october09

9:00 – welcome and introductions Warm-up activity Review of [|committee mandate and expectations]
 * Sharing**
 * 1) Cool ideas - what you have done since we last met
 * 2) School-based directions – let’s chart it?! Recent school-based decisions….professional development – laptops, smartboards, etc… anything new?
 * 3) Conference Sharing ([|Gary], Mark, Amy, Mavis, Morag, Allison: [|What I learned at NECC and beyond])
 * 4) Conference possibilities – [|ISTE 2010]: Denver, June 27-30, [|Building Learning Communities:] Boston, July 12-16.
 * 5) [|K-12 Online Conference]
 * 6) Donna's news
 * 7) [|How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr]
 * 8) Reminders about...
 * 9) [|Learning Resources]
 * 10) Follow me on [|diigo]or
 * 11) Follow me on [|delicious]
 * 12) Follow me on [|Yammer]
 * 13) [[file:Newsletters.doc]]
 * 14) Elluminate
 * 15) Kathy Cassidy - Oct 22 - Nintendo in the Primary Classroom
 * 16) Konrad Glogowski - Assessment for the 21st Century
 * 17) Passport to the Internet - review
 * 18) [|Digital Citizenship Continuum]
 * 19) Task: add links
 * 20) Division Technology Planning - [[file:techplan_08.doc]]
 * 21) teacher skills
 * 22) student exemplars
 * 23) SK E-Learning

**//Teacher Skills//** //1.1 Develop criteria to define technology competencies for teachers so that teachers can self-asses their own technology competencies.// 1. identify the technological competencies that staff need to support student learning and curricular outcomes –MPR - iSITS – Oct 2009 2. create survey MPR – Donna – January – test with iSITS - refine 3. deliver survey – collect data 4. share data with iSITS, schools and tech advisory committee – end of May 5. repeat process annually – assess & celebrate success and support new people in the division. Identify the technological competencies that staff need to support student learning and curricular outcomes –MPR - iSITS – Oct 2009
 * Milestones** :
 * Next Steps**


 * 1) Where do you think our teachers are at? Brainstorm Complete chart.
 * 2) Tools – what tools are essential? Brainstorming the top 10 tools – they don’t have to be web-based although they can be.
 * 3) Review [|Professional Productivity Rubric] and [|Rubrics for Restructuring] – considering the information from the first two tasks what changes need to be made?

Are we ready? For POD's
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READ: [|Are netbooks right for education?] Do netbooks shortchange students or make technology more accessible? Two ed-tech executives offer differing opinions Digital Citizenship

Discuss - share via a wiki link or google docs.

NEXT meeting - November 24