August+19+2010


 * ISB 21 Team Meeting Agenda **

Timekeeper: Chrissy || Recorder: Rob || Purpose: Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D ||
 * Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010 || Starting/ Ending Time:7:30 – 8:30 || Place: EdTech office ||
 * Facilitator: Tara

Participants: Tara, Jeff, Kim, Chad, Rob, Dennis, Ida


 * **Task** || **P** || **Guiding Questions** || **Background/ Process** || **Person/Time** ||  ||
 * **Warm-up** || I || //How's everyone doing? Reconnect//

Jeff--HS. Helping teachers get on Panthernet and Powerschool. HS students will be required to have a blog and will do genre tracking. Genre tracking is fabulous--kids putting on an Excel document to track.

Ida--has seen all 6,7,8 classes and 6th grade is getting set up with Shelfari.

Chrissy--hit the ground running. Almost every grade 5 class is blogging. Grade 4 is starting individual blogs and a few grade 3 classes as well.Chrissy doing a research project seeing if blogging increases writing achievement. Everyone has a class blog.

Miguel--working mainly on the 1:1 program. Getting the teachers ready for classes--panthernet, blogs (doing all sorts of tech support on blogs), Smartboards, Macs. Miguel is also teaching 2 classes, 4 periods a week.

Rob--off to a good start. New classes coming in, working on the genre tracking. Independent reading is a focus.

Tara--opened up the Hub to all kids in the morning. Still a bit tricky, but working on it. The iPad is amazingly successful. We need more! || Round Robin Touching Base || All/10 mins ||
 * **Now & the Big Picture** || D || //New tech items in all divisions--happy with what we have? Chrissy and Tara will talk about the tech playground in the ES//

MS/HS--30 flips and 16 snowflakes ES-10 flips and 5 snowflakes, 1 iPad

//Things on our list that we didn't get to last year://

//Consistency with citing images, etc in ES/MS/HS//

citing teacher's words? what about images? Creative Commons

//Did we finish the benchmark examples?// Appears to be almost finished. Perhaps a polishing.

//Do we have a big picture plan for the year? How are we all supporting teachers?// || Teams || All/40 mins || Things To Do:
 * **Observation** || I || What did we see regarding teacher anxiety and misconceptions about school tools? Let's plan for relevant after-school PD: || Round Robin || Jeff/10 mins ||
 * **Closure** || I || //How well did today's meeting go?// ||  || Tara/5 mins ||

Curriculum office wants us to revisit the philosophy.

What is our big picture of the year?