SEMTEC Meeting Dec 17

[Bryan Berg]

Here's what the Agenda is looking like for Friday's meeting:

 

9:30am - Welcome!

 

9:35am - Discussion Topics

RAMSP - Matt Anderson

• Matt is now the Tech Rep on the RAMSP Committee, apparently also wanted to have him work on the RAMSP website.
• Matt reported that RAMSP wants to do a webinar on a monthly basis to teach others about what's happening in Science classrooms to help teachers collaborate. They are looking to have someone be available at the hosting school to make sure that web-ex would work for doing the webinars. Matt will be sendng out a schedule (once he has it) asking that if/when you have a teacher that will be doing the webinar to help them make sure everything works. The webinars will be starting after school (sometime between 3 or 3:30) and lasting for about an hour. No action on our part right now, just something to be aware of.

Maple free to MN HS's (Info from Angie Judd from MDE)

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Win7 and SMARTBoard issues

Adobe X Info for Read Write Gold

TIES Report? Anyone that attended (Tiff?)

BrainStorm 12.0 Conference is coming Feb 28-March 2 at Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells

Other Conferences of note?

TECHSPO 4 for 2011?

 

Other discussions/issues?

10:50 - break

 

11:00am - Mary Mehsikomer (via Conference Call): Bridge Plans and future Tech Plans Q&A

Mary is attending a Technology Planning Meeting at the MDE Friday morning, so her info for us will be "hot off the presses". The National Tech Plan was also published recently:

http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010

 

11:30am - Vendor Presentation and working lunch

• Deb Foley (CompView) will be going over Projector options and information from SMART Technologies. Deb is also providing us lunch!

12:30pm - Dale Walston - SSC:

 

• Updates from SSC, Legislature (as it gears up for a new session) BrainHoney Q&A and anything else Dale can tell us.New Governor (Mark Dayton - Democratic Party) will be taking over.
• SSCc staff have  hosted legislative reps this morning - good discussion
• SSC has a new grant writing service. Contact Dale about specifics. Three SSC employees that are certified grant writers
• SSC and Online Learning - SSC is seperating somewhat from the other regions to focus on needs specific to our area
• BrainHoney - alternative to Moodle, but more comprehensive. Contact Kari or Kim Ross for more info
• Moodle support and training will still be provided
• RUS Grant Schools - start of training and sessions scheduled throughout the rest of the year. Training geared towards teachers that will be using ITV
• Kevin Honeycutt is coming again March 8th and 9th for some more training and info on using Tech in the classroom.

 

12:45pm - Afternoon Presentations and "SEMTEC Christmas"

Vsee - Matt (with help from Bryan, Damon, Tiff and Loren

HooverCam - Bryan (hopefully it gets here in time!)

Win7 and setting default user - Bryan

Lightscribe Pen - Heather

TreeSize - Bryan

Sharing of gizmos & gadgets!

Adjourn