Professional Development Standing Committee (PDSC)

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1 Professional Development Standing Committee (PDSC) MINUTES NOVEMBER 7, :00AM-1:00PM MELBOURNE MEETING CALLED BY TYPE OF MEETING FACILITATOR NOTE TAKER GUEST ATTENDEES MINUTES APPROVAL Committee Meeting Sharon Fletcher Deborah Anderson; Provost Beverly Slaughter Meer Almeer, Belynda Cain, Frank Christopian, Sharon Fletcher, Leonard Luke, Cristina Oropeza, Patricia Rock,, Darcy Roy, Carrie Wells Agenda topics: Minutes from the September 12, 2014 presented. Minutes approved: Motioned: Carrie Wells; Seconded: Frank Christopian OLD NEWS Draft PDSC Section for TPDC Handbook A draft of PDSC Section of the TPDC Handbook was received. 7 members voted on the draft edition with 6 in favor. Currently, Professional Development Standing Committee (PDSC) is listed but does not have a section with any meaning content. The Articles in the TPDC Handbook will be reordered and renumbered so that PDSC is accurately represented.. The TPDC is editing the Handbook. The editing committee consist of the TPDC and members from other TPDC Standing Committees. Once completed, it must receive a unanimous vote from the full membership of the TPDC and be reviewed and voted on by the Administration and UFF. It is a lengthy and involved process.

2 CTE WORKSHOP APPROVAL PROCESS The first workshop requesting review by the PDSC Committee for recommendation to the TPDC was presented by Dr. Roslonowski. voting buttons were used with 8 votes to approve and 4 not voting by the deadline. Members using the voting buttons have the option of (1) voting on individual parts (MCC, Rank or Tenure); or (2) voting on all three. Members are encouraged to voice concerns and comment. The voting option is Recommend, Do not Recommend, Resubmit with Edits/Comments. The electronic signature is posing a challenge. Provost Slaughter can and will assist with this issue. Canvas will be used to house/store PDSC documents and allow discussions. As a reminder, voting buttons can only be viewed/used in Outlook on campus, otherwise responder must send their vote as a message from OutlookWeb. To Recap the Process: CTE will forward completed Workshop Proposal Form(s) to PDSC for review and recommendation. Voting options should consist of: Recommend, Do not Recommend, Resubmit with Edits/Comments. PDSC have two weeks after receipt of workshop to act. If Workshop Proposal is recommended then PDSC forwards to TPDC; if Not Recommended then PDSC returns to CTE with suggestions and/or comments. The approved workshops will count for faculty seeking Tenure, MCC or Rank. Provost Slaughter to recommend Adobe Pro installation to CTE PDSC CANVAS PAGE

3 A canvas course has been created and invites sent to all members. Members must complete the Instructor Canvas Training to have full access. A reminder that all Instructors must have completed Canvas Training by January 2015-spring semester. The Canvas page will be used for documents up for discussion prior to voting. NEW BUSINESS Per Debbie Anderson-TPDC Chair. (1) Susan Houts is no longer the PDSC liaison to TPDC. (2) An AD-HOC committee will be formed to take the lead on the submission of the Professional Enhancement Fund Guideline. (3) Evaluation of Canvas for Faculty e-portfolio The current functionally of Canvas eportfolio (a) gives faculty and students the ability to create a basic portfolio using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) type editor; (b) it allows the attachment of documents that are housed in the Canvas files library; and (c) there does seem to be a 50MB storage limit to files maintained outside of the Canvas classroom in the library. However, one item which I am still investigating is if files stored within Canvas can be accessed by external systems such as the Maintenance of Continuing Contract (MCC) System. If it does, the implementation should not be too arduous, given faculty already has access to the product. Furthermore, as it relates to sustainability and exportability, the committee needs to look at what is needed more so than Canvas driving the need. If Canvas doesn t meet the identified needs, other systems will be investigated by units for review. Further discussion of issues and concerns by members: how long can the eportfolio be saved; perhaps a secondary Sandbox will need to be created so that others cannot access portfolios; and the system should not drive the content. Statement to be presented at the UFF meeting on November 21, 2014: The PDSC began compiling a preliminary list of needs for a faculty e-portfolio system. The PDSC will evaluate Canvas e-

4 Portfolio system to see whether this existing system will meet the needs presented on this preliminary list. Recommendation: Perhaps CTE would like to set up an eportfolio page to view portfolios of faculty who would like to showcase their portfolio and/or for best practices. This recommendation will be shared in the Mentoring Committee Meeting to see if members are interested in exploring. (4) Point System Progress Summary Modeling after the process the PDSC went through to recommend points for MCC categories and their associated activities, the TPDC did the same for the Tenure categories/activities; and Rank Change Standing Committee did the same for the Rank Change categories/activities. There is a lot of overlap in the activities listed for MCC, Tenure and Rank. Therefore, the three documents were consolidated to align with the like categories and the like activities, listing all of the recommended point values for each activity from each group. At the Nov. 14 th meeting, the TPDC will look at this compilation and finalize the point value recommendations for the MCC activities. CENTER OF TEACHING EXCELLENCE (CTE) COMMENTS (1) The CTE Workshop Proposal Form which CTE will present to PDSC for Recommend, Do not Recommend, or Resubmit with Changes/Edits was submitted for review. A Vote to accept Form was motioned by Leonard Luke and seconded by Patty Rock. (2) Barbara Kennedy is requesting a brief committee descriptions to be posted on CTE s website so new faculty can have a one-stop place to see all their committee options. A brief PSDC committee description is requested for the CTE website. Not given Announcements:

5 TPDC Meetings: November 14, 2014; December 5, Contract negotiations tentatively scheduled to begin the first week of February Adjourned: 1:15pm. Next Meeting: Friday, January 30, 10:00am-1:00pm. Cocoa Campus Library