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AECT Board of Directors Board Meeting Conference Call June 15, 2005 3:00 EST Attending: Phil Harris, Executive Director* Sharon Smaldino, President* Wes Miller, President Elect* Jay Harriman, Past President* Ken Harmaning, Secretary – Treasurer* Ward Cates, Design & Development Representative (President-Elect Designee)* Chuck Stoddard, Multimedia Production Representative Charlie Reigeluth, Change Division Representative Rob Branch, Appointed Affiliated Organization Representative Otto Benevides, International Division Representative (Chair, ISMF) Al Januszewski, Theory & Research, Representative David Winograd, Distance Learning Representative Scott Schaffer, Training & Performance Representative (*Executive Committee) Unable to Attend: Mary Herring, Teacher Education Representative Karen Kaminski, Management Representative Chwee Beng Lee, School Media & Technology Representative Visitors: Kathy Saville, ect Foundation, Awards Chair Addie Kinsinger, Membership Chair, Strategic Task Force Lois Wilkins, Leadership Committee Chair (Secretary-Treasurer Elect) I. Approval of Agenda – 6/15/05 – Al Januszewski moved approval of the agenda for the 6/15/05 AECT Board conference call. Jay Harriman seconded the motion. The motion carried. II. Approval of Minutes of the 4/20/05 meeting – Ken Harmaning Wes Miller moved approval of the minutes of the 4/20/05 Board conference call as distributed. David Winograd seconded the motion. The motion carried Action Items III. Wes Miller moved that the awards proposal be approved. David Winograd seconded the motion. The motion carried with one abstention. (The full text of the proposal is included at the end of the 6/15/05 minutes). The issue was raised about recognizing previous year’s awardees in the current annual convention. The proposal will hopefully get the information about AECT-ECT award winners to the Chair of Awards Committee and the Executive Director of AECT. IV. Suspend the publication of IPCT-J – Sharon Smaldino AECT was asked to assume electronic publication of this journal in 1998. Ward Cates moved that publication of IPCT-J gbe suspended until the publications committee has a chance to evaluate its future potential. Ken Harmaning seconded the motion. The motion carried. V. Economist offer to members – Phil Harris Charlie Reigeluth moved that the Technology Quarterly link from the Economist Journal be made available on the AECT home page. David Winograd seconded the motion. The motion carried. Reports VI. Past President – Jay Harriman A slate of candidates will be available in the Board in Orlando in July, 2005. There has been some discussion with a Puerto Rican student about the AECT affiliate in that country. VII. Orlando Conference Update – Wes Miller The IVLA has been scheduled and ICEM is also scheduled. The roundtables and poster sessions are also scheduled and about 50% of the sessions have been scheduled. The schedule as it happens is appearing in the www.aect.org/2005, the convention blog. VIII. NCATE Visit Report – Phil Harris Phil represented AECT at the NCATE meeting. He was seated between the ALA senior vice-president and the Executive Director of the National Council of the Teachers of English. ISMF may prove to be a chance to bridge to ALA and get involved with National Council. IX. ISMF – Phil Harris Otto announced that there have been almost 750 entries. The judging process will be completed by 6/18/09 with notifications starting to be sent out on 6/20/05. A large turn out is expected particularly from Georgia. There are plenty of sleeping rooms but some are a distance away from the convention center. X. Research Handbook editors and plan – Phil Harris Phil Harris has a contract for the Research Handbook 3rd Edition from Lawrence Earlbum Mike Spector, Marcy Driscoll, David Merrill, Jeroen Van Merrienboer have agreed to edit the Handbook with David Jonassen acting as the advisor. XI. Summer Workshop/ Meeting – Phil Harris 44 have registered for the summer conference. The organization will not loose money on the meeting XII. Strategic Planning Update – Addie Kinsinger There have been 334 respondents to the survey. The results are available in HTML from Addie or Rick Xaver. The co-chairs were each charged with two of the issues assigned by Jay Harriman at the Chicago Summer 2004. Some of the Task Force will be meeting early in Orlando. Trends are becoming evident: Membership involvement with networking and information sharing using blogs and beyond Desire for family connection in AECT including social issues, career opportunities The sharing of real solid rigorous research in multiple contexts Respondents to the survey want to be involved – the method and access remains an issue A preliminary report will be available in Orlando, Summer 2005. XIII. Tech Trends Proposals (Taylor and Francis – Springer) – Phil Harris Phil will compare the offers in detail. Both have offered to give an award related to the publication XIV. Adjournment Ken Harmaning moved adjournment of the conference call. Chuck Stoddard seconded the motion. The conference call was adjourned at 4:30 EDT. Awards Proposal Awards given by AECT and ECT Foundation are important ways to recognize the achievements of our members and publics. Such public recognition helps advance the reputations of both our members and AECT, while distributing such awards at the annual meeting permits the largest possible number of people to participate in celebrating the accomplishment of award recipients. In order to coordinate such recognition in a professional manner, decisions for all awards to be given out at the annual convention need to be submitted to both the Chair of the Awards Committee and the Executive Director no later than six weeks prior to the start of the annual meeting. Unfortunately, the time pressures associated with preparation for the annual meeting dictate that only those award recipients whose names are submitted by this date will receive public recognition during the annual meeting. It should be our goal to meet or exceed this deadline, assuring that the desired recognition takes place at the annual meeting and recognizing that when this does not occur, we have lost a valuable opportunity for both the individual and the organization |