Hirby reported on his discussions with Anne Norman. At present there is no automated way to track student preferences regarding withholding directory information. Having this ability would be a good thing, but it's not high on Anne's list of necessary improvements.
Anne recommends the creation of a fourth category of directory information that would include just email addresses. This would give people more flexibility in what information is revealed about them.
We discussed Hirby's draft memo to the President's Staff. We applauded his efforts to not split infinitives.
Lowe opined that, if we're going to do an email directory, it might be best to go all the way and do a full online directory. After much back and forth, Hirby volunteered to add a paragraph to his memo mentioning the possibility of adding other category 1 directory info to the online directory.
Hirby reported on his conversation with Candice Bradley regarding a possible Science Hall/Main Hall Colloquium (or Colloquia) on issues of instructional uses of technology. Possible topics include: show and tell from people using the web in teaching, network security, bandwidth, language, gender, freedom-of- speech issues on the Internet. We agreed that *some* kind of promotion would be a good thing.
After a discussion of what the committee's role should be in all of this, Bjornerud volunteered to follow up with Candice about actually setting up a colloquium. Gilbert was assigned to contact possible speaker Jim O'Donnell, a UPenn classicist who has done extensive teaching with the Net. Gilbert will also contact Dean Harrison about using Faculty Meeting time to demonstrate instructional uses of the Net.
Lowe will put some/more documentation online and then we'll follow-up with a promotional email message to the whole faculty.
Haphazardly submitted,
Pete Gilbert