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May 2009 Meeting Notes **  __Roundtable Discussion __  · New Superintendent – Dr. Craig Hintz · Wireless projects this summer, elementary schools will be saturated with coverage · Buying four Netbook carts for elementary schools · New elementary teacher computers to install this year before the construction project begins · Hoping for Board to approve proposal for new Data Center · All elementary classrooms will get projectors and Mimeo board components o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tip: It is important to make sure your whiteboard surface is magnetic <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Expo Company will come in and cover your chalkboards to create a whiteboard <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Buying lots of document cameras <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Construction project will include a new phone system <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">On ACELink 90MB pipe and ENA T-1 for bandwidth <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">New elementary opens in the fall, big sections of the new High School will be opening (900 desktop computers coming in) <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Installing projectors in the high school <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">MediaCAST going in at high school and feeding streaming IP video to all buildings <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Wireless network going in at high school <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Moving Novell servers to OES this summer <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Archiving email with LightSpeed in conjunction with GroupWise auto-archiving <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">New Superintendent coming from South Bend – Dr. Carol Greene <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Adding a DS3 from ENA to use in conjunction with ACELink 90MB <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Had Roeing Corporation do a technology audit this year to help develop a new technology plan <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Need to push more support out to teachers so they can better use their classroom resources <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Applied to the grant for a [|New Tech High School] <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Purdue had a Technology Implementation Program in place years ago that showed you how to share technology in manageable chunks of time with teachers <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Looking to put some technology coaches in place <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Closing a school and pulling 7-8th into one building, pushing 6th back out to elementary schools. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Kay shared two documents: <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> East Noble’s guidelines for teachers using laptops <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Article on “sexting” issue and additional language for their AUP and Handbooks <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Burstable DS3 from ENA for bandwidth <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Atlas curriculum mapping system and parent notification system from OneCall Now going in this summer <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Migrating network platform from Novell to Microsoft: no use for Novell since all apps have become Windows-based <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Costs are very close to what she’d been spending for Novell on a 3 year term <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Training will be offered on Office 2007 before the start of school <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ramping up MS SharePoint for internal collaboration <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Putting in Pearson Inform for data mining <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pearson tech staff are saying that it will talk to any SIS <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Putting wireless networks in elementary schools <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Question for all: what is your Internet bandwidth? ** <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Considering Office 2007 for secondary and Open Office for elementary <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Training for Office 2007 will be provided <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Moving elementary computers from Win98 to WinXP <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Installing more Promethean Boards <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Converting to a full DS3 from ENA <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Using ACELink’s 90MB pipe for Allen County <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Supt Bryan Smith going to Hamilton SE <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Installing virtual servers and dual SAN systems that duplicate each other on the fly. Physical back ups will go to the Indiana Data Center. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Looking at Microsoft v. Novell but staying put for now and moving to OES and ZENWorks 10 this summer. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Repairing wireless networks in two buildings this summer, tripling access points from original site survey. Goal is to be able to run 60 wireless laptops concurrently in any location. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Working with Trapeze out of Illinois to have LAN Controllers work with multiple brands of access points. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Moving away from Nortel (company in bankruptcy), looking at Cisco and HP for network electronics. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Replacing Nortel phone system with a Samsung IP solution but keeping phone traffic separate from data (at least initially). <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Put in Compass Learning math module for elementary schools and to meet needs of RTI levels 2 and 3. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Finishing fiber project this summer <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Automotive program at Career Center is getting a new shop <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Upgrading 25o computers this summer <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Using 9 T-1s for bandwidth <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Bringing up new GroupWise server this summer <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">New lab(s) in each building this summer and moving into a new vocational tech center, lots of computer shuffling <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Just purchased Atomic Learning to help cope with fewer teacher days for staff development <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Burstable DS3 and single T-1s to each middle school <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Looking at virtualizing servers <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Moving to Zimbra for email and calendaring (works on Palms) <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Working with Views on Learning for video-conferencing roll-out <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Putting up an Open Source support forum for collaboration on technical issues <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Updating software packages that they provide for member schools <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2 T-1s at this point for bandwidth <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Upgrading GroupWise to a virtual server <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Moving lots of teachers and a few “smart” classrooms this summer <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Migrating websites to SchoolCenter platform <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Question: What are you doing for disaster recovery plans if you would lose your data center head end? **<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> NW Allen has somewhat of a second data center. Mark Norton at New Prairie is putting a server in at NIESC for disaster recovery (they supply the power and an IP address). SW Allen is protecting four critical services: email, Internet, Powerschool and financial package. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Finished building out their Microsoft infrastructure <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Upgrading MS Exchange server to 2007 <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Going to MS Server 2008 training in Indy for a week <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Then going to upgrade all 16 servers to that OS <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o  <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pushing out XP service pack 3 to all computers <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Updating server and computers in the Alternative School <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Shopping for a new platform for more interactive district websites <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Implemented Study Island this year <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Burstable DS3 from ENA <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hint: the .docx extension from Google Docs does not open in Office 2007. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> **__<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We Are Closed Today – messaging system demo from NIESC __** <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This solution grew out of a request from Region 8 to create a single point of contact for school closings. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">NIESC has been working with the South Bend area radio and TV stations for school closings <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Graham will be contacting the Fort Wayne media and schools this summer <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[|http://demo.weareclosedtoday.com] <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A green window runs in the lower corner of the screen. When there is a closing the window turns red and the media source is notified to push out the information. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">WNDU polls the We Are Closed Today server every five minutes. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Graham got a request from an Amish community to have notifications come out over the telephone. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Yahoo is working with them to send it out via phone with an XML message to their data center. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">SMS and text messaging modes are available. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Users create an account and designate the geographic area or specific schools that they want to monitor. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It uses Adobe Air to display the small green/red window. ColdFusion is on the backend. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pricing <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Parents – Accounts are free for text messaging to an email address through your wireless carrier, $8/year for a phone message. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Schools – no charge for schools in ESC Regions 7 and 8. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">John Keller is leading the Office of Learning Resources <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Four keys shared by Gary to John on how to achieve success in technology initiatives: <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Teacher buy-in on the front end (shared decision making) <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Technical support for hardware and software <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Administrative support of the initiative <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Good, ongoing, appropriate professional development for the end user <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Gary <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> wants to work with schools on the front end of their grant applications <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Currently 170 inACCESS schools in Indiana <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Info to share from Mark Broderick (traveling-challenged colleague) <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">New items on the website <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">3 Year Tech Plan due dates and status <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Now in Year 6 of Tech Plan Grant, should get through the cycle in 3 more years (State money). <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Section for Tech Plan Guidelines <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Trying to streamline the process of writing the plan and avoiding multiple edits and rewrites <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Several signatures are now required <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Overall, the DOE is down about 85 people since January 1. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">DOE Education Portal <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Learning Connection” is the name of the site that will be opening soon <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Classroom2.0 on the web is a national site like this. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">One stop shop for teachers, hopes to roll out with pilot schools in October <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lesson plans <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Forums for collaboration <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">John Keller wants to start a fellowship program; a collection of teachers from around the State to evaluate it this summer. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">$1500 stipend for participants, 30-40 maximum <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">They will also need to contribute a number of lesson plans so that it will be populated with content when it opens <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Email Gary if you have teachers that would be good candidates <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Two meetings in Indy, the rest will be done online <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Federal Grant opportunity rolled out this month to eligible schools <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Learning Technologies competitive grant, posted on website <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Title II, Part D <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§  <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Competitive grants due at the end of this month for funds that were discovered still awaiting disbursement to schools <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hardware expenditures must be made by Sept 30. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Professional Development piece is funded separately <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">You may partner with another school, not required though <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Gary <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> isn’t seeing the amount of collaboration among partner schools that he was expecting in past grants <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">25% of previous grant funds must be spent on professional development. Lots of money is coming back in at the end of the two year cycle because it just wasn’t spent. It leaves our DOE and goes back to Washington, DC. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">For the new grants coming down the road, Gary is expecting that professional development money will be spent. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">There will be a formal DOE evaluation of the grant implementation at the end of Year 1. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2% of the grant funds will be used for evaluation. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Schools that are doing a good job will be looked at positively for the next round of grants. Schools that aren’t doing well are not likely to be awarded further grants. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Innovation and fidelity to the plan will be rewarded! <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Another pot of federal money from Title II, Part D will perhaps be available later this year. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Stimulus money <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sounds like there may be two pieces of Stimulus money dedicated to technology in the classrooms, according to ARRA. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">One will be shared among all schools, another will be competitive <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It is clear from Washington that states found limiting charter schools will lose some federal funding <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">§ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Arne Duncan was quoted in eSchool News as saying that he will “come down like a ton of bricks” on states misusing federal funds for education. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Professional development, coaching models <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Anti-virus strategies, AUP modifications and Board Policies for laptops that go home with students <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Southwest Allen <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Concord <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">NEISSC Study Council ****<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jim Lemaster, Randy Martz – Warsaw **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Adela Dickey – NW Allen **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jo Anne Roscoe – East Allen **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Kay Reinoehl – East Noble **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lisa Deutscher – Dekalb Central **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Mike Wenzel – MSD Steuben **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Don Chase – SW Allen **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Kyle Smith – Four County Area Vocational Cooperative **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dave VanLue – Wawasee **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Les Turner, Graham Pearson – NIESC **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tim Tahara, Dick Pyle – Concord **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tyson Mock – Wa-Nee **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Gary Bates – DOE **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">DOE Update – Gary Bates **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Possible Topics for meetings next year **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Willing to host meetings next year **