Meeting+Minutes+April+25,+2012

**Wednesday April 25, 2012 **
 * HHS Technology Committee Meeting Minutes **

Members Present Kyle Tammen, Mike Mahoney, Jill Schrader, Mike Schreiber, Gwendolyn Wallace, Heidi Dudley, Diane Frank, Kevin Keena, Kent Sauls, Barb Bolen
 * 1) Inventory: ** Heidi handed out printouts on the most recent inventory that she has for each department. Some of these lists have not been updated for a couple of years, so she needs members to update their lists for their department. She doesn’t care about some of the older technology that may be listed on your forms like boom boxes; please take those types of items off. Flip cameras, document cameras, those types of technologies are the items we need to keep track of. We need an updated inventory from each member before you leave for summer.
 * 2) Rooms for Summer: ** We want everyone to do it a little differently this year by storing their classroom computers in their book rooms (math and science have been doing this). Reserve the air compressor at Heidi’s desk and tell your department which day you will have it available for them. Move all classroom computers to their bookrooms. Work area computers will stay where they are and just be covered. Blow out computers and bag them and all related cords up.We need you to blow out the projectors and clean the filters, then unplug and cover the projectors with plastic grocery bags. We will bring some King Soopers type bags if you need them, or you could bring some yourself for the projectors.
 * 3) Budget: ** Heidi has no updates at this time. She asked for 12 new computers for LA and SPED. She asked for projectors to replace old ones but it sounds like we will only be getting a few. We should be getting some replacement bulbs, a couple of printers and some speakers for some classrooms that don’t have speakers. Admin has not met yet for the final approval.
 * 4) Student log-ins and Folders for next year: **In 2014 our student server is going away. District IT has said that they are getting out of the server business. They are currently teaching middle schools and elementary schools to use Google and all students have one generic student log-in. We are thinking about having our new freshmen not have an individual log-in. This means they would have to do all of their saving in their Google Docs account or onto a flash drive. We need to be thinking about how to teach class without kids needing access to shared folders. Students need to be using the Cloud. All freshmen next year will log-in as hhsstudent and the password will be eagle. One of the issues that we have with a generic student log-in is that business has a typing program called Microtype that saves an individual file in each student’s user folder. We are looking at how we could get this to work, by seeing if kids can save these files to a groups folder, or if business needs to upgrade to another type of typing program.


 * Summer Class **The summer class was going to be about technology, plus curriculum topics like differentiation and RTI. Gwen is committed to meetings with APs that week, so we will be solely focusing on technology. The class will run May 22-25, 9:00 to 1:00 each day, Tuesday through Friday. We will have topics like how to use Google and its services and how you can use it with students; blogs and Google Groups, Google Sites and other collaborative tools, and flipped classrooms.Kevin has used Google Sites and his students have done journaling on practicing their instruments and how they plan to improve. Kevin says it puts responsibility back on the kid and involves them more in their learning. Some ideas for the theme of this class were: how can we be using some of these tools to make these kids use it as professional learning, how can I get more involved in this type of learning? There is one credit that can be earned for attending. The DotNetNuke update to our school website is going on behind the scenes and should be completed over the summer. It will have a different look to it and should be easier to navigate, but the basic content of pages will stay the same. Heritage is one of the highest LPS schools represented this year at TIE. It is the biggest Heritage representation ever. Kevin is going to present Thursday at 1:00. If you are attending please stop by and see Kevin’s presentation!
 * Survey for Tech Committee Meetings **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Our last item was the survey. Diane sent out a link to the survey to every committee member. Please complete it ASAP (if you didn’t during the meeting). This should be our last meeting of the year (unless something earth-shattering happens). Have a great summer!