• Title Page
• What is the TTS Group?
• Why was it formed?
• How was it formed?
• Who participates?
• Format
• What have we been doing?
• Benefits
• What the group doesn't do.
• Challenges
• Advice

Benefits of the group.

• Increased communication on informal staff level = better working relationships
• Increased collaboration across units (examples: SPSS, SAS, Palm Pilot support)
• More awareness of Instructional Technology on campus and opportunity to participate in other’s events
• Save time trying to find information or confirm rumors
• Save money by asking what equipment work best or by getting good deals
• Good way to network and grow professionally
• Drawing on experience of others; sounding board for ideas
• Increased awareness of available resources

• Started at a new institution, in a new position, with new technology, and no clue
• No formal means for coordination between different schools at the University
• There is a higher-level committee to discuss university policy (RITC)
• RITC is too high-up, doesn’t reach down into the trenches
• Allows me to know what others are doing
• Example: SPSS
• Lets others see what the Law School is doing
• Law school is usually seen as having a moat around it, TTS let others see what we are doing
• Full-scale class-room renovations
• Online access to missed classes
• End result is better utilization of Law School and University resources
• Example: digitization of video
• Takes pressure off Law School to buy seldom-used hardware
• Gets better return on ITL investment