Meeting+Agenda



**Meeting Agenda**
On the home page of this wiki I talked about technology integration in public schools. Even though higher education is not held to the same standard we face many of the same issues when it comes to integrating technology. We have the first few weeks of our semester under our belt now and it is time to open up the computer labs for our students. As you know, we purchased new equipment for some of our labs this semester so that we could expose out students to a virtual environment. It is time to start putting things in motion to fulfill that goal.

The first meeting of our online community will be geared toward setting agenda that allows us to plan, implement, and test the virtual drives for each of the CNTT computer labs. As we work on this agenda we need to answer the following questions:
 * What is the purpose of using virtualization in our program?
 * At the last two CNTT Advisory board meetings we have discussed how industry is moving more and more to virtualization and that our graduates need to be exposed to as much of the technology as possible so the they may be better prepared for employment. To meet this goal, it was decided that we should devote a large portion of our budget to purchasing the necessary equipment to implement virtualization in the Fall of 2009. The purpose of this online community is to further support this endeavor. We will use this wiki to keep each other up-to-date on the progress of the implementation, document any issues we are having, and plan for the future.
 * What is the objective for teaching and integrating this technology?
 * As mentioned above, our objective is to introduce our students to this technology in order to prepare them for employment after graduation.
 * At what course level should we first introduce virtualization?
 * Our current plan is that we should start in the first semester classes so that the students have a much time with virtualization as possible.
 * Who should facilitate the meeting?
 * Lauri Arnold will facilitate
 * Who are our community members?
 * Lauri Arnold, Tom Pinson, Monica, Kandi
 * What activities should we perform to assist in meeting our goal of integrating virtualization in the CNTT program?
 * Activity: Establish timeline
 * Purpose: The steps will allow the project to be monitored to ensure that deadlines are met.
 * Description: Review the entire project and determine the milestones that must be accomplished along the way. Anything that requires approval or cooperation from another department must be determined early in the process.
 * Steps: The steps will be used to create the timeline for the project.
 * Deadline for comments: September 20 at 5:00pm
 * Activity: Ensure project oversight
 * Purpose: Oversight is necessary to ensure the project moves toward the desired end result.
 * Description: Assign individuals to either perform or supervise the various steps in the timeline. We should divide the tasks so that no one person is overwhelmed and so that there is a built-in support group.
 * Steps: Review the timeline, discuss the timeframe to complete the task, decide who will take responsibility
 * Deadline for comments: September 18 at 5:00p


 * Activity: Review the outcome
 * Purpose: Evaluation of the implementation to determine if the project progressed as expected.
 * Description: Each person involved with the project will be asked to post a brief description of what they were responsible for, how they carried out their task, and if changes had to be made to their plan in order to complete their task.
 * Steps: Create a wiki page called Project Review, ensure each member of the project knows how to post to the wiki, post individual experiences
 * Deadline for postings: September 20 at 5:00pm
 * Deadline for comments: October 2 at 5:00pm

The ultimate goal of this project is to improve technology use and integration in the CNTT program and on the LIT campus.

MonicaZone-- Great Agenda! I know very little about Virtual Lab, but am excited to learn as I follow you through this process. What kind of prerequisites will there be to enroll in this class. Do they need much prior technology instruction?

Lauri - We will virtualize all of our labs so the only prerequisites that will exist are the ones that apply to the courses themselves. Our plan is to introduce this in our first semester classes and continue using the technology throughout the degree plan so that by the time a student graduates they are well versed in how virtualization can benefit them.

Kandi - I think this is great. Virtualization is a wonderful tool. We are going to virtualize 3 of our servers over the next 2-3 months. We are working through a major server vendor to get all of the equipment in place and then we will be ready to build the virtual images. We did a test on one of our other servers about two weeks ago that proved we could get our file server back online and running within an hour versus the 2 days that it used to take us. Amazing stuff! Let me know when you have your first graduate that is trained in this...I will find a spot.