Reports from the November 19, 1999 Meeting
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| Debbie Wicks, Bev Rennie, and Stan Borowski |
Board Policy |
- Bev took notes on a few editing or wording
changes which her committee will implement. The policy is to
be read at the next board meeting for adoption at a subsequent
meeting.
- Discussion focused on several areas and their
instructional implications
- How will e-mail be provided or allowed
in the district? The policy mentions both district provision
and use of web-based free e-mail providers. Some procedures
need to be established for how this can take place outside
of the board policy.
- Section J2 regarding the use of the
Web in the classroom was discussed at length. It is clear
that there needs to be a concerted effort to inform teachers
of the policy and help them to implement it.
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| Pat Dunn and Amy Hodges |
Handbook
Revised Handbook |
- Pat took notes on the issues raised during
other parts of the meeting to be added to the handbook.
- A few links such as these
will be added.
- A sentence or two will be added on students'
right to copyright and parents' need to sign off for younger
children.
- All of the booklet will continue to give
a postitive slant on how this contributes to the instructional
program
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| Brenda Foulk, Anita Bullock and Shirley Dear |
Web Publishing Guidelines |
Discussion (and consensus)
- Do we need a form for permission to publish
student work?
- Parents should be asked to grant permission
at least once for the whole school year at the middle and
elementary levels.
- Since copyright for work belongs to the
students, permission also needs to be given by the student
to have each particular work published.
- Where publishing on the web is an element
of the class, that requirement needs to be made clear up front.
When work is used to illustrate the whole class' achievement,
permission to publish exemplary works needs to be granted
by the student.
- In some cases, this may cause a conflict
between the teacher and student. However, this should be treated
the same as other such instructional issues.
- Do we need a form for permission to publish
student names and pictures?
- not resolved, but this led to extensive
discussion of why the district, schools and classrooms should
have web pages.
- The committee will report back on their work
at the next meeting.
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| Kathy Andrus, Lori Robinson, and Barbara Lesley |
Guidelines for Purchasing
Educational Software |
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After much discussion, several things were set
as the next direction.
- A merging of the 3 proposed plans seemed the
most desireable. This would be supported by a web page to be
developed by Lori Robinson
- Standards for selection of software
will be taught and supported through links to relevant guides
such as The
Complete Sourcebook on Children's Software and the Children's
Software Revue. Where these are not online, pointers
to where they are available in the district will be given.
- Reviews Links to sites with useful
reviews of children's software will be added to the site.
These could include
Children's Software Finder and SuperKids
Software Reviews.
- Tech Support Since it is important
to purchase only software that will be compatible with district
software, the edvisors will exchange information regularly
on software purchses in their schools. It might be useful
to make this the special domain of one of the members of
the District Technology Committee.
- Cost With so many involved in the
decision throught this new process, one of the aims is to
find the lowest price. The District Technology Committee
can help by circulating information on low-cost sources.
In particular, all should be aware of state contracts.
- NOTE: These guidelines don't override
the selections of district-wide standard software including
Microsoft Office.
- Questions:
- Who will have long-term responsibility for
this page?
- What budget are we talking about for purchase
of software?
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These Items Received Very Little Discussion
Due to Time Constraints
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| Dave and Fran |
Update on purchase specs for computers |
| Dave will visit this with the District
Technology Committee at the next meeting. The next step is to get
this to be a regular part of the planning/purchase cycle. |
| 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. |
