Technology Committee Minutes

4/18/07

Present: Dottie Rogers, Ben Long, Matt Klafehn, Becky Vaillancourt, Shannon Hosier

The following topics were discussed:

1. Minutes

a. Members approved the minutes from the March meeting.

2. Hardware

a. The following items from the 2007-2008 hardware list have been ordered:

i. Hosier-28 optical mice

ii. Haley-LCD Projector/two wireless mice

iii. Hosier-color printer

iv. Jason-six computers

v. Distel-three computers

vi. Rivchin/Miller/Lala-color printer

vii. Henderson-LCD projector

viii. May-LCD projector

ix. West/Rafferty-tower for Smart board

x. Additional tower for second Smart board

xi. Vickers-VGA extender

b. The remaining items will be ordered as money becomes available.

3. Adult Education

a. An additional class has been offered. This program has proven to be very successful! We will need of teachers for next year.

4. Software requests

a. Databases-the committee will recommend approximately one hour of database training for all faculty to be given as part of an in-service training.

b. We are currently having staff review databases to determine our future needs.

c. No more software requests will be honored for this year. The next orders will be due in June for the 2008-2009 school year.

5. Parent Technology night

a. Will take place on May 22, 2007. Presenters are needed.

6. Computer Managing Systems

a. May 9^th SynchronEyes Presentation

b. May 16^th Sanako Presentation

7. Web Blocking-will try to find out what software other schools are using.

8. Evaluations

a. Staff evaluation-teachers will preview and adapt the form

b. Technology Plan-will need to re-evaluated next year