ETAC 2011-1107 Minute
Education Technology Advisory Committee (ETAC), November 7, 2011

Minute

Attendees: Lynda Ly, Scott Sakamoto, Shannon Cross, Wendy Molina-Solis, Jose Cardenas, Lucina Gaeta, Sam Habibi, Manuel Chan-Lee, Frank Villagomez, Roberto Barboza, Judy Berger, Christine Leung, Mary Suzuki, Tina Cunningham
  • Tech Plan 7/1/2011-6/30/2013: wireless coverage problems at Rm19/Dewey & Rm23/Willard
  • Web demo - Teacher pages: Teachers are not motivated or see no purpose of keeping their pages updated; training on web editing is needed
  • Keep track of California Treasures textbooks (SE & TE): Schools should schedule students to check out the CA Treasures SE.
  • E-mail communication by teachers: Have taken place in Bitely, Dewey, Emerson, Garvey, Hillcrest, Rice, Sanchez, Temple and Willard
  • Interactive projectors: proposal of deploying interactive tech hardware will be available next week
  • Curriculum embedded education software accounts: K-8 teachers/students all have Envision and CA Treasures accounts.
    • Edtechprofile & Tech Survey (user view): (Not discussed).
    • Collaboration/sharing:
      • Wednesday p.m./Thursday a.m.
      • Monthly ETAC meeting 
      • Using Google groups for collaboration/sharing
      • Topics to be covered: AeriesNet, Google Calendar, Drop Box, Google Forms, MyAccess, Reading Counts, web editing, ...
    Demo/sharing
    • Download/install Smart Notebook
      • Start > Run > //dosvr03 > Public > educationsoftwareinstaller2011win2.exe (for Windows); Once installed, activate it with a product key to be sent by David.
    • Recent News/Home page: What's New > Add New Page (News Content Page) > Title (for organization of news pages) & Publication Date/Follow Tasks > Switch to Design View > Title & Summary. 
    • Google Apps:
      • Calendar: ETAC members are encouraged to use Google Calendar
    • Connect PC to a network printer (IP address is known): will share the procedure with Roberto and other interested teachers.
    Next meeting: Monday, December 5, 2011.

    Goals of ETAC 2011-12
    • Take attendance on-line: 
      • Tardy to be cleared by the front office of  the school
      • Global Connect will be used for automated absence verification
    • Use L4U for library/textbook management
      • Teacher's log in for Basic Circulation
      • Students don't need log in and can look for books on-line
      • Frequent freeze of the system at Bitely
    • Communicate by e-mail
      • GSD is going to switch to g-mail based Google Mail
    • Maintain/update web pages (schools and teachers) timely
      • Update photos in the banner of the school home page
      • Make use of the Recent News section
    • Implement Tech Plan 2011-13: focus of 11/7 meeting
    • Apply interactive technology in classroom (125 Starboards & 23 IPJAW250 projectors