Meeting Minutes
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001
Prepared By: Sunghye Pak, Paula Richardson
Attendees:
Paula Richardson, Bethany Siglin,
Tianna Feaster, Sunghye Pak, Zeena Altalib,
Dick Boyden, Brenda
Bannan-Ritland, Three T/TAC facilitators: Amie Fulcher, Carmen
Rioux-Bailey, Kay Klein
Absentees: Courtney Beavers
Time & Location: Commerce Lab 1, room 100 at 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Notes:
Amie, Carmen, and Kay were glad to meet the design project team to
discuss creating
an interactive T/TAC Online Community. The followings are
the main issues we discussed.
The contents that T/TAC Online
could be covered:
·
The content of the T/TAC Online will be focused on
various topics related to special education
eventually, however, T/TAC
project team were decided to start the content related to AT first.
The
challenge is how to represent and categorize the subtopics online.
·
The content might be organized by categories such as
behavioral problems or aggression,
transition, communication, curriculum
(reading, writing, organization study strategies/skills,
science and social studies, math). TTAC reps stated that we want to
communicate strategies
online for the service providers.
·
The content should cover Information and resources for
special education teachers
Information
(Hot Topics):
· Carmen stated that LD Online.com provides a wealth of research-based information.
Creating a
discussion section:
·
Creating a discussion section among T/TAC facilitators
and also between T/TAC facilitators
and special education teachers in T/TAC
Online Community was discussed.
(ex) bulletin board
(asynchronous discussion group)
·
However, if there is a specific or personal issue, T/TAC
facilitators wanted to talk about the issue
via phone and not online.
·
There is a listServe based out of Virginia Tech with 250
subscribers. The subscribers
include
teachers and TTAC. This communication mechanism might be an
effective model for the website.
·
Amie stressed that the content should be descriptive and
prescriptive, for example, what is
Boardmaker and how to use it.
·
Receive permission to participate and reserve a table
for a TTAC sponsored workshop about ‘mild disability’,
which meets March 24th, 2001. A suggestion was to generate a survey
for special education teachers to get
their opinion. 200 teachers are expected to attend the
workshop. Design Team should contact Shannon for
permission to
participate.
·
Contacting Sharon Siler and Irene Walker (Virginia
Institute for Positive Behavioral Support) to get more
information and
resources.
·
Amie, Carmen, Kay and Region 4 personnel will
collaborate to identify a categorical structure for content.
One rep will meet with design team in
approximately 2 or 3 weeks.