Final+Agenda+for+March+24,+2009

 **__Finalized Agenda for March 24, 2009 Meeting__**
 * Purpose: ** To discuss various means, anticipated problems, ideas, and activities to meet our technology integration goals.


 * Objective: ** To facilitate the complete integration of technology into our classrooms by May, 2010.


 * Grade Levels **: K-2, 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8


 * Facilitator: ** Betsy Hancock


 * Professional Learning Community Members: **
 * //Betsy Hancock //, Organizer; Special Education BSC Teacher 
 * //K. Ballard, //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> Self-Contained Middle School Teacher (all subjects) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">R. Castro //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, 1st Grade Bilingual Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">L. Harlow //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; High School Math Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">D. Foster //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; Business Education Teacher, Secondary <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">P. Hagen //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; 7th Grade Math Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">B. Jones //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; 4th Grade Language Arts Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">M. O'Bannion //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; High School Technology Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">E. Swalley //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; Jr and Sr High School English Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">D. Kerpens //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; 2nd Grade Bilingual Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">B. Asher //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; Campus Instructional Technologist (CIT), Secondary <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">M. Peralez //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; 4th/5th Grade Special Education Teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">T. Martin //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">, Lamar University colleague; High School Technology Lab Facilitator <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Agenda Topics __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Introductions (5-10 minutes): **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Please introduce yourself, providing: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">(All) Discussion of other roles needed for our campus. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> > > <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> [|TEA Technology Survey.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Agenda items, timeline, and facilitator for third meeting <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A brief summary of how you currently use technology,
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">How you would like to use technology in your classroom, and
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">What you perceive as the obstacles you face.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Roles (5-7 minutes): **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Technology Contact/Administrative Liaison //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Betsy Hancock (Assigned by Administration) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Meeting Facilitator //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: (will vary meeting to meeting) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Timekeeper //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: (must be willing to keep the community on track time-wise) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Librarian/Historian //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Kathy Ballard (has graciously volunteered to track history and maintain online library of meeting agendas, notes, readings, etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Web 2.0 Tools (15-20 minutes): ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">WikiSpace
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Blogs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Social Networking
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Instant Messaging
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">(Betsy Hancock) Provide brief descriptions of each of the above, how students are currently using them in their lives, and share some ideas on how they could be utilized on our campus. As possible, Ms. Hancock will provide links to each tool “in action” for those who need further information.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">(All) Discuss concerns, ask questions, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Involving all members of our community in learning about and using technology in their classrooms (5-7 minutes): **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Teacher and classroom staff members will fill out a survey of their strengths and weaknesses and the levels of both and return to Ms. Hancock for collation. Inventory can be found here:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Call for volunteers to collate incoming data and create chart of strengths, weaknesses and needs.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Create schedule for classes and mini-courses to meet the needs of teachers based on collated data (Technology Contact).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Wrap-up (5-10 minutes): **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">(All) Discuss agenda items, timeline, and facilitator for second meeting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Possible agenda items for next meeting: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Old business
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Follow-up on how teachers and staff are integrating technology. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Creating “Hands-On” activities for reinforcing knowledge, new and old, and schedule for implementation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cyber-Ethics: In-depth training and ideas for teaching and enforcing in the classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Finalizing and filling committee roles. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">