TRT Articulation Agenda/Minutes:
1/25/05

Present: Ron , Charlie , Kari, Shayne, Don, Todd, Aaron,

Absent: Don J, Dan M, Dan G, Angela, Linda, Brock, Nancy, Steve

Excused: Jeanne, Rick, Tim, Brock, Jay

• Discussed NCCE

1. Who is going? Ron, Kari, Rick, Jay, Tim, Todd, Gary, Shayne,
2. Who is not going? Charlie, Aaron, Don A., Dan M, Jeanne, Angela
3. How much funding do you get(because of the # who are going)?  $700-800 Each
4. How do you register?
   1. Call Linda Honeywell and get a PO#, be sure to write this number on your travel request form.
   2. Go to http://center.uoregon.edu/conferences/NCCE2005/registration/
5. Fill out a travel request with the correct information on it.  Be sure to put your registration PO#.  Meals are $8 Breakfast, $9 Lunch, and $14 Dinner.
6. The round trip miles are 276 at a rate of .345 per mile

Ron said that next year he will do his best to organize us as a group and do the paperwork for this conference for those who follow his timelines.

• Discuss implementation plan for PILOT survey.
  • Who has obtained a date for the pilot?
    • WHS - needs Jeanine to speak to Gracie concerning this
    • Lincoln - it is on the agenda for 1/26/05 LIT meeting
    • Sunnyslope - has a date March 21
    • Lewis and Clark - has communicated this with the principal
    • Columbia - needs Jeanine to speak to Fay concerning this
    • Washington - has communicated this with the principal
    • Orchard - has communicated this with the principal
    • Westside - ?
    • Foothills - ?
    • Newbery - Has a date for the survey
    • Mission View - ?
    • Pioneer -

The purpose of the PILOT survey is three-fold:
1. You could use the results for a self assessment of your technology skills so that you can target what areas of training that you need to seek out within the current WSD technology professional development model.

2. The Instructional Technology Coach along with the TRTs will design future technology professional development around the areas of most need within the district, buildings, or certain classifications.

3. The overall results will be used to determine if we are making progress toward the required state and national technology standards for teachers.

This survey is for certificated, classified, and administration. Classified would need to do the survey during their regular workday or be offered to timesheet to be contractual.

The methodology suggested for certificated would be to offer them the directions at least a few weeks before a designated LIT morning. Those that can hand in their printed survey results ahead of time would get individual planning on the LIT morning.

Those wishing to do the survey on the LIT morning on their own could do the work in their room. Those wanting support would do the survey in their school's lab, with TRT support. TRTs will also need to support classified on an individualized basis, based on their work schedules. Hopefully some could do the survey in the lab on the LIT morning, making TRT time more efficient.

• Discuss implementation plan for Unitedstreaming.

1. We will have a training session on this resource at our next TRT day on February 8.
2. I would use the flier(but change the passcode to match your building) to describe the service and how to log in.
3. Please visit the resource page I have built for this service and get familiar with its layout.  http://prodev.wsd.wednet.edu/topics/unitedstreaming/unitedstreaming.html
   

• Discussed the survey for the state that Dave had the TRA and TRT fill out.
  • It seams that the new standard for all staff is a G4 according to the state, so our assumption is that we will be moving all staff to this standard.
  • If all the people in your building who WANTED to be upgraded already are then develop a plan with the tech committee and/or principal to decide who is the next to get to a G4 standard.
  • Some possible ideas are by grade band, alpha grouping, departments, etc.  Just make sure their is a plan in place and that it is understood the goal of getting all staff a G4.
  • In this discussion laptops were brought up can buildings decide to go this route, Ron explained that the door is not closed to that but many implications need to be considered, including but not limited to:
    • why do they really want it?  Can they justify?
    • security risks
    • increased cost from building tech money
    • person losing external keyboard, mouse, monitor.
    • battery replacement after a time
    • risk of damage
    • repair costs
  • With all that said if a person can refute/understand these and is a user that would do a better job teaching with a laptop then go for it.
    
• Discussed Skyward:
  • Ron shared the plan of Educator Access+ that will be a web based app instead of java with some of the planned improvements.
  • Then we aired how bad the service has been for all involved.
  • When will test data be added? 
  • Why hasn't it yet?
  • Will we revisit it's usefulness after the one year of use?
  • So far we as a group have not heard anything positive coming from this service, so why are we still doing it?
  • Plan for subs?  No consistent way of handling them
    
    
• Discussed servers at K-5(combining)
  • Student and staff servers at the K-5 level are being combined into one faster machine that will handle the following services: 
    • Web site
    • Netrestore
    • Student data folders
    • Renaissance data
    • Staff shared location
    • Staff folders for grade placement
    • Library data
  • All elementaries will have a backup firewire in place ASAP.
    
• Discussed 2/8/05 TRT training day.
  • PILOT Implementation -  We will be reviewing the directions and streamlining the process which your staff will be following to take the survey and report their progress.
    
  • United Streaming Training Use and administration - Ron will be training the TRT's to be building administrators of their user groups and we will discuss some strategies for introducing this new service to the staffs.
    
  • Contribute Training - Ron will be training you in the use of Contribute from a client's perspective.  Please contact him prior to the 5th of February to make sure you have the software and it is working on your machine.
    
  • Workgroup Manager Training - an overview training of Users/Groups/sharepoints, what it all means, why do you care, and how do you troubleshoot.