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