March 23, 2006

Members Present:  Ron Brown, Rick Williams, Gary Lorenson, Todd Busse, Linda Riesterer, Don Johnson, Dan Myers, Tim Lynch, Angela Richmond, Don Anspach, Kari Mathison, and Aaron Gahringer.

Notes:

• Electronic Registrar Reminders
  • Teach your staff how to do this again so they will be ready to register for any August Institute class.
  • Remind them to update their profile
  • One of the courses in the system will be "Independent Plan."
  • August Draft Schedule. This is only a preliminary draft.
    

• Next years meeting dates draft
  • 9/18 - Librarians Articulation
  • 9/19 - TRT training day K-12
  • 10/9 - TRT Articulation
  • 10/20 - Librarian Training day
  • 11/14 - TRT Training K-5
  • 11/15 - TRT Training 6-8
  • 11/16 - TRT Training 9-12
  • 11/20 - Librarian Articulation
  • 12/4 - TRT Articulation
  • 1/8 - TRT Articulation
  • 1/22 - Librarian Articulation
  • 2/1 - Librarian training day
  • 2/13 - TRT Training Day K-5
  • 2/15 - TRT Training Day 6-12
  • 3/12 - TRT Articulation Meeting
  • 3/19 - Librarian Articulation Meeting
  • 5/15 - TRT Training Day K-12
  • 5/21 - Librarian Articulation

• TRT Training at August Institute
  • Sign up for this training day if you don't have another class you want to attend or if you need the clock hours.  You can get paid if it is your August Instittute day.  I will have clock hours available for all who attend.  This is optional but would be a good beginning for our new TRT's at WHS and for a refresher on building setups, servers, resources, etc.

 

• Professional Development Guide edits
  • Please look over these for your grade levels and tell me anything that should be changed in the area of technology. K 1 2 3 4 5 MS HS
    

• WOD Data:
  • We should be OK for WODs for the remainder of the year.  Keep em coming but still make sure protocol is followed and they fill out the online form and get approval first.
  • As we get closer to May/June I will let you know what kind of budget we have left to be able to do any of them in the summer (with prior approval before summer begins)
    
    
• Create Your own blog with a haggis/prodev user name and password.
  • http://prodev.wsd.wednet.edu/weblog/default/
  • Then you will have to put in your short name (lastnamefirstinitial, no dot)
  • When you do this it will create the blog site for you and you can setup your own settings and look and create your entries. They you can link to the following address Example:  http://prodev.wsd.wednet.edu/weblog/brownr would be mine, yours would have the same except the name at the end.
    
    
• Get to Gmail without the chat feature: http://nonbiologyforums.com/gmail

• Jabber chat server..... this will enable Chat with school employees.. our goal would be to use it for professional conversations, toubleshooting, collaboration, file sharing, etc.
  • This will only work for staff who have user names and passwords on the prodev/haggis server.
  • It will also only work if you have OS 10.4 or newer.
  • Open iChat, go to preferences and then go to connections. Disable the .Mac and AIM connections and add a new one.
  • Use the following configurations:

  

  
  

• TeachWeb - Make sure we are putting this in front of the staff again so they will take advantage of this opportunity.  We have had two winners so far and will have two more then a grand prize at the end of the year.  All it takes is for them to fill out the online form: http://prodev.wsd.wednet.edu/teachweb/teachweb.html
  
  
• iTeach Awards - Make sure we are putting this in front of the staff again so they will take advantage of this opportunity.  Really talk this one up.  Some of your staff have done projects but they have not gone through the steps of applying.  The prizes are awesome and I think if you are at a staff meeting and show them the prizes and the application then we will have some people apply. Last year we had seven entries and I would love to have more than that.
  

• District Training lab scheduling procedure.
  • You must get your username and password from Ron if you are not atteding this meeting.
  • Scheduling Site - This link will take you to the scheduler for the new training lab.  You can use this for staff meetings, wods, or any other trainings.
  • If you want this type of scheduler at your building let Ron know and he will arrange a time to install on your server and then work with you on customizing it to your building needs, then teach you how to administer it.
    
    
    
• Please select your Buddies for Next training day and let Ron know who they are soon! Also let Ron know what you would like to see on the agenda for the day.
  • These dates we will meet in the new training lab at WHS.
    • K-5 day 11th of April - Possible topics: Comic Life, Browsers, Jabber, eSchools,
      • Columbia - Ryan Weaver
      • Lewis & Clark - Karen Lidikay
      • Lincoln -
      • Mission View -
      • Newbery - Becky Faulkner
      • Sunnyslope - Joanne Neel
      • Washington - Monika Christensen
        
        
    • 6-8 12th of April - Possible Topics: Moodle, Blogs, Jabber
      
      • Foothills - Toby Johnson & Mark Henson. They had zero last time because of a sub shortage.
      • Orchard -
      • Pioneer - Dawn Wood
        
        
    • 9-12 13th of April - Possible Topics:Moodle, Blogs, Jabber
      • WHS -
      • WSHS -
        
        
    
    

• Current Draft of AUP - Please review this draft and give any feedback to Ron ASAP.
  
  
• Current Draft of Letter - Please review this draft and give any feedback to Ron ASAP.
  
  
• Pilot Survey Time
  • Here we go.. get them the info so they can do the PILOT Light survey again this year.
  • You will have to show them how to do this again.  If yoy do the light version it only takes about 15 min. 
  • When they complete it they can print their results and give them to you.
  • Approach this with a positive attitude and point out to them that they are doing this so they can identifiy areas of strength and weakness so that they will be able to better identify what they might need a WOD in or what they can have for their personal technology goal for their CIPP (some buildings).
    
    

Next Articulation Day is May 18th at Westside High School.