Here are the D&D Saturday sessions from AECT 2003
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from Trey
Martindale

Here are all the D&D sessions from Thursday and Friday from this year’s conference
program in Anaheim, CA, October 23-26 2003

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from Trey
Martindale

I called the meeting to order (ha) at 5PM on Friday, Oct 24,
2003. We had about 40 people in attendance, and it was great to have many
long-time division members
and
key players
in our field, and many new folks as well.

Ward Cates highlighted a new initiative–a design competition
sponsored by PacificCorp and their representative Dan Schuh. Ward, Mike,
and I met with Dan Friday morning to map out a plan for the competition. A
committee
of Dan, Mike, and M. J. Bishop will solicit judges and prepare the call for
entries, which will go out in December or January. More on that soon.

Mike Spector shared news of this past year’s highlights. Ward updated us on
various AECT Board initiatives, including the new Tech Trends editor, Elizabeth
Boling. Elizabeth showed us a mock-up of the new look for the journal. Dave
Wiley agreed to set up a weblog (which as you can see is working) to aid division
communication.
All
of us
agreed
to
support
Elizabeth

as
she prepares to plan next year’s AECT D&D conference program. I introduced
her to my databases system for matching reviewers and proposals, and gave
her my list
of
past reviewers.

from Trey
Martindale

Our new division officers are:

• AECT Board Representative: Ward Cates, Lehigh University
• Past President: Mike Spector, Florida State University
• President: Trey Martindale, East Carolina University
• Vice President for Program Planning: Elizabeth Boling, Indiana University
• Vice President for Communications: David Wiley, Utah State University

New D&D Board Members

• Andy Gibbons, Brigham Young University
• Zane Olina, Florida State
  University
• Jim Klein, Arizona State University

Thank you all for your willingness to support AECT and our division.

from Trey
Martindale

I called the meeting to order (ha) at 5PM on Friday, Oct 24,
2003. We had about 40 people in attendance, and it was great to have many
long-time division members
and
key players
in our field, and many new folks as well.

Ward Cates highlighted a new initiative–a design competition
sponsored by PacificCorp and their representative Dan Schuh. Ward, Mike,
and I met with Dan Friday morning to map out a plan for the competition. A
committee
of Dan, Mike, and M. J. Bishop will solicit judges and prepare the call for
entries, which will go out in December or January. More on that soon.

Mike Spector shared news of this past year’s highlights. Ward updated us on
various AECT Board initiatives, including the new Tech Trends editor, Elizabeth
Boling. Elizabeth showed us a mock-up of the new look for the journal. Dave
Wiley agreed to set up a weblog (which as you can see is working) to aid division
communication.
All
of us
agreed
to
support
Elizabeth

as
she prepares to plan next year’s AECT D&D conference program. I introduced
her to my databases system for matching reviewers and proposals, and gave
her my list
of
past reviewers.

from Trey
Martindale

It is very possible that if you are a member of our D&D division, you are
not on the listserv. A while back the D&D listserv was accidentally erased
a couple of times, so if you have not heard from us recently, you aren’t on
the
list.
Go to the AECT listserv site to check
your subscriptions. It is all automatic and nicely implemented via a web interface.
Our listserv is very low volume and is for announcements only, not discussion.
We currently send about one message per month on average. Mostly calls for
reviewers, papers, awards, etc.

from Trey
Martindale

It is very possible that if you are a member of our D&D division, you are
not on the listserv. A while back the D&D listserv was accidentally erased
a couple of times, so if you have not heard from us recently, you aren’t on
the
list.
Go to the AECT listserv site to check
your subscriptions. It is all automatic and nicely implemented via a web interface.
Our listserv is very low volume and is for announcements only, not discussion.
We currently send about one message per month on average. Mostly calls for
reviewers, papers, awards, etc.

from Trey
Martindale

Our luncheon sponsored by the Design
and Development (D&D)
and Research and Theory (RTD) divisions was a sellout event again this year.
Attendance
was
unofficially around
80. Marcus Childress, president of RTD was the emcee and welcomed the guests,
and introduced incoming president Barbara Lockee of Virginia Tech. They presented
two awards, and I’ll add those names soon.

Mike Spector, president of D&D gave
some remarks and summarized the year for D&D. Bob Reiser took on his regular
job of introducing the D&D awards judging panel, and the lead person
for each award area announced the award winners. Thanks Bob.

Ward Cates, our D&D past president
and current division representative to the AECT Board of Directors, was presented
with an award for outstanding service
to the division for the last five years–a well deserved award. Ward and Mike
have both helped me tremendously in planning the conference program, and they
have set the division on a great organizational path.

Mike passed the gavel to me and said some nice things about my efforts putting
together the conference program this year. I thanked our reviewers, many of
who were in attendance, and also AECT and Larry Vernon for greatly improving
the electronic proposal submission and review process. I highlighted a few
statistics:

• 271 proposals submitted to our division–the largest number of all divisions.
• 71 reviewers of proposals–thank you very much.
• Division membership is around 450, the largest division membership

from Trey
Martindale

Our luncheon sponsored by the Design
and Development (D&D)
and Research and Theory (RTD) divisions was a sellout event again this year.
Attendance
was
unofficially around
80. Marcus Childress, president of RTD was the emcee and welcomed the guests,
and introduced incoming president Barbara Lockee of Virginia Tech. They presented
two awards, and I’ll add those names soon.

Mike Spector, president of D&D gave
some remarks and summarized the year for D&D. Bob Reiser took on his regular
job of introducing the D&D awards judging panel, and the lead person
for each award area announced the award winners. Thanks Bob.

Ward Cates, our D&D past president
and current division representative to the AECT Board of Directors, was presented
with an award for outstanding service
to the division for the last five years–a well deserved award. Ward and Mike
have both helped me tremendously in planning the conference program, and they
have set the division on a great organizational path.

Mike passed the gavel to me and said some nice things about my efforts putting
together the conference program this year. I thanked our reviewers, many of
who were in attendance, and also AECT and Larry Vernon for greatly improving
the electronic proposal submission and review process. I highlighted a few
statistics:

• 271 proposals submitted to our division–the largest number of all divisions.
• 71 reviewers of proposals–thank you very much.
• Division membership is around 450, the largest division membership

from Trey Martindale

Thanks to David Wiley for creating
and hosting this new site for D&D. After
we gave our presentation
at AECT on weblogs and wikis, it was quite a natural
progression to transform our D&D Division site to a weblog format. After all
our site consists of mostly announcements and short notices, updated irregularly,
and from multiple
authors.
That calls for a weblog. If you are aggregator savvy, you can subscribe to
this weblog RSS feed to be alerted when the site is updated. This format will
lead to a much improved flow of information to and from our membership, and
also create a divisional archive which we can reference as time goes by. Yes,
I’m sold on weblogs. I think you’ll see more of this functionality from AECT
soon. Based on what I saw at the NECC 2003 conference, I suggested to Phil
Harris that we implement a blog for AECT 2003. We tried it on a limited scale,
and I’ll have to check on how that went.

If you are new to blogs and would like a guide…