TAG Committee

Meeting Minutes

Thursday October 6, 2005

3:00 p.m.

Fireplace Lounge

Present: Laura Little, Debbie Stodberg (recorder), Gloria Stewart, Frank Diller, Scott Lewandowski, Bob Chase, Eric Fitch, Sharon Douglass, Ken Nelson(filling in for John Davis), Hunter Jonsson(student rep)

Absent: John Davis, Taran McZee, Davis Marchetti, Jeremy Wang

Old Business

Correction to previous minutes – Mozilla is not Modzilla

Turning point – Scott will talk to Laura about this latter – Dennis Kuhl is also interested in trying it out – Are there similar programs? What are the other colleges using – Eric Fitch will check this out

Grant activities – working on some grants for the Education Dept – discussion followed about working with Beth McNally set up a brain storming meeting seeking grants for technology – Concern for growth optimizing grants – seeking out grant sources to fund technology for Science and Engineering – Entire Campus vs Science Depts discussion – TAG facilitate such a meeting or should this be by departments/divisions – Eric Fitch will talk to Bob Walker about this.

Use of Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird instead of Netscape suite – several positive testimonials – will wait till next meeting for more review and will decide more at next meeting.

CDigix expanding – PA students using – classroom use – videos, Laura working out issues with users & CDigix

New Business

Title III 5^th year - there will be TIG opportunities

CETL – Open house Oct 25 (2-4) (Center for Teaching & Learning – lower level of the library) call Laura for more information X4815

Reminder – Students should use Marietta College email address

Next Meeting – Friday October 21, 3:00 – location TBA