April+18,+2011


 * April 18th**


 * Agenda**:
 * Survey update
 * Teacher survey - ready to go
 * Steph - ask about telling people in the morning of PD day
 * Steph - draft email to staff - complete by 3:30 Mon PD day
 * Student survey - has some responses
 * Steve will send reminder email
 * Diane - take link down next Fri
 * Update on infrastructure
 * resources - do we need to check chairs, printers, recycling box, whiteboard markers, cleaning supplies
 * as trays break, remove them
 * Rich - 303
 * Jeff - 203
 * Diane - 228 (order parts for tables)
 * Steph will email Jane - 134
 * Steve - 137, 105
 * chairs
 * check how many chairs we need (broken) - Steve will check
 * Rich - Highfield next week
 * Cam - what supplies do you keep and where? Do you need more?
 * how many laptops do we have?
 * Diane - painting Design lab (chair marks)?
 * Update on tech - budget
 * update on courtyard - price of getting wifi in there for laptops? Can we have 20-30 working in there with the hub? Anywhere else we would like to put wifi hubs in? - have we budgeted for this?
 * foyer, cafeteria, learning commons, book room (anticipating that the book room may be changed into learning space at some point)
 * Cam has put in a request for the estimates for the 4 areas - foyer, cafeteria, commons, book room
 * what major purchases are in the works? How do they contribute to our overarching theme?
 * server - storage space
 * Filters - Steve will ask Monty - Level 4
 * Cam will find a sheet that we can fill out to unblock certain sites (requres some kind of write-up)
 * VPN boxes to help video streaming - there are network issues with these. We need to ask Beav about the details to get more info
 * what else would we like in the budget?
 * Lori - laptops
 * Steve - will look into netbooks
 * Limit copies on printers for teachers?
 * New info: found out that teachers this year have a $100 limit on their printing (they had $40 or so in previous years). Several teachers have had to have Cam 'top up' their printing already--more than once. We need to let teachers know how much they are printing (4 cents/b/w copy, 16 centrs/colour). For b/w copies, $100=2500 pages! Yikes!
 * Steve - ask Cam to add all scanners to the image, drivers for printers, MonD, Nero, HWW website as homepage (will have another meeting about the image)
 * To do - divvy up the list: (EVERYONE, Please look at this for our next meeting and add ideas to the pages on the side bar)
 * signs/responsibilities - students and teachers
 * signs in labs - for teachers
 * signs in labs - for students positive, meaningful wording
 * page for subs
 * SMART board instructions
 * tech squad recruitment - how, process, meetings, 1-2 teacher leaders - begin meetings
 * prep for Aug 29th PD (see Teacher Orientation link for details of the day)
 * PD sessions
 * materials
 * organization
 * setting the stage for the day
 * setting the stage for LLs before end of June
 * Recruit students AND teachers for innovative tech committee - before the end of June
 * Diane, Rich, Steve - heads of the Tech Squad
 * Diane will email Cheryl to set up a meeting - parameters, advertising in bulletin (Diane, Rich, Steve)