jan92008

=__Tech Coordinator's Meetings__= Thanks to everyone who came to the meeting at Moonwinks Wed. Jan. 9th. For those of you who couldn't make it, the minutes are posted below. What is the beauty of this wiki? Click on the **"Edit this Page"** button above and enter your own thoughts or input, then click save!

1. Overview by Doug Smith from SVS showcasing the Onfinity whiteboard program and RM Easiteach software as well as the AVRover which keeps all of the components in a portable metal cabinet that can be moved to any location in a school. The complete system can project onto any flat surface to create an interactive board that can be utilized with a wand or pen. Doug demonstrated the advantages of the Onfinity over the Smartboard. He also showed a Karoake microphone that plugs into your computer called Lead Singer....no one got up to use it, however.
 * __MEETING MINUTES FROM MEETING ON WED. JAN. 9th AT MOONWINKS:__**

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2. Jean Rexford from Erie 1 BOCES talked about the services they are offering. First, she mentioned the upcoming 2008-2009 Participation meeting at CABOCES on Windfall Road in Olean on Mon. Jan. 14th. Jean also briefly talked about the new tax billing and collection services that they will be dealing with. The third item she mentioned was the new Voice Over IP's that was discussed later by Mike Graf. Lastly, Jean talked about the shifting in staff. Dale Anderson is the Supervisor of the VOIP service. Terry Caleb is now the Supervisor of the FTE's in the region. Dale and Terry's old positions (Senior WAN Tech and Senior LAN Tech.) will be back filled in the near future.

3. Rick Weinberg showed the Survey Monkey results from the Tech Coordinator Survey he sent out to all the Tech Coordinators. The majority of the people were interested in seeing what new stuff is out there for schools.

4. Mike Graf talked about a few items that his tech department is working on. The first was that under 518 they are trying to work out the logistics to start rolling out streaming video (created by teachers) out to districts. They can even do it with closed captioning, and they'd be willing to send someone out to do the video on a first come, first served basis. Under the 503 he talked about production services that they still offer, plus the VOIP's mentioned above and how his team will be working to help districts get all the phones hooked up. He closed his presentation by talking about districts that have capital projects coming up, please feel free to ask them how things can work out before buying them. Mike mentioned that his tech department is MORE than willing to help.

5. Tim Clarke talked about Model Schools and some of the new Web 2.0 technology that ISS under 517 have seen and are implementing in our districts. He talked about the WNY-PLP led by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson. There are two tools that he showed. Twitter.com where people can build a network of followers and send a short message on-line. He also showed the Ning network where you can create a social group like the Classroom 2.0 which is open for anyone to read and join. There is also our WNY-PLP Ning that is private. In Ning there are forums, videos and other groups where learning and sharing of ideas takes place.

Respectfully submitted,

Mark Carls

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See you on Wednesday, March 5th at Moonwinks from 4-7pm.