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Thursday,
January 16, 2003
3:45 - 5:15 p.m,
Engle Middle School
Attending:
Pat Sine, Mary King, Charleen Forba-Mayer, Craig Miller, Leigh Anna
Moran, Pat McKeon, Deborah Parker, MT Maule Alft, , Karen Norris,
Michelle Albright, Christine Valverde, Jennifer Waite, Joyce Perry,
Olivia Spencer
- Update
on the Avon Grove AUP
- After
extensive discussion about the releases signed by parents
for students' work and pictures on the web, there were two
primary questions:
Two Questions:
What do we do about group shots?
What do we do about students we don’t know?
- NOTE:
Following the meeting, Olivia, Joyce and Pat talked about
this. Olivia stated that for group shots, such as an auditorium
or a stadium, it's okay if students without permission are
caught inadvertently in the shot. As for the web masters
adding pix to the site including students they don't know,
the responsibility is on the provider of the photo to make
sure that all included have the right permission. You can
include the person who gave you a photo in the comments
within the site.
- How
to retrieve AG e-mail from home
- "mailhost.avongrove.org/exchange/username"
works and should work for everyone using Netscape and IE.
The only difference is that when you are using Netscape, you
enter your username as "agsd/username". In IE, you
enter your username, and it prompts for a domain. The domain
is "agsd".
- agsd-mail.avongrove.org/exchange
was discussed as an alternative, but this did not work at
the meeting.
- Projector
Grant details -- Craig
- Lightware
is giving away 3 projectors per quarter to schools that submit
proposals for their use in the classroom. The complete details
and the submission form can be found at http://www.lightware.com/site/spotlight.html
- Teacher
Web Pages -- Craig
- Craig
said the process is ready but needs troubleshooting before
he is ready to make up directions. Mary King and Pat McKeown
agreed to work on their own pages under Craig's direction
to get this going.
- PETC
update -- Feb 10 and 11
- Joyce
is presenting "An Online Tool for the Evaluation of Technology
in a School District" This presentation focuses on the
enGauge Framework an online assessment developed by NCREL
and the results of the Avon Grove SD study. This tool provides
a comprehensive assessment system that surveys a wide range
of stakeholders and can contribute to strategic planning and
the needs assessment for e-tech planner.
- Karen
is presenting "Student TV Studio/Service Club" This
student led display will focus on a TV broadcasting service
club which fosters citizenship and telecommunication skills.
By showing clips from school events students will describe
how they have benefited from their involvement in this real
world application of educational technology.
- Olivia
is presenting "The IT Lead Teacher Program" at Avon
Grove -- The IT Lead Teacher program provides individualized
ongoing staff development. Selected classroom teachers use
release time and stipends to co teach coach and train other
teachers as well as to identify additional staff development
needs. IT Lead Teachers and their facilitator form a district
wide resource to support staff development for technology
integration.
- Tech
Support and the
Strategic Plan -- Joyce
- Joyce
pointed out that as part of the Strategic Planning activities,
a technology action plan is in the works. This can be viewed
online. It includes significant improvements to technical
support including moving to make the tech aides full-time
positions. Craig also is looking for software to automate
the help desk functions.
- Tech
Fair brainstorming - Christine led a brainstorming session.
- Dates
-- tentatively scheduled for April 26.
- Proposed
location is AGIS utilizing all 4 pods on the lower level.
In addition, each pod would have a looping PowerPoint or Authorware
presentation showing off uses of technology at the 4 schools.
- Suggested
participants (some of this needs some clarification)
- Rich
Scott-Harper Mimeo web page for tech fair
- Student
Work – from Graphics Arts Dept. Kathy 4
- Michelle
– took something from each grade level and sent
out invitations.
- Leigh
Anna –
- Tony
de Felice – Read Naturally
- Journalism
Class –
- Yearbook
doing it
- Science
Lab –
- AlphaSmart
Labs
- Deep
Sea Odyssey –
- Karen
Flad iMovies
- Run
ITLT PowerPoint
- AGIS
– PE
- EMAIL
IDEAS TO JERRY NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 28!
- "Adopt-a-Teacher"
-- Olivia
- Olivia
introduced the new idea of Adopt-a-Teacher which includes
a one month commitment, for a total of 8 teachers per month.
The month starts with one hour meeting with Craig or Joyce.
Then the month is filled with teacher requests for assistance
and active suggestions from Craig and Joyce
- Discussion
of Rachel's leave of absence
- Everyone
was sorry to hear of Rachel's decision. Based on her great
contributions over the past year and a half, it was agreed
that she was the best person to nominate a successor from
her pod.
- Dates
for the rest of the year:
-
Wednesday February 19, 2003 AGI
- March
26, 2003 AGIS
- Tuesday,
April 22 2003
- Thursday,
May 29,
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