Present: Arvizu, AuYeung, Beede, Bedell, Edberg, Ferro,
Kehler, Loeser, Lozano, Maringer, Moeller, Parker, Robinson, Venable
Minutes approved (Lozano:Kehler)
UPDATES
Tech Plan: The next meeting of the Tech Advisory committee will meet on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 in the Staff Resource Center. Everyone is invited.
The TAC met on Friday, October 18, 2002 and prioritized the 3 classes into 2. They looked at all the items contained in the Tech Plan that are currently in progress or have been completed. They decided to keep these items in the plan and will label them as currently in progress or completed. Air conditioning needs to be put back into the Tech Plan. Multimedia needs to be moved back up to Class 2; even though it is still in progress. Our Tech Plan is aligned with the state and federal tech plans. Dan Crozer was the last consultant that was hired. We can always give him our final document and ask him for his expertise.
The Title V/Hartnell/Gavilan grant has a lot of good information regarding
expenditures and funding and can be used for technology issues. This grant seems
to be aligned with our tech plan. Section 1 is for equipment and Section 2 is
for support.
Website Training: The committee discussed doing a workshop on website building
for faculty and staff during Staff Development Day. We need incentives to get
people there. We don’t know how many people will be interested in this
workshop especially since the web page has to be continually updated. If we
put on a workshop in all the labs, which program should we use? Everybody has
access to Frontpage. Is there a consensus? No, some people prefer Dreamweaver.
Peter, our webmaster, teaches Frontpage. Frontpage writes non-standard code—impact
is that it may not work in some browsers so you have to publish for all browsers.
Vic’s motion: We will make a request to the Staff Development committee for a 2 hour morning training on staff development day for basic web page development for those people who do not have web pages, which will include information on uploading it to the server. We will have to have people sign up first to receive their passwords. (Kehler: Lozano). Jane E. will send it to the Staff Development Committee.
If we receive the go ahead to present the workshops, we will then discuss the logistics. We will get a working group together. Jane E. stated that the staff development committee doesn’t get very many responses from people requesting workshops so email the Staff Coordinator with your requests individually too.
Computers with Window XP: Ed requested that training should be put into place for those people who have Windows XP already. Not everyone does but some of the new individual equipment is coming in with XP. If we are going to switch to XP, we will need to start with the labs first. Bob Peacock’s & Bob Beede’s lab have XP. Vic is trying Windows XP on one machine now. They are loading all the software to make sure that everything works. They do not have an experimental machine for Morgan Hill or Hollister. There is not proper tech support on campus for Windows XP at this moment. There is a Community Education course on XP that staff can take. Shuk stated that in June 2003 the library has to change to Windows XP because of their library database.
Title V / Information Competency: Moeller-This issue was tabled until the next meeting.
What's Hot?
Tech Ed-March 24-26, 2003, Ontario Convention Center—we could probably target a couple of people to attend. Contact Jane E. for information on how to apply.
Adjournment--Next Meeting: November 12, 2002, 2-3:00p.m.
Spring Snack Schedule:
November 12-Fran
November 26-Marlene D. & Jane M.
December 10-Bob B.