Minutes of the Academic Information Technology
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO5240 N. Jackson Avenue, M/S UC43
Fresno, California 93740-8023
Office of the Academic Senate
Ext. 8-2743
October 6, 2008
Members Present: O. Benavides (Chair), E. Nelson, B. Auernheimer, K. Moffitt, R. Parker, D. Nef, R. Amarasinghe, S. Seepersad, P. Newell.
Members Absent: D. Martin (excused), M. Bach (excused), J. Cagle (excused), R. Boes (excused), C. Won (excused), L. Harding (excused).
The meeting was called to order by Chair Otto Benavides at 1:00 p.m. in the Education Building room # 316.
- Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of September 22, 2008.
- Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.
- Communications and Announcements.
There was a question about the follow-up from the last meeting
concerning webcams for PC. B. Auernheimer reported that there has
been no follow-up.
E. Nelson reported that the new student technology survey is starting
this week. - Moodle Presentation by J. Williams.
A Moodle Remote Learner representative made a 15 minute presentation
on Moodle as a Learning Management System (LMS) and explained about
hosting services by Remote Learner. - Campus Moodle Group – B. Auernheimer
B. Auernheimer reported that this academic year 2008/09 is the year of
exploring alternatives to Blackboard for LMS with a decision towards the
end of the spring 2009 semester. There will be Moodle sandboxes where
faculty can test out Moodle and report on their experiences. Fourteen
CSU campuses are taking part. B. Auernheimer is looking for a few
faculty members to take part in the Moodle sandboxes. - Laptop and Desktop Security and Backup.
As a follow-up of discussion at IETCC, Chair O. Benavides raised the
issue of the recent laptop thefts in the Education building and other
campus locations. Such incidents raised several issues including
physically securing computers, sensitive data on the computer, and loss
of data and information. Some committee members mentioned that in
their school/college there is automatic backup. Others also talked about
physical protection including the locks and cables. There were
recommendations concerning the use of encryption software.
B. Auernheimer mentioned the TrueCrypt software that is available to all
faculty. Chair O. Benavides recommended that a smaller group of AIT
members convene to discuss these issues in further detail and to make a
recommendation to IETCC. The smaller group will consist of: R. Parker,
K. Moffitt, and S. Seepersad. This group will prepare recommendations to
AIT to be sent to IETCC. - K.C. Green’s Presentation – The use of technology in higher education.
There was some discussion about K.C. Green’s presentation last week
(October 1, 2008) with the use of technology in higher education. Chair
O. Benavides presented some data about technology use at the K-12
level. Members talked about ways in which we can encourage faculty to
use technology in the classroom. This discussion will continue in future
meetings. - Academic Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC) Update.
Chair O. Benavides reported that the next ATAC meeting will be on
October 23, 2008. There will be further discussions about the acceptable
use policy document. - Old Business.
K. Moffitt pointed out last week that the Atomic Learning website did not
have the accessibility material. B. Auernheimer reported that the licenses
have been updated with Atomic Learning and all the learning modules
should now be available.
Chair O. Benavides presented some information about Periscope,
security webcam enabler software.
MSC To adjourn at 2:17 pm.
The next scheduled meeting of the Academic Information Technology
Committee (AIT) will be October 20, 2008. An agenda will be sent out prior to
the meeting.
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