Participants: Josh, Mathieu, Robin, Luke Fernandez, Salwa, Charlie, Sue

Agenda Items

1. Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

Sponsorship:

We don't have anybody secured yet for the support-level.
No commitment at this point.
Charlie: Contributors like to know in advance. We should publicize it earlier.
Don't need the money until the second quarter of next year.
Need the money at the end of May to cover travel expenses.
Josh will follow-up with Unicon.
Sponsors will miss an opportunity if they don't tell us before the VA Tech event.
Need to announce the number of winners.
We might not have to announce that we will fund winners... At what point will we need to become specific?
To get things going: announce that the winner will get a free trip to the Boston conference.
Sue: Need for a press release during the VA Tech event? Start from the last one.
Time it with Micheal's address. Need to build some slides for him.
Sue: We want to use Elluminate for Salim (he has issues with his firewall) at VA Tech and the judging process. Sue will follow up. Selling point.
Hard to reach people during EDUCAUSE...
Copies of the flyers are now distributed at EDUCAUSE. Worked out great.
Mary Miles has sent the sponsorship plan to all commercial affiliates.

Judges:

Rubrics and Submission Process

Initiated by Robin.
Something on the web which doesn't need to login.
Robin will have a call with rSmart tomorrow.
They should be able to post 6 courses to the world.
Robin has done presentations before about this topic.
Permissions are tricky. Need to take out the write permission.
Should be linked from the Sakai site.
http://wyosakai.uwyo.edu/
Sharing practices, not best practices.
There is a need for these kind of examples.
Sue: CGU is involved in a similar initiative.
Hard to demonstrate the customization possibilities of Sakai. Other LMSs are canned. May appeal to some instructors.
We need OpenEdPractices to be able to incorporate these demos.
Do we need these demos to be unbranded?
The goal is adoption (institutions and faculty).
Robin has set-up a page already. http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/USER/Showing+Demo+Courses
Salwa: User group also has a similar initiative.
Quick and easy access is key. Need to see the process.
Need a clean page for decision makers.
We should integrate the winners from last year in.
Need to contact the Paris folks to get source videos to publish snippets.