Technology+Committee+Minutes+1-19-11

** Minutes 1-19-11 **
 * Technology Committee Meeting **

**Members present**: S. Appelby, L. Kunze, M. Phelps, B. King, K. Albers, M. Westerfield, J. Fuller, M. Constant

**Administrator:** K. Skeens

** 1. **** Student Email Discussion— ** · Teachers are finding they need an email address for their students to use educational websites such as XtraNormal and Moodle to use in class. Most students have an email address of some sort whether it be yahoo or gmail account, but all agreed that a school email that can be accessed at school and monitored by teachers is the best choice. · Discussion on teacher responsibility to teach digital citizenship and establish expectations for students’ use of variety of technology, including email · Agreed that email is an important life skill that must be taught and incorporated into curriculum

** 2. **** Smartboard/Mimio/Interwrite— ** · Committee decided that the additional cords needed may be a hindrance and not work well in most classroom setting · Discussion on DCPS projector project which may incorporate “smart” projectors as replacements · Discussion of new teacher laptops vs. tablets · Committee decided not to purchase any of these items yet

** 3. **** iPads— ** · Committee agreed to go ahead and purchase 5 iPads per team · iPads/cases were ordered

** 4. **** Computer Labs ** · Committee agreed to purchase maximum memory for all the computer labs · Memory has been ordered

** 5. **** Plan for Training/Upkeep ** = Committee decided a plan/training needed to be in place prior to distributing the iPads  =