Meetings+and+Minutes

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 (3:00-3:30)
Members Present: Linda, Brenda, Ellena

Agenda/Discussion:
 * 1) How are the Tech Tuesday Notes coming?
 * We discussed that several of us had not gotten to the Tech Tuesday notes. Will regroup and continue with this project. Brenda will send out one on BrainPop, Ellena will share about freeplaymusic.com and Linda will discuss Search Engines. Discussion focused that these are valuable sites that if teachers knew about them - they would use them more. Brenda suggested we tell about the site on a word document and attach to an email so teachers can download and save them in a file.
 * 1) PD360
 * We will look at PD360 in the future. We felt that our focus should remain on Tech Tuesday notes

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 (3:15-3:45)
Members Present: Pedro, Linda, Brenda and Teresa

Agenda 1. where does our focus need to be? 2. we feel like we are reinventing the wheel with gathering important websites, when SLES Important Websites is already done and the GCISD Techlessons is a fantastic site for resources. 3. maybe we need to explore these sites ourselves and then send them an email about one website and how to use it and why it is important for them to use, from the GCISD TechLessons or from SLES Important Websites. 4. maybe considering having a Technology Night so parents can learn what is available through the school site and district sites 5. some sites that they try to access from home are layered down so far that kids can't find or navigate to. 6. Calendar Library Subscriptions ||= February 8- Library Subscriptions ||= February 15- Library Subscriptions ||= February 22 Search Engines || Keyboarding Site ||= March 8- Wordle ||= March 15 Spring Break ||=  ||
 * = February 1-
 * = March 1-Internet

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 (3:15-3:45)
Members Present: Ellena, Brenda, Pedro, Teresa

Agenda
 * 1) Reviewed how to get on the SLE Tech Wiki
 * 2) Teresa taught Pedro and Ellena how to edit pages and add links for the websites submitted by teachers.
 * 3) Teresa will maintain the page of SLE Important websites
 * 4) Brenda will maintain District Library Resources
 * 5) Pedro has teacher resources grades PreK-2nd.
 * 6) Ellena has student resources grades 3 - 5
 * 7) Nora has student resources preK - 2nd
 * 8) Linda has Teacher Resources grades 3 - 5
 * 9) Links were added to the pages for Teacher Resources.

Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 (3:15 - 3:45)
Members Present:Ellena, Nora, Brenda, Linda, Teresa, and Pedro

Agenda
 * 1) Reviewed how to get on the SLE Tech Wiki
 * 2) Reviewed the minutes from last meeting.
 * 3) Discussed our mission for our Tech Cadre wiki. We made new pages for our wiki and each took a page to work on gathering information for. Each person will contact teachers through email to ask for recommendations. They will then review the websites and decide where they fit best on our wiki.
 * 4) At our next meeting we will discuss how to place these websites on our wiki and make them into a link for teachers and/or students to use.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 (12:00-12:30)
Members Present: Ellena, Nora, Brenda, Linda, Teresa (Pedro had a parent conference will join when he can)

Agenda: 1. Discuss Objectives - assign group members to research and present information to group We discussed the fact that there are so many technology resources that teachers need to know exist and they need to know how they work. We feel like this is our focus for the first semester. Brenda will be working on the library district resources. Nora will be working on the resources for PreK-1. We need to have a volunteer for 2-3 and 4-5 volunteer. Some of these resources may fit all grade levels.

2. Share wiki created for cadre and how to access it and what it might be used for. All members of the Tech Cadre have created accounts in Wikispaces, except for Pedro. We discussed how to edit the pages and how to add discussion question

Initial Meeting

 * August 25, 2010**

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1. We want to make people (teachers) aware of online resources. The district has spent thousands of dollars on these resources. We want to target specifically, library resources. Ex.tumblebooks.com We would like to accomplish this by having micro-meetings at the library and demonstrating how to retrieve the info. =====

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3. We would like to form a “technology club” involving students. We could meet with the students and train them afterschool to make movies and slideshows. It would include making a storyboard, learn to use software, help set up, make video and edit the product using flip cameras and digital voice recorders. The videos would be used to teach students and parents the procedures in our school. For example, pick up/drop off, cafeteria procedures, playground procedures. This could be a monthly character trait building tool for all who view the videos. The student tech club could also participate in the school’s music presentations. =====

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4.We want to help teachers to organize their desktop by saving information such e-mail in the computer instead of printing e-mails. =====