Arts Academy Revitalization Action Team

Arts Academy Meeting Notes, October 24, 2007

October 24, 2007 at 2:20 pm | In Minutes |

Summary:

We had a short discussion about buying a domain name for the arts cluster that will point to our page on the PATHS Web site. Val will check on logistics. We did a lot of work on “what does a student look like?”.

Next week (10/31) we will meet in Val’s room (320) for a session on how to use our new weblogs. Before this session, everyone should sign up for a blog here.

Before the meeting on November 7, please look for examples of vision statements. PATHS, PPS, CBHS, others.

Agenda for 11/7:

1. What does a vision look like? Discuss PATHS and CBHS and PPS vision statements, and others. Discuss examples that people have found.
2. “small group”/”large group” discussion

Present:

• Vicky Stubbs
• Phil Divinsky
• Dave Beane
• Diane Manzi
• Lisa Hicks
• Dave Nichols
• Jane Krasnow
• Val Green

We added a discussion about the AA Web site to today’s agenda.

• page for Arts Academy
• links to other programs

Buy a domain ($15 per year) and possibly e-mails. Is that going to be a problem / ruffle feathers? (Val will ask CTS, etc.) We will pay for it from Phil’s budget.

• pictures of programs (see Phil if you need to borrow a camera)
• questionnaire from WP students to AARAT on what we want the site to be like? This will be 3-5 weeks.
• Chris Paulsoni from Vid. Tech. may be able to help Web Programming folks.
• Can we use EOS for server space? Or Ajax (W:/ drive)

We worked on “what does a student look like?”
Can we collapse some of the “post-graduation” bullets and then flesh
What are the “skill sets” for different post-graduation options

We always have to monitor “appropriateness”, but we don’t need it in our vision of a graduating student

Parking Lot: as a cluster, do we want to create/update web sites? That time might have to be a Wednesday. Or should we do them on our own, separately, with Val. Sounds like we can all get together to do the blog, but individual classes should do Web sites individually.

“small group” vs. “large group” discussion fell off this week’s agenda.

Next week’s agenda: Sign up for a weblog here. spend an hour in Val’s class learning about blogs (10/31)

Agenda for 11/7:

1. What does a vision look like? Discuss PATHS and CBHS and PPS vision statements, and others. Discuss examples that people have found.
2. “small group”/”large group” discussion