Meeting Participants:

Ellen Ritter
Kevin Hayes
Gloria Mosby
Don Hamilton
Nina Boston
Tom Knecht
Larry Lipke
Dwayne Hunter

Report on PLC Committee meeting: Gloria Mosby and Kevin Hayes.

• CIT recommended, to the PLC, that a statement be accepted relating to the sharing of materials across state lines. Administrators wanted clarification about guidelines to be used for EFNEP News curricula. Wording for the recommendation was modified and accepted.
• Discussed program agenda for meeting in August. "e-Extension" will be the primary focus of this year's meeting. The overall agenda will similar in structure to previous meetings. Each committee will be asked to appoint a member to attend the breakout sessions held on Tuesday. These breakout sessions will address the following items as they relate to e-Extension: inventory and pilot, taxonomy, information technology strategies, and learning strategies. Tentatively, the general session speaker on Monday (after lunch) will be Wendell Bailey, Chief Technologists with NBC. Also, Beverly Washington has tentatively been scheduled to discuss customer service in Extension. Program committees will meet Tuesday afternoon. Time will be set aside on Tuesday to allow for joint committee meetings and allow for the discussion of issues where there are mutual interests. Committee meetings will continue through Wednesday, noon. The agenda may provide for an opportunity to allow committees to report back to the group in a general session before the meeting is adjourned on Wednesday.
• The C/IT committee has been asked to facilitate the use of technology in exhibits. This would allow for the use of high speed Internet access in demonstrations of state/multi-state activities. The next PLC conference call is scheduled for March 8. C/IT needs to provide information back to the PLC Committee about resources and issues to be addressed. Ellen, Gloria, and Kevin will poll C/IT committee about their needs.

Report from Don Hamilton. Don recently attended a task force meeting chaired by Ron Brown. Approximately 25 participants, representing ANR, C/IT, and Administration, attended the meeting. The task force is being titled: "Cooperative Extension Cirruculum Project". The purpose of the meeting was to plan and discuss a proposal which has, as its goal, the creation of a "Learning Management System" (LMS). Characteristics of the project include:

• Database of learning objects. "Learning objects" include digital images, Powerpoint presentations, and fact sheet publications. "Learning modules" can be viewed as pieces of information put together in such a way that learning is accomplished.
• Tracking, administration. Provide for the ability to track participants and their level of use.
• Tool set. The ability to build curriculum using the different learning modules.

This initial meeting was to explain the project, define characteristics of the LMS, outline the learning modules and objects, evaluate the necessary taxonomy, and define its scope of use. Four subgroups were developed:

• Cirruculum/Taxonomy: chaired by Joan Duskey
• Inventory and demonstration: chaired by Judith Jones
• Descriptions/standards: chaired by Mitch Owen
• Information Technology standards: chaired by Don Hamilton

C/IT endorses this effort and plans to incorporate the "Media Assets" project into this proposal. It is expected that a proposal would be presented at the PLC meeting in August in an effort to provide information about the project and discuss funding opportunities.

Updates on "Cooperative Workshops" by Nina Boston. The lack of high-speed connectivity has been a constraint in providing a multi-way video conference. Nina has distributed, via the C/IT listserv, a PDF guideline related to standards and ADA compliant web-based information dissemination.

Update of C/IT committee activities by Ellen Ritter. No responses have been received related to a previous question, sent to all C/IT members, requesting agenda items for the meeting in August. Possible agenda items include updates and accomplishments from last year by committee members, the Learning Management System project, intellectual property, telecommunications and wireless technologies for high speed Internet access, and ADEC. C/IT might have the opportunity to visit with Dave King to talk about e-Extension, ADEC, and involvement in ADEC by cooperating institutions.