Conference call 11/2/00
Participants: Karen Dilka, Michelle Hoversten, Harold Johnson
Absent: Donna Mertens (conference in Hawaii)
Karen reports that they have been communicating with her but not to the group as a whole. It was noted that everyone should be kept informed of the project both for statistical and evaluation purposes but to also possibly generate ideas. Karen will begin utilizing the listserv and encourage the member organizations to do so also.
Updates: Karen has received many, many potential cyber mentors from CAID. NAD has published an article in their newsletter “The Endeavor”; we are not yet on their web site. A CEASD conference will be held April 2001; Karen and Harold to attend.
Harold proposed the he and Karen travel to D.C. to meet with Donna Sorkin and re-enthuse AGBell.
Discussed draft member organization monthly report; small changes were recommended. Karen will distribute to the organizations for input to be followed by a request that the revised reports be completed and submitted directly to Michelle.
Discussed Project Director monthly report – to be developed.
Monthly reports are helpful to document cost share on the grant. Also lets us capture the work we do towards the grant’s goals and activities.
Harold shared idea for having students register on our site and the collection of data. Registration is to be required of all preservice teachers participating in a faculty Choice. We will ask them what Choice(s) they are participating with and with whom. By the end of the time they are working with people on Choices we would know the name, address and phone number of people in the field. We will send an e-mail thanking them and asking them to state approximately how many days they put into the project (info to be used for cost share calculations) and give them an opportunity to give feedback on the process and their experience.
We would like to put together a listserv of preservice teachers. As they graduate we can move them to another appropriate listserv.
SITE 2001 (Orlando) – no word yet on acceptance of our paper submitted.
Harold will contact the KSU Foundation Office employee specializing in dealing with significant donors ($1 million+). He will meet with this employee to get ideas, leads, etc. for contacting and pursuing continuation monies for our project.
Debbie Haydon to develop a packet of information that Leadership Team members can have on hand and can be provided to interested persons, corporations, etc.
Harold reported further on his meeting (previous week) with Pat Stone. Pat is enthused and will likely be submitting Choice proposals. He knows three to four retired faculty who, as a team, might be willing to review, discuss, etc. questions posed by persons throughout the country. We could have a speakers bureau section on our website thru which people can tap into experts; we don’t want to forget or ignore retired people. They could participate by working from home! Additionally, Harold has suggested that once they (Pat’s programs) develop their courses for their four to six students that they then share them with us through out website (based on concept “develop for a few and share with many”).
Karen requests a listserv for CED Board Members (to be entitled CED-Board). Karen will provide Michelle with the appropriate names and e-mail addresses.
Michelle reports that she has been learning Excel in depth and is set to begin development of a spreadsheet to monitor our project’s monies, Choices, and cost sharing.
Harold requests that Debbie Haydon cc Michelle on her project related e-mails for Project Office files and possible inclusion in summaries and weekly updates.
Next conference call: Thursday, 11/9/00, 12:30 pm