Minutes+from+2_14_13

Notes are listed in Blue
 * Minutes2/14/13 BCMS Technology Committee **
 * 3PM Thursday in The LMC **
 * Those attended: Tom Michalek, Bill Reilly, ** **Tim Connelly, Candy Dolen, Diane Leone, Ed Gill, Kristen Armstrong, Eileen Pasquini, Steve Owens and Mike Klugman**
 * Future Meeting Dates: **
 * 2nd Thursday of each month:
 * March 14 / April 11 / May 9 / and June 13
 * Went over the minutes from our last meeting: **


 * Laptop and iPad re-distribution for this year: **
 * **Update info: **
 * o **Outlook Calendar use - **
 * § Found easier directions by going to the search feature and typing either iPad or Macbook
 * § Most folks are using them
 * § Have to check with Mohawk to see if they are using the calendar for cart of iPads MS-I5)
 * § Kristen asked if Patroon 8(1) should switch from google calendar to outlook and we as committee said yes to keep it uniform
 * o **The two new iPad carts **
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fran Vincent and Chad VanBrunt are in charge of them.
 * o **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Missing Keys from Macbooks (cart MSM6) **
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steve said that he tried finding old ones that he could scavenge and there are none. He informed us the Justin Brown is aware of the issue and is handling it.
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kristen also mentioned that there are a few Macbook pros for her team cart (MSM2) are also missing some arrow keys
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Discussed ways to prevent this or me more vigilant in the future about it:
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Suggested that Mike send out a email reminding staff about care of the iPad and Macbook carts
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Suggested reminders:
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Assign student machines by number before you start the lesson( use the number list in your gradebook
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Make sure that each keep that number throughout the project or every time you use the cart
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ask the students to check out the machine before and at the end of use
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Report any keys that fall off or any damage
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Go over rules listed on each of the cart doors
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Better care is needed by all
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Suggestion from Mike to send an email to Jody Wexler about a possible solution to finding replacement keys


 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Future Use \ Training: **
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BEST committee update - When is the next meeting? - <span style="color: #f2751c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Was 3/13/13 but will need to be rescheduled due to a conflict.-Sal


 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bond proposal - Any Updates? - <span style="color: #ff6d00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Public vote scheduled for Tuesday -March 12th - we need to get the word out as to why it is important that we upgrade our infrastructure especially at the Middle School (Wireless). -Sal
 * o <span style="color: #ff6d00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mike also added that this vote is very important and directly related to many of the future

Please note that LanSchool can also be used as an effective polling/voting tool and a SRS Student Response System; Here are two videos showing these features, please pass them along. They work great on the ipads!! We are also planning some upcoming training on LanSchool for staff, watch for those notifications
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">LMC: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Current MS LMC Home page opens on all browsers
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steve mentioned that this could be difficult to achieve because of the individual log ins that all the students have now. It is very tough to create a consistent image to fix this issue
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Other suggestions made were to use LAN school in the labs to install it on the machines when the students log in
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Go over and demonstrate how to get to the LMC page before they start the first day of the lesson. Again using LANschool
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mike suggested that Tom Steve and Tim give a quick lesson of LAN School for our next meeting in March

Video on using LanSchool for voting:

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Video on using LanSchool as a SRS:

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 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Begin to talk about items for next year: **
 * **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Computers in the LMC labs **
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Due the increase in class sizes their should be 30 machines or stations in each of the labs for next year. Right now each lab has 27 including the teacher station. Diane mentioned that some cabinetry may need to be removed to accommodate the additional machines in lab 1.
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It was also brought up that Lab 0.37 also is down two machines right now. Tim said that the two machines are were broken Steve has fixed one and is working on the other one.
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The other labs have 30 machines
 * **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">More iPads for staff? **
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Many of the staff would like iPads -- about 40 of them have an iPad now
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Debated over what staff wanted more iPads vs. Macbooks also discussed what was best for students
 * § <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Talked about this for bringing it up as a discussion item at the next faculty meeting
 * o <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Before we can give out more we need to improve the infrastructure of this building (wireless)