Define+Our+Purpose

Please brainstorm on what should be the purpose of this Group.
The initial idea was to see if we could establish viable communities of people teaching the same course at various CSU campuses. Merlot groups people by discipline -- psych, math, English, etc -- but we are more fine grained. Think of these as the "long tail" of teaching communities -- relatively few people are interested in a given community.

We initially picked two pilot courses, digital literacy and introduction to biology for biology majors. If these two communities prove to be viable and useful, then communities for other courses could be established.

The pilot groups will come up with ideas for and test online resources for collaboration -- things like this wiki, a resource database or databases, periodic BOF hangouts, a list server, whatever the members find useful.

The members of Digital Literacy group are more diverse than the biology group. The biology group are all teaching the same course and are probably using one of a few textbooks as well as their unique supplementary material and techniques. A DL course might be offered in different departments on a given campus. For example, CS and CIS both offer introductory courses at CSUDH. Going beyond full courses, aspects of DL may be found in other departments -- music, English, art, journalism, communication, business, etc.