2009-11-19

=**LITT Meeting - November 19, 2009**=

RBUSD Lead Instructional Technology Teachers Meeting November 19, 2009 3:30 to 5:00 PM

=District Business (~15 Min)=

Current Virus Outbreak Electronic Standards-Based Elementary Report Cards (Again)

=Part I - An Educational Technology Primer (~25 Min)=

Educational Technology Planning

 * [|Primer Slides] (Quicktime Format)
 * Educational Technology Resources:
 * [|Edtechplan.pdf]
 * [|Edtech Planning GetStarted.pdf]
 * More CDE Educational Technology Planning Resources: []
 * A wiki of tech planning resources: []
 * [|Appendix C] (Tech Planing Rubric)
 * [|Bernajean Porter's Tech Planning Checklists]
 * Review [|21st Century Skills] (to include in your curriculum goal). See also the [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills].
 * Review also the ISTE [|National Educational Technology Standards] (NETS) for students, teachers, and administrators.

Activity: Mock Tech Plan

 * Break into smalll groups (of three) by grade-level or other meaningful criteria.
 * Select one "goal" you'd like to plan towards.
 * Create a measurable "curriculum" goal describing what students and teachers will learn or do.
 * Then create a corresponding goal (to support your curriculum goal) for each of the following areas:
 * Professional Development
 * Infrastructure, Hardware, Software, and Technical Support
 * Funding and Budgeting
 * Monitoring and Evaluation
 * Create a PowerPoint (or Google Docs) slideshow to present your goals. Email your slides as an attachment to markdwagner@gmail.com (or add me as a collaborator on your doc).

What is important to include in the district technology plan?

 * [|Google Moderator for Your Ideas]

=Part II - The Ed Tech Profile (~25 Min)=

**Introduction to the Ed Tech Profile**

 * [|How will Ed Tech Profile help me]?
 * [|FAQs]
 * Get Started: [|edtechprofile.org]


 * Discussion: What would be the best way to implement the Ed Tech Profile as a tech planning tool at RBUSD?**
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=Part III - The Supplemental RBUSD Technology Survey (~25 Min)=

Year One Strategic Objective

 * Create, distribute, analyze and report to the Superintendent and the Board of Education the results of a district-wide technology survey. (By February 1, 2010)
 * Possible Tools: [|SurveyMonkey.com] or [|Google Docs] Forms.

Discussion: What questions would be best to include on the survey? And how would this best be implemented district-wide, especially given the need to also implement the Ed Tech Profile?

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