Pam Petty - CGCC               Nancy Matte - PC
Chris MacCrate - EMCC          Marian Tadano - PC
Rosemary Kesler - GWCC         Pat Case - RSC
Manny Griego - GCC             Pat Medeiros - SCC
Richard Shortridge - GCC       Ken Roberts - SMCC
Brad Kincaid - MCC             Alan Levine - DIST

• In the past, Ocotillo committees dealt with district-wide concerns solely, but now it is more campus-based where common issues would be addressed at retreats.
• The focus now is of the appropriate use of technology through teaching and learning and common issues that should be addressed at the district level.
• Ocotillo is a learning experience. Sharing college technology plans will produce common elements and in turn make each college plan more successful.
• Ocotillo is an effective communciations means between college teams and district issues.

• These technology issues were developed last Spring into the 5 most important ones to be discussed at the 1998 Retreat.
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Access [remote, student, faculty]
  • Faculty Development
  • Distance Learning
  • Technology staffing [hiring, keeping]

• Do we want to keep all of these issues? Do we want to come up with new ones? Do we want to concentrate on just a couple of these?
• Faculty Development (report from Pat Case, RIO) - Professional growth vs. professional standards 4 critical issues and problems
  • Values and Assumptions
  • Faculty Experience and Needs
  • Structure/Systems/Environment
  • Training

• Assessment and Evaluation is important, "just hard to do." (see item 6 below); Western Governors University has an approach? (had to for them to get accredited, competency-based. See http://www.wgu.edu/wgu/academics/understanding.html
• Like to look into what it takes to create and run distance learning classes (Chris).
• Access - there are many subset issues relating to this issue.
• Possible New Issue - Exploration, Innovation and Development - a second stage element - we need to keep people moving along but there is little faculty incentive to keep going forward.
• Manny suggests that between now and the next meeting the chairs have an A1 discussion to discuss the issues [what are the next steps for these issues, or do we send these issues on to other committees to work on?]
• Showcases/Demonstrations - from retreat feedback, Alan will look into this for this year. For example, each college uses different web software - MCLI can arrange demonstrations. In general, do you have software you'd like to see? willing to share as a demo? October 8 at PC - there will be a demonstration of WebCT (http://www.webct.com/) and a conversation with the developers

• Process from last year was good.
• Other than the length of travel time, the facilities were great. Location open to discussion but we will make decision by mid fall.
• The date is May 18 and 19, 1999.
• "We need to keep momentum through the summer" (Ken R.) Instead of waiting until after the next retreat to plan for summer continued discussions - pre-plan over the year instead. Build it into our activities.

Ocotillo will provide a web page that points to each college plan as well as the sub-section of common elements. See http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/plans.html for a prototype.

Status reports:

• CGCC - Done; to printer; on the web soon
• EMCC - In its final approval stages, on the web soon
• GWCC - In progress
• GCC - In their 3rd year of a 5 year plan, on the web now.
• MCC - Done, on the web soon
• PVCC - Did not report
• PC - Draft on the web now, getting close to getting an formal college Ocotillo committee.
• RSC - Done, on the web soon.
• SCC - Happy with current plan and now working on achieving goals, on the web.
• SMCC - In progress, pulling elements together, working on clarifying issues

• From Retreat 98 recommendations by Doug Sawyer and Ted Wolter. Two excelllent discussion sessions; see notes at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/ae/
• Extrememly valuable input from the participating college and disitrct IR staff; they should be part of college roundtable discussions.
• Other groups are working on large-scale questions of college and program A&E; Ocotillo should focus on the role and impact of technology.
• Suggested "grid" or framework to look at A&E of technology; see July 30 A&E notes
  1. Column 1 are the "hardware/software" inventory types of data to collect. The exact types of data to collect should ariase from the review of the college technology plans. Going forward, the inventory should become less of an Ocotillo emphasis.
  2. Column 2 is where Ocotillo can focus on ways to "assess" the impact of technology on learning, especially in the ourcome areas specified by the Governing Board End Statements; develop classroom assessment types of rubrics? Rosemary K shared a defintion and self-ranking scale of "computer literacy" developed by GWCC's roundtable.
  3. Column 3 - What are attitudes toward technology? Can we use Flashlight as a tool for this?

• Next Meeting: Friday October 11, 1998, 2:00 - 3:30 PM District office - Room 311
  Agenda Items:
  • Issue areas for 1998-99
  • Plan Status- Data to be collected?
  • ??