MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

i. Brooke Doggett and the ELT group developed a summer schedule for courses and webinars. Thirty minute webinars, break-out sessions and a different time schedule will be available. Melody Pennington will be facilitating a webinar for SmarterProctoring May 27, August 13 and August 19. TEO will be offered this summer July 13 and August 14. Times are still being worked out and will be forwarded when available. 1. The professional development side of the ET will be tested in May or June and will be ready by July. eLCs will have access to see who has participated and completed training. 2. MCCB will pay for eLTs to take workshop via OLC or Max Knowledge. 3. In the future, emails will be sent via the ET to instructors when a webinar or course has been canceled.

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IHL Partners

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New Business a. Vote for eLC Library Committee Member

i. Buffy Matthews was nominated to serve as eLC on the Library Committee.

b. Appendix K and L of P&P – Teresa Webster

i. According to Teresa Webster, the reciprocal library lending agreement is outdated. eLCs asked to find out from libraries if the agreement needs to be taken out of the P&P. Tabled for May meeting.

c. Vote AspireEDU Instructor Insight

i. Kimberly Ellis made motion to adopt Instructor Insight and administrative reports; Phyllis Johnson seconded motion. Motion carried.

d. Refer-a-Tutor NetTutor

i. Tabled for May meeting

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Committees a. Web Conferencing Tools – NEMCC IT Committee

i. Kim Harris presented the results of the survey. Due to the limited number of participants, the information was inconclusive. ii. Kimberly Ellis made motion to not renew Voice Authoring tool of Blackboard; Haley Duck seconded motion. Motion Carried. iii. Christa Wilhite made motion to move forward with testing with Zoom in testing environment; Jennifer Leimer seconded. Motion carried. b. Hands On Lab Presentation to IT Committee – NEMCC IT Committee i. Kim Harris indicated that the IT Committee has been looking at vendors such as D2L Leap to work on demonstrations and webinars in May. c. Marketing i. Last summer $50,000 was allocated for Marketing project. Presidents will approve the funds for the project .

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Sharing Circle (tabled)

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Open Forum

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