Timeline+for+Tech+Committee

Perceptions committee members,  Thank you again, for taking time to provide feedback in last week’s discussion. Our ability to collaborate online through wiki has opened up an opportunity for sharing, learning and most importantly creating visions for improving the integration of technology on our campus. In the page titled visions I have complied all of the committees’ feedback from last week. Improving the infrastructure of technology is our major goal and purpose for this committee. If you are having difficulty using wiki or would like to learn more about the site, please feel free to watch, **//Wiki for Teachers too//** [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-2uOdRdhWY]. 

** Timeline for developing Tech Plan ** The tech committee will be meeting on April 1, 2009 in the computer lab at, 3:00 p,m. The committee will be working on developing the Tech Plan for Spring Meadows Elementary; each year our campus develops a plan that covers all the components necessary to ingrate technology at our campus. Your grade level rep will be attending this meeting in order to provide feedback on your grades’ level ideas and strategies for incorporate  technology into teaching and learning. This goal will help enable students to effectively build content knowledge and technology skills application. The tech committee will also be discussing the requests of each grade for digital devices and, then developing an estimated cost for the strategy, If you have not had the opportunity to view the our current Tech Plan, I have attached it to the top of this page. Our propose for the perceptions committee is to find ways to help collaborate with other teachers on campus and grade level. Once this collaboration takes place we will be able to provide our grade level rep with input on technology from our discussions. He or she would then represent your team at the Tech Committee meeting held on April 1, 2009. As our grade level representative prepares for the tech committee meeting, we will develop an agenda for providing a summarization of activities, and key points we would like to emphasize. Please provide your thoughts on when we should start developing activities for the discussion at the meeting an idea for a deadline date. We want ensure our grade level is well represented in this years developing of the Tech Plan. From reading other members discussions, I think our activities have been listed. We could start discussing now. We get so busy throughout the week and with TAKS it is hard to think of anything else. Our deadline should be on the Friday before the actual committee meeting that is scheduled for April 1, 2009. We need to make sure we have time to go back to our grade level for input. Marisol, I think this wiki is great! At first I was somewhat agitated by this site. You know how I feel about anything to do with directions on a computer. If only all our faulty and grade level meetings could be done through a wiki. (Cagle)

 I think we should set a deadline for Friday before the actual committee meeting. Our grade level meets this coming Tuesday so I will make sure to share this information to my grade level. I will start thinking of technology we need and ways that we would actually use it. Marisol, last week you mentioned the copyright act you learned about in class? Can you go into detail about this act? I think it is important that we are educated on this issue considering we might be in violation of some of the acts. (Belinda)

I am with Belinda! I want to know more about the copyright act. I agree that Friday is a good deadline for input. I just want to get through the week and then lean all of my focus on getting the plan finalized. (Judy)

The deadline has been set for the Friday before the meeting. Thanks for your input on a starting and end date. (Marisol)