February+24,+2011

Meeting Minutes HERE!

Time to Start: 8:15 End Time: When we're done (hopefully not midnight) Protocols: a) All members of the committee will come to the meeting prepared. b) Only under extenuating circumstances will agenda items be added to the meeting after the agenda has been published. c) All members of the committee commit to produced agreed-upon purpose or results and to be present for the agreed upon length of the meeting(s). d) We will communicate openly and honestly. e) We will all contribute actively without dominating. f) We will present our points of views as ours; we don’t claim to speak for other people or groups. g) We will make decisions by consensus, meaning: i. All give their consent ii. All agree to support in private and public iii. All consent to what is developed in their absence iv. When consensus cannot be reached we will disclose why and work to find an alternative consensus. v. When we cannot convince others that our special interests (we all have them) are part of the common interest, we let go of them (We don’t hold the meeting up for our special interests) h) We will refrain from personal attacks, critiques, etc. of individuals (present or absent). i) We agree to hold as confidential the remarks of individuals knowing that all committee meeting minutes and recommendations will be published to the board and reviewed at each meeting.

Agenda Items:
- Agenda Review- Additional items? Restructuring? Order of attack? - Review of Past Agenda and action items

**OUR ISSUES TODAY**

 * · Email system: final recommendation- Torris **
 * Infrastructure update? Going to MS servers?-Jeff
 * CALENDARING. Yep again. Can we not get something in place, hosted here or in the cloud that we can use besides google cal? I want the calendars on the portal to go away but need something concrete in its place. SAS hosted cals preferred.-Jeff
 * · Staff development planning 2011-12- Torris **
 * Who is coming back early for Orientation of New Teachers? (No really, who is coming back early? (Amanda)
 * · Laptop roll out for 2011-12 -- learning from our mistakes- Torris **
 * Loomer discovered that students have the ability to change ROOT password fairly easily. We need to adjust image! Perhaps more granular control of things, cleaner administrative control of images. - DM
 * Re-image plans for next year? – DM
 * Software for Image Simon and Amanda - Getting rid of Stuff!
 * Discuss a uniform message to students about back-up procedures. Just saying "you really ought to" isn't getting through. If we required/provided hard drives to all kids, we could walk them through Time Machine. Perhaps a cloud solution? We're doing them a disservice in terms of tech. ed. by not addressing this better. – DM
 * 6th grade document storage options? - Amanda
 * Office 2011 can we start putting it on teacher ( Student laptops) ?
 * · Purchasing progress and issues- Torris **
 * Where are we headed with smart boards vs. mimio? Is there an official product we are endorsing/supporting over another? Should these be considered basic classroom equipment like sound, projector,etc.-Jeff
 * 1:1 in 4th and 5th 2012. We want this to be an official request. What does the ES admin need to do to get the approved and implemented?-Jeff
 * Can Pudong become more independent of services from Puxi? Simon M, Amanda
 * Projector bulbs stockpile needed desperately! (Amanda)
 * Ordering of computer bags for next year (Amanda)
 * Some teacher computers are approaching the 3 year mark. We need to discuss a plan for replacement of those computers (Amanda)
 * ILife '11 update? Cost prohibitive? Adobe CS 5? Mac Office Update (recommended) – PM
 * ES School Tech Wiring over summer update?-Jeff
 * · NETWORKING and SERVICES **
 * Blog admin rights and portal deconstruction -Jeff
 * iweb-can our servers handle the load if every teacher + students starts making iweb pages, adding vids and pics to them and using them as blogs?-Jeff (test them on PC server?) Amanda
 * With Library iPads and staff with mobile devices, can we have a Wireless network for those ? Or added to the database? Simon M and Amanda
 * Student "lockers" in Moodle? Students acts as admin and course follows them throughout their academic career. - PM
 * What is the final date leaving staff will be able to access their sas mail accounts?
 * Need for staff survey on network, portal pages, etc? - PM
 * · Curriculum/Instruction **
 * (Decision requested) Wikispaces private label next steps - testing done by Simon (Alicia)
 * (Information sought) MS SAS benchmarks/learner outcomes - move to 2011-12? HS still on for 2011-12? (ES [|complete] ; "mastery" levels defined in Atlas)
 * (Information sought) Dr. Yong Zhao [|Digital] / [|Literacy] scholar in residence - any others for 2011-12, or 2012-13?
 * **MAP Test**-Orion are we ready to go with 160 kids all accessing tests from the same NTE Folder on our test server at exactly the same time? Anyway to pre-test this load beforehand?-Jeff