TAG+Proposal+Document+(Feb+09)

**Idea: CE Technology Action Group**

 * The Technology Action Group (TAG) would be a standing CE committee with faculty, staff, and student members whose charge might include the following:**


 * Provide technology-related input to inform CE strategic planning and budget processes
 * Serve as a wide-ranging CE technology “users group” for everything technological in CE – from office productively software to LiveText to implementation of telephone message tree tools, etc
 * Serve as a “think tank” to explore ways to deploy old and new technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in CE
 * Serve as a “circle of friends” who will help grow the vision and guide the development of CE’s web presence
 * Plan and produce “tech teach-ins” – i.e., presentations, workshops, colloquia, etc related to the use of technology in CE


 * Composition: Core group w/ “y’all come” user-generated structure**


 * Small core group designated by Dean
 * One or more faculty members from each CE division
 * One or more professional staff members
 * One or more civil service staff members
 * One or more students
 * One or more members of the professional education unit from CAS and/or CHHS
 * We can anticipate that many TAG meetings and activities would be of interest to some who are not core members. Membership should be scalable and open to all of CE and the PEU. Perhaps TAG can take as its participation model the Web 2.0 characteristics of
 * User-generated content
 * Network as platform
 * Architecture of participation
 * User-friendly interface (rich user experience)
 * Scalability
 * Collaboration
 * Collective intelligence

And __no CUEs__ for participation!

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