Southern PLN-IT Meetings:2008-10-23

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Agenda Items:

  1. Roll call
  2. Update on 2008 PLN Meeting
    1. Minutes, 2008 Accomplishment Report, and 2009 Plan of Work have been submitted and will be posted at http://srpln.msstate.edu/it/index.html. They are also available on the eXtension Collaborate Wiki at http://collaborate.extension.org/wiki/Southern_PLN-IT.
    2. Officer elections
      • Steven Garner (Kentucky) was elected as our new secretary.
      • Lalit Rainey (North Carolina) was elected as our 1890 PLC representative.
  3. Report from PLC Representatives of last PLC conference call (Nina Boston & Lalit Rainey)
  4. Discussion on restructuring of PLN (Nina Boston & Lalit Rainey)
  5. Review Plan of Work, which currently consists of the following items:
    1. Work with committee advisor to identify PLN IT representatives from states which have not been represented recently and to encourage their participation (Nina Boston)
    2. Continue development of the Moodle module on Information Security located at http://pdc.extension.org (Jonathan Davis)
    3. Maintain the resource list of social media tools which is available on the eXtension web site at http://collaborate.extension.org/wiki/Web2 (Anne Adrian)
    4. Explore a common approach for collecting data and incorporating requirements for the Education and Administrative Reporting System (EARS), in coordination with the FCS Committee (Fred Piazza)
    5. Engage in discussions on best practices for training (Jim Segers)
    6. Continue communicating and promoting eXtension activities to our state constituents (individual efforts)
      • Develop Institutional Teams or promote Institutional Team involvement
      • Clearly define IT's role within the Institutional Team
      • Clarifying that eXtension's mission is content creation and delivery, rather than an IT initiative.
      • Implement Ask an Expert widget in appropriate web community sites (county or content teams)
      • Encourage use of FAQ database
  6. Additional Items
  7. Adjourn (Next meeting: February 5, 2009)
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