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Hello Technology Committee!

Here is our wiki, upon which we will add things we'd like to talk about, create agendas, and create technology plans and policies. My hope is that we will not have to meet so often if we can address the issues here.

We will talk more about how to use the wiki at our technology meeting or if you invite me to your GLEPT meeting-or whenever you catch me in the hall.

If you would take a minute and click on the Notify Me tab, then choose You are monitoring "all changes". This way, you will be sent an email when someone posts to the wiki, and with one click you can respond to them and see the changes that they made to our page. If you know the answer to someone's question, go ahead and answer it. Your experience is very helpful to all of us. I hope this helps explain some things and will give us another way to communicate.

Here is our agenda, so far.

=Technology Team Agenda for February=
 * New projectors have arrived, plan of implementation
 * We need headphones
 * We need mice
 * We need doc cameras (like the one we used today)
 * PTA grants
 * Other grants?
 * We need a //fundraiser//
 * 1) Computers for Education--we provide the addresses
 * 2) Pexagon Technologies--Flash drive sales--we can put a link on our website, people order if they want, we don't have to sell a thing.

=Technology Team Agenda for January=


 * How do we get teachers to use the technology we have on hand? For example:
 * 1) Turning Point
 * 2) Projectors (6 new ones are arriving next week).
 * 3) Teacherweb


 * Any idea of a reward/incentive system we could use?
 * Educate teachers on the actual Technology TEKS

=DFT Technology Team Agenda= Things I've learned from the ITS meeting:
 * We will be getting 5 document cameras for our campus from the 2006 bond. Where do we want to put them?

Money--How much do we have and how do we want to spend it?
 * Software
 * Enchanted Learning
 * Hardware
 * I want to talk to you about is possibly purchase internet cameras (cheap) and use them as document cameras (Elmo's--expensive). We're talking $125 instead of $875. Is this something we want to check into?
 * IPod for PE ($147.00 at Wal-Mart)

Training--Technology training, what should we talk about?
 * Sub reimbursement

Recycling Program--Do we want to promote it?

TCEA

Questions and Discussion = = Keyboarding Help: What other topics would you like to address? What's the buzz on your teams?
 * The Writers http://www.writerlearning.com/writer_overview.php I finally found the correct link. Basically, this is an AlphaSmart. It only costs $189 with a 5 year warranty.
 * Fundraising ideas: for January Flash Drive sales
 * Flash Drive sales, personalized
 * [|www.pexagontech.com] (Magazine sales, through the mail)