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AECT Board of Directors Board Meeting at Annual Convention, Dallas, TX October 10, 2006, 1 p.m. Central Attending: Phil Harris, Executive Director* Wes Miller, President* Ward Cates, President-Elect* Lois Wilkins, Secretary-Treasurer* Mary Herring, Teacher Education Representative* Dick Cornell, International Division Representative Bill Sugar, Multimedia Production Representative Charlie Reigeluth, Change Division Representative David Winograd, Distance Learning Representative Mary Beth Jordan, School Media and Technology Hans Wennberg, ECT Representative Rob Branch, Appointed Affiliate Organization Representative Karen Kaminski, Management Representative Ana Donaldson, Board Representative at Large B Barbara Lockee, Theory & Research Representative Scott Schaffer, Training & Performance Representative Trey Martindale, Design & Development
(*Executive Committee) Unable to attend: Sharon Smaldino, Past-President Jim Ellsworth, Board Representative at Large A David Willard, Corporate Representative Guests: Pat Miller, President-Elect Designee Jenny Johnson, International Division Representative Designee Ted Frick, Change Division Representative Designee David Wiley, Member-at-Large designee Sung Ho Kwon, president, KSET Wooyong Eom, executive director, KSET Otto Benavides, ISMF Pat Webb Charlie White Doug Mitchell Nick Eastman Marie Sheldon, Springer Publications Dion Johnson Wes Miller called the meeting to order at 1:10 p.m. I. Approval of the Agenda Trey added as a discussion item the role of practitioners at AECT convention
II. Approval of
Minutes Ward
Cates moved approval of the minutes of the September 13, 2006, meeting. Barbara Lockee seconded the
motion. The motion carried. Information items III. ISMF Report Otto Benavides reported ISMF’s financial statistics for 2006: income of $63,870, in kind $37,500, and estimated expenses of $44,438. Although fewer people are coming to this year’s festival, 100 more entries involving 4,409 students were submitted this year. ISMF is working on lining up organizations such as the California festival for the 2007 ISMF in Anaheim. Wes encouraged members of the board to go to the ISMF screenings Wednesday evening and the awards ceremony Thursday morning. Future festivals may be scheduled on the weekend before or after the AECT convention to reduce the number of school days missed by participants. IV. NCATE Milt Nielsen reported that three reviewers were trained today and a total of nine attended. Milt recommended dividing the Standards Committee into two committees, Standards and Accreditation, to meet the needs of the work load and dual focus. Milt also recommended subsidizing reviewers. Speaking about NCATE, Milt reported that AECT’s membership is expensive, representation of AECT is poor, oversight is problematical, and SPAs are having trouble. He suggested that AECT has five possible actions: separate from NCATE and continue to share our standards; separate from NCATE and offer our own certification; consolidate our NCATE activity with sister SPAs; consolidate our NCATE activity with sister SPAs and seek more beneficial pricing, or leave the relationship as it is. Phil Harris said the next meeting of the executive directors with NCATE is November 30, and he will meet again with the executive directors of the other SPAs involved in technology standards November 29. AECT pays $25,000 to belong to NCATE and another $5,000 in expenses to participate. Discussion focused on details of the standards and accreditation processes. The board recognized Milt for his work. Milt asked members to contact him with questions or comments at mn11@txstate.edu Wes recessed the meeting for a short break at 2:45 p.m. and called the meeting back to order at 3:05 p.m. Wes introduced Feng-Qi Lai, President of SICET, Doug Mitchell, who is AECT’s new corporate partner liaison, and Marie Sheldon, senior publishing editor at Springer. Doug is seeking input about working with university level teachers. He asked board members to contact him at doug@trainingbrain.com Feng-Qi Lai asked board members to contact her if they are interested discussing AECT in a two-way audio project with Chinese students. Ward will work with her. V. Springer Marie Sheldon said the relationship between AECT and Springer has matured and evolved and become very dynamic. Springer has announced integration of an online platform for searching books, journals and research. Both AECT journals are available in fully searchable electronic formats which members can access without further authentication once they have logged on to AECT. Moderated blogs may be organized in the future as forums to extend the conversation. Springer now has RSS feeds. ETR&D back volumes are digitized and online first. As articles are accepted, they’re posted on the Springer link before publication – they’re officially citable as soon as they appear. Springer is interested in publishing books and articles by AECT members and conference attendees. Hans thanked Springer for its support of ECT/AECT awards. Tech Trends will be digitized when back issues are given to Springer. Phil has a list of missing issues. Action Item VI. NCATE Mary Herring moved that we split the Standards and Accreditation Committee into two committees. Ward Cates seconded the motion. Discussion included defraying the expenses of the accreditation person, and stipulating that the chairs of each committee serve on the other. Mary suggested that the Standards Committee include presidents of several of the divisions with particular interest in this issues, and that the reviewers become accreditation committee members. The amended motion was that we split the Standards and Accreditation
Committee into two committees
that share overlapping membership at the chair level,
moved by Mary and seconded by Ward. The motion carried. VII. Dallas update Late cancellations may create room block problems. Phil reported that the total paid registration as of Friday was 637, down 200 from the past few years. The board discussed issues of location, time of year and cost. Between 20 and 25 % of attendees take advantage of workshops. They’re no cost workshops with modest materials fees. Ward asked board members to be positive and proactive while collecting feedback about the conference from attendees.
Wes asked board members to make sure they are visible, go to general sessions, first timers session, and volunteer to report on a session for the January issue of Tech Trends. The Anaheim planners have already started their work with Pat Miller, who will report at the Saturday board meeting. VIII. PDK/AECT
Project Phil reported that PDK has confirmed its interest in encouraging its Future Educators of America chapters to introduce Inside our Schools in February in San Diego. Pat Miller will be there to acknowledge AECT’s excitement at being part of the project. Students will produce videos showing what’s going on in their schools. Winning projects will be entered in ISMF. There could be 300-500 entries from this activity. A programming strand at both PDK and AECT conventions will focus on the student-produced videos. The project idea came from AECT past president Mendel Sherman. IX. Practitioner
programming Trey said we have a lot of content for students and professors but not for k-12 teachers but deferred discussion to Saturday. X. 2008 convention
site Wes reported that the executive committee is not ready to bring a recommendation for 2008 site. A non-Disney Orlando hotel, a downtown Cleveland hotel and Phoenix are under consideration. Few hotels are offering room rates in the range favored by AECT. After further investigation of other suggested cities, a decision will be made at the November board meeting. XI. Divisions Wes noted that the divisional structure works well with our organization, but half of the members do not designate a division. Since the divisions serve as a way of getting members involved and keeping them involved, the board needs to brainstorm ways it can support divisions. He charged the division representatives on the board with continuing this discussion with divisional leaders. One problem with divisions is getting them to submit two reports a year to the board. Wes posed the question, what defines viable division? Discussion included calling for accountability for the report process, mentoring the divisions, the length of divisional officer terms, creating a succinct list of expectations of the divisional leaders, and increasing expectations of the board representatives. Wes pointed out that the division handbook is intentionally designed to avoid micromanaging the divisions. Board members will participate in a leadership dinner and meeting with ECT Board members and divisional leaders after adjournment of the meeting. Wes recognized Dick Cornell, CharlieReigeluth, Karen Kaminski and David Winograd, whose terms on the board end at the close of this meeting. Wes passed the gavel and the president’s ribbon to Ward Cates. XIII. Adjournment Bill Sugar moved to adjourn. Rob Branch seconded the motion. The motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 5:19 p.m. AECT Board of Directors Board Meeting at Annual Convention, Dallas, TX October 10, 2006, 5 p.m. Central and October 14, 8 a.m. Central
Ward Cates called the meeting to order at 5:20 p.m., October 10, and entertained a motion to recess. Mary Herring moved to recess the
meeting. Mary Beth Jordan seconded the motion.
The motion carried. The meeting will continue Saturday morning, October 14, at 8 a.m. in French room |