Meeting 6 July 2009

Notes

Present:

  • Simon Booth (SiB)
  • Stephen Bruce [StB]
  • Joan Fisher
  • Raymond Moir [RM]
  • Susi Peacock (SP)
  • Stephen Vickers (SV)

1. Apologies

Apologies were received from Steve Boulton and Theresa Duffy.

2. Next event: host and date

Agreed to aim for November/December for the next face-to-face event and to make contact with Abertay who expressed interest in hosting an event on the feedback form at our last event. Possible inclusions in the event are a breakout group session and a demonstration from Atlantic Link.

Actions:

  1. Pass on name of contact at Abertay to Simon Booth [SV]
  2. Contact Abertay re hosting and initiate planning of date and theme [SiB]

3. Trialling on-line events

Agreed to experiment with short (1 hour) on-line events to see the interest. These could be advertised to other BUGs and other user groups according to the topic. Wimba have offered us a room to use for these events. Proposal to use a demonstration of Pronto as a first example around early October. This would fit well with the plans to support User Group membership lists within the Pronto Client with Scot-BUG being used as the initial trial.

Actions:

  1. Liaise with Wimba about creating and branding a room for our meetings [SV]
  2. Discuss with Wimba about offering an on-line presentation on Pronto [SV]

4. Joint events with other groups

Agreed this was a good idea and to focus on a face-to-face event rather than on-line (or both). Main other target group to link up with is the Scottish Moodle Group but need to enquire about others. Proposed to look at dates around March/April 2010.

Actions:

  1. Contact RSC about what groups to involve and now best to do so [SV]
  2. Arrange an initial joint planning meeting to agree a date, location, theme and organising group[SV]

5. Feeding back to Blackboard on Learn 9 upgrade

Agreed to forward the feedback which arose from the “Roundtable” session at the last event (concerning the issues relating to upgrading to Learn 9) to Blackboard.

Actions:

  1. Complete posting of summaries to the website [SP]
  2. Circulate an email to the Scot-BUG mailing list inviting comments by 31 July[RM]
  3. Draft submission to Blackboard for agreement by Committee [SV]

6. Date of next meeting

Next meeting to be organised around late September, unless something earlier would be useful for planning the next event (SiB to request a meeting if this is the case).

Action:

  1. Organise date for next meeting [SV]