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Community Services Standing Committee


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I am pleased to announce that this meeting will focus on specific tasks that will help to enable the launch of the middle school portal and increase the outreach efforts of projects.

These tasks will also allow the CSSC to work closely with members of the Content standing committee and K-12 Taskforce. But, the tasks do cut across many other communities, too, especially in the area of Teacher Education.

Those tasks are:
  • Helping with collection development, including identifying potential editorial groups (professional societies, agencies, etc) with whom we can partner to recommend new (non-NSDL funded) collections.
  • Creating selection criteria for choosing the pilot middle schools with whom we can work to develop a middle school portal, and recommending schools that meet that criteria.
  • Researching and reporting on the critical needs in the area of teacher preparation.
  • Helping to create profiles and gain demographic info about middle schools and teachers.
  • Helping to create a cadre of ambassadors who will act as
clearinghouses of information about efforts to reach various communities

The goal of this meeting is to take steps toward generating real
progress on these issues. If you are interested in working on or taking the lead on coordinating work in any of these areas, please attend!

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Notes - Community Services Standing Committee


Agenda

I. Overview of committee in the past

II. New business
    • A few words from our friends at MathForum
    • Working toward a MS emphasis
      • What process should we use to make this MS thing happen? What are the elements? Workflow, timeline, management
      • Inventory of MS projects and projects that could have MS application
      • Who are MS users? What are the characteristics of teachers and/or students? (e.g., PD level, educational psychological)
      • Inventory of related NSF initiatives that might provide these services
      • What should the pilot testers look like?

III. Products
    • Paper about audience
      • Why is middle school important?
    • Inventory of MS projects
    • Possible models of participatory involvement



Notes from October Meeting

In Attendance

  • Quentin Briggs
  • Carollee Barber
  • Joanne Silverstein
  • Susan Van Gundy
  • Bryan Aivazian
  • Raj Pandya
  • Bruce Caron
  • Arthur Clifford
  • Rob Stephenson
  • Gene Klotz
  • Jeanne Narum

Discussion

NSDL Community Services: services that help the NSDL community do its work better

About Middle School: Get them to long for the sea

The Middle School Portal-Context

  • The next year we are here to serve MS, but also set up mechanisms to share information and then build a way to bring in other
  • People felt that MS is excluding them; Get that message across that were building capacity and bringing to attention this is something thats needed
  • Show component parts that make up projects each of those components series of users just to get to the middle schoolshown that its parts can be taken
  • The next year we are here to serve MS, but also set up mechanisms to share information and then build a way to bring in other projects
  • MS project these are the skills and services needed this is communicated to the CI, they choose
  • MS is a reactive situation (as perceived) set up mechanisms, get the word out; were in the position to set up a process to being collecting information about future using communities
  • Focus, but not at expense of variety

The Middle School Portal-Users

  • Check the change literature to set expectations about implementation of MS portal taking hold.
  • Thoroughly review more info about what is going in MS data and literature.
  • Become a zealot in talking about it
  • Define requirements for a project plan: administrators, teachers, students, parents: How engaged are they in changing circumstances to enable student learning? Buy-in to adoption may mean changing culture
  • What can we do to involve users users working with stuff = serious assessment


The Middle School Portal-Content

  • People need to find whats been evaluated
  • Get users to develop new materials can give them an incentive
  • **Whats new is not what theyre looking for; whats good is what theyre looking for (handouts, posters, multilingual materials)**
  • Create a series of exemplars; Rich scenarios about MS NSDL Day in the Life of a MS teacher


The Middle School Portal-Process

  • Break the portal down in manageable chunks
  • Kids, teachers, administrators, preservice teachers, parents: Checklist of audiences
  • Get teachers involved
  • GK12 fellows program get 30K to work in MS Is there a way to work with the mentors of the GK-12 fellows to identify link those people to using NSDL materials
  • Quentin: Reach out to professional organizations
  • DLESE model compelling questions that are important to people
  • Having a workshop w/panels talking about the way they work with users, then making use of participants get together to share the answers


What about the other users?

  • Task of the CSSC could be to develop a communications plan that ensures that activities that are going on
  • The role could be making sure that theres an appropriate communication plan, but we provide requirements to build community (e.g, ESIP competitive projects: idea for work is put out to the community, people who are interested react, and then admin makes a move
  • Add our committees request that the PC get back on track to get a robust participatory process
  • Formalize mentoring between old projects and new? (AskNSDL that is created by CI has topics)
  • **Build matrix and timeline of involving the user community**
  • Consider how we might be a little more focused on different audiences (e.g., CF K-12 check box)
  • How can the standing committees be involved in future planning for these emphases? Early stage of a social process building Implications and values to be raised
  • What type of organizational structures would be the best way for us to make these decisions
  • As a community service, do we have a role to help people to come up with proposals; if youre not funded by NSDL
  • Hounding peoplehow would you like to contribute your time? Email hound? Set aside time on a regular basis to discuss how to move forwardmake it on your calendar
  • Work on services for the users is still pretty big
  • Rob Stephenson: How is the portal serving everyone
  • Arthur: Push technologies how can the community services site in particular last 5 threads
  • How effective is what happened here in resulting in more participatory structure for the DL?


Next steps

  • Bruce Caron/Gerry Hanley--Take idea to PC project plan for communication; collect information about future groups
  • Raj Pandyamatrix for user groups (e.g., administrators, teachers, students, parents); How can the community services committee help to determine what the next emphasis might be?
  • Bryan/Marcia (and Nancy Lane)rationale piece; lay out short position statement and paper; Contextualize the paper as above; Exemplars, things for the audience (maybe for the future)
  • Quentin/Carollee-Selection criteria for pilot schools
  • Arthur-What kinds of technologies (middleware?) might be good foci here? Also leads to a selection criteria for schools
  • Susan VanGundy-Make connection with GK12 fellows


Notes from May Meeting
Location: Houston Hilton Plaza Hotel,
conference room Southgate A
Date and Time: May 30, 2003 11:00am - 12:00 pm

Agenda:
1.Acquainting and acquainting
Ted Hodapp, NSF
Bruce Caron
Brandon Muramatsu
Bruce
Marcia

2. Policy committee review
  • more work
  • more reporting
Services task force-expectation that your service will live on
How do services fit into the big NSDL picture
What are the services already in libraries
Inventory of services (survey of the services)
Survey what happens to Services projects after they are completed


3.Subcommittee reports and other updates

4. A special guest, Francis Molina, fills us in

5. Communities of Practice NSDL feature
http://cops.comm.nsdlib.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Communities_of_Practice
sharing and documenting our experiences and knowledge in the area of building functional communities.
Email list, workspace


COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.

From Cultivating Communities of Practice, Wenger, McDermott?, Snyder


COPS CALLS

We will be starting a series of monthly calls where our NSDL colleagues will present their experiences and lessons learned in building effective communities. Each will be followed by open discussion period. Schedule coming soon. Please contact Susan Jesuroga if you would like to make a presentation about your community experience.
Organizational culture
Letting people know what communities of practiceEffective Community Building

5. Review of AP meeting topics and request for speakers (slides)

6. Collab Finder latest

7. Agenda setting for the coming year
a. Needed subcommittees
b. Task forces
c. Nonsubcommittee activities (master calendar)
d. Publications

8. Agenda items suggested by participants

Nuggets to describe best things that are happening in each program
Have knowledge of things that are good fodder for NSF
Who is the NSDL really serving; are we serving the people we set out to serve
Exemplary
What is the constituency
How is the NSDL internally affecting other programs
CCLi projects meeting next Spring


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