Wednesday,+March+11,+2009

**Wednesday March 11, 2009 ** **2:30 to 3:30 Library ** Members present:  Catherine Bratton, Heidi Dudley, Diane Frank, Mike Schreiber, Linda Parry, Mike Mahoney, Kevin Keena, Kent Sauls  1)  **Student email pilot at Heritage? Contact Mike Porter ** Mike P. said that ITS will choose a class to be a pilot class for this, but probably not until next fall. Besides having their own official school email account, the students would automatically be preregistered with their class which would sign them in to Google Docs, wikis and other services that their particular class would have access to. Heidi talked about how our student server can only hold 25MB of space for each student and Mike P. said that Gmail gives each person 10GB of space in their Google accounts and that they could get 20GB for 5.00 more (a year?). Our student server is hard to back up (uses tape drives that can only back up so much at a time) this makes mass storage an issue on a school server. Mike P. said that terabyte external hard drives are now going for 100.00 so using a personal drive as a back-up is becoming more of an option too.   2)  **No Computer Refresh ** The 09-10 school year will have no district computer refresh program as there has been in previous years. Mike P. said they will have something in place to replace any computers that fail. We are still planning on replacing one library computer lab. Heidi will look into seeing how many other schools are planning on computers in case a bulk order could save us money on the computers we need to purchase.   3)   **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Latest Newsletter **<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Heidi reminded everyone of our latest HHS IT newsletter and encouraged everyone to post a copy of it in their departments. We have been experiencing an outbreak of malicious spyware and the newsletter explains this in detail along with instructions on what to do if you see it on your computer. If tech committee members could promote the newsletter within their departments more staff may look into the tips and resources offered. <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';">SAS Software how to get in and be a support to your fellow 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';">[] <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">For teacher and student login please see the email that Heidi sent out called SAS Resource. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Mike P. demonstrated the site and showed a writing editor that evaluates student work, and how students can rework an essay, reload it into the editor and then see how the revised version compares to the original version. Mike P. also showed more resources in SAS like web quests, inter activities (online interactive activities), projects and more. He also showed an online math graphing calculator that Mike M. thought would be helpful in certain instances if students needed to check their work. Mike M. was a little concerned that the site could actually do students’ math homework for them resulting in them not learning the concept. Mike M. added that he could see it as being very useful if used responsibly. Everyone was encouraged to go onto the site and discover all of the resources and interactive areas in this amazing site. <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';">Remix Generation…Copyright…Creative Commons…? **<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';">http://remixtheclassroom.wikispaces.com/ <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">We ran out of time to discuss this topic. We are saving it for our next meeting. We briefly talked about how students are using technologies in different ways to create interactive video projects. This also brings up the issue of copyright since kids are taking videos and music off of sites like You Tube and iTunes then “remixing” and creating a “mash-up.” We encouraged all committee members to go to the wiki and look over the examples and explore the issues involved so that we can discuss this in-depth at our next meeting. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The meeting concluded at 3:30. The remaining meeting dates are: <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ● April 29 ● May 13: tentative
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">HHS Technology Committee Meeting Minutes **