April+2011+Meeting+Minutes

An Attendance: L. Berry, T. Connelly, S. DeAngelo, M. Klugman, D. Leone, T. Michalek, Eileen Pasquini

Steve Owens has been installing drivers and marking hubs in classrooms and other school locations that will utilize ActivInspire.
 * Promethean Boards**

ActivInspire slates are to be used by current Promethean Board users and anyone who has ActivExpression software installed and would like to use one. Slates canThey will be catalogued and signed out to teachers as needed.

A copy of //Mastering Activinspire//, by Gene Warner will be available for circulation in the LMC Professional Collection.

LAN School offers licenses for three years, which can be expanded to cover an unlimited number of labs. Sal said that a Mac version of School View is about to be released. T. Michalek has IP address issues with this software. T. Connelly does not want to replace School View with LAN School. School View, which he curently uses, has more capabilities than the latter software.
 * LAN School**

T. Connelly noted that the software does not work with the Little Elmo. He will enter a ticket to have this remedied.
 * BEST Meeting Report (Mar. 15)**

Gary Halbedel will work five days a week (part-time) with the district as a software administrator.
 * Summer Upgrades**

Sal said that the district will be upgrading from Novell to Windows, and will be using Outlook Express for email. All desktops will have Windows 7 installed for the fall. To facilitate a smooth transition, Sal said there will be both online and face-to-face professional development this spring. Summer Tech Camp will probably not be offered this summer, but we will have professional development opportunities for Windows 7. and other applications, such as Office 2010, which is not intuitive.

With budget money available, it is likely that laptops will be pruchased to grade 6 students.

Power School gradebook is now available on SMS, but teachers are struggling with the gradebook. We can now also use PowerTeacher with SMS, but only the gradebook, not the complete suite. It is unlikely that the district will migrate from SMS.
 * Power School**

Next Meeting: 5/12/11