First+Meeting+Agenda+Ideas

The purpose of this page is to brainstorm ideas for activities for our first technology integration meeting. The objective of the meeting is to discuss ways to improve technology integration in our district for grades Kindergarten through 12. In order to establish a shared vision, participants will need to include teachers, administrators, and community members.

Meeting Facilitator: Robyn Jacobs Participants: Instructional Technology Specialists, Teachers representing different grade levels, administrators, and community members.

Agenda Items:

Creation of Professional Learning Community - Have instructional technologists from each campus find a teacher from each grade level willing to participate in our online interactive community and add their name and email address to a wiki page we can create called "Midway Technology Integration Members 2008-2009". Any ideas for selecting administrators and community members? - **for community members, you might check with PTA parents (RY)** Once the members are selected, invite them to join the wiki and watch the "Wikis in Plain English" video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY)


 * Please read some of the activity ideas and feel free to add/delete/modify -- THANKS!**

Agenda Ideas for first interactive meeting: (Begin on Monday 8:00 a.m. and end interactive meeting on Friday 5:00 p.m.) Activity 1 ( 4 minute video) For the first activity, I thought of having the professional learning community (PLC) watch the following video to get them thinking about technology and finding a shared vision: "A Vision of K-12 Students Today" at the following YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8.

Activity 2 (Create blog on Monday and have participants add a comment and make a reply by Friday at 5:00 p.m.) Create a blog for the PLC so the members can use technology to post comments and reply in an easy format while also practicing a 21st century skill. Have participants post a comment on the blog after viewing the above video and reply to at least one other person's comment. Add workshop summaries from the TCEA Convention to share on the blog.

Activity 3 (Monday 8:00 a.m. to Friday 5:00 p.m.) To create a shared vision of technology in the district, participants should review data to help make informed decisions. Have members of PLC look over the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology (http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/lrpt/LRPTCompleteDec06.pdf). Ask members to look over Texas Campus STaR Chart data (which is used to evaluate a campus' progress toward meeting the goals of the Long Range Plan for Technology). They can ask their campus technologist for the most current data for 2008-2009 and look back at previous data by going to http://starchart.esc12.net/ and clicking on the "Texas Campus STaR Chart">"Statewide Summary Data">Summary Statistics. Click the "Campus Data Search" and choose the most recent year available online and type "Midway" in the search box to do a "simple search" for all campuses in the district.

Activity 4 (Due by Friday, 5:00 p.m.) Have PLC members pinpoint strengths and weaknesses of the district campus(es) as they relate to the Long Range Plan for Technology. Ideas can be added directly to the collaborative midwaytechintegration wiki to a page titled, "District Technology Strenghts and Weaknesses."

Activity 5 (Due by Friday, 5:00 p.m.) PLC members can summarize the findings in the blog for further discussion on the strengths and weaknesses. The question, "What can the district do to improve technology integration into the classroom?" can then be posted on the blog. ** It might be a good idea to have a few representatives from the CIP committees to join the discussion. (CP) ** Activity 6 (Add to page throughout the first week and continue for future weeks) Establish a page in the wiki titled, "YouTube videos and Web-based articles to enhance integration." Have the PLC members research videos and websites/articles that may be helpful in establishing a resource list to assist with creating a shared vision of technology integration for our school district.

This may be too many ideas for the first interactive meeting, but I'm just trying to brainstorm. Please click the "edit this page" button at the top and let me your ideas. Thanks again!

**Probably too many activities for the first week**. ** I would try 2 weeks for Activities 1 - 5 and another week or two for Activity 6. **