3-5+Notes


 * Issue/Process || Expected Outcome || Lead || Time ||
 * **Review of agenda** || **Common understanding, Identification of additional items** || **Evan** || **5** ||
 * • In attendance: Brian (267), Sandy (8), Barb (NWAEA), Julie (9), Kathy & Andy (10), Evan & Sharon (11), Judy (13), Kathy(14), Arlan Thorson (ILO), Gwen Nagel & Sue Swartz (DE)

• Participants shared upcoming online course offerings. Heartland will be offering an online course on Moodle and Adobe Connect Pro from May 11 - June 14, as well as a PLS course on Introduction to Teaching and Learning Online from July 6 - Aug 9. NWAEA is offering Viterbo's STOL 1 & 2 courses (introduction to teaching online). Those courses are offered several times. Many AEAs were offering Larry Osthus' math course.

• Brian expressed concern over many different offerings for teacher training, mentioning that this could lead to not having common understanding between the AEAs. Barb expressed concern over partnering exclusively with one university. It was reaffirmed by the group that different trainings would be allowed as long as they were based on the state online teaching and course standards.

• Kathy Dulle and Julie shared that they will be posting PLS courses on their website. Evan shared that PLS offers the option of having AEAs using their own instructors to teach PLS content. PLS would charge a percentage fee for that. Evan will distribute what the specifics are for that arrangement once he is given the information. ||
 * **Updates on "Clearinghouse", Iowa Core** || **Inform, Discuss** || **Evan** || **15** ||
 * • Evan met with Gwen Nagel and representatives from IPTV to look at [|Iowa Learns]. IPTV's database administrators gave a demonstration of the program, which allows institutions to post their courses for a wider audience. Each AEA could have access to post information; they would only need to supply time for personnel to enter information. Given the low volume of current courses, Evan recommended using the Iowa Learns website for the forseeable future.

The next step for the Clearinghouse is for Evan to submit a list of course fields to be entered on the database. Not every field in an AEA's registration database would be necessary, since the clearinghouse would direct the user to the AEA's registration page to register. Evan will generate a list of field names and distribute it to the group via the wiki, and others can comment, add, or modify.

• Evan has not had a chance to visit with Lori Thelen (Heartland's programmer) to develop a list of questions for database administrators to determine the feasibility of a merged database. Given other priorities, that will be postponed.

• Several committee members have roles on Iowa Core committees. Sue, Gwen, Brian, Andy, and Evan participate with the technology task force. At recent tech task force meetings, the role of the online council has been explained. At this time, there has not been any request from an Iowa Core committee for the online council. ||
 * **Finalize Online Standards** || **Discuss, Finalize** || **Evan** || **15** ||
 * • The task force has finished its work on the teaching standards and course standards. Evan asked the council to approve the work of the task force.

• Brian expressed concern over how the standards were developed and how they would be utilized by AEAs. Kathy Dulle and Kathy Lockard shared their perspective on how they would use the standards in conjunction with the guidelines for online course proposals.

• The council agreed to notify license renewal coordinators that the work they commissioned was finished and to identify any concerns they might have from the standards. The concerns of the license renewal coordinators will be looked at during the next online council meeting. ||
 * **Adobe Connect Pro** || **Discuss, Next Steps** || **Evan** || **15** ||
 * • Evan gave an update on the Adobe Connect Pro discussion with the state media directors. Jerry Cochrane from the IEC has negotiated a contract for 5 "named organizer" licenses for each AEA (except for AEA 9, which has already purchased their licenses). This also included 10 licenses for the DE and 5 for ILO. In addition, the state would purchase one 500-person meeting room to be used for large conferences. The price per license is $150 per year. More licenses can be added at any time.

The media service directors will meet March 13 to discuss and approve the contract. The licenses would be available on April 15. Vic Jaras from the DE is setting up a training session for members from each AEA on April 24. Details of this meeting will be distributed as they become available.

• Evan, Arlan, and Gwen will be attending a session with EnvisionTel to look at their software which integrates Adobe Connect Pro into Moodle. That meeting will be on March 9. ||
 * **Prioritization Survey** || **Discuss, Next Steps** || **Barb** || **35** ||
 * • Barb updated the council on the status of the online survey. At this time, not everyone had had a chance to respond. Barb extended the survey to close April 1. She also provided a URL to look at the survey results as they come in.

• The council discussed the possibility of making the survey available for LEA staff. It was determined that we would make a slim survey, using only the criteria of "Overall Value" and "Number of People it impacts", and then choose a smaller number to have LEA staff rank. The council will look at the results at the next meeting to determine which topics to include on the LEA survey. ||
 * **Online Communities** || **Inform, Discuss, Next steps** || **Evan** || **25** ||
 * • Due to time, Evan gave a short update on online communities. Educational technologists from AEAs 267, 10, and 11 met to discuss key attributes of online communities for it to be the most effective. Those attributes are listed on the wiki.

Evan is meeting with Marv Howard, the programmer for the mandatory trainings. Marv indicated the project is doable for the attributes the group listed. The next step is to determine specifics in a) features, b) costs, and c) timeline. Evan will bring those specifics to the group for discussion in April. || Future agenda items? Plan to set future dates** || **Evan** || **5** || • Discussion of data from prioritization • Possible action depending on the feedback from licensure renewal coordinators • Setting 09-10 dates • Discussion and next steps on Online Communities ||
 * **Dates for 2009-10** || **Decide** || **Evan** || **5** ||
 * • The council will meet in April. Katie will send out a meetingwizard for that date. It was decided the council would plan to meet once a month for the 09-10 school year, and that another meetingwizard would be sent out for that. ||
 * **Closing** || **What needs to be communicated?
 * Next meeting will include: