Spaulding High School & Barre Tech Center Campus

Technology Committee Meeting

Thursday, October 25, 2007

7:35 – 8:15 AM

Room 126

 

Minutes

 

Present:  Penny Chamberlin (Facilitator), E. Coleman, S. Cravedi, A.Desilets, J. McKinnon,  L. McSweeney, R. Nudell, J Pandolfo, D. Stacy, T. Walz

 

  1. Penny asked for a volunteer (on a rotating basis) for minutes.  Linda volunteered.
  2. Discussion SU Technology Plan

 

·        Discussion continued from the last meeting and focused on the best method to collect the most useful data to assist in addressing the Tech Plan goals (#1)

·        Tommy presented a hard copy sample of the grade ¾ survey; Penny presented a sample matrix she would like to use with Tech Center faculty.

·        It was suggested by Stephanie that the matrix would give us a better picture of where the “holes” in IT GLE’s were vs. the survey which focused on one lesson plan per teacher

·        Since the online survey is housed on a non-BSU server, discussion took place about collecting school data on a computer server outside of school with a suggestion from Linda that this question be bumped up to the Superintendent or school’s attorney.

·        Elisha proposed that we collect data by department and grade level (ex. 9th grade English) on the IT GLE matrix at department faculty meetings

·        Penny requested we should all come to the Nov. 8 meeting with guiding questions to attach to the IT GLE matrix so we can put together a packet to collect data at department faculty meetings. It was decided that Penny and Tommy would draft a list of questions and email them out to the committee a week prior to Nov. 8th meeting.  We would plan to distribute the data tool at the Nov. 8th meeting.

 

  1. Priorites (short, medium and long term)

                 

·        Campus Intranet (L. McSweeney).  Linda reported about a series of email

      discussions with IT staff about on campus access to Groupwise Email and

      TIDEcat (the campus library catalog)  It was suggested by Elisha that Diane

      Offer a brief training at the Nov. 8 meeting to explain the best way to access.

      Diane said that IT staff would also be installing Groupwise Clients on more

      School computers; and that instruction about putting shortcuts on school            computers would be coming out in an IT newsletter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·        Electronic Attendance Program (E. Coleman)  Elisha asked if there was a way to improve the attendance data collection with our current student management system.  She proposed streamlining attendance paperwork with a procedural change.  Gail, Lisa, Diane, Elisha will meet to discuss.

 

·        Replacement of Teacher’s computers (E. Coleman).  Elisha asked if older classroom computers were going to be replaced this year.  Tommy responded that the Math Dept. room would be receiving new teacher computers.

 

·        Smartboard Technology Requests (S. Cravedi)  As part of her department budget preparation, Stephanie reported she had requests for 2 smartboards in the English Department.  Tommy said that she should forward her requests to him (with justifications) for his tech budget rather than put it in her department budget.  He said he had already prepared his budget, but that he could amend  it.

 

Next Meeting:

 

Thursday, November 8, 2007

7:35 – 8:15 AM

Room 126

 

                                                                                                                                                            Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Linda Mc