SLC Meeting July 16, 2003

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SLC MeetingJuly 16, 2003

• Issues to be discussed
• Time table for catalyst proposal
• Current funding details (to be included in the
  proposal)
• Budget items
• Proposal outline
• Tasks (what needs to be done and who will do it).
• Next meeting(s)

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Time Table
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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Time Table

• Notes
• The schedule in Year 2 will depends on the
  schedule of RFP for full centers.
• If the next call for proposals is 2 years from
  now (September 2005) we should aim for submitting
  a proposal in September 2005 (compress Year 2).
• If the next call of proposals is 3 years from now
  (September 2006) we should stick with the time
  table.

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Current Funding (last 5
years)
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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Budget Items

• Workshop and conferences
• 2,000 per one-day workshop (60 participants)
• 16,000 per two-day conference (200
  participants)
• 44,000 total
• Travel
• NSF-related travel
• Visits to other centers
• Visits to national conferences
• 28,000 total
• Mini-grants
• Four - six mini-grants of around 25K each
• 125,000 total
• Administrative costs and supplies

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Proposal Outline

• The project description must be 15 pages or less.
• Margins (left/right/top/bottom) must be 1.
• Font Times, 12 points.
• Line spacing exactly 16 points.

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Proposal Outline

• I. Introduction (based on the white paper)
• 2 pages total
• II. Summary of our strengths
• Funding Profile
• Description of strengths of each institution
• 1 page per institution, 5 pages total
• III. Summary of potential participants in the
  center (beyond the five founding institutions).
  How do we involve them in the center proposal?
• 1 page total

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Proposal Outline

• IV. Outline of the catalyst activities and how
  they will allows us to develop a Center proposal.
  This Section should also include examples of
  possible mini-grants.
• 6 pages total
• V. Time table and milestones
• 1 page total
• VI. Summary

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Tasks to be completed

• Section I Introduction
• Combine components of the original white paper
  (Mark) with the WHY IS TECHNOLOGY FAILING IN
  EDUCATION document (Carol)
• Dov, Carol, Mark, Frank, .
• Section II Our strengths
• Need 1 page summary of each institution
  containing
• 1 paragraph characterizing the institution (e.g.
  number of students - fulltime/part time, degree
  programs, etc.)
• Summary of strengths that are relevant to our
  proposal. Needs to be selective.
• One person from each institution
• Brockport
• MCC
• Nazareth
• RIT
• U of R Frank

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Tasks to be completed

• Section III Summary of potential participants
• Dov
• Section IV Description of possible mini-grants
• Each mini-grant should be interdisciplinary and
  inter-institutional
• Mini-grants should discuss in detail the science
  of learning component of the project
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• Section V and VI Time table and summary
• Done

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Tasks to be completed

• References
• We need references
• Work done at our institutions
• Work relevant for the proposal
• ????
• Biographical sketches
• Who wants to be senior investigator?
• I need to have biographical sketches by Friday.
• Budget finalized
• Meeting with the Deans office on Tuesday 7/22
  (Dov, Mark, Frank).

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Next steps

• Need all information by Friday (7/18)
• First rough draft distributed on Monday (7/21)
• Comments due by Wednesday (7/23, 8 am) and
  discussed at our regular Wednesday meeting.

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SLC Meeting July 16, 2003Final Comments

• In little more than one month we went from
  meeting each other for the first time to starting
  to work seriously on a collaborative effort.
• We will reach our ultimate goal one way or the
  other. Although a funded SLC is our focus we
  need to keep our eyes open for other
  opportunities, and make sure our activities are
  advertised in the appropriate manner.
• We can be proud on what we have achieved so far
  and thank Dov for pulling us all together.