Friday, October 4, 2013

Tech Council Meeting, CLIU #21 September 23, 2013

Sharing:

Charlie-Lehighton-TechSTEM 8th grade class (new class and Charlie wrote the curriculum)

  *   Share any resources with Charlie

Kathy-NWL-Chromebooks, folks want iPad carts, Google Apps for Ed

  *   Using Talent Ed software package for Teacher Eval

Beth-Parkland-starting a library of video tutorials, everything from the basics of computer operation to how to's of tools (Edmodo, Voki, etc.)

  *   STAR assessment from Renaissance Learning (K-5)-replacing DIBELS
  *   Piloting this literacy software- iStation (K-5): http://www.istation.com<http://www.istation.com/>
  *   660 Chromebooks (K-12) each building getting a cart

Katie Leach-Weatherly- new MacBooks in district

Dave Stauffer-Whitehall- BYOD, they opened a wireless network just for this.
Students can use cellphone to call/text/whatever when in hallways, cafe, etc. just not in the classroom. When in the classroom it is the teacher discretion and a classroom management issue.

  *   Socrative
  *   Remind 101
  *   Red Laser (barcode reader)

The You Tube error issue has been a problem for some of our districts. Hoping to have it resolved soon!

Dave asked for a short Canvas overview.

John Monahan-ASD- moving into an admin role, Instructional Supervisor at Raub MS

  *   All ASD schools now have a Twitter and FB account, Principals manage them

PETE&C
CLIU Workshops
Principal Cert
Math Cert
Overdrive
NASA eBooks: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html#.UkBFrBbFndk