. Outreach component update.
10. How to make the NWDCSD work effectively (communication avenues)