District Technology Committee
Meeting Minutes
October 1, 2009
Members
present: Judy Myers, Karen Deiana, Nancy Austin
Meeting convened
at 3:30pm.
The
committee committed to setting a timeline for revisions and updates to the
technology plan to occur at the February meeting. Karen reminded the committee
the plan needs to be updated June 2011.
Karen discussed
some recent technology purchases that included 2 smartboards, 5 projectors, 2
projector carts, 5 screens, and 4 sets of senteno response systems (clickers).
Each building was assigned 1 set of clickers. Elementary building principals
were given sets of clickers on Superintendent’s day. The other two sets for
middle/high school are currently stored in the technology office.
Karen
reported that on October 7 during the 2-hr professional development session,
several high school teachers, from science and math, will be participating in smartboard
training: Mike Richardson, Matt Christian, Nick Toole, Steve Mellor, Bill
Lawrence, and Audrey Vanderhoef, Michelle Baldwin, Jen Overocker, Wayne Cornell,
Patty Korzec, Alicia Beisler, and Kim Bugbee.
On November
4, several elementary school teachers will be participating in smartboard
training: Dan Dobbins, Carol Benson, Vivian Healy, Brenda Dixon, William
Bourquard, Deborah Sweeney, Loreleie Estabrooks and Debra Lennon.
Cathy
Phillips reported via e-mail that she is working on the current inventory. The
updated inventory information will be incorporated into the tech plan in February.
Judy
reported that there really needs to be enough laptops for the number of
students in a classroom. Nancy and Judy will conduct some research identifying
laptops appropriate for grade levels and present at the next meeting.
Karen
reported a technology assessment will be given to all 8th graders sometime in
May 2010.
Other
discussion: Judy asked if our pre-school students needed to sign the AUP and
who decides when the AUP forms get sent home, who is responsible sending the
form home? It appears the process is
handled differently at each building. The members will look at making a
recommendation for a consistent process for distribution, collection, and
access for AUP’s.
Agenda
items tabled until next month: distant learning, bandwidth, Google docs, and
Discovery Ed.
Meeting
adjourned at 5:00pm.