Agenda -- April 11, 2000
1. Plan for the June 9th District Wide
Inservice
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tentative schedule
- Things we agreed on
- Principals will get names and titles of sessions to Pat
by Friday, April 21.Pat will get the summary back to you
by the 28th so we can fill in any gaps.
- There will be two types of workshops. The morning will
be 45-minute workshops to help people get a firmer grip
on a personal answer to “what does it mean to integrate
technology into the curriculum?” The afternoon sessions
will be 2-hrs each. Those will be for folks to get some
training in computer skills, productivity tools or curriculum
applications.
- For the morning workshops, some big ideas that could be
used to build the sessions around were these.
- Using technology to communicate with parents (listservs,
e-mail and address books, web pages)
- Using 1 or 2 websites in a classroom, rather than
handing out lists of sites.
- Using software or a website as the center of group
activity.
- Using skills software for student-centered manipulation
of info (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Managing instruction with software tools, especially
IM Series.
The main thrust of these is to spread the vision of how technology
can be used to enhance our real goals of helping the students
attain the standards. The technology is simply another tool.
Another phrase we used to capture this was “filling the hole.”
That is, technology can help us do things we didn’t do very
well before.
- For the afternoon workshops, we are looking for folks
who can lead teachers to learn and apply some new skills.
These folks will commit to a 2-hr workshop in a lab with
one person per computer, in a lab or cluster area with 2-4
people per computer or in a room with a single computer.
The idea here is that the participants will be learning
some new skill or technique on which they can build during
the summer and in the upcoming year. People who offer these
seminars will be asked to teach them again 2 more times
during inservice days during the school year.
- There will be stipends for the prep time and those doing
the longer seminars will get paid more.
- Each presenter must attend a 1-hr orientation on May 10
at Smyrna Elem or on May 11 at Smyrna HS
- At the June 8 workshop all teachers will be asked to set
a goal, work out a plan and identify a way they will be
able to assess their progress by the end of next calendar
year. Each principal will collect these before the teachers
leave the building for the year. At the end of next school
year, this sheet will reappear as part of the evaluation
process.
2. Planning for Integrating Technology
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Because of limited time, we only discussed this question:
Is using an IMS the same as integrating technology?
Pat Dunn responded with an explanation of how the IMS
is being implemented in his school.
First, using the IMS is an example of technology as
a tool. The teachers are becoming more adept at harnessing
technology to their professional needs for planning
instruction.
Second, the IMS is being used as a vehicle for teachers
to examine the lessons and units they construct. As
each new item gets added to the IMS database, teachers
examine the ways they are integrating technology into
the curriculum as students work toward the standards.
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3. Progress Reports
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| * Debbie
Wicks, Bev Rennie, and Stan Borowski |
Board Policy
Many edits were made to prepare for a presentation to the principals
and then off to the Board. |
| * Pat
Dunn and Amy Hodges |
Handbook
Revised Handbook
Pat is going to update the group with publication and distribution
information. The first distribution will be at the June 8 inservice. |
| * Brenda
Foulk, Anita Bullock and Shirley Dear |
Web Publishing Guidelines
Brenda and ?? will be bringing students together this summer
to begin work on web pages for each school.
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| Kathy Andrus, Lori Robinson, and Barbara Lesley |
Guidelines
for Purchasing Educational Software (website)
Guidelines for Purchasing Educational Software
(pdf)
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Questions:
- Who will have long-term responsibility for
this page?
- What budget are we talking about for purchase
of software
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| Dave and Fran |
Update on purchase
specs for computers and report from progress with District Technology
Committee |
| Jaqui Wilson and ??? |
List for spare parts inventory
for each school |
| District Technology Committee needs
to review this. Next step is to decide who is the person responsible
for maintaining this inventory at each school. Also, where is the
budget for the initial purchases? |
| Shirley Dear, Gavin Standish, Lori Robinson and Debbie Hatfield |
List of common technical problems that users
could solve for themselves and a step-by-step guide to solve each
problem. |
| This is an extensive document that did
not get the discussion it deserved at the meeting. After an edit
review and addition of a table of contents, the next step is to
introduce and implement some procedures for making this the operational
document in each school. This stemmed from our earliest conversations
on how to make the individual users more responsible and more capable
when dealing with technology problems. |
