11/9/04 TRT Articulation

TRT Articulation Agenda/Minutes:
11/9/04

Excused: Shayne, Gary, Jay, Todd, Rick, Tim, Brock, Angela, Don A.

Absent: Don J.

Attending: Ron, Jeanne, Steve, Aaron, Dan G, Charlie, Dan M., Kari, Nancy, Linda

3:30 – 3:45 – Introductions, wait for late people etc.

3:45 – 4:15 – WOD updates: Ron will show all current data

Discussed how this program is working and Ron shared the data so far of those who have been trained and in what areas. The feedback from participants and facilitators have been incredibly positive. We also discussed how else this could be advertised to the WSD teachers. Keep bringing it up at staff meetings, monday mornings, and when several people ask you the same quest ions....suggest they sign up for a WOD class.

Buildings who have not done any yet really need to talk it up and get their people to sign up. Some suggestions were to have people who want a class to solicit through email or sign up sheets to find people with similar needs to form the team.

Ron will be adding space on the form to have more people on the team. (If you have more than 5 then you can have two facilitators)

Current Data as of 11/10/04:

4:15 – 4:25 – Technology committee information:

Who should be on it (minimum)?

Administrator
TRT(s)
TRA
Teacher Rep(s)
Invited to meetings (Tech Coach and Operational Tech Coordinator)

What they should decide?

Anything to do with technology at the building level. Upgrades, hardware and software purchases, the technology CIPP plan for the building, training needs, etc.

We discussed the TRT laptops and their upgrade path, this will be clarified with Dave and more information will follow.

Recommended Possible purchases:

Remote Desktop 2.1
Kid Pix 4
Inspiration
K-5 - Kidspiration,
K-5: Macromedia License
6-12 Contribute 3
Backup drives and software to back up servers(Ron will look into source and source of automating software for the drives and get to you asap)

4:25 – 4:35 – United Streaming, Media Co-Op, etc...

Talked about the money we are spending on the media co-op through the ESD and we are recommending that they include United Streaming in the co-op, otherwise we could use the money to better fit our needs in the WSD by doing United Streaming on our own, buying some resources, and providing our own support mechanism.

4:35 – 5:00 – K-12 student technology standards articulation

Tabled until the next meeting: Please download and edit for your level, these will be official at the end of November with or without your input.

Educator Access and skyward were discussed to make sure our district is truly going to evaluate its effectiveness for an SIS system for teachers, students, and parents. So far the feed back has been nothing but negative on all fronts.