Friday, March 7, 2014

3/6/14 Tech Cabinet Minutes

3/6/14 Tech Cabinet Minutes

Carlsbad Unified School District Technology Cabinet
District Office, Conference Room, 8:00 - 10:00 am

Attendees: Bryan Brockett, Margie Giordani, Kimberly Huesing, Rick Lewis, Chad Lund, Cesar Morales, Aaron Nelson, Rob Nye, Sharon St. Clair, Maggie Stanchi, Richard Tubbs

Old Business
  • Basic Classroom Configuration Standards - Update from the Master Facilities Planning Committee
    • Who is on that committee? William, Curt, Suzette, Suzanne
    • Sites should have representation of some sort (teachers or admin)
    • Expenditure Committee will fund document cameras for any classroom that doesn’t have one already
    • Hovercam Solo 5 - not compatible with GradeCam - http://www.gradecam.com/cameras/
  • Data Management Presentations Feb 19th
    • EADMS/Measured Progress and Illuminate/Inspect
    • Teachers for all day presentations
      • Elementary - Shane Little (BV), Kimberly Guillen (AOE),  Ellie Restivo (Poi)
      • Middle - Sharon Rodak (AOM), Dana Dre (VMS)
      • High - Paul Isbell (CHS), Chris Bonta (CHS), Sue Woolley
      • Other attendees - Lacy Metcalfe, Sharon St. Clair, Guen Butler and Kevin Fairchild (SDUHSD)
    • Illuminate is the front runner, but committee wants to share info district wide to allow everyone to have a voice.  That information will be sent out tomorrow by Sharon
    • Break up with DataDirector - no data dump
      • Notify teachers to pull out their info
  • The Parent Survey for School Loop is ready for deployment.
    • After LCAP data is captured
    • Magnolia, Pac Rim, and Valley piloting - students/teachers loaded by Jan
    • Could be a possibility to use NewsELA and Scholastic’s SRI instead. May be a less expensive altemative
Research the cost of SRI and possibly take to the expenditure committee - Richard
    SRI is $7.50 per student with a one time $350 set up fee.
  • SBAC Update
    • Expenditure Committee will purchase the wired iPad keyboards for BV and Kelly
    • Chromebooks need the secure browser as well - Matt Taylor and Ashley Crawford
    • Need to get secure browser app loaded onto the iPads - Sharon
    • Info Systems will test every computer in the labs and learning centers to ensure all is good during Spring Break
    • Teachers want training
      • Have teachers take the kids to the lab to take the practice test to get familiar with the system
      • Need to train principals as well
      • Lab aides?
  • Wireless authentication at sites - tabled until next meeting
    • Issues at SCHS
    • Guest access on chromebooks? Do we want to do this or require each student to authenticate?  Still under discussion.

New Business
  • Standards based gradebook availability in Aeries for elementary teachers
    • Sharon will arrange a visit to Vista with Kimberly to see it in action
  • GAFE - pilot group
    • Roll out time table
    • Interested staff - Sharon Rodak, Melody Flanagan, Erin Adams, Jeff Simon, Andy Rosen,
      • Questions
        • Issues with staff who have already created a google account using their existing district email address (Ruth Cartagena)
        • Can staff use the Google Drive and not the email for now?
        • Who should be on a committee to work on this?
    • SCHS and Jefferson would like to use the single sign on for the google drive
  • Compatibility issues with computer lab computers and networked printers (Aaron Nelson)
    • The new OS of the computers doesn’t match the OS of the old printers, so they don’t work together
    • Trying to find the drivers to fix the issue
    • Toshiba is fine, so the temporary workaround is to print to those devices
  • There should be a concentrated effort to get accurate parent emails into Aeries
    • The best method would be to get the parent portal ready for registration/enrollment/secondary course selection
  • MITI via SDCOE - converting to the combined fiscal/HR/payroll/purchasing
    • We’re in Phase 2, with implementation January, 2015
    • Rick Grove, Nancy Navarro, and Rick Lewis
    • May, July, August, and September are when the trainings will occur
  • Type to Learn
    • Jan - initial upload date so new students needing accounts can be identified
    • Reminder on how to create classes (screenshots) - send to teachers, principals and Lab aides
    • Maggie Stanchi spoke at the district PTA meeting and parents are anxious about this
  • Telepresence software - overview
    • tabled to next meeting
  • Student logged on computers won’t load the updates
    • Rick will speak with Matt Taylor about this issue to resolve
  • Future steps
    • PD rollout for Chromebooks
    • San Marcos - do they have any modules they could share?
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