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TCEA Board Minutes

The Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) took one step further towards increased transparency in posting its Board of Directors’ meeting minutes online. Kudos to the sitting Board for sharing their deliberations and making it possible for the TCEA members to know what is actually being discussed. My only suggestion, as unwanted as it may be, is that the format be in HTML web page rather than PDF. However, a PDF document sends the message that the minutes can’t be changed willy-nilly…right?

What a fascinating development for TCEA members since it the Board Minutes hint at some critical issues that the Association is facing, including the following:

  1. Paying down TCEA’s debt and the relevance of the term “financial exigency” relevant to the upcoming conference. This raises the question, is it possible the Conference attendance won’t be all that it needs to be to meet the costs of the Conference?
  2. The recognized need for a full time advocate on behalf of topics relevant to all of us.
  3. 2010 MoodleMoot (which readers of this blog may remember was proposed by this blogger) plans
  4. The use of GoogleApps for TCEA – At a time when some districts are balking at using GoogleApps in Education for their school districts, TCEA’s leadership in this area is VERY welcome.
  5. The use of Naylor Publications to produce the TCEA TechEdge magazine.

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2 comments

  1. Transparency is ideal, but organizations only live behind glass walls when the naked have nothing to feel embarrassed about.Perhaps TCEA's financial model fails in a down economy. Perhaps the model fails because TCEA is vendor-focused and techno-centric instead of being research-focused and education-centeric.TCEA's contribution to educational technology served Texas, but newer, cost-effective models, community, collaboration and follow-up, follow-through trump one-off, big-wheel, shindigs.The cost-benefit of TCEA Conference attendance decreases as registration fees increase; meanwhile competition from totally free Unconferences, such as Lone Star EduBloggerCon looms on the horizon.However, seeds of TCEA's possible decline can be found in the years of trasparency-avoidance, and democracy-avoidance that you have voiced and chronicled.TCEA 2010 will demonstrate whether the TCEA governance model and economic model continue to remain viable.

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  2. Transparency is ideal, but organizations only live behind glass walls when the naked have nothing to feel embarrassed about.Perhaps TCEA's financial model fails in a down economy. Perhaps the model fails because TCEA is vendor-focused and techno-centric instead of being research-focused and education-centeric.TCEA's contribution to educational technology served Texas, but newer, cost-effective models, community, collaboration and follow-up, follow-through trump one-off, big-wheel, shindigs.The cost-benefit of TCEA Conference attendance decreases as registration fees increase; meanwhile competition from totally free Unconferences, such as Lone Star EduBloggerCon looms on the horizon.However, seeds of TCEA's possible decline can be found in the years of trasparency-avoidance, and democracy-avoidance that you have voiced and chronicled.TCEA 2010 will demonstrate whether the TCEA governance model and economic model continue to remain viable.

    Reply

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