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1. Structure of Steering Committee for 08-09 • Gary will be attending the meetings when possible • If we need to enlarge the committee possible new committee members could be: Tom Flight, Tinhai Vong, Barb Makowsky, Carmen Rohne

2. Identify priorities for 08-09 (See Attachment for all school initiatives) T.A.L.L. 08-09 Summary • Lockport – Grade 7 Smarboards, wireless, peripherals, some laptops • ESJH – decisions will be made in the fall, leaning toward projection systems, laptops possibly / Stephen suggested they may also want to look at tablets • Walter Whyte – a couple of SmartBoards • Netley – one SmartBoard • ESMS – SmartBoards, Grade 7 or projectors and screens/ still deciding, projector in the lab Divisional • Division has decided to end paying the Apple warranty and instead will put money aside to pay the repairs on the Macs. • Committee feels that money (possibly from the contingency fund) should be directed to HTS to catch them up to the rest of the Division. Richard will be proposing a PC off lease lab replacement for HTS in order to give them lab machines that will run more current applications. Committee Priorities • We will create an Implementation Team Wiki to be used by this committee to plan and store minutes. • E-Pearl is in the PD budget request. We need to put the Division Logo onto the site. It needs an administrator. $500. • Brigitte possibly from the current budget with approval from Gary. Sharon will talk to Gary. This will save us money next year as it is in the next year budget. I talked to Gary and this could not be done on the 07-08 budget. • Keep the Atomic Learning licensing. Look at increasing it in the Fall. Currently we have 2 faculty licenses costing $1600. Licencing for another 30 teachers would be $2400. • We should also investigate licensing Discovery on line and other online video sites. This would promote legal downloading of videos and be more in line with the affective portion of the LwICT Continuum for students. • Richard has Smart Ideas Software serial numbers. • LwICT on the webpage • TO budget some Research and Development funds in order to be more innovative and keep in touch with what is actually being used by teachers. (Software, one to one computing) • Stephen suggested that all of the committee read “Disrupting Class” by Ian Christianson. • We will need to watch for the parent Letter and Booklets from MECY that are to be released by Fall. Information from MECY is that they will come through the Board office. • We should work with the AER Committee to create the LwICT component for student reports in 2008-09

3. Allocate resources needed to accomplish priorities The following budget lines were decided on for the LwICT Budget • Steering Committee meetings – 5 meetings – September, October, January, April June $1000-$2000 • After School workshops $1000. • LwICT Study Group three and one half days x 20= $10 500. • Grade 7-8-9 School TALL PD with Tech EA’s $2000 • Specific dates to be set in September

4. 2008-09 Study Group meeting dates • Schools will be reminded that the study group members were chosen with the stipulation that it be a two year commitment. • The study group meetings will be held in: September, October, November, April, May as half day meetings. We will also plan 2 half day PD sessions which may be open to other divisions at a cost. • Specific dates to be set in September

5. Agendas for Study Group meetings • We will continue to use the Study Group Wiki • We will take ideas from the Wiki to create a list of ideas • The First study group meeting will be very hands on/ Create a Protopage/ Start a Divisional collection – Create Delicious accounts – We set up tags and they put in their bookmarks or show them how to use the iLife Suite to create podcasts.

6. After school sessions • We need to create a catchy name for them • The dates of meetings need to be arranged early and posted in several locations: on the LSSD website and give to the Tech EA’s to post, Study Group Wiki • We should survey the teachers about what they need or want. Do it electronically. Use a tool such as Survey Monkey. Strike a subcommittee at the first meeting to work on this.

7. Report to AC • Stephen will report to AC

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