Time for the next meeting! Will be sending this via email as well. See you next week!
Agenda
- Recap of Strategic Plan
- Tips and snippets: different approach?
- Workshop
- Webinars
- Recap of past
- Future possibilities
- Annual conference
- Panel discussion(s)
Meeting Notes
Thanks for the good meeting, all. Absent members, you can get yourself caught up using the notes below. Pay particular attention to any Action Items at the bottom.
Attendance
Burt McAlpine
Britney West
Hunter Ray
Josh Carlson
Daniel Bartlett
Discussion
GIS Tips, Tricks, and How-Tos
Valid question: what value does ILGISA stand to bring to its members through this? There are already so many resources out there. Creating new content is high-effort but may not be a valuable activity.
Even supposing we did make our own content, there remains the matter of the various platforms and their algorithms. Plenty of good content just dies in obscurity. Add AI slop on top, and introducing more noise into the mix just doesn’t seem worthwhile.
Curation as Alternative
In the old days of the internet, we had things like “blogrolls” and MySpace recs. Because the internet is vast and noisy, it can be helpful to get recommendations from other humans you already know.
We’ll start there. A topic will be made, and committee members (and anyone else) can chime in with resources that they use in their work. A good place to put links to blogs, whole sites, etc., or even just web tools.
Interesting one-offs like articles and the like could go into The Commons > Show & Tell .
Courses
The MOOC. What’s it’s status? I asked. We’ll see.
Nobody wants to take on the herculean task of building out a whole MOOC. Nor should they; again, what is the value ILGISA and its members get back from that immense effort? We want to apply our efforts effectively and wisely.
Other Paths
Is there a way to create tiny courses / modules? Something that awards a little “digital badge” to trigger a little dopamine hit? Something to investigate. Could the forum do this somehow? We’ve got the badges and logins. Maybe there’s a plugin!
Accessibility
- Dan will reach out next week
- Would they want to host a webinar? Present at annual?
- Might come to PD committee in June to talk with us
Virtual Workshop
- 2nd half of August, first half September, maybe 2-3 consecutive Wednesdays
- Kick off with Burt, IDE setup
- Need other dev-relevant stuff
- Arcade, probably
- Python, definitely
- SQL
Annual
- Mid Career Panel: same as last time, but new faces
- PD Committee Panel
- committee members
- ask folks: what do you want, what barriers do you face
- live discussion
Action Items
- @jcarlson : create a “personal recommendations” topic
- @prof-dev : share links to the resources they use in their work on the topic, once created
- @daniel.bartlett : reach out about accessibility folks coming to next month’s PD committee
- @jcarlson : create a topic for the virtual workshop series to plan / coordinate
- @jcarlson : submit panel discussions to Annual call for content
- @prof-dev : keep your eyes open for possible workshops, panel members, webinars!