Greater Richmond Area Educational Technology Council (GRAETC)

EdTech 2012

Mark your calendar now for EdTech 2012! Although March is several months away, planning has already begun for EdTech 2012, which will be held March 14-15 at Virginia State University in Petersburg. 

This annual conference provides a wealth of technology sessions and hands-on workshops, and highlights the latest and greatest in educational technologies for teachers, library media specialists and district administrators. Participant registration forms are now online and can be found at

http://tinyurl.com/EdTech-2012-Registration 

For further information about EdTech 2012, contact Wayne Thomas at 804.560.8137 or wthomas@ideastations.org.

Special September 27, 2011 event in Henrico - invitation attached for decision makers in GRAETC school divisions

2011-12 Meeting Information 

(please add agenda items to Meeting Page or email Patti (pchappell@gsgis.k12.va.us) to add information) 

Distribution List email - graetc-list@hanover.k12.va.us

2011 - 2012 GRAETC Chair - Patti Chappell, Support Vice-chair- John Hendron

2011 - 2012 Meeting Dates/Locations /Time for all meetings: 9:30-12:00

• Oct. 6, 2011 @ Governor's School 1000 North Lombardy St. Richmond, VA 23220
  
• Nov. 17, 2011 @ Goochland - at Central Office - 2938 River Rd. West - turn courthouse loop between BP/Goodyear Tire and Patriot Motorsports RV seller
  
• Jan. 12, 2012 @ Henrico- Glen Allen High School 10700 Staples Mill Road Glen Allen, VA 23060
•  Glen Allen HS is off of Staples Mill and 295.
•  Community Room- enter through office- community room is on the left as you walk down the hall 

Henrico is holding its first unconference! We hope you can join us.

We are ready to let the ball start rolling for the first annual HCPS Unconference, and we need your help.  Please share the event information with select teachers and your network beyond HCPS.  The hope is that there will be a variety of perspectives and topics to share.  Be sure to click the link to sign up and go to the moderator on the second page to suggest some discussion points.

So tweet, post, share and help get the word out.

https://sites.google.com/a/henrico.k12.va.us/unconference/

• Mar. 22, 2012 @ Spotsylvania - 8020 River Stone Drive Fredericksburg, VA 22407
  
• May 3, 2011 @ WCVE 23 Sesame St. Richmond, VA 23235

January 12, 2012 - Henrico -

Agenda

• Introductions
• Chesterfield - unable to attend
• Spotsylvania - unable to attend
• VCU - unable to attend
• Pete O'Brien- uanable to attend 
• John Hendron - Goochland
• Tom DeWeerd - Goochland
• Jen Maddux - Henrico
• Katie Grootegoed - Henrico
• Rebecca Evan - Hanover
• Wayne Thomas - WCVE
• Mano Talaiver - Longwood
• Linda Gill - Henrico
• Sally Shumard - Powhatan
• Patti Chappell - Maggie Walker
• Debra Rothke - Henrico
• Gaynell Lyman - Henrico
• Tom Woodward - Henrico
• William Waller - Richmond
• Innovative Technology for Science Inquiry - Mano
• Flyer in Pages/Files section of wiki
• Deadline - Mid-May
• STEM Summit - Feb. 14 - Come celebrate with us! - Longwood
• http://www.ittip.us/STEMsummit/
• Based on mobile learning
• 4 keynote speakers from out of state
• Exec. director of Franklin Institute
• Shordor Directors
• John - logo draw on iPad
• Matt Dunleavy - augment reality project with iPhone
• Stephanie Platelan - implementing smart phones in instruction
• VA Tech Research Project - manipulating robots using smartphones
• Door Prizes
• Pay for food
• Finish by 3:30
• EdTech 2012 
• March 14 - 15 (Wed/Thurs)
• VSU
• Registration, etc - held in Gateway Auditorium
• Concurrent Sessions in Singleton Hall - 13 - 15 sessions per day, including 12 workshops
• Need more presenters - only have 30; need 80+
• www.ideastations.org for proposal form
• Wireless will be provided throughout
• Keynote - Day 1 - Dr. Pam Moran - superintendent of Ablemarle Co.; Day 2 - Daphne Maxwell Reed - co-owner of New Millennium Studio 
• Presentation on "What is an unconference?"  
  

https://sites.google.com/a/henrico.k12.va.us/unconference/

• Bill would like to change date for March meeting to  March 22nd.

November 17, 2011 - Goochland - Central Office

Agenda

• Introductions
• Tina Barringer from Hopewell unable to attend
• Bill Flaherty - not able to attend
• John Hendron - Goochland
• Sheree Shaw - Hanover
• Monty Jones - VCU
• Peter Martin - Goochland
• Jon Grover - Apple
• Ernie Long - Ernie Long
• Phyllis Gardner - Richmond
• Tom DeWeerd - Goochland
• Mano - Longwood
• William Waller - Richmond
• Debbie Mickle - Community Idea Station
• Linda Gill - Henrico
• Tom Woodward - Henrico
• Sally  Shumard - Powhatan
• iOS Deployment and Management with Casper - Goochland, Guest Jon Grover, Apple SE
• Peter Martin (Goochland)
• Jon Grover (Apple)
• Creative Book Builder in ePub app - can create own text book
• iOS in Education Resource by John Hendron - iOS eBook - used Pages to create - has a video embedded in it.
• G21 Projects and the G21 Student Framework - Goochland
• Amped up - www.glnd.k12.va.us/index/resource/g21 - 
• Start with classroom projects - school based themes - all teacher projects had to tie into theme
• Individual student projects - Student Project Framework
• Meeting with John, Bea and building principal to determine project - was helpful to have administrator there
• leadership training in summer as retreat with principals - dedicated one afternoon to G21 - superintendent started the conversation
• Looking at it as "G21 Worthy" - instructional leaders chose winners - recognized in auditorium
• Blog for G21 ideas
• VSTE Highlights - John (New IT Strand at VSTE) - December 4-6, 2011
• Online conference program and app - sched (service)
• IT Strand - not instructional technology - 
• Digital Sandbox - informal meeting place - shorter presentations - interact with people hanging out there
• EdTech Leadership - for administrators - DOE folks coming to speak
• Schedule at VSTE Conference - vsteconference.org
• Dissemination of PD (K12 Science and Augmented reality content creation for ten teachers to create local history content) (Mano)
• VDOE Math Science Partnership grant - Physical Sciences - needs partnership forms;
• K-12 STEM - call out to universities - wants one grant; will fund one person; vertical alignment; have JMU, GMU, ODU, etc. participating - Longwood will do K-3; JMU - 4-5; ODU and UVA - 6-8; GMU - 9-12.  Teachers will have choice of which model they want to learn.  If interested, email Mano and she will send abstract and is interested in forming a steering committee.
• Grant - Matt Dunleavy - virtual smartphone project - wants to do something like that for VA history - needs core group of teachers to create local history project - only 10 teachers - need to be out of the box teachers - if interested, email Mano.
• Can bring someone exciting to STEM summit - Feb. 14th at Longwood - Formal and Informal STEM Learning with Mobile Devices - speaker from Franklin Institute - Frederic Bertley; Followed by Matt Dunleavy; Followed by someone from Shordor; Followed by  ?? (any suggestions?)
• Discussion - Prevention of Sexual Abuse Policy (John)
• Draft of policy from DOE - people should not have contact with kids using social tools; was changed - is more open; comes to school divisions to develop own policy; who is working on this?  Henrico, Goochland, - combining with AUP? Helpful if surrounding areas doing similar things, so can support each other; Goochland - getting specific - if football coach wants to text players - use personal or school phone?  If personal, must get building principal to give permission each year or use school issued phone.
• Responsible Use Policy instead of Acceptable Use Policy?  Teach them ethics and what's right; if don't use it properly, take it away.
• National STEM Video Challenge - Science Matters Project Manager (Debbie Mickle) 
• See handout - wants stories about STEM activities that are doing in classrooms
• What areas would help meet needs?  Want other teachers to see what good 21st century instruction looks like; ability to give teachers exposure to what is going on around area, not just in own district; sketch out story on how impacts instruction;  how bring content together to share;
• National STEM Video Challenge - see handout
  
• EdTech 2012 update
• Virginia State University - March 14-15  
  
• Monty Jones - online teaching certificate program; input about what would like to see offered from VCU in terms of technology PD. subjects,content, format, etc.    
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October 6, 2011 - Maggie L. Walker Governor's School

Agenda

• Introductions
• Monty Jones - Director of Tech in Ed at VCU (New Gary)
• Sally Shumard - Powhatan
• Bill Flaherty - Spotsy
• Pete O'Brien - Hanover
• Patti Chappell - MLWGS
• Sheree Shaw - Hanover
• Adam Seldow - Chesterfield (New Linda)
• Susan Clair - Dept of Corrections
• Wayne Thomas - WCVE - Community Idea Stations
• John Hendron  - Goochland
• Tina Barringer - Hopewell
• Debra Rothke - Henrico
• William Waller - Richmond
• EdTech Update (Wayne Thomas)
• RMC not hosting this year
• Looking at different sites - J. Sarge, J. Tyler, VUU, VSU, UR
• Monty offered to talk with Wayne about VCU
• Looking at high schools that are large enough
• 450 attendees - 17 vendors - 100 presenters
• VSTE
• December 4th - 6th in Roanoke
• Leadership Conference again
• Keynote - From ISTE - Chris Lehman
• Tammy McGraw speaking
• Push for more folks from IT to get involved
• Couldn't get DOE to commit to talk about data collection
• Awards Presentations - ends on Oct. 18th - need nominations for those - Educator of the Year;  Innovative Educator of the Year
• DOE Conference - November 7th - 9th in Roanoke
• Goochland - iPod/iPad deployment - carts holding them up - 
• Trial in elementary last year
• building (2) 21st century classrooms with iPods and iPads
• Took all desks out and put tables in
• Kids will have to figure out how to make the two devices work together
• Gave to admins last year - had use building funds to buy apps
• Purchased FileMaker GoApp to use with observations and G21 goals
• Chesterfield - iPads for administrators
• For evaluation - get them used to doing things on the fly
• Struggling with logistically aspects of device - have to set up individually
• Want to end up with hybrid network
• Not a good way to deploy them
• (John) using Casper Suite - lives on server on network; polls device - finds apps on device; can create groups; allows user to see the list of available apps; looking forward to seeing what iCloud offers next week
• iOS user agreement developed - covers volume purchasing/FAQs/putting on Wiki
• Observation 360 - Richmond, Powhatan, Chesterfield using
• Richmond - rolling out iPads to admin and exceptional ed; piloting next week
• List of apps for secondary - 400,000 websites with lists
• Powhatan - list of apps on website - using at middle school
• WCVE will be conducting workshops in Farmville on iPad2 - Wayne has lesson plan that doesn't use network for elementary; secondary does.
• Hanover - has two wikis with apps using - for administrators and special ed 
• Spotsy - creating in house - can create from scratch or tweak what have. Use Employee Self Serve - electronic for employees to see payroll stubs, etc. Will be doing similar with observations; Have Time Clock that teachers click in and out - staff too; Will share with us;
• Powhatan - Observation 360 - have iPod cart; looked at way to track devices - Find My iPhone/Pad/Pod - didn't really work - abandoned;
• looking at electronic databases and seeing what is being used and seeing which schools need more ITRT support;
• Left it to principals to determine what needs are and let them make decisions; If don't need it, what do they need? 
• They generate data of what is being used and what isn't and letting instructional leaders say what areas need pumping up - give to principal and let them decide what to do with data.
• Business and Personal Finance course - Henrico coming up with digital curriculum; Hanover looking at online course
• Bring Your Own Devices - Chesterfield beginning; Spotsy - parallel guest network - got overrun; Bill - how will that work instructionally?  If some do and some don't, how will it be a coherent lesson? VETAC will be discussing this at monthly meeting.
• Sally - uses LightSpeed for web filter and has a Learning Management system - MyBigCampus - social networkish and students and teachers love it.
• Monty - some are moving away from LMS's - just use Google and invite others into website.  Crowd sourcing instruction.
• Debra - Brain Honey -  http://brainhoney.com/ - using for digital content development - associated with eLearning portals
• Adam - Its Learning - http://www.itslearning.net/ - teachers can create PLCs; subscribe to a "Turn It In" type service and will check across the district for things that were turned in (example - did sibling turn in elsewhere)
• Monty - encouraging using lots of different services to educate; InStructure - http://www.instructure.com/ - new
• John - School Net - http://www.schoolnet.com/default.aspx - 
• Bill - Solo - set up standards in dictionary and give benchmark test and scan.  Goes back to database and teacher can analyze; 
• Get Arnie and Jason to come and hear concerns about iPads
• Susan - in process of choosing SIS; opening access to teachers; will be looking at websites that secondary teachers can use for instruction/resources in four content areas/special ed - top ten - national archive; thinkfinity; library of congress; classroom20.com; John has list on Diigo. Email Susan if think of any good websites.

Previous Year's Agendas and Notes

• 2010-11 Meeting Agendas and Notes
  
• 2009-10 Meeting Agendas and Notes
• 2008-09 Meeting Agendas and Notes
• 2007-08 Meeting Agendas and Notes