Assigned review and mapping of industry certifications to regular classes to report to John McNeely.
I. Call to order
Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes Friday, February 15, 2013
I. Call to order
Jorge Ibanez called to order the annual meeting of the Information Technology Education Advisory Committee at 11:45 AM on Friday, February 15, 2013 in S‐29/30.
II. Roll Call
The following faculty & staff were present:
Blanca Betances Wes Lindberg Cheryl Calhoun Allen Luck Bonita Dewiliby James Nichols Elizabeth Drake Rhonda Peyton Eric Flagg Bruce Russell Jorge Ibanez Marc Shahboz
Mike Lazin
Absent: Kelly Cartier, Debbie Reid & Denise Remer
The following Advisory Committee Members were present:
Wylene Aubut, School Board of Alachua County Bryan Lewis, 352 Media Group
George Canova, School Board of Clay County Carlos Morales, UF & Shands
Travis Chapman, Studio 601 Mark Nortz, James Moore, Co. Jean Clark, GRU Priscilla Parker, Santa Fe College
Colin Hostet, Grooveshark Nirmal Raisz, School Board of Alachua County
Josh Isom, Trendy Entertainment Geoff Wilson, 352 Media Group
Steve Kozakoff, University of Florida
Confirmed Attendance but were Absent: Jay Blackadar, Renaissance Printing
Steve Ware, University of Florida IT Mark Wilson, Meridian Behavioral Health III. Director’s Report:
Jorge welcomed everyone back for the 2013 Annual Advisory Committee Meeting. He also introduced to the Advisory Committee the new faculty/staff within ITE. In the Networking team, James Nichols is currently the new Interim Networking Instructor for the Spring 2013 semester and on the Graphic Design team, Eric Flagg is currently the new Interim Coordinator for the program.
Jorge opened the meeting by asking everyone to take a minute to introduce themselves. During roundtable everyone stated their names, positions held and places of employment.
Jorge showed a power point presentation on an overview of program developments within the last 12 months. After lunch, everyone convened in break‐out groups for faculty to update the Advisory Committee members of their progress.
Jorge asked that all areas present him with notes from their break‐out meetings. These notes are listed below.
IV. DMT Area:
The Santa Fe College DMT faculty met with the members of its Industry Advisory Committee to discuss the future direction of the program.
Introduction to meeting and status of Digital Media Technology program by Eric Flagg. Changes in curriculum, application status of BAS in Multimedia and Video Technology BAS degree were main topics introduced. DMT Faculty were asked to present what current students were interested in adding to DMT curriculum and what the committee saw as important for local DMT needs in the industry. New course design for CGS2823 Advanced Interface Design was introduced. Renaming of DMT to Graphic Design Technology and Digital Media Technology (which will retain the current Multimedia track) All in attendance agreed that a BAS degree in Multimedia/Video technology would be beneficial to local businesses especially since the pool of talent is limited and might help local ad/design agencies expand their abilities to produce locally. It was explained by Eric that students can be limited with an A.S. degree only and their options for a BS, BA, BFA in video is limited as Florida State Universities will not articulate all of their AS credits and also Florida State Universities with a Video Production/Multimedia Bachelors were very limited (UCF and FSU). The other option is private‐ for‐profit sector which costs over $80K for a degree in this field.
Rhonda Peyton ‐ Students have said they would like to get more training in App Design
More Web Design (currently 3 classes in Web Authoring/programming/interface design 3D drawing
in addition: students are finishing their AS degree and still wanting to ‘go further with their studies, i.e. a certificate or a couple more Digital Media or IST/NST classes
Carlos Morales – Commented on CGS 2823 and said that it really ‘hit home’
with him and that it looked like it was on target. Needs of his workforce needs a ‘strange’ combination of skills, a student who can jump between J‐Query, programming, etc. AND design, color, understanding of white space, etc. Carlos suggested that in a perfect world, our students would get more programming experience in the Graphic Design track
Wes Lindberg – Web classes used to start sooner, but DMT felt that students needed more design concepts first.
Bryan Lewis – needs for incoming employees (i.e. our DMT students) need to be ‘left‐brain’ and ‘right brain’ trying to meet in the middle. Strong skills in programming plus good front‐end design; but he understands that 2‐years is not really a enough time for a full hybridization. A bachelor’s degree or another year or two could help.
Carlos Morales – ‘if you’re going to a big design/web company, it’s ok to be more specialized and compartmentalized, you may not need to know too many different things, but for smaller groups (like his at Shands, which is still a fairly large group) you need a hybrid, programmer and designer.
<<<Carlos thinks CGS 2823 is great layout>>> his suggestion either for that class or as a whole with the GD track students’ portfolio, students need more examples of designing templates, themes and students need to build several wordpress themes.
Bryan Lewis – Interns’ portfolios need to show more fundamental skills, and not just complete and whole design capabilities.
Wes Lindberg – Our students use Dreamweaver like a ‘hammer’ and would still rather ‘hand‐code’ so the comments about our students being stronger in programming (coding) makes sense.
Dreamweavers’ not as useful to them in school, they might be able to get those skills w/o it being incorporated into a whole semester.
Bryan Lewis – Bryan has an outline of an ‘on the job training’ and ‘curriculum’ he gives new employees/interns. Bryan said he would share this outline document with us. Bryan says that ‘352’ needs students who know how to use ‘Fireworks’ (software, instead of photoshop) and Carlos agreed.
Travis Chapman – Studio 601 Takes interns. He feels that video/multimedia students (as interns) should be ‘thrown into the work immediately’ even if their skill sets are weak in certain areas. He’s found they learn quicker this way. In response to the BAS in Multimedia and Video Tech. He thinks the curriculum (to add to what the DMT Multimedia AS students take now) should focus reinforcing basics throughout the program, all classes should have an element of lighting, sound,
cinematography, etc. In addition, students would be better served in the industry as ‘generalists’ rather than specialists. Specializations usually come with on‐the‐job practice/training. In addition to hands‐on production training, students should also be shown ‘where they can go’ for further
resources on the industry, i.e. outside of the class, such as magazines like American Cinematographer, Lynda.com, etc. and also look at current industry leaders in the field and specialization the students like and try to emulate them, but counter that also with knowing ‘why you use certain styles’ and when, not just ‘how’.
Josh Isom (Observer‐potential committee member, not on committee yet) Commented on Trendy’s needs: wordpress, html, video, after‐effects (software) and compositing. Trendy doesn’t need programmers per‐se but uses web and video as a communication system for their work. A BAS degree in Multimedia and Video Technology would provide students that they will like to use.
Bryan Lewis – Students in BAS MAVTECH should learn how to solve problems and how to find new information. The multimedia field is full of change and more advanced BAS students should know how to deal with that change.
Travis Chapman – he agreed with Bryan’s last comment and added specific to Video that students need to understand more about camera/video technology altogether. Their interns typically come from UF Telecomm and the students are often confused by the major differences in types of cameras, when they should be used for what purposes and why you don’t use certain cinematography styles in certain situations, not just because it looks cool, you need to know the appropriate camera and style for your content.
Bryan Lewis – agreed with Travis’ last comment and added that GD and MM students need to understand reason and theory behind style and design.