Some questions for Tech Steering Committee 2/24/09
Adjowah Scott, Alex Castro, Amanda Sen, George Weiksner, Steve Bergen
Click here for the 15 page Technology Plan from 7/29/06
Click here for the plateau Powerpoint by Tim Fish
Click here for the plateau Powerpoint by Tim Fish
Questions for our meeting? Would it be advantageous to
- require our students from a certain grade up to have memory sticks?
- use loaner laptops as an incentive towards better HW responsibility?
- have a faculty NING/social network perhaps inviting certain others to be part of the group?
- provide all lower school students with an alphasmart?
- have a regular time for faculty computer training?
- bring Peter Vinogradov into a discussion as to how to analyze Harcourt Score statistically in ways Kathy and the next Head of School will need?
- Contemplate a 5 year plan from 2010-2014?
Overview: we met on Tuesday 2/24/09 for about 90 minutes. Everyone was there. George, Amanda, Adjowah, Alex, Steve
We went through the content posted on our Web page including portions of the Tim Fish powerpoint.
1) STATS PLAN
It is the recommendation of this Tech Steering Committee that we start with a small sample population, perhaps grades 5&6 per Amanda recommendation. We use volunteers from George if needed and appropriate. We work with Peter to import the data into a module of Filemaker from multiple years. We then export from Filemaker and have George's team handle the data analysis. This to be done over the next 6 months with a window of April to October 2009.
2) ALPHASMARTS
It is the recommendation of this Tech Steering Committee that we proceed with alphasmarts for all Lower School student whenever fiscally viable.
3) NING
It is the recommendation of this Tech Steering Committee that we proceed with the the creation of the NING network for Storefront Faculty and Staff over the next few months. Based on the success or frustration of this endeavor, we can contemplate in 6-12 months the expansion of the NING to include other groups such as Trustees, Volunteers, Parents, former employees. George noted that for many of the trustees, their filter systems might prevent access to the NING from their offices.
4) THREE YEAR PLAN
It is the recommendation of this Tech Steering Committee that we produce a new version of pages 11 and 12 for the next 3 years. I will take the first draft of this one as a HW assignment for our next meeting which will be on a Tuesday afternoon 4-6 pm at Storefront.
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