STC Technology Planning Committee Meeting
Minutes
Monday 3/13/2006, 4:00 PM STC
Library
Workshops/Trainings/Meetings/Conferences
- Blackboard
- Tracy Adrian has been trained in the use of this online courseware,
has been using it for her Computer III classes, and has been attending
Blackboard workdays monthly.
Marie Butler requested a formal training by Tracy for anyone at STC
who is interested in learning BlackBoard. Tracy will discuss this with
Sr. Mary in Lincoln.
- NETA
- We need to identify 3 or 4 teachers to attend this year's NETA conference,
reserve 2 hotel rooms, and reserve subs.
**Tracy Adrian requested that we keep the NETA student contests in mind
for next year's lesson planning.
- Problem
Based Learning -- Tracy Adrian attended a Problem Based
Case Based workshop through her Tech
Prep contacts at CCC, funded by MCIT
and AIM.
The Computer III class will be partnering with CCC's Marketing class
and CCC's Electronics class to solve a problem for a real-life business
called Zox.
- Tech
Prep -- Most of our classes are articulated until 2008.
New Business teacher Dirk Coon fully articulated all of his classes
this year.
- ESU9/ESU10
-- There are a few technology workshops left this year that Tracy Adrian
will publicize via email and in the workroom.
- ROBOlympics
-- The Computer III students were enrolled, but did not participate
this as Tracy Adrian was admitted to the hospital when they were scheduled
to go.
- Tech Expo -- The Computer III students
attended this event at CCC-Grand Island in October 2005. They learned
about technology careers, participated in a role-play denial of service
attack, listed to Congressman Tom Osborne's aide, and acquired many
freebies.
- Build a Computer in a Day -- The
Computer III students attended this event in February at CCC-Hastings.
Students assembled a computer and installed the operating system.
- CSE
Day -- Three Computer III students (boys) and two Computer
II students (girls) will be attending Computer Science and Engineering
Day at UNL on March 31st. Tracy Adrian will be accompanying them. The
boys' team won 3rd place in the Design Contest.
- Tech Day - Vicki Buss will take
her AutoCAD students and other design students to Tech Day at CCC to
compete in Drafting and other design contests.
- FBLA
(BIE - subcommittee
of the Chamber of Commerce) -- Business Teacher Dirk Coon and Tracy
Adrian applied for and were awarded a Business, Industry & Education
(BIE) Grant to charter a Hastings St. Cecilia FBLA chapter, and take
the newly elected officers to the State Spring Leadership Conference
(SLC). The grant check is to be presented Tuesday, April 25th during
the regular monthly BIE meeting.
AutoLibrarian - **Working on the Library
Automation software has been on the back burner this year due to Chancery
SMS issues. We need to move this up on the priority list.
Exchange Server - We will push to
get our Exchange server configured when the Diocese Ed Tech Office can
guarantee that the email will be web-based.
Reading and Math software - The English
and Math departments are investigating using the software from the makers
of Accelerated Reader for Writing and Math. They will keep us posted.
Chancery SMS
- Upgrades - Vicki Buss and Tracy
Adrian reported that the repeated upgrades from Chancery SMS are very
time-consuming.
- Formal Request for training and more control
- **Carol Broulliette, Tracy Adrian, and Marie Bulter are going to make
a request for some formal training on Chancery SMS to include scheduling,
reports, and managing students. Marie has already discussed some preliminaries
with Fr. Schweiger. Marie and Tracy went to a scheduling training day
on Thursday, March 30.
- New tracking software from Chancery
- Marie Butler made a formal request to Joe LeDuc at the Diocese Ed
Tech Office for this software.
- K12 Planet - as soon as things
are going smoothly with Chancery SMS, we wish to push forware on **implementing
the K12 Planet parent portal. We wish to start with a pilot test group
of parents the first year/semester, and then during parent/teacher conferences
or an open house, have parents demonstrating it's use.
Web Site
- Redesigning - Tracy Adrian will
be redesigning the STC website and uploading it to www.stchastings.org
this Spring. The HCS website will remain on the www.esu9.org server,
but point to STC and STC.
- Release Forms– include alumni
in the Signing Permission Process? **We will contact the Attorney Sullivan
about our publicity release form and include them in the alumni in our
release signing process.
- Additional Forms - We will include
the new PLC Team Feedback Sheet as both a submittable and printable
form on the website.
New Equipment:
Diocesan Education Technology Initiative:
Report of Diocese Ed Tech Office
- Incentive pay changes - all data
compilation takes place at the Diocese Ed Tech Office now.
- Job changes - there has been a
lot of employee turnover in the Diocese Ed Tech Office, which has slowed
request and response time.
- MS Lab work - still needs finished.
We need to follow up on this.
- Wireless Bridge Status? - Diocese
Ed Tech Office was to send someone the Monday before Christmas Break
but didn't. We need to follow up on this.
Top 10 Needs
- More SmartBoards
- More Projectors
- discussed creating a formal checkout process for multimedia equipment,
such as projectors, laptops, VCR/DVD players and remotes
- discussed a built in projector for the library
- Teacher Computers/Laptop?
- Fr. Meysenburg /Marie Butler - Laptop or Desktop
- Lab Management Software
- Centurion Lock Software
- Music Department would like more robust computers
(2) with DVD burners for their midi hardware.
- Video Production would like a more robust computer
for use in the Video Production room w/ a DVD burner.
Next Meeting:
TBA as needed
Email Tracy Adrian with questions, additions, or concerns
at tadrian@esu9.org
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