SKSI/MeetingNotes/2022-03-09 Meeting

Present

 * Varunesh, Roland, Jenny, Wayne, Dave, William, Ponesi, Tailetai
 * Apologies: Nehru

Agenda

 * Welcome Jenny (and provide intro/background)
 * Latest tutorial - setting up Rocket.Chat - see https://chat.milll.ws for the new instance (We're working to address the issue of some emails not getting through)...
 * Assign two or more MESC System Administrators
 * Assign MESC application administrators
 * Course hub: https://course.milll.ws
 * Need text for "About" page
 * Overview of milll.ws cloud based services
 * Formalise plans for DS4OERS demonstrator - Starts 11 April 2022.
 * Please forward the six digital badges (See planning page for specifications - 400px x 400px transparent png)
 * Please forward background image for Certificate of completion. (See planning page for specifications - 3510px x 2490px png)
 * Facilitators planning session (Nehru, William, Tim and Jenny).
 * Pre-populating forum topics.
 * Brochure - promoting the course for IT admins
 * Wayne to set up registration landing page for Expression of Interest
 * Weekly web support sessions.
 * Bitwarden password manager - https://safe.milll.ws. Customise instructions.
 * Planning for F-T-F launch event on 11 April 2022.
 * Samoa Digital library: https://sadil.ws/ (Potential to become a repository for sharing of OER developed by teachers taking the DS4OERS course.)
 * Announcing the Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning (EDT4OL) course - Commences 25 April 2022.
 * Recruiting Samoa Educators - Remix a custom Samoa version of EDT4OL for course.milll.ws
 * Conceiving the cOERtc Mentorship network. (Pronounced "courtesy". Collaborative OER Technology Community/Cooperative).

Meeting notes

 * Introductions from Jenny, and her team, Ponesi and Tailetai.
 * Wayne explained the "train the trainers" demonstration project, inviting Jenny and her team to join the process as co-facilitators.
 * Dave mentioned the completion of the new Rocket.Chat instance and an associated tutorial on how it was implemented (both video and an accompanying text one).
 * Wayne recommended creating a place to nominate a few individuals in MESC to take on the role of learning the administration tasks relevant to the various FOSS technologies making up the MiLLL stack. Will has already identified people: himself, Timothy, Nehru, and potentially others, who are interested in taking on that role.
 * Wayne showed the https://course.milll.ws site and requested help with fleshing out the "about" section, to ensure the whole SKSI and MiLLL stories are represented. Dave will provide a description of the various technologies involved (as a sub-page of the About section).
 * We re-iterated the planned demo project launch event (Nehru was going to organise) for 11 April, and are keen to know if it's being organised in Apia.
 * Wayne requested the badge graphics from Will and mentioned the graphic designer (who was away last week) re the Certificate background.
 * Wayne proposed that next week's meeting be used to define the "train the trainers" course facilitation process for Jenny, Ponesi, Tailetai, and any others in her team who might want to be involved in the facilitation...
 * Wayne requested that folks in Apia add content to the MiLLL Forum (https://forum.milll.ws) to ensure that it looks 'lived in' by folks involved in the MiLLL and SKSI projects.
 * Jenny mentioned that she and Nehru have discussed her familiarising her own team - 15 MESC staff (some curriculum division folk) - with the technologies and the course programme. So they would be the first cohort. The second cohort would be the IT teachers/educated. And the third cohort would be school Principals.
 * Jenny also asked that the micro-courses be externally accredited to benefit the educators participating (so that they can treat them as professional development, enhancing their CVs and bring to the Public Service Commission for salary increments).
 * Jenny is somewhat concerned with teacher/educators being overwhelmed with the various external courses being provided and she wants to make sure we're not duplicating efforts.
 * Wayne offered Jenny to start a course for her team as early as next Wednesday (16 March)...
 * Wayne also mentioned, regarding accreditation, our background in working with national Qualifications Authorities, as we'd be keen to work with the Samoan QA to ensure these courses are accredited. Wayne also mentioned that the NZQA has approved 'stackable micro-credentials' for NZ, and hopes that we could achieve a similar approval with the SQA. Varun agreed this would be a good thing to achieve and offered to initiate contacts with SQA using his own networks.
 * Jenny is keen to see the courses (like DS4OERS) accredited in Samoa, and she and Wayne will work to make that happen (possibly after the initial cohorts of the courses).
 * Wayne asked if we could open the registration for the MiLLL Bitwarden password manager for the DS4OERS participants - Dave said, yes, it could be done briefly (too long and there would be spam accounts)...
 * Wayne asked about Varun's background with DSpace, namely the sadil.ws site, and asked about the potential for using that (or setting up another) to manage/index/make discoverable OERs created as a result of the DS4OERFS course and subsequent OERs...
 * Wayne mentioned the EDT4OL course (and recommended that Jenny's team take part in the first cohort if possible! Numbers will be limited)... and also mentioned the cOERtc Mentorship initiative.

There is a recording of the meeting.