Meeting Notes - Dec 14 2007

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Ongoing Work

Marthine:
1. working with Brian to get PC repaired so she can use the OCR software
2. Marthine will work up a draft of the general faculty survey
3. Marthine will work on moving "lost" material
Ryan will get into touch with Porter to schedule interview
Ryan will work to set a date with Joni for staff training
- beginning of the meeting should focus on showing them 2 - 3 places on the site where they can make a difference
add username information to appropriate use policy
beginning of the quarter email to encourage users to post - Kim
- survey about training
- will register users unless we hear otherwise
section for the sidebar that includes interviews, ongoing research, etc.
- Showcase
Kim will email Zia to check on status of Richard Helgerson interview
link to Alan's interview from CITS on YouTube
Alumni series
- Alan's vision for the tone
  - begins with snappy vignette - impressions of where the student is now (geographically)
  - self-reporting on current career, spare time, etc.
  - picture of the student
- Ben will be the point person contact Taylor Whitmer
- Ben also interested in hearing from graduate student faculty members
  - need a process in place
    - asking graduate students and faculty for suggestions for who would be good to contact. - Kim
- moving all exams into Instructor Namespace
work on adding images to break up text-centric pages - we will work on as time allows
Kim will search for a plug in to allow images to be links