ETC Edison Technology Committee
Strategic Planning for Learning Through Technology

Draft of Minutes of meeting held
January 9, 2002

Present: 

Dennis Myers, Harry Lawhorn, Bert Waldrop, Carol Rigola, Brad Reed, Keith Roeth, Mona Walters, Patti Ross, Jesse Parete, David Myers, Mary Beth Aust-Keefer, Sandy Brubaker.

Approval of Minutes:

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted with one correction, change the date on title bar of the Web Page to reflect the actual date of the meeting.

Proposals

• Wireless Support
• Currently in the process of resetting access points within the main campus.  With the internal physical structure of the campus, the 400 wing has “dead” areas, with no coverage.  The college has purchased from Time Warner Cable an Ethernet line with a permanent IP address for the Wireless System, outside of our “Edison” Domain, with the equivalent of two T1 lines for students and faculty.  Logging in on a modem access, a person will be able to quickly access our web page the same as using our campus network.
• It has been proposed that edisonplus.com be used as a student web site.  This of course has a separation from our college website, and will be used for exhibiting student portfolios. 
• Discussion was made relative to the use of trickle down P III’s, migrating the PC’s to a student lounge for Cyber use.  Dennis Myers responded that if the grant itemizing equipment purchases were not awarded to the college, our next avenue would be that of trickle down units.
• Student Help Desk
• Patti Ross brought concerns to the committee regarding the Student Help Desk proposal.  A brief review is below:
• Who would be responsible for staffing, supervision and management, and Help Desk location?
• Would the Help Desk provide departmental liaison, wireless support, leasing and repairing of hardware, installation and training?
• Who are the stakeholders and what are their needs?
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  Dennis responded that ETC will support and make the recommendation of the Student Help desk concept.  Given that the college has been asked to use and support online course instruction, maintain Web Advisor and Blackboard for alternative learning, and allow for additional access to the Internet, the college will have a need for additional staffing and funds to cover the services in the upcoming fiscal year.  To recommend this to Executive Council for its authorization, the recommendation should be made by the end of January to properly enter into the budgetary process.
• 
  A sub committee consisting of Mary Beth Aust-Keefer, Jesse Parete, Carol Rigola, and Patti Ross (Chair) will meet within the next two weeks to propose and recommend a Student Help Desk, then assigning the charge to a CQI committee for follow up initiatives as itemized in Patti’s submitted outline. 
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  In the meantime, if a student has a general question regarding wireless access, please refer them to our website containing general information pertaining to the wireless environment until we arrive at a more concrete protocol.
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  ITS will send a message to the entire college community how to handle questions pertaining to the wireless should they arise before the implementation of the Help Desk for students.

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