February+26+2009


 * ISB 21 Team Meeting Agenda **

Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D ||
 * Date: Thursday, Feb 26, 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 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** ||   **P** || **Guiding Question**  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Background/ Process**  || **Person/Time** ||
 * Weekly:
 * Team Goal || **U** || How can we support teachers? || Brainstorm, share ideas, develop plans
 * Inside ISB - Group Student Blogs?
 * Or do we set up a second install for student blogs to keep teacher information separate from teacher information? || 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 fit within the school vision?
 * How can we come to an understanding about this?
 * || Based on Pam's recommendation, plan a meeting to invite Bill and Andy for some discussion on how we work with the school to improve student learning.
 * Feedback from Chad re: Bill's interest in this meeting.
 * Set a date.
 * Begin planning topics for conversation || 20 min ||
 * PD Planning || **D** || * What are the next steps in coordinating the early adopter group?
 * Continue to plan PD sessions
 * Communication || * Follow up regarding early adopter group
 * Follow up regarding communication to staff about changing PD model || 5 min ||
 * Weekly:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weekly:

** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Parking Lot – Items on our plate for future meeting **
Successes:
 * 1) Ida: 8th graders uploading book reviews to Destiny - awesome.
 * 2) Dennis: WWW has been great entry point for blogging and the quality students do with an open audience

(side conversation: talking about front-end could there be one point login in? Dropping cookie on a machine)

New Faculty Intro
 * 1) Communicate with new staff "orient-er"
 * 2) Use tech to support orientation of new faculty
 * 3) Email to new teachers

Chad confirmed that Bill, Tom, and Andy will attend our March 5 meeting. (Ann invited, but unable to attend) Goals of that meeting:
 * Other issues**
 * Treat it as a follow up on our presentation
 * Progress in IT:
 * Grad course and impact on learning & teaching (Jeff & Kim)
 * PantherNet (Dennis)
 * InsideISB (Jeff)
 * MyISB (Chad)
 * Google Apps (Chad)
 * Main Library Review (Rob, Ida, Tom)
 * Infrastructure and hardware (Chad and Stephen)
 * Ask them after our presentation last semester what's happened so far and what are the next steps (particular for us)

2. Thursday help session on RSS feeds with Professional Journal focus

3. Student blogging (MyISB vs Google Apps vs another WordPress environment)
 * Do they need to be on their own (separate URL)?
 * Student blogs carry over year to year (hopefully)
 * "My" would be a good domain for students
 * Chad is testing all platforms this semester
 * Next school year would be a good year to begin this
 * Would group blogs be with Inside or in the student area?
 * If teacher managed, then could stay in Inside
 * If completely student created then out to student area
 * This brings up the issue of creating a "One-stop shop for all of our services" - an ISB Central from outside
 * Include library in LDAP active directory integration