Wednesday, March 12, 2003
3:45 - 5:15 p.m,
Location: AGIS audion

1. Tech Fair update
• Scheduled for 4/26 from 10 to 2 at AGIS
• Christine, Joyce and Craig will be organizing with Christine taking the lead.
• Christine will send a list of who participated in last year's Tech Fair so that the ITLTs can gather more volunteers or bring back last year's group.
• Christine informed the group that
  • all tech aides will be available to work at the conference
  • Tom from Summit will be onsite all day to make sure the network doesn't fail
  • Apple and Dell have agreed to provide T-shirts
  • And, most importantly, arrangements for pizza and soda have been completed!
    
    
2. Web Policy
• It was clarified that the when the web maintainers receive pictures to post, they can/should assume that the included individuals are approved.
• The middle school has a record of who has permission in a file on the Intranet. However, this is not going to be the universal solution. Eventually, this will be all recorded in SASI.
• The question still remains about the dividing line between "group shots" which don't require individual student approval and those that do. For example, the question was raised of a team shot where the students are lined up. The current solution is to blur out individuals without permission. While this makes the picture look a bit silly, it also may be just the nudge that the parents need to complete the forms.
  
• The current policy states that updates to teacher's pages that are limited to homework or calendar changes do NOT have to be reviewed. However, this seems to be in conflict with current practice with regard to hard copy items. The ITLTs recommended that there be guidelines but that the final practice be worked out by each administrator/principal for his or her staff.
  
  
3. Teacher Web Pages: update on sample projects and policy -- Craig
• Craig reported on the progress here. He envisions eventually allowing additional people to upload directly to the server.
  
  
4. PT3 Project- Partnership for Excellence, a chance to work with West Chester University www.wcupt3.org-- Joyce
• Pat McKeon added to this explaining that she had participated in this last year. ITLTs were encouraged to spread this news to their faculties.
  
  
5. United Streaming - Craig
   www.unitedstreaming.com
   • Craig described the service and let us know the cost would be $5000/year for the program or a *special deal* of $100/teacher for the rest of this year. Charleen said CCIU may be working with UnitedStreaming for a pricing guide.
     Michelle - can we get a consortium with some local school in Southern Chester County.
   • Charleen - related info regarding what they did at the Red Clay School District.
     • Can browse by standards, subject area,. It worked well They do have content for the elementary as well as secondary students. Can stream it, can download it. Students can also get on the site. Can import it into Word, PowerPoint, etc.
     • To try this out, Username 6E22 Password 208B
   
   
6. Charleen added that people might want to try out Net Trekker -username jrothenberger password jrothenberger
   
   
7. "Adopt-a-Teacher" update -- Craig and Joyce
• Craig and Joyce relayed that this was going well. A summary of the first round is below.
• ITLTs are asked to help get new recruits by 4/15. This will be the final round for this year.
  
  

	Craig	Joyce
HS	Dan Mitchell - Illiad and WordPower	Clint Jones - online testing, class web page, Curriculum Designer Barb Vanderkraats - Student PowerPoint Projects, PhotoJams
MS	Ellyn Budney - class web page	Jerry Little - Excel in the classroom with mobile lab
AGIS	Kathy DiDominico -- AlphaSmarts	Marti Stayton - Online Testing and Inspiration Jen Lash - Spanish Cultural Project in Authorware or Flash
PLE	Debbie Pye -- Kidspiration




8. ITLT replacements
• The integration of technology across the curriculum in my school would be best served if I continued to serve as an ITLT/was replaced as ITLT by a new staff member because that would enable us to ....
• The ITLTs made several recommendations regarding the continuation of the program
  • The web coordinator position should not be the same as the ITLT position for several reasons. a) the added time needed; b) the added responsibility when becoming an ITLT already seems overwhelming; and c) the skill sets required for each job are different (web requires technical emphasis; ITLT requires educational emphasis)
    
    
9. Craig showed off a sample Web-based help desk that the district is considering for managing tech help calls. To preview, take a look at webhelpdesk.com Follow the link to the online demo and use the passwords supplied there to try this out.
   
   
10. Next meeting will be April 22. Location TBA