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Rhonda Boone – YCS School Member Dr. Tom Little Janice McKinney Kay Ball Ellen Miller Pete Peterson Doris Deyton Mary Lou Daily Policy Recommendations to the Board Develop Procedures **County** **Reorganization** District Plan will drive two things. Janice – access and connection; Kay Ball – instruction- working together to get to globally competitive students Dr. Little brought up the question to M. Daily as to whether we are aligning our county organization to how the state is moving. Response: yes with details of different job descriptions;. Technical managed by one person and curriculum managed by another. Tech side helping with getting the information delivered, NC Wise. etc, and E-Rate Dr. Little – it is a huge piece and M.L. agreed. ML commended the Board for bringing on Kay full time. Suggestion from ML Daily, moving to the curriculum area is to work with the curriculum coordinators. Extremely important to bring in the curriculum coordinators in to working on the tech plan. Will gain knowledge of the essential standards from these people. Dr. Little says Kay will be involved in curriculum. Discussed the writing component going to be using an online application and keyboarding will be needed. Middle schools teach keyboarding but not until 8th grade due to certification of teachers. This will not help prepare for 7th grade writing test. Keyboarding is in 2nd/3rd grade curriculum. ML Daily recommended keyboarding for third grade. Dr. Little gave an update on this from the curriculum council meeting. He said we would look at keyboarding software and this would be a high priority. ( I have already contacted Hart Inc. and have new Ultra Key software to preview.) – eRate and Connectivity Project – NC Wise, Testing, Virtual High School eRate is an 80% discount so we only pay 20% of cost on things; this comes from free/reduced lunch count; French Broad running fiber lines. Fiber to Bee Log $150,000.00 School Connectivity funds and eRate funds may end up paying for all of it or may have to pay $23,000.00. South Toe was connected a couple of weeks ago. Once Bee Log finished, both schools will be connected at the CO level. Janice said we are waiting on the eRate fund coming in. ML said more like the end of Oct. to be safe. Said that if we didn’t see a big improvement of speed that something was wrong. YCS got special consideration and some funding from Connectivity Project based on some assessments to get everyone up to minimum standard. Pete questioning to Mary Lou about getting an assessment of our system of the net work. Someone come in a do an assessment of our network. Looks at switches, routers, to the fine details that will help us get the most out of our network. It’s free for this service. Janice says there is some preliminary paperwork that must be done. Janice – School Fusion – explained how the new product would work – calendars – homework – communication – it is a portal of communication came about from eRate. $4230. per year – was $17,000. **21st Century Classrooms** – projector project – looked – got a quote – Pete now has additional quotes – Pete trying to set up how principals want will - cost $1,000.00 per classroom – barebones installation. Niles will have to do additional wiring. Some schools are done. CES and Bee Log have theirs mounted. BC has cables hanging down from the ceiling. Some are installed at the MHHS. ML says that it needs some kind of conduit installed. Questions who gets what first? Camcor quote was based on doing five classrooms in school at a time. Pete says that we will try to bring it in in waves to make it affordable. Dr. Little said that we didn’t realize that it was so expensive. Pete – CO fund a certain amount - $500. 00 extra to add the audio. Pete says that we will try to bring it in in waves to make it affordable. Dr. Little said that we didn’t realize that it was so expensive. Pete – CO fund a certain amount - $500. 00 extra to add the audio. Rhonda Boone – said that teachers need to be comfortable with equipment. One hour training will not do it! Train the teachers. Dr. Little 015 that we only get $16,000 from state. 031- money for equipment – it was cut. Grant writer paid from 031. 34,000 for site license for Deep Freeze, etc…. Doris Deyton – take a grade level meeting to take the time in the lab so that teachers have help and support for things like the NC Wise Gradebook. Ellen – using Adobe for making forms better for the EC teachers that are online. This was perceived as a good investment of purchasing the software. It help teachers be more time efficient. Old Tech plan: question as to whether or not on the web New tech plan template ISTE Standards YCS District Improvement Goals Committee is focusing on 1.3 – enhancing technology across the curriculum Going to add the PP slide handouts New Tech Plan Due 5 p.m. on Nov. 3 – state law mandate ML – put in what we need to do to improve our system based on the SIP plans not just extra work Teachers don’t know about or how to use free resources we already have Donna Sawyer –Teacher on Loan – could come do Kaleidoscope for free. ML – policy development policy that address access to things on the web – a policy in place to protect the students and the school staff. John Brimm will be at the Sept. 12th meeting to talk about virtual High School Pete Teach kids how to use things. Teach them how to be responsible – open things up to students so they can get to virtual High School and resources ML – policy look at responsibility of monitoring by the teacher – and ethically use of resources Dr. Little – policies – ML – does the state have the policies we need – site based management and ML can give us examples but not recommend – the board and our lawyer has to decide – ML will provide access to Dr. Little to templates she has a subscription too. Curriculum Skills curriculum is the responsibility of the classroom teacher; information skills the responsibility of the media coordinator Technology is not something else teachers do – just enhance the curriculum. Plan to put the new tech plan on google docs so team members can edit and review and maybe create a wiki.
 * Minutes for the D-TAC Meeting August 28, 2008 **
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 * Janice **
 * Notebook – documents - Pete **
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