Faculty Committees December 13, 2010

Group 1 -- Liberal Arts  (select one or two)

Mike Roy (Middlebury) -- FCC preference

Randy Stiles (Colorado College Library/IT director)

Joel Cooper (Carlton College IT director)

Group 2 -- Innovation (select one)

Joanne Kossuth (Olin)

Gary Brown (Wash. State Uni. -- director of center for teaching and learning with tech)

?? (UV - digital humanities center director)

Group 3 --Broader Perspective (select one)

Stephen Quatrano (Cisco)

Bill Fitzgerald (former IT director, currently web developer)

Group 4 -- Bigger Schools (select one)

Betty Landon (Princeton) -- concern about transfer of large institution culture to Amherst

Dartmouth/Columbia?

Close video analysis tool for Film and Media studies courses

Alternative to SPSS --> web-based interface to R

Opening access to course e-reserves during add/drop.

• request access without data input into datatel
• instructor approval required for students to access course materials during add/drop

What to do with faculty pages when faculty are no longer associated with the College.

Electronic course packs --> laptops in the classroom

ATS projects for coming year

• Virtual Computing Lab project
• Replacement for Wimba
• Presentation tool -- https://wsgdev3.amherst.edu/dru6-mg/
• iLogger -- http://www.ats.amherst.edu/ilogger/scott/map/
• Augmented Reality Gaming
• Cityscapes mapping application (Tokyo and Paris)
• Big Blue Button --> webconferencing tool in CMS
• Lecture capture
• R workshops for faculty
• SimQuabbin project (pending Dept. of Ed. proposal)
• Cathedral Builder 2.0
• NEH proposal --> Semantic search and visual browsing interface