All Saints Technology Committee
3/10/2008 Meeting
Attendees:
Kara Waterman
Hank Caruso
Kathy Thompson
Pam Fox
Steve Diller
St. Monica School visit
Kara, Hank, and Kathy visited St. Monica School and reported the
following:
- St. Monica uses Interwrite Learning tablets, a wireless tablet used by teachers in the classroom to allow them mobility around the classroom.
Reported cost of these is $480, but the lowest price Hank has found is $520.
- St. Monica does not use Smartboards.
- They have a lab with 56 PC's, and have 6 mobile labs with 15 laptops per.
- All teachers have desktop PCs.
- They have a research room with 8 PC's, which are video editing stations (faster, bigger hard drives, etc.)
- All PC's are from Dell. They pay ~$37K for a 3 year lease for all ~100 machines. As machines are upgraded, they trickle down the older machines from labs to teachers to classrooms.
- Kindergarten through 2nd grade use 42" flat screens instead of projection.
- They have 3 computer teachers, 1 full time and 2 part time.
- They also use a mobile cart/package of writers (keyboarding, etc.).
The cost of these is ~$6K for the cart and #? of writers.
- They are testing an iPod program using the iPod Shuffle - Spanish lessons, audio books.
- They are moving their videos to ISO files and putting them on a master server.
Pam attended a technology conference at Fort Worth Christian School.
The conference leader is available to attend one of our meetings.
Alternatives to Smartboard were discussed.
- Mimio - uses sensor array on each end of a regular white board.
- Polyvision - generic version of Smartboard. Less expensive.
It was suggested that we look at www.futurekids.org to investigate grants.
Kathy passed out an example of a Technology Assessment from Jesuit.
Kathy requested a list of inventory and licenses that we currently have from Pam.
The Diocese has a revised curriculum available on their website:
http://cso-dallas.org/instruction.htm.
Other good websites:
SBEC - http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/SBECOnline/default.asp
TEKS - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/
ISTE - http://www.iste.org/
Pam agreed to supply curriculum guidelines at next meeting.
Please check the ASCS Technology Committee Blog for latest meeting notes and info. Hank can set up access if you don't already have it.
Address: http://ascstechcom.blogspot.com/.
Next meetings April 21 and May 19, 6:00PM.
Monday, March 24, 2008
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