march182008

Welcome from Rick and introductions around the table.
 * __March 18, 2008 Minutes from Tech Coordinator's meeting held at Moonwinks from 4-7pm:__**

First up, Tom Little from EarthWalk: Tom talked about some problems facing schools today with their laptops and keeping batteries charged. Introduced his product that uses Nickel-metal hydride batteries and can be wheeled in on a cart. He passed one around and answered questions about them. Tom also showed the other options of Power Stations and even their own laptop computer. He mentioned a few schools already using this in Fairport, Horseheads, Otto-Eldred and Canadaguia. You can see his PPT Slideshow here: **____** Next, Terry Caleb from Erie1 BOCES: Announced that they will be showing off new services offed by the WNYRIC in Buffalo on March 27th and at Olean BOCES on Windfall Road March 18th. Please give feedback regarding participation.

Before dinner Rick showed everyone [|Voicethread.com]. He mentioned that anyone could create 3 Voicethreads for free. There is also an [|educator edition] that does cost money, but is a seperate section with only educational Voicethreads. CABOCES is in the early stages of the process of taking feedback as to whether voicethreads could be a service provided by Learning Resources (Media Barn). Once they sign up, //if your an educator,// you can click on the "Go Pro" button and at the bottom of the popup box at the bottom in yellow is the opportunity to sign up for a K-12 educator account for free that gives you more Voicethread space for no cost!

DINNER

After dinner Mike Graf spoke about his program: Mike talked about telephony and that they are going with Nortel and putting a higher end switch up in Olean BOCES, then more effective switches at other schools. Mike brought up that they are looking to start up a publishing portion of their department with a 4 color printing press. They are currently looking at spaces to house their equipment. More details to follow. Mike also discussed the wiring of those under the 503 coser and the quicker turnaround with the work Mike Kuc has done. He also again brought up the ability of the CA BOCES tech department to send out a production crew to create/edit videos for schools. === The next meeting is May 13th from 4:00-7:00 at Moonwinks in Cuba, New York. There was a request to look at some tablet PC solutions at this next meeting .===