Participants: Josh Baron, Jon Hays, Salwa Khan, Aileen Huang, Maggie Lynch, Robin Hill, Tina?, Jim Farmer, Eddie Watson, John Moore, Mathieu Plourde, Salim, Mary, Sue Roig, I missed a couple...

Agenda Items

1. Welcome to all new participants

• What is the Teaching and Learning Group?
• Past projects.
• Getting Involved With the Sakai Community for Dummies

2. 2008-2009 Objectives

(See last week's discussion)

2.1 OpenEdPractices.org

2.2 Community Work

2.3 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award 2009

• Rethinking the sponsorship model.
  • Need for a sponsorship plan.
• Pool of funds for Gold-Silver-Bronze awards.
• Need for VIP judges? Was it worth the effort?
• Sue will be chair. (she hasn't changed her mind... yet )

Maggie:

• Concerns about the number of submissions (25 was though already). Might need to divide the workload.
• VIP judges: independent vision.

Sue: Next steps

1. Build a committee
2. Find judges: an insider and an outsider

Concern about technological focus vs. pedagogical focus.
Apply to a specific category? Area of studies, in-class vs. distance, undergrad vs. grad.
Have subject matter experts be judges.
Develop an expectation sheet (time, technology) for judges.
Name-recognition vs. expertise.
Last year's process: Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

Salim:

• Process was long. Could be a two-step process (initial vs. complete).
• Word limit is frustrating.
• Using the rubric is helpful.
• Save draft. Get UI more useful.

Aileen:

• Word count helped to focus.

Sue:

• Who is interested? Start with a table for sign-up.
• Must create a page... Mathieu will assist on the page creation.
• Categories: Sponsorship, Judging, final judges, entries, maintaining the site, etc.

Need for a spin-off call for the TWSIA? Not really.
Have more stuff done asynchronously. Report during the T&L call.

Wiki gardening. Mathieu and Josh.

VoIP options to be discussed.

3. Virginia Tech Regional Meeting (Eddie Watson)

• November Sakai Conference at Virginia Tech (focus of conference is teaching and learning as well as adoption/migration strategies).
• Input requested regarding topics and organization.
• Sign-up and Details

John Moore from VA Tech: Fall regional meeting Nov 11-12 2008 (opening reception on the 10th).
Teaching and learning focus + Migration from legacy.
General session, breakout sessions.
We should work, not just listen.
150 attendees expected.

• Working track + presenter track for newbies?
• Presentation day + and working group day?
• Case study hackathon, OpenEdPractices Hackathon, pedagogically sound scenarios, arguments to sell Sakai to faculty, administrators. Start from rSmart stuff.
• Breakout sessions per tool.
• Find facilitators that would present on the first day.
• Names of folks who would be interested in paper review or organization of conference.
• Use educonference site?
• Lock-in of the program in the 3rd week of September?
• General call vs formal process for proposal.
• Must have a cut-off number of attendees.
• Have Aileen and Salim presentations. Aileen agree. Salim could use Adobe Connect.
• Timing is bad in North America. Might be better off to have a less formal process.
• Follow-up in two weeks on this call.
• Have people who sign-up put more info on their interests/strenghts/expectations.
• Mathieu will help set up the page.