SEALL Business Meeting
College of Charleston
March 7, 1998
Minutes
Marc Mallet opened the meeting with a welcome and a prepared agenda.
All present introduced themselves. Those present included, among others:
Habiba Deming, Larry Clement, Elizabeth Joiner, Barbara Nelson, Jackie
Tanner, Pat Pecoy, Christiane Head, Anna Boller, Dominique Bennett, Georgia
Schau. Institutions represented included William Woods University (MO),
The Bolles School (FL), University of South Carolina, The College of Charleston,
The Lovett School (GA), Furman University (SC), The Westminster Schools
(GA), Colby College (ME).
Marc told how the group had started, about a year ago at a technology
workshop held at The Lovett School in Atlanta, where the featured speaker
was IALL president, Leann Stone. The first business meeting was held last
August at the IALL/FLEAT III Conference in Vancouver, and the first newsletter
followed.
The goals of the meeting were to: 1) Define the mission of SEALL and
2) Define the role of the president and officers. The descriptions were
then elaborated, with the help of notes from page 2 of the agenda. One
problem has been that the Webmaster is at another school. Another problem
has been that the treasurer and the account have been at two different
institutions. It was agreed that Georgia Schlau at the College of Charleston,
where the SEALL account resides, would also act as treasurer.
The mission of the organization will include networking, sponsoring
conferences, developing K-12 participation. One suggestion was to publicize
the existence of SEALL more widely. Pat Pecoy suggested that we serve as
liaison between colleges and K-12, to help our colleagues learn what to
do with technology. Marc agrees, saying that he gets about two calls a
week asking how to use labs and how to train teachers to use labs. One
idea was to offer summer workshops for teachers. Pat said she was told
that high school teachers wouldn't come if called "workshops," hence the
need for courses to be offered for credit. Marc noted that private schools
get SACS credit for hours spent in training, as opposed to formal credit,
while public school teachers do, in fact, need approved SDU's (staff development
units) that have been pre-approved by the state's certification office.
Should we, then, try to sponsor a summer institute?
Marc then asked for input on the attached job descriptions, and asked
for volunteers to help in any of these areas, especially the newsletter.
A motion was made that SEALL meet every other year, when IALL doesn't meet.
On those years, when IALL does meet, SEALL could sponsor one or two sessions
at SCOLT.
The meeting was adjourned, after recapping the intentions to follow
up on the ideas for a summer institute, and to contact SCOLT re: sponsoring
sessions at that conference.
Respectfully submitted,
Anna Boller
Conference Coordinator / Scribe
