Wednesday,+September+30,+2009

**Wednesday September 30, 2009 2:30 to 3:30 Library ** Members present:  John Mata, Mike Schreiber, Mike Mahoney, Barb Bolen, Mike Porter, Heidi Dudley, Diane Frank Partial Attendance: Jentry Byleveld, Matt Keenan, Kevin Keena 1) **Inventory: Need it turned in ** If you still haven’t turned in your inventory lists, Heidi needs them. We still need inventory from Language Arts, Social Studies, World Languages, Fine Arts (have band but need choir, art, theater)  2)  **Fileway for students ** Fileway for students is working well on the Eees, Heidi can come in and show classes how to do it. Students can access Fileway from home also. Heidi explained Fileway for students in the last faculty meeting. There is a PowerPoint on Fileway instructions. Teachers can access the Fileway instructions by going to Teacher Folders (G:)>HHSTechnology>Technology>Fileway Directions.  If teachers would like certain classes to have access to server folders, Heidi can set-up class folders on the server. Give Heidi a roster if you want a drop folder, read only folder or shared folder. A roster gives her the information she needs so she can make sure the right students have access to the right folders. A **drop folder** is like putting a piece of mail in a mailbox: good for assignments A **read only folder** is good for retrieving instructions and other files that you want students to have access to but don’t want changed. **A shared folder** is good for situations like the yearbook and newspaper, where anybody in a group can take things out, work on it and put updates back. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Heidi can map you to the folder by placing a shortcut on your desktop. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">If you tell kids how to name their documents (ex. lastname, firstinitial) you will be able to find individual files easier. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">3) **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">ISTE not TIE Conference ** <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Mike Porter: The TIE (Technology in Education) conference usually happens in the summer at Copper Mountain. TIE won't be here this year because ISTE (International Society of Technology in Education) will be in Denver at the convention center June 27-30, 2010. ITS is coming up with 75 scholarships for ISTE this year. There will be hundreds of sessions to choose from. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Encourage people in your departments to apply as teams. Heritage has not had many scholarships awarded in the past so please try to get people excited about going. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">When Mike gets info on registration Heidi will pass it along to staff, so you will need to look at it, and think about teams you could do this with. Maybe you could do a theme (like podcasting). <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">4) **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Google Apps for Education ** <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Mike says Google Apps will provide 10GB of storage space (40 times the storage we can provide) for students. There would be a protocol for student email, something like: student last name first initial @ lps.org? We could pull the rosters right out of IC to make setting up of student accounts easier. This first year pilot program will be opt-in on the parent side; the next year it will become opt-out. Spread the word. If you have a teacher who might be interested in piloting this, let Heidi know and she will pass it on to Mike (who is working on the permission slip). Google Apps would be better than just Google services in that it would give us an LPS domain, and tons of ads that are on regular Google would be taken off. It would also make setting up accounts in other Google apps easier since every student would have a Google account. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">5) **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Eee PC Grant in Lang Arts and Document Cameras in Math ** <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The district wrote a literacy grant for this, came up with eee carts for 9th grade classrooms. Because it is a grant, they are dedicated to Lang Arts 9th grade (can’t be shared). Heidi is working with Lang Arts PLC on this Inspired Writing Grant. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Every single math classroom has a document camera now (through another grant from district). Mike M. says it does change the way you teach the kids in the class. Immediate (don't have to make overhead). Students want to present their work. Students put more quality and time into their project because they know it's going to be seen by everyone in the class. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Mike M. added that answers to problems can come out in different ways and that it’s neat to see the differences on how someone comes up with a solution. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">6) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; msospacerun: yes;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Technology Plan Revision **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">We need to get our goals in a more succinct version. Heidi’s first handout was the existing goals and objectives. The blocks of text, the content and the overall look needs to be tweaked. Things to think about: What are our school goals, what does the state expect from us, what does the district expect...etc. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">If, as a school the 20/20committee 21st century skills are a certain way (see handout), what should our goals be, and how should they coincide with the proposed 21st century skills? IT department from LPS goals (Is a handout) and state standards and ISTE standards (are all handouts Heidi put together). <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">The ISTE standards will drive our professional development. We as a staff will have to prove we can do some of these things (see handout) and our kids will have to prove they can do some things too. Things to think about in conjunction with these ISTE standards are: should we have a shared vision/plan on implementing these standards, how are we going to be funded, how are we going to have skilled personnel? If we want students to have these skills, how do we develop a plan that will make sure that can happen? <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Look over the ISTE standards, read it, mark it, think about what key points should be a part of our plan? Heidi would like us to have this done by the end of first semester. We will begin discussing our vision and goal statement at the October meeting. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">7) **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Discussions ** <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Mike S. brought up problems with the web page. He said that lots of teachers are using wikis instead of the website now (wikis or blogs aren’t always the best solution; you have to look at what it is you want to accomplish with your page). Teachers feel overwhelmed, “something else I have to make time for.” Mike wondered, “If you spend that time working on making tech work, could you skip hall duty?” <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Heidi mentioned that Kevin puts tons on his web page. If you don't do it a lot (working on the web page), it is harder, but if you do it often, it's easy. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Some teachers end up saying, “I'll just make copies because it's easier than trying to make time.” How can we as teachers, get the time to learn this stuff? It would help if subs were provided and training could be done with staff in a lab, so that when they leave the bones of it (their web page) are done. Take teachers out of class for a half a day or a whole day is something that would work and needs to be done in order to accomplish this. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">There would have to be a commitment from people to keep their web pages up (should be required somehow). <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">New teachers need extra training on web page to get them started early. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Kevin: (as far as being overwhelming) “Before you take something off the plate, you have to know what it is that you want to put on your plate. Show them what is possible with the technology, so there will be buy in.” <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">In the end, once you get used to posting documents on your web page it’s so much easier to just say, “It's on-line, print it out and bring it in.” <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">If a student missed a class they can just go to the web page and see what's up there, creating new habits. Should this be a requirement added to the yearly growth plan? <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Putting docs on the web saves paper too. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Parents would love to see a calendar of projects in IC that are due ahead of time. Something as simple as a calendar (the event module) on your web page will make things easier for you as a teacher, so that parents and kids aren't looking for what is due when. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">If as a staff everyone would commit to a calendar (the events module) that would be very helpful. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Homework request: Nancy is printing it out, why can't it be electronic? (Mike S) <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Heidi had an Edutopia handout that she thought was good resource to share. If you come across resources you want to share, let Heidi know. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Next meeting October 28 (Last Wednesday)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">HHS Technology Committee Meeting Minutes **