2011-2012+Technology+Team+Notes

September 14, 2011

Members Present: Sherry Calvert, Tina Towers, Rita Jackson, Beth Balch, Sarah Bragwell, Katie Davis, Suzanne Mozley

We elected Rita Jackson as Chairperson and Beth Balch as Secretary.

Needs:
 * Leah Turner's student computers are not working
 * Tina is working on placing surge protectors on each projecter and installing splitters
 * The TV station should be operable next week for us to utilize for morning announcements. We will need a few weeks to get all of the logistics worked out and establish as schedule for taping.
 * We need to check and replace all headphones that are not working in the computer lab. (put a sticky note on the computers whose need replacements)
 * Microphones would be a great classroom addition so that students could podcast their projects. Katie mentioned that Audacity is the best program to utilize microphones and podcasting. Beth is going to contact Tom Drelinger about podcast camp from the ALSDE.
 * Extra Mimio pens for the classrooms would be great to allow more than one student to work simulaneously and also have a "backup" in case one breaks.
 * A Mimio will be placed in the Library.
 * We are still waiting on approval for our United Streaming account. Many teachers utilize this in the classrooms.

PD:
 * Teachers have requested PD to help with transfering Interactive Whiteboard files and using them with Mimio.
 * Suzanne Mozley and Rita Jackson will give teachers PD on establishing a wikispaces classroom website that features blogging.
 * Beth Balch will give teahcers PD on establishing a classroom webpage on weebly.com

Sarah Bragwell is going to set up a Book Study Blog for our __Understanding Poverty__ book study.

We need to let teachers know that Google Chrome should not be used. It interferes with INOW and will mess our computers up.

We talked about taking a few minutes at each faculty meeting to let teachers share interesting and worthwhile techonolgy tips with the entire faculty. This will keep everyone more informed about all of the great material that has been found and works well in the classroom.