November09

=iSITS Agenda November 9, 2009= **Welcome and warm-up game**

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[|Voki] (Mavis) Passport to the Internet (Morag) [|Classblogmeister] (Morag) [|UDL Science] (Morag) [|Glogster] (Morag) (Mavis) SMART bracelet [|http://blog.teqsmart.org/2008/12/smart-notebook-student-edition-available-as-a-bracelet-itswait-for-itsoftwear-get-it/] From Rob:
 * [|STAT projects] (for Sask. Teachers of Applied Technology)
 * [|Theory of Knowledge portal]
 * [|CPT course site]
 * [|A Day in the Life of NBCHS] (from CPT class)

Donna's News
 * 1) Conference and Convention Information
 * 2) Hat Pull
 * 3) May 3 and 4 - IT Summit - [|Ignite] sessions
 * 4) May 3 - STF Living Sky Professional Development Day
 * 5) [|K-12 Online] Reminder
 * 6) Discovery School Webinar - December 14 at 3:45?
 * 7) My Favourite Sites
 * 8) [|Amazon.ca]
 * 9) [|Audible.com] - what about the iPod Touch?
 * 10) Diigo.com
 * 11) [|Diigo Group - iSIT]S
 * 12) Living Sky School Division School Library Selection Committee
 * 13) [|Digital Citizenship Continuum] links, links, links!

Teacher Technology Skills
Are the two documents below compatible?

(compiled from discussion during the October meeting)
 * List of Essential Teacher Skills**
 * 1) E-mail
 * 2) Online attendance and grading programs
 * 3) Word Processing
 * 4) Create, format, edit, save
 * 5) Online collaboration
 * 6) Internet
 * 7) Find information (free search engines and magazine search engines)
 * 8) Evaluate information (Donna)
 * 9) Publish, share
 * 10) Blogging, wiki, web post, web page (Drupal)
 * 11) Digital photography, video, sound (Flickr, Youtube, Podbean)
 * 12) School online calendar
 * 13) Ethics and technology
 * 14) On task when using computers (attention literacy)
 * 15) Productivity tools other than word processing
 * 16) Presentation tools, including online
 * 17) Spreadsheets, including online
 * 18) Databases, including online
 * 19) Peripherals
 * 20) Attach and use software to download pictures from camera, video from video camera and flip
 * 21) Scanner
 * 22) Attach and use a projector with a computer and a DVD player
 * 23) Smartboards
 * 24) New technologies
 * 25) Blackberry or cell phone – text & email
 * 26) Games in the classroom
 * 27) Social Networking sites (Nings, Facebooks, etc)
 * 28) PLNS – create and maintain

(compiled from discussion during the October meeting) **
 * School-based Technology Directions
 * 1) Smartboards
 * 2) Certification
 * 3) New math curriculum
 * 4) Professional development
 * 5) Use of projectors as a movement towards the Smartboard
 * 6) Laptops
 * 7) Staff and students
 * 8) Portable Netbook lab
 * 9) Recognition of the increased space and portability they provide
 * 10) Easier to teach in your own room
 * 11) Library pages to provide information
 * 12) Classroom support systems
 * 13) Sound Field Systems
 * 14) Document Cameras
 * 15) School-student-parent-community Communications
 * 16) Large Screen TV at front entrance
 * 17) Calendar for communication of school events
 * 18) Increased use of school-based web pages (Drupal)
 * 19) Wikis as homework pages
 * 20) Push towards the creative
 * 21) Increased student blogging
 * 22) Increased multimedia production
 * 23) Games in the classroom – Nintendo DS in the primary classroom
 * 24) Open vs closed
 * 25) Use of cell phones, etc…
 * 26) School-based management of content filter
 * 27) Questions
 * 28) Do we have sufficient infrastructure?
 * 29) How can technology be more student centered vs teacher centered?

[|Teacher Skills Survey] -usability test -take the survey - noting any inconstancies or items that should be deleted or items that need to be added. E-mail me your suggestions.

Essential //Social Medi//a Tools for Education
1. jot down your 10 top tools for education 2. share them with your partner - come to a consensus 3. share them with your table - come to a consesnus 4. share with the large group

Afternoon - Guest Presenter/workshop Leader - Joanne Kasper =Student Technology Skills= The following is from the 2009 - 2010 Technology Plan ** LEARNING AND CURRICULUM/STUDENT FOCUS ** //2.0 By June of 2012, we will incorporate technology to improve the learning outcomes of students, targeting ELA (writing), math and physical education (f itness and health) based on the division's operational plan//**.** 1. ISITS teachers will share the current [|chart] with their staffs and will demonstrate a lesson plan from it 2. The current "chart" will be converted to an outcomes-based document 3. Technological tools will be approved and published on the //repository// 4. Classroom teachers will use and expand the repository on an ongoing basis
 * MRP:** Donna DesRoches, ISITS, teachers
 * Milestone:**
 * Actions:**


 * 1) November, 2009 - Revise the current chart
 * 2) Expand current chart by adding new content
 * 3) Convert objective-based lessons on current repository developed by ISITS to outcomes-based lessons
 * 4) The original chart will be reorganized into a lesson repository, subdivided into subject and/or grade sections
 * 5) Post current repository on a website
 * 6) ISITS person will share the repository with their staffs, using a sample lesson
 * 7) Lesson repository will be expanded on an ongoing basis.
 * 8) There will be opportunity for teachers to post reflections.
 * 9) Differentiated instruction and RTI will be incorporated and reinforced explicitly into repository lessons
 * 10) //ISITS members will identify a set of productivity and social media tools//
 * 11) Technology advisory committee will review these tools
 * 12) Selected tools will appear on repository website


 * Begin:** Nov 2009

//The following word documents will be handed ou//t [|Curriculum Documents]