ACE IT SIG Notes - :2007-07-17

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Welcome - Ray Kimsey, incoming SIG Chair

Gary Kepka, outgoing SIG Chair

  • Get Involved!

Floyd Davenport is incoming Vice-Chair

AGENDA

  1. Introductions
    • Everyone introduced themselves... ACE members and lots of IT professionals who aren't members yet.
  2. New ways to communicate
  3. Review Mission Statement
    • no suggested changes
  4. Election of new Vice Chair Elect
  5. Three-Year Professional Development Plan for SIG
    • Work collaboratively with eXtension to provide 30 Minutes professional development sessions
    • Meeting in Second Life
    • Brainstormed ideas:
    • topics that will engage broader spectrum of IT professionals
    • Price model to use Adobe Connect is less expensive if using VOIP rather than typical long-distance telephone charges.
  6. Awards for IT C&A program
    • SIG gets to announce Silver and Bronze award winners
    Class 37 – Interactive media program - No awards given.
    Class 38: Best Innovative Use of Communications Technology -
    Bronze - Lynette Spicer Iowa State University for her Civility blog
    Silver - Blair Flannin – Texas A&M University. "Producing Agriculture News for Mobile Devices."
    Gold Fred Piazza, Sandy Fiser, Sarah Johnston, Sam Razi, Megan Smith – Louisiana State University. “Louisiana Forest Industries Mapping.” (announced at banquet)
    Class 39: Web Site -
    Bronze - Melanie Eirich, Vishal Singh – University of Nebraska Power of Possibilities
    Silver - CC Chamberlin – NM State University. "Printshop: An online print job tracking system."
    Gold - Sarah Graddy, Marion Douglas, Liz Felter, Tracy Irani, Ashley Wood, Ligia Ortega – University of Florida. "New UF/IFAS Extension Web Site: SolutionsForYourLife."(announced at banquet)
    Class 40: Technology Education - No entries submitted.
  7. Look at C&A Award Classes
    • interest in creating different classes for IT SIG areas
    • something related to project development, planning, etc
    • Floyd volunteers to spearhead this
    • recommendations due to board by September

SIG Meeting Attendance:
Rhonda Conlon
Bob Rubyini
Gary Kepka
Anne Adrian
Beth Raney
Ray Kimsey
Floyd Davenport
Lynette Spicer


John Dorner
Jason Young
Ben MacNeil
James Robinson

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