Participants: Mathieu, Josh, Janet, Emily, Maggie, Steven, Kelly, Robin, (type your name here if it is missing)

Agenda Items

1. Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

Rationale of having sitting judges

They don't use Sakai, don't know the LMS
Logistics of the process to re-explain
Concern as for the number of judges
Need for some compensation (pay for the travel)?
Participating in the process pumps up their resume
One outside judge + two winners this year? Worries about the winners' background. Might have got help from IDs.
Must have balance between Instructional Design and Faculty
International representation? Final judging and/or initial judging

Summary

SubmissionProcess2008.pdf
Issues with number of characters. Test the form beforehand. Frustrating to paste in a text that has too many words.
People spent a lot of time thinking about their course, which adds time to the submission process (which is a good thing - apart of the mission of the Award)
Screenshots only to level the playing field
Describe the types of attachments, the number of attachments
Jira-like process to paste in screenshots
Offer webinars to get questions answered from potential submitters
Missing line breaks
Waste of bits/time for formatting?
Word template to upload? Hard to enforce word count.
Screenshots were resized. Use clickable thumbnails instead.
Add comments to images.
Mathieu will discuss with Nate and come back next week.
Have the application use the whole screen.
Have the form be more TWSIA oriented (verbiage at the top of the page).

Nothing new to report this week - John and Eddie will not be in the call this week.
Early Bird registration ends October 13th
Presenters should confirm their willingness to present, provide a biography for the program, and request additional A/V equipment via https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1222008207522

Following a lively discussion on the Pedagogy list, we will discuss the possibilities during the conference call.

Robin has some courses to share. Uses fake students.
Issues with sharing content (copyright).
Need some kind of walk through from the instructors.
Have 3 or 4 demonstration courses bundled in the install files has value.
Could be hosted.
Emily from Johns Hopkins: Made a sample course based on three courses for external stakeholders.
Wants to build a self-paced course to explain how to build a pedagogically sound course in Sakai.
Josh suggests to put this to the agenda after the new year.* Josh suggests to put this to the agenda after the new year.
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