Meeting began with the introduction of everyone present. Of special note was that Jay Malstrom, the TiME committee board liaison for the last two years, is ending his term as the Southwest Vice President and will be replaced by Mary Robison the new Southwest Vice president. The committee thanks Jay for his support over the last two years.

The list of persons responsible for the various activities of the TiME committee was reviewed and a replacement for Brian Smith as the MATHEDCC discussion list manager was needed. Wayne Mackey volunteered to fill this position.

The current list of responsibilities and the responsible individuals is as follows:

Committee responsibilities

• Chair: Jerry Kissick
• Newsletter : Renae Weber
• MATHEDCC discussion list: Wayne Mackey
• TiME Committee discussion list: Brian Smith
• TiME Committee web page: Phil Thurber
• TiME Liaison to Distance Learning Committee: Andrew Perry

Some discussion occurred concerning the distance learning committee and its relation to the TiME committee. Several members of TiME will be attending their meetings and the committee representative to the Distance Learning committee Andrew Perry will report at our second meeting about the activities which will affect the TiME committee.

The current Goals and Objectives of the TiME committee were reviewed and there was agreement that they are still current and that we should request that the board approve them for the next 2 years. Further discussion as to how to do this was postponed until the second meeting of the committee.

It is of interest to note that the Goals and Objectives were displayed from the TiME web page via portable computer and a computer projection system. For future meetings the committee should request to meet in a room equipped with a computer projector.

The MATHEDCC discussion list was talked about with the major topic being the attachment of viruses to several messages over the last few weeks. E-mail discussions with Richard Tchen at the MathForum have indicated that the problem has come from messages posted to the list by non-members. As an immediate fix, the list has been changed so that only members can post to the list. Since anyone can join the list, this may or may not help. The situation will be monitored by Wayne Mackey our new list coordinator. A message will be sent to the list advising what has happened and recommending that everyone use a good virus program on their computers.

The committee received a request from the AMATYC board to consider proposing a session for the Phoenix conference in 2002 dealing with high school use of technology. Considerable discussion followed as to what form this session would take with possibilities ranging from a single presenter from the local area to a panel discussion with a variety of viewpoints being expressed. It was agreed that everyone would consider the possibilities between the committee meetings and return to our second meeting with refined ideas. The inclusion of someone with both current high school and two-year college experience had a lot of support.

Darrell Abney had requested that the TiME committee discuss the possibility of creating a list of math topics needed by Information Technology students. After a short discussion, it was decided that this would be a better task for the Technical Mathematics Committee and Darrell agreed to pursue it with that committee.

Another request from the AMATYC Board was that the committee address establishing an AMATYC position which recommends that part-time faculty receive training in the use of technology. We reviewed the current position paper on Instructional Uses of Technology and there was good consensus that the word faculty in the document was intended to include both full-time and part-time faculty, however to avoid any misinterpretation of the intent, the document should be revised to specifically address part-time faculty. It was agreed to continue this discussion during our second meeting.

Introductions were made and then the first topic discussed was the proposed session to be sponsored by the committee for the 2002 Phoenix conference. Considerable discussions had been held between the committee meetings and it was decided during this meeting that the best approach was to hold a panel discussion involving knowledgeable individuals from various parts of the country so that multiple points of view could be presented. Anne Dudley, the Phoenix local coordinator, said she could find a local person who was very knowledgeable about what was happening both in the high schools and in the local two year institutions. Wayne Mackey indicated that he could find a similar person from Arkansas and that his institution could probably fund the person to come to the conference. Jerry Kissick found that Emily Woods, currently the WAMATYC affiliate president was a former high school teacher and is returning to high school teaching in Missouri during the next year and is very willing to be a part of this panel discussion. It was further felt that someone who could speak for NCTM would be a good person to add to the panel and the committee Board liaison, Mary Robison, was asked to use the Board contacts to arrange for someone to join the panel.

In order for this session to be effective, it was suggested that the length of the session be between one and a half and two hours. The details will be addressed as the proposal is put together. It was also agreed that the panel should be 4 or 5 persons plus a moderator.

Both Wayne Mackey and Darrell Abney agreed to use their previous experience in developing proposals for AMATYC presentations to help with the proposal which is due by February 15, 2002. David Graser agreed to take on the responsibility of coordinating the development of the proposal.

Further discussions were held regarding what else of value could be done with this session and it was agreed that the committee members should all attempt to learn what the official positions of their state boards of education are on the use of technology and that we can create a document which can be put on the TiME web page listing URLs and pertinent information which was learned. Agnes Azzolino agreed to develop a form and to mail it to the list for everyone to fill out and return to her. She will then develop the list for the web page. Individuals responsible for each state still need to be identified and that will be accomplished via e-mail on the TiME committee list.

It was also suggested that we see what information can be obtained from the Department of Education web sites. A volunteer for that will also sought.

At this point the committee was joined by president elect Phil Mahler a valued member of the TiME committee.

The discussion returned to the topic from the previous day dealing with establishing that AMATYC supports the proper training of part-time faculty in the use of technology. In order to emphasize that the word faculty in the current position paper includes all faculty and instructional support staff, the recommendation was that the word faculty, wherever it occurs in the position paper, be replaced by

full-time faculty, part-time faculty and instructional support staff

Both Mary Robison and Phil Mahler agreed that this should be considered a minor change to the position paper since it is a clarification of the original intent of the position paper. There will be an e-mail discussion of this change with a draft of the revised position paper prior to the Spring Board meeting for which a motion to make the minor change will be put forth.

A further discussion of the Goals and Objectives of the TiME committee was held and Jerry Kissick will send an e-mail to Phil Mahler asking that the currently approved Goals and Objectives be considered to be current for the next two years.

In recognition of his support to the TiME committee and his pending accession to the presidency of AMATYC, Jerry presented Phil Mahler with a personalized "Phil" chocolate chip cookie. See the Toronto pictures on the committee web page for pictures of this and of the meetings.

Andrew Perry then presented his report as liaison to the Distance Learning committee.

A draft position paper was presented to the membership during an open forum on Friday evening. There was considerable discussion about the draft and suggested changes were made for the draft position paper. Since this was the intent of the forum, the process seems to have been a success. The hard work is to attempt to incorporate all the changes into a coherent position paper that will be acceptable to the membership. The various suggestions were discussed and then the committee broke into 3 groups to form sub-committees as follows:

Best Practices subcommittee – will report on what works and what does not work in distance learning.

Assessment subcommittee – will consider issue of how student accomplishments/learning should be assessed. There was informal agreement among subcommittee members that un-proctored tests are a bad idea.

Professional Development subcommittee – there is interested in writing a grant proposal for traveling workshops, possibly in conjunction with TiME and/or Faculty Development committees.

With regards to the topic of writing a proposal for a grant, between the Distance Learning committee meeting and the TiME committee meeting, discussions were held with NSF regarding the possibility of such a grant and it was found that a grant more in line with the current Technical Mathematics grant would be more favored by NSF. A proposal committee will be formed in the near future which will involve members and chairs of all three committees. Updates will be provided on both the Distance Learning and the TiME list serves.

Two very productive meetings were concluded with follow-on work to be done during the year. Thanks to all who participated and to all who will participate in the committee activities during the next year.