September+2009

=**Friday, September 11, 2009**=

In attendance: Ann Johnston, Jared Mader, Kathy Heiser, Sue Smith, Dave Fry, Michelle Krill, Terry Zortman, Sue Sheffer, Lauri Graybill, John Sengia, Terry Stayer

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Ann's Role

 * Ann Johnston's role as a TIM remains. The CFF Coach group has expanded to K-12 and has been renamed TIE.net (http://tienet.wikispaces.com) and there's a TIE.net listserv through the IU at tienetcoach@iu12.org.
 * The collaboration days will be IU12 only this year and are open to all districts and teachers 5-12 and all subject areas. The first group meeting is 9am on 9/22 at the IU to plan for the 10/6 collaboration day. The collaboration days are organized around 4 strands from the ISTE NETS*S and all four days will be the same. In this way, more teachers can attend and get the same message.

Sites Shared
Sue and Ann share curriculum sites:
 * [|SAS Pathways]
 * Provided at no cost to U.S. educators, SAS® Curriculum Pathways® offers online content and resources for **grades 8 and above** . Please complete only **one form** to request access for a school.
 * [|Thinkfinity]
 * [|Curriki]
 * [|Continuity of Learning] (response to H1N1)

Surveys
Surveying teachers for tools, skills, integration. How do districts identify areas of need?
 * Jared shares the taxonomy that he and Ben Smith developed http://edtechinnovators.com/EdTechInnovators/Our_Taxonomy.html.

IU Attendance

 * Terry inquires if there have been issues with IU teachers taking attendance? Shares Sue Smith's tutorial video on IUtube http://www.iu12.org/IUTUBE/default.asp?t=4&sw=480. Direct issues to Sue Smith.

Wiimotes
>> //Eric Soskil, Howard County Public School with Troy Todd//
 * Hanover is deploying the wiimotes on a larger scale and has attached them to projectors for less maintenance. They've also add a switch then to make it easier to use. What software can you use. Hanover is using some tablet pc features. There's also Smoothboard http://www.smoothboard.net/.
 * **Presentation at NECC using Wiimotes:**
 * [|Wired Administrators Engage Teachers: Improving Learning and Teaching]

Netbooks

 * Hanover and Red Lion have implemented netbook use. Dave suggests doing a really good site survey, as they had to add wireless access points to accomodate the netbooks because as you add machines to the WAP, the signal is not shared well.
 * Red Lion added 800 netbooks and they're using Apple Airports ( 3 per cart ) and it's going well.

Connecting Tech and Teachers
Dave Fry from Hanover has been working on a wiki to provide answers about technical issues that teachers ask.

NETS*A

 * Ann explains her administrative webinar series that will provide a light, fun approach to using technology to be efficient and effective and then move toward the NETS*A focus. Ann will be soliciting folks to participate as guest speakers to share things your district is doing.
 * Jared's approach has been to encourage personal use to move to professional use. He spent a 1/2 day of an administrative retreat on NETS*A.
 * It's necessary to demonstrate that although there's a learning curve to get started, the benefit of time saved in the end is worth it for administrators.
 * Administrators need to understand what can be done and be able to model it for teachers.

Pete and C
Proposals for concurrent are due September 30th [].

2009-2010 Meeting Topics
See 2009-2010 page to add topics and see topics for upcoming meetings.

Admin Learning Wiki
Add links to the exemplars wikispace http://adminlearning.wikispaces.com/. Ann has it started for administrators to learn more about innovation using technology tools for teaching and learning. This way we can all use these local examples when doing workshops.

Tools in Use
Check out the Tools In Use page and add information so everyone can know what others are doing. Use this page to see if there's another district doing something you're thinking about doing. Maybe you can help someone or they can help you!