The photo would lead you to believe the focus of the research is K-5, but in fact it is K-12. The research results are quite interesting - at the very least thought provoking and good reason to thoughtfully examine the real goals of each technology initiative.  From Pearson Schools:

Teaching in a Digital Age

How are your fellow teachers using technology in the classroom? School districts have more access to technology than ever before. Many have made major investments in education technology to engage, motivate, and personalize learning for students. Games and mobile apps have the potential to transform learning in ways unreachable with pencil and paper. But, as teachers know, incorporating technology isn't easy or simple. We asked teachers in some of the most innovative schools how they currently use technology; and what the gaps are in making the most of technology. Teachers in some of the most innovative schools share how they currently use technology and the tricks to making the most of it. https://medium.com/@ashley.petersondeluca/no-magic-pill-missing-pieces-in-education-technology-innovation-8befe759b9#.dsgm9w7qk

Meeting Minutes for 2 December

Minutes of the Technology Committee for 2 December 2015

<submitted 3 December - M Hauck>

Attending: Marc Caouette, Sean Crowley, Karen Newburg, Doris Parker, Tammy Quinn, Jo Smith, Michael Hauck

• Old Business (short items)
• Redeployment of PCs for teachers - Status update (Doris)
  Doris has begun to deploy machines; math office, library, Avery. Will continue this week and next. Exact number of available machines not certain, so we may not end up with 6 in the library. Jo Smith commented on how welcome the change is for the math office to have a desktop PC to replace the tablet.
  
• Faculty Tech Training feedback/results (Michael)
  General roundtable discussion; everyone felt the training went well and was well received. Sean commented on the number of positive remarks he has received, unsolicited, from academic faculty.  Tammy want to know the seminar attendance split between academic and vocational. The un-analyzed perception was about 50-50. Michael shared the results from the feedback survey (16 responses) which was primarily positive.  Among the key negatives were: the skill mix of attendees was a challenge; wanted more time to practice the skill and delve deeper into the details; slow computers hampered work; too much focus on the basics.
  
  This led to a discussion of future training approaches. One possibility is to have a single afternoon session of greater length; Offer the training as an “un-conference”; organize more on-line, self-paced training There was also some discussion about the accessibility by teachers to YouTube. There continues to be problems. Marc will investigate for a solution to provide teachers with unfettered access.
• Plant Sciences app request (Doris)
  The issue here was to investigate DynaScape. Marc will follow up to determine system requirements and cost. Question of what is budgeted for s/w?
  
• SIS Vendor evaluation and selection process - Status update (Michael)
  We hosted a meeting with SchoolBrains on 12/1 (the first of six such initial meetings). Tammy, Sean, and Michael attended. General opinion was highly positive. Sean was impressed with the easy of use and features a classroom teacher would see. Tammy liked the level of support and was particularly impressed with the fact SchoolBrains had people on staff who know iPass and can support the migration. Also, the SchoolBrains rep was our iPass rep years ago and so has a good knowledge of our school and environment. Good training tools as well. Some concerns were the lack of an open API, the inability to directly interface to 3rd party systems such as Google Apps or E-Sped.
  
• Online training tools & options (Michael)
  Looked at a couple of options - Synergyze, Atomic Learning, and Grovo.  Synergize is primarily a Google Apps training tool while Atomic Learning and Grovo cover many additional topics. Synergyze integrates into the Google domain and can offer context specific help on various tasks; Atomic Learning and Grovo are more “traditional” training tools offering short, focused video tutorials in course-like sequence and format. Advantage of Synergyze is cost and its contextual format. Advantage of Atomic Learning is its breadth of topics. We decided to explore Synergyze as a first step to building an online, self-help tech support structure.
  
  Michael will pursue the offer from Synergyze of a free trial account and have feedback for next meeting.
  
• New Business
  We did not have time to adequately discuss new business topics. Next meeting.
• Tactical 3 year plan (Michael's draft)
  Michael will circulate this draft for discussion next meeting. Intention is to take the next step to define a concrete action plan, now that we have re-approved our strategic plan.
  
• Building common Forms library (templates, processes)
  Emphasis here is support the transition/migration for the old world of pencil and paper to the digital world. We felt that if we began by digitizing (with templates, forms, etc) some of the key administrative processes that this will create strong examples and incentives for people to make the change.  Initial projects will be: the field trip request process (including reserving buses, permissions, etc.); Professional Staff leave requests; Professional Development Activity Pre-Approval process.
  
• Digital Civics & Digital Citizenship curriculum
  This is a key step in the migration to a digital environment and a more open, accessible environment (blocking everything). Since prohibition doesn’t work, the strategy must be to teach responsible behavior.  Check out the work the Tech Committee did in 2013; we’ll discuss at next meeting.

Next Technology Committee Meeting is:

Wednesday 16 December @ 2:30 in the Library

Meeting Agenda for 2 December

Agenda

2 December 2015,  2:30pm

Library

• Old Business (short items)
• Redeployment of PCs for teachers - Status update (Doris)
• Faculty Tech Training feedback/results (Michael)
• Plant Sciences app request (Doris)
• SIS Vendor evaluation and selection process - Status update (Michael)
• Online training tools & options (Michael)
• New Business
• Tactical 3 year plan (Michael's draft)
• Building common Forms library (templates, processes)
• Digital Civics & Digital Citizenship curriculum

Meeting Minutes for Monday 23 November

• Google Apps Deployment status updates
• new resources for calendar
  Doris or Laura will look into why 3 of the Mini Bus resources show up under My Calendars and not Other calendars as the other resources do
• new student Dashboard
  Michael reported that all the students have been introduced to the dashboard, unsure how many are using it. Use is voluntary and intended as a convenience. A Group was created to allow students to comment and provide feedback. No one has accessed it.
  

• Re-Deployment of PCs for Teacher Planning rooms
• target list
  Some discussion about the actual number of available machines and that we may need to trim the request back; Sean can provide guidance on priorities. Marc will check out the network drops in the library to ensure adequate service.  Laura said this will all be done in 2 weeks.
  

• Driving Google Apps adoption
• Survey results of teacher needs.
  Michael reported on the summary of findings from the survey. Top requests for training were: Classroom, Sites for a class website, using forms for online assignments, online grading and student feedback.  We’ll focus on these topics for the Dec training. In terms of on-going training, the top vote getter was self-paced online instruction.
  We discussed some of the online tools available as subscription services for teacher training. This may be the best option since people seem to want to do their own training.  It was pointed out that a key element was making the connection of the technical capability of the tool with the pedagogical need in the classroom.Synergyze, Grovo, and Atomic Learning are top candidates. Michael will have a list and brief description of potential options for next meeting.
• December faculty meeting training
  We’re in pretty good shape. We have volunteers for three of the 4 workshops (Kasey Butler for Classroom; Jess McGarry for Forms; Karl Roos for Sites; Michael will do online grading). We’ll use the comp labs in Avery & Animal; laptops in Library and McFarland. Tammy will arrange some refreshments. Michael has set up an attendance tracker.
• additional teacher tech training ideas
  from the survey, most wanted to pursue self-paced online training; some felt X-Block was for students and shouldn’t be use for teacher training; after-school time was mixed.  Looks like our initial thrust will be to identify/create resources for online, on-demand training.
• transitioning from personal spreadsheets and paper to collaborative resources ... how do we create more momentum
  One idea here was to focus on the administrative paperwork and begin to automate and simplify it. Create forms and template libraries. This will help people to start thinking of the digital alternative over the (ancient) paper.

Other Business

• A committee has been formed to select a new vendor for our School Information System. Right now we are defining needs and having preliminary meetings with prospective vendors. It was suggested that selected teachers be part of the evaluation and decision process, perhaps through trial use.
• Where is EarthScape? Plant Sciences was wondering what ever happened to the landscaping program. Laura indicated that this app was “lost” as it is not supported by WIndows 7 (was anyone in Plant Sciences informed about this?).  As an alternative, Plant would like to investigate getting DynaScape.

Next Meeting

• will be Wednesday 12/2 and then 12/16; We'd like to get two meetings in before the holiday break.
• Next meeting will discuss Digital Citizenship curriculum

Meeting Agenda for 23 November

Due to scheduling conflicts, our normal meeting time of Wednesday 11/18 had to be re-scheduled to:

Agenda
23 November 2015, 2:30pm
Library

• Welcoming Marc Caouette
• Google Apps Deployment status updates
• new resources for calendar (Doris)
• new student Dashboard (Michael)

• Re-Deployment of PCs for Teacher Planning rooms
• target list (Sean)

• Driving Google Apps adoption
• Survey results of teacher needs  (Michael)
• December faculty meeting training (Michael, Tammy)
• additional teacher tech training ideas (discussion)
• transitioning from personal spreadsheets and paper to collaborative resources ... how do we create more momentum (discussion)

If time permits

• Driving Digital Citizenship across the curriculum
• what needs to be added/changed from original committee work
• actions steps

Meeting Minutes for 28 October 2015

Attending: Sean Crowley, Karen Newburg, Doris Parker, Ben Polito, Tammy Quinn, Stephanie Russo, Joanne Tankard Smith, Michael Hauck

• Google Apps Deployment status updates
• new resources for calendar
  Doris did not have any update; the request has been conveyed to Laura but there has not been any action. Doris will relay the request to Laura again.
• teacher portal pages
  Links have all been set up for teacher pages; teachers have been informed and provided instructions. Most have taken action. We should also insert a link from the faculty directory file to the portal page. A few typos were pointed out to be fixed.
• new student Dashboard
  A few suggestions to tidy it up. Plan to launch on Monday 11/9. Freshman and sophomores will get an introduction through Science classes; Juniors and Seniors will get their introduction through Math classes. Michael will provide a "How To" document for teachers and shared to students.
  The iPass link should stay, so students can check grades using parent account.
  We would like to install analytics so we can track usage - mobile access, which browsers, what apps, etc.
  Still need to find a good, clean solution for creating individualized links for student to teachers' sites/blogs/wikis.
  Question if we could make this dashboard the default page on login to our domain. Yes, but that will require an administrative setting which is problematic to get done.

• Re-Deployment of PCs for Teachers
• Status update
  Tammy indicated that PCs were being swapped for failed tablets to specific teachers. However, we wanted to have several machines deployed as community resources positioned in faculty planning rooms.  Sean will work with Linda to generate a list of rooms and number of machines to be deployed. This will provide guidance to Doris who will need to prep (s/w updates, hardware check-out) and install.
  There was some concern expressed that with the limited number of ethernet drops in each room, every PC installed means one of the tablets will need to disconnect from the wired network in its docking station. (The tablets are wireless enabled, so they will still work).

• Tech Plan Review
• Benchmark 5 re-work
  After review, unanimous agreement. minor correction for grammar. Michael to re-publish.

• Developing near term action plan
• Action plan to enhance Google Apps adoption rate/pace
  Discussion began with the observation of how many people are still printing documents, students printing assignments, etc. Several issues related to the ease of use and features of Google were discussed.  Sometimes, printing is not WYSIWYG, which can be a big hassle; commenting on printed work can be easier than online, more likely to be read by students, and can get complicated and cumbersome especially for things like sentence & paragraph structure. [I will do some research on apps for teacher commentaries on student work, such as Turn It In and Kaizena]
  Sean aptly pointed out that compared to where we were at this time last year, we have made tremendous progress, despite issues.
  Discussion turned to the fact that many teachers are not utilizing Google, or utilizing it well, because they don't understand the capability or how to effectively deploy in their curriculum.  Training is a big issue.
  Jo suggested a survey to assess where people are at and what they need. Michael will set it up.
  The afternoon seminar series Tuesdays and Thursdays is not having much traction due to so many scheduling conflicts. Need to look for some alternatives.  One idea is to hold sessions during the day at targeted times when many teachers are available (prep period). However, Michael does not have access to iPass scheduling info in a useful form to find a good time. Another idea is to offer a session multiple times on a single day.
  Tammy re-iterated her commitment to have coverage or a sub for teachers who want to do an in-house training. Sean will work with some small teams (4 to 6) to set up customized training session.  The theory is that once this is done successfully  with one or two groups, others will catch on.
  Sean recommended devoting a faculty meeting to Tech Training. November is too soon to get it organized. Tammy agreed to make the December (12/1) faculty meeting a tech training meeting. Teacher trainers would be ideal; this is very appealing to teachers to have 'one of their own' leading a session. Michael will work to get this organized.
  
• Driving Digital Citizenship across the curriculum
  no action
• Planning for 1-to-1
  no action

Meeting adjoirned 3:50

Meeting Agenda for 28 October

Agenda
28 October 2015, 2:30pm
Library

• Google Apps Deployment status updates
• new resources for calendar (Doris)
• teacher portal pages (Michael, Sean)
• new student Dashboard (Michael)

• Re-Deployment of PCs for Teachers
• Status update (Doris)

• Tech Plan Review
• Benchmark 5 re-work (any edits should be in Suggestion Mode)

• Developing near term action plan
• Action plan to enhance Google Apps adoption rate/pace
• Driving Digital Citizenship across the curriculum
• what needs to be added/changed from original committee work
• actions steps
• Planning for 1-to-1
• lessons learned, case studies
• define planning topics; forming teams
• outline process, schedule

Meeting Minutes 14 October 2015

Attending: Sean Crowley, Karen Newburg, Ben Polito, Stephanie Russo, Jo Smith, Michael Hauck

Google Apps Deployment update

• Doris was not in attendance to update on the status of adding the new resources to calendar (mini bus #4 and the library meeting space).
• Michael discussed the plan to create an optional Student Dashboard, similar to the Teacher Dashboard. Format would be quite similar; suggested content included: morning announcements, school calendar, sports calendar, monthly lunch menu, links to standard Google tools (including Classroom), link to iPass, create a widget to link to teacher sites/blogs/wikis/etc. Michael will have a prototype by Friday for comment.
• Discussion of having links to teacher sites on the school website. Michael noted that a number of teachers are not using sites but other tools, such as Classroom.  He proposed creating a page for each teacher (editable by that teacher) where s/he can put whatever is appropriate for their class(es). Michael can have this set up by Monday; Sean and Linda will communicate to faculty.

Re-Deployment of PCs for Teachers

• Doris was not available to update on the status of the 15 to 17 machines in storage; Tammy was not available to update on the status of her request to Suzanne.
• It was noted that an additional PC was needed for the Library lab (4212) as there are 23 PCs + teacher and there is frequently a need for 24 student machines. Teachers now supplement with a laptop.

Tech Plan Review

• Michael quickly reviewed the current tech plan document (posted on the blog or here). Because the current plan is written at a fairly abstract level in terms of longer term goals, not much needs to change - we are still driving to those goals.  However, our progress against these is somewhat uneven.  One of our goals focuses on Professional Development and we need to create a more encompassing and comprehensive planned approach for delivery of Technology PD. Another area that needs attention is incorporating Digital Citizenship across the curriculum. We also focus attention on going 1-to-1 but have yet to begin to tackle that issue.
• The only area of the plan that does need editing is Benchmark 5 - Virtual Learning and Communications. In the original plan there is mention of EdLine (now defunct) and the intention of moving to Google Apps for Education.  However, the underlying goals are still the same.  Michael will re-draft benchmark 5 and circulate for comment.
• We discussed ideas for advancing opportunities for faculty/staff PD. The present model of using after-school time on Tues & Thurs is compromised by so many competing demands on teachers. Several possibilities were discussed:
• optional after-school time Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 - 3:30; Sean will explore and poll faculty for interest
• change X-Block schedule to double-up the number of students in each group and give 1/2 of the faculty open time to focus on PD. We could do this by term, so 1/2 of the faculty would be open 1st and 3rd terms, the other 1/2 2nd and 4th terms. 
• use faculty meeting time for tech PD and do more of the general faculty business on-line, through teacher announcements.
• Michael led a discussion of developing a near-term (1 to 2 year) action plan.  He proposed a three prong effort (to which there was general agreement):
• Driving Google Apps Adoption across the organization
  This needs to happen as a precursor to going 1-to-1; Many have logged in, but are not taking advantage of the utility, efficiency of Google, nor of the opportunities to expand and grow their curriculum. For next meeting everyone will have ideas and suggestions of activities, initiatives to drive Google adoption by everyone.
• Planning for 1-to-1
  We should look at other successful schools, many right in our neighborhood, to learn how they approached the problem, their project planning method, key issues, etc. Some discussion of the trade-offs of school ownership vs. student ownership of devices. Michael will source case studies and research on going 1-to-1 and share to the committee.
• Integrating Digital Citizenship curriculum across the entire school curriculum
  As a key element of going 1-to-1 and advancing digital curriculum, we need to promote the safety and security of students and the best way to do that is through a robust and comprehensive Digital CItizenship program. Michael will share to committee the results of Committee work from 2013 to develop and integrated curriculum Please review for next meeting discussion.

Meeting Agenda for 14 October

Agenda
14 October 2015, 2:30pm
Library

• Google Apps Deployment
• new resources for calendar (Doris)
• new student Dashboard (Michael)

• Re-Deployment of PCs for Teachers
• Status update (Doris)

• Tech Plan ReviewWeb-based doc; commentable doc; PDF
• Roundtable discussion of the 6 benchmarks
• next steps for revisions
• developing 1-2 year action plan

Google Apps Adoption Tips

12 Adoption Tips from The Gooru

  This was first published in March and re-published today from The Gooru. Twelve simple, but powerful, ideas to ease and speed the adoption of Google Apps at school.  Installing the application and having users log on is one thing, but getting usage, especially in the way that takes advantage of the productivity and collaboration that Google can provide is a whole different set of challenges.

Food for thought as we think about our long term plans and initiatives for this school year.

9-30 Meeting Notes

Attending: Sean Crowley, Doris Parker, Tammy Quinn, Michael Hauck

• Reset/Recap from June
  Michael provide a brief overview of what the Committee was up to last June, key decisions and issues at the time. Student account name was decided but we were unable to have students activate their accounts before the end of school as originally planned. We would terminate mail through AdditionsNet in August (we are still routing mail through Additions, however. Why?). We had anticipated the need for a parental consent form and parent opt-out for student email accounts, but that has not happened. Google Groups memberships are still not all visible to users
  
• Current Status of Google Apps Deployment
  Teacher and student accounts are all activated and appear to be working. Everyone is over onto GMail. We are still routing mail through Additions for some reason.
  School website is up and running, all the appropriate editors are in place and have access; numerous edits and corrections have been implemented and it appears to be pretty solid now. Next step is to link teacher websites or other resources.
  Community calendars and resources have been implemented, most people are using them and teachers now really like the ability to reserve computer labs on their own. We need to add a Mini Bus 4 and Library Meeting Room. Doris will handle.
  Implemented a Teacher Dashboard for ease of use. Many are using it and finding it helpful. It will continue to go through revisions as we get feedback from users.
  Need to implement a similar dashboard for students.
  Most all teachers have embraced the change of moving to Google and are working to build sites & blogs, create Classrooms, migrate their data to Drive. It's a slow and evolving process but we're making good progress. Training needs to continue and the afternoon seminar series will be started in October.
  
• Teacher Tablet Replacement?
  Doris discussed how the tablets have become a problem for many teachers - poor performance, storage issues, and others. Michael expressed the concern of spending scarce technology funds for replacements without a well thought out technology infrastructure plan in place.  Short term, we might re-purpose some machines that are in storage and distribute to departments to share. Tammy will request from Suzanne and Doris will look into how many machines are available and effort to clean-up/refurbish.
  
• Revisit/Review School Tech Plan
  We'll use the next two meetings to discuss the current tech plan, revisions, and explore strategic planning moving forward. Please review the current plan in preparation for next meeting
  
• Major Initiatives for 2015-16
  Michael listed a number of ideas that we had discussed in June
  Digital Citizenship curriculum integrated across all curricula
  online learning
  home access (ensure every student has computer and internet access from home)
  changing the mindset (think digital, not paper; think online, handout).
  Digital devices for everyone (going 1-to-1)
  Streamline, automate, simplify (re-look at administrative and managerial processes to make them simpler, easier, less time-consuming; also building document and template libraries)
  Sean suggested we focus on grant writing to generate funds and support for significant tech projects
  We also discussed the issues with iPass and the need to get a better understanding of the features and functions we can tap into that have not been explored.
  
• Set up standard Meeting Times
  Nothing works great but we settled on Wednesdays, every other week. Next meeting will be Wednesday, October 14 at 2:30.

submitted: M Hauck

Digital Citizenship Summit

This first-of-its-kind conference for educators, parents, students, organizations, and industry leaders. Filled with renowned speakers from across the country, this Summit is bringing together a diversity of powerful voices regarding digital citizenship. The aim of the DIgital Citizenship Summit is to push forward new ideas, while being focused on positive, practical solutions to improve our use of technology and the Internet. Topics for the all-day Summit include digital literacy, etiquette, tech balance, online reputation, security, and legal concerns.

The conference is sponsored by St Joseph's University in Hartford, CT on Saturday, October 3, 2015 and the cost is $50.

Here's the link for more information and registration.

Committee Meeting Agenda

Tentative Agenda
30 September 2015, 2:30pm
Trustees Room, McFarland Hall

• Reset/Recap from June
  Quick recap for our June meeting minutes to reset the group to where we are and where we've been; bring newcomers up to speed.
  Discussion for information.
• Current Status of Google Apps Deployment
  Synopsis of our current deployment, open issues, immediate needs.
  Discussion for information.
• Teacher Tablet Replacement?
  Discussion of what, if anything, can be done to improve computing performance given the difficulties and hardware issues of the tablets and docking stations.
  Discussion for decision.
• Revisit/Review School Tech Plan
  The plan was approved by the committee in November, 2013. One of our central goals was to deploy Google and that is happening.  It's time to review the plan after 2 years and make appropriate adjustments. Set scope and timeframe for committee review and re-plan.
  Discussion for plan of action.
• Major Initiatives for 2015-16
  Each year the committee chooses one or two significant projects to focus on for the school year with the purpose of advancing the technology adoption at the school. At our June 8th committee we had a brief roundtable discussion of possible project initiatives.
  Discussion for information.
• Set up standard Meeting Times
  Last year things worked much more smoothly by having a set meeting schedule.  Every other week on Wednesdays?
  Discussion for decision.
  

Meeting Notes 6/17/15

Tech Committee meeting notes
In Attendance: M. Hauck, K. Roos, L.Lynch, C. Grabke, M. Joyce, P. Conis

Decision was made NOT to go with a sub-domain for students' email addresses: ones we wanted were not available.  Students' email addresses will be @norfolkaggie.org just like faculty/staff

Still working on global mailing lists- lists in google won't work unless they are also in additions (while we are still doing dual-delivery)

New school website-
done and tested- still waiting on content for Superintendent page, and photos for slide show
Mike and Tammy worked on assigning editors for pages and calendars
Mike will send link to Laura so she can post it when it is completely ready
Discussion of edline and what will happen if parents and teachers look to access grades after 6/30.
Decisions made:
- link on NEW webpage directing parents to log in to edline (as long as it is possible to do so), with a note that if login isn't working to contact main office to get grades.
- have teachers print out hard copies of grades as back up over the summer in case edline goes away sooner rather than later

Concern expressed regarding the fact that some staff STILL aren't trained on google, especially if mecnet is going away (we are still not sure about this).  Rick needs to work with Mike on arranging time for staff to be trained.

Discussion of whether or not students will have access to their file servers next year.  Should freshmen get them at all?  Give upperclassmen time to get stuff off of servers and into google drive before we remove them?

Discussion of how long faculty have access to accounts after they have been let go?

Meeting Agenda for 6/17

Tech Committee Meeting

Wednesday, June 17  2:30 PM

Trustees Room - McFarland Hall

Our Final Meeting for the 2014-15 School Year!

• Project Plan - status & update
• Student Accounts - subdomain decision
• global mailing lists
• list of groups & membership (still can’t see them)
• group recipients not working - fails on Additions
• school website
• current status & open issues
• go Live! date
• Open issues - status & update
• email delivery issues
• Parting Shots - things to handle before 6/24
• teacher website templates
• user (teacher & student) dashboard
• ?

Meeting notes June 10, 2015

tech committee meeting notes
June 10, 2015
In attendance: M. Hauck, M. Joyce, C. Grabke, T. Quinn, BJ Chauvin, L. Lynch, P. Conis, R. Fitzpatrick

Received guidance from the lawyer about student emails.  Will be firstinitiallastnameYOG@ncahs.org.  Add middle initial if needed.
This requires setting up a sub domain
Discussion of AUP.  Create a consent form for parents to opt out of student receiving an email address.

Wait for sept to activate student accounts.  Not enough time to do it before the end of the year now.  Activate freshmen during freshman academy.  Do the rest of the grades during the first day or two of school in English classes.
Release form to go out to parents over the summer.

Mailing lists: still can't see what lists are available.  Groups aren't showing up in directory.  Still can't see membership in lists.  Laura worked on this with support today.  Changes should be going through now.  Should all be in place be morning.

School website: together as a draft.  Content still being gathered.  Being tested to see if everything is accessible from outside the domain.  Could go live end of next week.  Get url for new site to our domain provider so it directs to new site.  Mike will send it to Laura when it's ready.  Rick poses question of who will be responsible for monitoring/updating website.  People will be responsible for their sections.  Need a drop dead date for go live so people can get content on the page before it goes live.  We think edline goes away as of July 1.  Rick will investigate.  6/30/15 as go live date for new website.

Resource and facility calendars: set up for computer and carts.  Mike and Laura will meet together to set this up.  How to use them will become part of the training in the fall.

Discussion of email delivery issues.  We think it's related to dual delivery.  When mecnet goes away, this may go away.  Fingers crossed.

Training for non-faculty members on gmail and calendar is still needed.  Craig, Tara, Phyllis done.  Pete, forepersons, Tom, Patrick still outstanding.  45 mins needed for training.

Mike has started to develop templates for teacher websites.  Aiming for 6ish, so people can find what they like.  To the extent that we can, class lists, groups, classrooms should be set up in advance before teachers arrive in September.  Teachers can set up websites over the summer, if they choose.

Mike has started to set up teacher and student dashboards.

Suzanne asks about setting up some of our forms in Google to streamline paper process.  Mike also adds the idea of including an online electronic signature element to it.

Priorities for Next Year

At our last Tech Committee meeting, Tammy posed the question of what should be a focus for next year.

So here are some thoughts of possibilities.  Depending on what we select, we may be able to handle 2 or more simultaneously.

Incorporating Digital Citizenship (or Digital Civics) across the curriculum

Access to learning 24 x 7 (including online curricula and home access)

Planning for 1-to-1 (strategy, timeline, $)

Revisit & review NCAHS Technology Plan

Technology infrastructure plan

Meeting Agenda for 6/10

Tech Committee Meeting

Wednesday, June 10  2:30 PM

Trustees Room - McFarland Hall

• Project Plan - status & update
• Student Account Names - decision status
• when & how to activate student accounts
• global mailing lists
• list of groups & membership (can’t see them)
• school website
• current status
• go Live! date
• resource & facility calendars
• completion date?
• Open issues - status & update
• Google Groups (groups in norfolkaggie.org turned off)
• email delivery issues
• Preparation for 2015-16 School Year
• teacher website templates
• process for new freshman
• establishing teacher class lists, groups, Classrooms
• user (teacher & student) dashboard