October+CITC+Meeting

**__Agenda Minutes__**
Submitted by Linda McLeod

Council Member Schools in attendance: Castle Hills, Colwyck, Eisenberg, Pleasantville, Southern, Wrangle Hill, Geroge Read, Gunning Bedford, McCullough, Leach, New Castle and William Penn** Council members introduced themselves and shared innovative uses of technology in the classroom
 * Introductions


 * Colonial Istructional Technology Council Goals:** Empower each staff member to understand and use technology and develop proficiency in the integration of technology into the instructional program to increase the academic performance of all students,

The Colonial Instructional technology council members role and responsibility is to share information from council meetings with staff at faculty meetings and/or through email announcements regarding the integration of technology into the curriculum.
 * Roles and Responsibility of members:**
 * **E2T2 UD Team Report on District Initiatives**
 * Pat Sine, Director of the Office of Educational Technology, University of Delaware: Presentation on NETS (below)
 * Barry Mansfield: Barry shared Smartboard tips for effectively using the Smartboard in the classroom.
 * Scott Richardson: Scott shared Teacher Tube videos and how to use this tool effectively in the classroom. Also shared were several exemplary Colonial teacher Blogs. Many district teachers are using Blogs to communicate with students and parents. Teachers interested in creating a blog for instructional use should contact e2t2support@udel.edu to set up an appointment with the e2t2 support team.
 * e2t2support@udel.edu – email with questions or if you need instructional tech support with Smartboards, Edublogs etc.
 * Visit e2t2support.wikispaces.org – for weekly signups and meeting minutes
 * Smartboard Training: There have been two trainings this fall given by Jason Passero. Teachers who have questions or need support should send all questions regarding Smartboards to e2t2support@udel.edu

If other district schools are interested in obtaining a year long schoolwide license, please contact Linda for more information.
 * **Net Trekker Pilot**: Three schools have been selected to pilot Net Trekker free for one year. The selection was based on the school's ELL poplulation.
 * Castle Hills
 * Wilmington Manor
 * Pleasantville

Linda McLeod informed the council that she has Kidspiration and Inspritation software CDs available for teachers to use as an instructional tool. If interested, email Linda and she will send the teacher CDs for the classroom computers.
 * **Inpiration and Kidspiration Software**


 * NETS*S 2007: Pat Sine gave a presentation on the new NETS*S standards that were released this past June. She focused on standards #5 and # 2.**
 * NETS*S refresh project
 * Standard 5
 * Standard 2


 * Future Meeting Dates**
 * December 3, 2007 Workshop # 4257 This meeting will focus on Google Docs and will be held in the computer lab at Wallin.
 * February 5, 2008 Workshop # 4262
 * April 9th and 10th Delaware Instructional Technology Conference, Dover Sheraton