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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Ellen Hoffman/Merit
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- Minutes of the Network Training Materials Working Group (TRAINMAT)
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- Agenda
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- o Review of Updated Charter, Introduction of Chairs.
- o Review and Discuss Catalog of Training Materials.
- o Top Node-style Template for Collecting Training Information.
- o Identify Documents/Materials that Need to be Produced.
- o Liaisons with Other Groups.
- o Training Activities by Working Group Members.
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- Thirty people attended the Working Group session to discuss training.
- This is the first official meeting of the Group following a BOF at the
- last IETF.
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- Review of Updated Charter, Introduction of Chairs
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- Jill Foster described changes to the Charter based on the discussions at
- the BOF held during the previous IETF meeting. Dates for production of
- a guide to training materials were adjusted to represent current
- projections. The Group agreed to continue to use the us-wg@nnsc.nsf.net
- mailing list rather than creating a new one.
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- Jill described her role heading ISUS in Europe and its relationship to
- this Working Group, which is a joint RARE/IETF initiative. She also
- described the ITTI Network Training Materials Project which she
- supervises, and distributed copies of their latest efforts. These are
- available via Anonymous FTP from mailbase.ac.uk in the
- /pub/itti-networks directory. Jill also described a two-year project to
- train subject specialists and tailor training materials for that Group.
- Ellen Hoffman described projects discussed at the Coalition for
- Networked Information meeting in the working group on Teaching and
- Learning, noting that end user training had recently been added to this
- Group's responsibilities within CNI.
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- Review and Discuss Catalog of Training Materials
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- The ITTI Training Project cataloging effort is over, but Jill
- recommended that it become the basis for this Group's document on
- training materials. The Group will focus on developing an FYI RFC on
- training materials, and agreed to work with the User Documents Revisions
- Working Group so as not to duplicate efforts in documenting materials.
- Jodi Chu and Jerry Martin agreed to assist in this cataloging effort.
- CNIDR agreed to house a database of training materials to make it easier
- to maintain and update the listings.
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- Top Node-style Template for Collecting Training Information
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- Jill noted she had been working with the CNI Top Node project as well as
- others (NIR, IAFA) to further develop a template for describing training
- materials. She showed a recent version, and comments were made to
- improve the template. Jill will make these changes. The template will
- become an appendix to the FYI RFC so others can use it. One area the
- Group agreed to work on was a controlled list of ``Subject Headings.''
- Lenore Jackson and Jennifer Sellers volunteered to help finalize these
- by looking at other projects, such as ERIC, that catalog training
- materials.
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- Identify Documents/Materials that Need to be Produced
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- Jill described the latest developments of the ITTI training project,
- which include a survey that was distributed, a basic training program
- done in PowerPoint that was available through the mailbase.ac.uk server
- along with speaker notes, and evaluation sheets. These can be used and
- modified by others doing training.
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- Michael Mealling described several examples where MUDs are being used
- for training. He gave an example of one for biochemists which includes
- a link to Gopher. Jennifer Sellers described MUSE based training
- projects. Jane Smith is collecting examples of MUSE based teaching
- projects.
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- Jill led a discussion of current needs for network training, which
- focused on the need for on-line training. Also discussed was the
- problem of overloading network resources when a large class tries to
- access a server en masse. Suggestions were made for client/server based
- training programs as one solution to this. This area was identified as
- one for potential future focus of the TRAINMAT Working Group. Jill also
- discussed the potential of Internet Talk Radio as a possible means of
- distributing training.
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- Liaisons with Other Groups
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- The Group discussed methods for distributing training information,
- noting that often mail groups become ``noisy'' so it becomes hard to
- sort out information. Susan Harris and Jane Smith volunteered to work
- out ways to summarize discussions and use the mailing list to send it
- out to the Working Group members.
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- Training Activities by Working Group Members
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- The Group discussed a project at the University of Newcastle, UK, to
- catalog training materials and agreed to use this work as the basis for
- an informational RFC on training materials. Jill Foster lead the
- discussion on a template to be used to catalog the materials. The
- template has been developed based on input from several other projects,
- including the Networked Information Retrieval and Internet Anonymous FTP
- Archives Working Groups, and the Coalition for Networked Information's
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- Top Node. The Group had open discussions on what is needed in training
- materials and what projects are being worked on. The Group agreed to
- work on an informal posting system to the User Services Working Group
- mailing list to share information about training aimed at trainers.
- (This Working Group is a joint project with RARE ISUS).
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- Attendees
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- Robert Beer r-beer@onu.edu
- Al Broscius broscius@bellcore.com
- Susan Calcari calcaris@cerf.net
- Corinne Carroll ccarroll@bbn.com
- Jodi-Ann Chu jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net
- Brent Curtiss bcurtiss@magnuss.ocs.ohio-state.edu
- Mark Davis-Craig mad@merit.edu
- Dale Dougherty dale@ora.com
- Sallie Fellows sallie@ed.unh.edu
- Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
- Marcello Frutig frutig@rnp.impa.br
- Jim Fullton Jim.Fullton@cnidr.org
- Maria Gallagher maria@nsipo.nasa.gov
- Greg Gicale gicale@ohio.gov
- Martyne Hallgren martyne@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu
- Susan Harris srh@umich.edu
- Ellen Hoffman ellen@merit.edu
- Susan Horvath shorvath@merit.edu
- Lenore Jackson jackson@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
- Ronald Lanning lanning@netltm.cats.ohiou.edu
- Hock-Koon Lim lim@po.cwru.edu
- April Marine april@atlas.arc.nasa.gov
- Jerry Martin jerry+@osu.edu
- Michael Mealling michael@fantasy.gatech.edu
- Cynthia Mills cmills@bbn.com
- Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
- Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Francois Robitaille francois.robitaille@crim.ca
- Jennifer Sellers sellers@nsipo.nasa.gov
- Jane Smith Jane.Smith@cnidr.org
- Craig Todd ctodd@desire.wright.edu
- Chris Weider clw@merit.edu
- Richard Wiggins wiggins@msu.edu
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