Wednesday,+September+10,+2008

**Wednesday September 10, 2008 ** **2:30 to 3:30 ILC **  Members present: Catherine Bratton, Heidi Dudley, Diane Frank, Mike Schreiber, Linda Parry, Barb Bolen, Kent Sauls, Jill Schrader, Kevin Keena and Mike Porter   1)  **New Members ** The meeting got under way with Heidi having everyone introduce themselves. Our new members for this year are Barb Bolen, Jill Schrader and Brett Wamsley. Jill and Brett are sharing the tech committee representation for Science with Jill serving now and Brett serving later in the year. Once everyone was introduced, Heidi explained that the HHS Tech committee exists to move HHS forward technology-wise. Members are also to bring information shared at these meetings back to their departments.    2)   **Students and Internet/Electronic Communications Release Issues ** Every year as part of the enrollment process a parent/guardian must sign and return an LPS Permission Form. Copies of the form were handed out as an example so that members could see how student internet use can be affected if parents initial the electronic release area and/or the internet use area**. Teachers need to check with Kathy Smith before doing any kind of publishing of student work on the internet** (this includes pictures, videos, perhaps blogs and wikis, anything that would identify the student). Kathy has a list of all students who are not allowed to be published electronically. The internet use section is being handled by Heidi and Diane. We have turned off accounts for any student whose parent signed for their child not to be able to use the internet at school. We have found this method quickly resolves the internet usage problem. When a student can’t get on the school network, they can’t do anything on computers at school. They instantly come into our office, we show them a copy of the form their parent signed, and hand them a form to have the parent retract their prior statement. The students are usually in the next morning with the signed paper and their accounts are restored. This is a problem because it is a district form and it can not be changed at the school level. The district is aware of this problem and is in the process of re-doing the form. However, since the form is based on Board Policy, we can’t simply disregard the opt-out options.   3)  **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Fileway Update **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Heidi sent out an email in August called “Wikis, Fileway and Office 2007, oh my!!!” That email contained information on Fileway and how to access it. Staff can access their files from home (or anywhere where they can access internet). Fileway is not available at this time for students. Students should be able to access Fileway later this year, hopefully the beginning of October. Heidi will let everyone know when it becomes available for students and how we will communicate this resource to students. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"> 4)   **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Eees and where we are with them **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">We now have two Eee carts on the third floor. One is housed by Science and the other is being housed by World Languages. Social Studies also purchased an Eee cart on the second floor. Heidi has asked department chairs to set-up time to meet with their staffs for a quick overview of how the Eee carts work and how to use and maintain them. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"> 5)  **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">20/20 Vision and how it relates to our technology committee **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Heidi, Kent Sauls and Barb Bolen are on the 20/20 Vision Committee for Heritage. The 20/20 Group has a Wiki: http://hhs20-20vision.wikispaces.com/ <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Everyone was encouraged to post comments to it on the discussion tabs on the various pages. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The goals that will come out of this 20/20 Vision should be intertwined with the next topic: <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Helvetica;"> 6)  **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Technology Goals for Staff **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Heidi asked for input on making some specific technology goals for staff. Mike Porter responded that ISTE has technology standards for teachers and we should think about using those since there are plans to have the ISTE standards become part of a mandate for all schools in across the nation. The ISTE Standards have benchmarks we could use. We could talk about how to reach these goals by collaborating on a Google Doc. Kent had an idea that we could have teachers teaching teachers on some topics. He also values going to technology conferences and forums as a teacher. The goals we develop should integrate with the classes we can offer (Heritage Academy). We talked about having time for training and how it could be integrated into a normal school day but that it would require staff development money for that to happen. Someone brought up the idea of using the donation money to pay for the training but it was noted that this type of money needs to be used to directly impact the students. The plan is to use the donation money to replace one of the library computer labs since both labs are out of warranty and badly in need of update. It was also mentioned that we could ask the district about possible funding or ways to find funding for staff development. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">We discussed the October in-service, will it all be about the 20/20 Vision or will it have some technology training? It was suggested that we could have some regular (not known as techie) teachers show off what they have done with technology like Kevin Young and how he can “Jing his Gliffy.” This could be a quick way to motivate and inspire others during the in-service. It was noted that the in-service would focus on 20/20 vision and philosophy and then if glimpses of things were given like Kevin Young and Mike Rudolph (doing an example of his online class video feed while he is in his room and the staff is in the theater), this would give the staff a chance to see some actual applications of the 20/20 Vision and of Web 2.0 applications. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 7)  **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">ETAC and Celebrate Our Success: what do we want to showcase? **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The Educational Technology Advisory Committee will be visiting Heritage September 24, 2008 from 6:00 to 8:30pm in the library. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">This is a district committee that helps determine direction and policy on technology for LPS. Representatives from Asus (makers of the Eee PC) will also be at this meeting. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">We will have one-half hour (from 6:30-7:00pm) to showcase our use of technology before the actual meeting. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Input on what we should showcase included: <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> **Mary Kay Cummings**: wikis, video and Eees. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> **Kevin Keena:** Heritage Web Site and online resources for the band. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 8)  **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Meeting Times for the Year: **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">We decided to try to stick to the last Wednesday of the month as much as possible. This left our meeting times as follows: <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● Oct. 29 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● Nov. 12 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">  <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● Dec. 10 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● Jan. 28 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● Feb. 25 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● March 11 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● April 29 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● May 6
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">HHS Technology Committee Meeting Minutes **
 * <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Mike Rudolph: **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> his online class could be video fed into the meeting from his classroom. He could also show what he does with science simulations on the Eee PCs.