Wednesday,+October+29,+2008

**Wednesday October 29, 2008 ** **2:30 to 3:30 ILC **  Members present:  Catherine Bratton, Heidi Dudley, Diane Frank, Mike Schreiber, Linda Parry, Barb Bolen, Jentry Byleveld, Jill Schrader, Mike Mahoney, Kevin Keena and Mike Porter and guest John Mata   1)  **Smartboard Grant Deadline ** The deadline for the Smartboard grants is Friday October 31, 2008 at 5pm. Each applicant should print off a hard copy for Ken. Heidi said she was willing to look over any grant submissions and Mike Porter also offered to look over grant submissions.    2)   **20/20 Vision Update ** Last Monday the 20/20 Vision committee finalized the mission statement. Draft A the “narrative one” was the one that was chosen: **As a community of learners, founded on the principles of integrity and respect, we are committed to rigorous and relevant learning for all students. We cultivate meaningful collaborative relationships. We develop global citizens who are innovative, critical thinkers and life-long learners prepared for the challenge of leading in the 21st century. **The latest on the 20/20 Vision Committee and its work can be seen on the 20/20 wiki: <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">http://hhs20-20vision.wikispaces.com/ <span style="font-size: 10pt; 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: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma;"> 3)  **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Updating to Office 2007 **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Everyone needs to do this, except people who still use Tranquility (resource) and Horizon (library). **Tranquility and Horizon users should NOT update to 2007 at this time!** <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The new user agreement for 2008-2009 has changed from past years. Heidi and Diane can no longer hand out CDs for home installs. To get 2007 installed on a home computer a staff member must now go to the site and order a CD that will cost 20.00. <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';">Students without internet and/or web publish list **<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 handed out a list of students who can not be on the internet here at school. If anyone has a student who can not get on the internet, it may be that they are on this list. In order to use the internet at school, they need to come by the IT office and get a form for the same parent to sign that signed the original no internet request, reneging their prior statement so that their student can now use the internet. Kathy Smith also has a list of students who are not allowed to be published on the internet. Please check Kathy’s list if you are planning on publishing pictures of students or putting student names on blogs, wikis etc. <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';">Fileway for Students and Student Passwords **<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 how we would want to implement this. We could only make student folders available or we could give students access to their group folders from home also. When we roll this out, maybe we should look at changing student passwords at the same time. Because of the recent issue we had with a student “discovering” an administrator password, we already have to change administrator passwords and add bios passwords to all computers at Heritage. Since student passwords never change from K-12, maybe we should look at implementing a password change for all students. This could be done at the same time that we make Fileway accessible to students. We could look at doing this second semester. The group agreed and supported the idea of student password changes. Heidi will bring it up during the computer coach meeting for secondary schools. <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';">Heritage Academy Classes **<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';">A list of possible Heritage Tech Academy classes was distributed. The committee was asked to look over this list and let Heidi know if there is anything they would like to add or change on the classes offered. It was stated that if we were to receive any of the SmartBoard grants, we would want to look at adding back a Smartboard class to the list. <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';">Faculty Meetings: add technology moment? **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Heidi asked if during faculty meetings we would want to add a “technology moment” highlighting what our staff is currently doing with technology. We could have one staff member show how they are using technology in the classroom (like how we had teachers participate in “Celebrate Our Success” when the ETAC committee came to Heritage). Possible people to start off with could be Mary Kay Cummings (and how her students use the Eees to make class videos), to Kevin Keena and how he uses the website to help his music students. Mike Rudolph was already highlighted at our last in-service with his use of Skype and DimDim for distance learning. The committee was in favor of doing this. <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';">Internet Safety **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">LPS will pay for a presentation on Internet Safety by Mike Harris (featured on the Today Show). The Today show story explained how online predators are using devices such as cell phones and X Boxes to connect to kids. One of the shots showed kids from Euclid Middle School asking questions during a presentation that Mike Harris of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office offers to metro area schools. Mike Porter brought up the point that kid’s radars haven’t migrated from the idea of computer strangers on the internet to strangers on cell phones and X Boxes. The committee was interested in having this presentation come to Heritage. We then discussed what group of students this would be best presented to. Sophomores? Freshman? Does the district pay for an all day presentation? Which group of classes would be best for providing these talks? 10th grade science was suggested by Jill Schrader. Heidi will talk to Steve Wolf about the specifics of how and when to best implement this. <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;"> 9)  **<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Remaining Meeting Dates **<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';">● Nov. 12: This will be an informal meeting for those who would like to learn more about Google Docs (Heidi and Diane will present) <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 13: tentative
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">HHS Technology Committee Meeting Minutes **