April+2+2009


 * ISB 21 Team Meeting Agenda **

Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D ||
 * Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 || Starting/ Ending Time: 8:30 – 10:00 || Place: Ed Tech ||
 * Facilitator/Timekeeper: Kim || Recorder: Dennis || Purpose:

Participants: Tara, Jeff, Kim, Chad, Rob, Dennis, Ida ||  **P** || **Guiding Question** ||  **Background/ Process** || **Person/Time** || Sharing Successes || **I** || What is a recent success that you've had in collaboration with another a faculty member? ||  Rotation to share recent successes with colleagues. || 5 min || News and Reviews || **I** || How can our two "departments" communicate more effectively? || Tech and Library Teams share what's happening || 10 min || Nuts & Bolts ||  **I** ||  Keeping up with daily business || Tech and Library Teams share business ||  5 min ||
 * **Task**
 * Weekly:
 * Team Goal || **U** || How can we support teachers? || Brainstorm, share ideas, develop plans, continue discussion || 30 min ||
 * New Faculty Intro || **D** || * What do we need to communicate to new staff regarding IT and Library?
 * When & how will we communicate this? || Review wiki, add improvements and edits || 15 min ||
 * School Vision || **D** || * How do we move forward as a team given our new understanding of how we fit within the school vision & priority list? || De-brief from last week's meeting
 * Updates to ISB Central & PantherNet:
 * ISB Central - if we want a mouse over to show text describing the resource we need short descriptions, max length = 140 characters by my calculation.
 * Tools for top bar in PantherNET – What tools exactly should we display? Do we also want short descriptions to pop up? || 20 min ||
 * PD Planning || **D** || * What are the next steps in coordinating the early adopter group?
 * Continue to plan PD sessions
 * Communication
 * CoETaIL & Master's Courses || * My.ISB group - how to get started
 * Next meeting, goals for group
 * Follow up regarding communication to staff about changing PD model || 5 min ||
 * Weekly:
 * Weekly:

**Minutes**
1. In order to discuss New Faculty intro information, we will have a separate meeting including Andy Vaughn with our team.

2. Successing sharing
 * Tara, Kim, Jeff: ES faculty meeting - Speed Geeking with people sharing what they are doing in their classes
 * Wikis, podcasts, smartboards, EARCOS, blogs, portfolios
 * Teachers highlighted who often don't step up for recognition
 * Fabulous collaborative effort
 * 4 minute speed sessions
 * Grade teams split up
 * People wanted more...they will seek out more
 * Community building
 * Felt very safe
 * Chad: Parent Night idea to provide info about tools
 * One hour session on what's out there
 * Ida: 5th graders came to MS Library...
 * Nice transition and enjoyable for students
 * Jeff: Voice thread, microscope photos
 * Life cycle description with parents and kids
 * Teacher parent (steve) now excited
 * Rob: IB EE two months ahead
 * kids are ahead of the curve with past timeline
 * Dennis: GIN conference success and Just in time learning

3. Team Goal - How can we keep moving forward?
 * Maintaining momentum from meetings, ETC and recognizing when the potential is there to feed off of excitement
 * For the next Master's course will be to look at developmental continuums - //crowdsource// this
 * Tool checklist for Teachers - this would come after the continuum

4. School Vision - Stephen shared new proposal
 * Transportable Gifts need a bullet from us
 * By next meeting, we will have this completed (April 9)

5. Ann on **//Inform//**
 * All PowerSchool Data shared with Inform
 * Allows for rich data analysis and searching
 * Can view large scale trends as well and drill down to which students are in certain categories
 * User access can be set by the students that they are involved with
 * Initial training built around admin, counselors, ESL, IS, and interested faculty
 * Let the word get out

6. Ann on Certificate and Master's Courses
 * Look at dates for courses starting in next school year
 * Start in September
 * Set dates and instructors

7. Technology After school sessions
 * No more Thursday K-12 sessions
 * Not being attended

8. Early Adopters group
 * Elgg site created and awaiting membership
 * They will join this group
 * When will we meet this group face to face?
 * In May, let's meet with this group
 * May 6th