KVL for Kids Work Group Minutes

CPE, Meeting Room B
July 31, 2000

Present: Baurichter, Culbertson, Gibson, Hardy, Pattie, Ross, and Weil

Introductions

Introduced ourselves and welcomed Jill Baurichter from Kenton County Public Library
Approved minutes from last meeting
Wished Melissa Gibson farewell as she moves to South Dakota. Melissa has found a position teaching computing to middle school students

Chair for the group

The group decided to postpone the discussion on the issue of a chair until a later date when the group gets together.

Review of Websites Submitted

The review of websites were postponed until there are more sites to evaluate
An evaluation process needs to be developed
Subject Specialists
Culberston indicated that she has 10 LMS/ITLs that have volunteered to serve as subject specialist
Need to ask Michael Dailey if authentication can be instituted to subject specialists to make changes on these websites

Tutorial

Gibson has done an excellent job working on the tutorial

Gibson has agreed to continue working on the tutorial from South Dakota

The draft tutorial is drafted after the "Big6 Skills" (www.big6.com)

The group decided to use a Kentucky history theme with multimedia

The group decided to use Kentucky History as the theme. To that end, it was decided that the Group would invite a member from the History Center to join (Pattie will issue the invitation)

It was also decided that the tutorial needs more graphics and should be multimedia

To that end, it was decided that the Group would invite KET to join (Culbertson will issue the invitation)

The tutorial needs self assessment components

After viewing the draft tutorial, it was further decided that in its current state, the reading level is 4^th/5^th grade and that we need to create another one for 1^st-3^rd grade reading level.

Each unit needs to be self contained

The tutorial needs to be designed so that students can work on it independently