Technology Conversations
Posted by mevingham on September 30, 2009
Our district technology committee met this morning for three hours of hard work. It all began last spring when we surveyed our staff and then took the time to review the survey seeking strengths, struggles, needs, patterns and trends. Today our task was to finalize a format for our next Superintendent’s Conference Day and to begin to develop needed sessions based on the survey and other data at hand.
Our committee is made up of teachers K-12, a Board of Education member, a teacher’s aide, our technology director, a teacher assistant and technicians. I think that this group is amazing, and it gave me great pleasure to see so many committed people at work. The brainstorming was powerful, and we left our meeting with a format in mind, session development begun and home “play” (vs. home work).
I can’t wait to see how the next steps play out. I am charged with taking the sessions and getting them into a published format for the committee to review. We are seeking students to assist in video, presentations and work in the Cyber Cafe. The committee members are planning what the opening session can bring as we highlight the neat stuff that our teachers and students are generating daily! Pretty fun stuff!
