Minutes June 18, 2005

Members Present: Gretchen Nelson, Chris Shively, Nicole Giambra, Barb Regdos, Jean Weisbeck, Renee Mertz

Topics:

Tech Integration/Video On Demand Updates

More teachers are creating their own web pages.

Committee discussed the promotion of teacher web pages and the registration form

Nicole suggested E-school news for interesting articles related to Educational technology.

Nicole shared articles regarding cell phones in school and internet filtering.

Committee discussed that there should be ways for teachers become more aware of technology products, solutions, and vendors.

Tech Support:

Gretchen discussed plans for a very busy summer with setting up new servers, computers etc.

Introduced Ryan as newest IT specialist to assist in various summer tasks

Gretchen explained the SpyWare scanning process.

Explained Andy Heim is now part-time.

Staff Development:

Chris discussed BOCES trainer availability and possibilties

Barb discussed last year and that the BIT will meet to suggest Staff Development for the fall

Website:

Committee discussed concerns about the website's lack of updates.

Nicole mentioned new department pages.

People should be able to rely on the website for current news and be a main source of information.

Nicole introduced Blogger (idea from Chris) to allow Faculty with password to contribute to the content.

Committee discussed ideas for Blogs and included Athletics, Morning Announcements, Website sharing for Educational Technology Integration, Homework Help websites, Teachers posting homework, Links to Library Databases with instructions.

Nicole explained RSS of blogs.