March 1, 2017 at 3:00 PM - Technology Committee Meeting

Discussion: 

Call to order at 2:45 AM

Staff:  David Ludwig, Scott Isaacson, Beth Kabes, Rhonda Eis, Deb Hericks

Discussion:  Technology Director shared:

• 170 districts have applied to participate in ADVISER
  
• 93 districts have received key and secret for data publishing
  59 districts have published data to the ADVISER data store

Infinite Campus is in hopes to finish their certification sometime today.  Starting to decide what metrics that can start logging to start collecting data on the systems.  Work days have been scheduled almost weekly to get everyone working and fixing issues as they go along. 

Discussion:  As of February 27, 2017, 138 districts and ESUs are listed in the statewide single sign-on framework.  This process has become pretty smooth to get schools on the single sign on.  Performance has been getting better.  There is a bug in the interface, working to get this fixed. 

Discussion:  Work is now focused on user requests which were deferred during the Zend framework conversion.  Design work is in progress for the interface from SRS to the ADVISER data store.  This interface will be developed during the spring for testing this summer. 

Discussion:  NOC met 2/22/17 and designated a subcommittee to research and evaluate options for future ESUCC hosting.

Discussion:  The Innovation Grant has been added to the Tech Plan. 

Discussion:  Committee Chair shared that he worked with a group of NOC Members to work on the NOC ByLaws.  NOC will approve at their April Meeting. 

Discussion:  Technology Director attended the NOC meeting and training in Columbus.  Discussions on Network Nebraska, E-Rate, etc.  They were not able to complete a list of training needs of the NOC Affiliate.  On the NOC training Day there was a whole group discussion on the single sign and then there were two presentations on implementation process. 

Discussion:  The Committee table BlendEd/Distance Education Procedure Manual. 

Discussion:  Learn360 has given us a revision of our contract which will lower the original price.  The next year contract will be a fourteen month contract to get us aligned with our fiscal year. 

Discussion:  Discussion was held regarding NOC budget requests. 

Discussion:  Discussion was held regarding TLT budget requests.

Discussion:  Discussion was held regarding BlendEd Initiative budget requests.

Discussion:  The purpose of this TLT Special Projects request is to support the creation an online professional learning course fostering best practices in blended learning. The course will include four modules: Getting Started, Offline Space, Online Space, and BlendEd In Action. Each module is further divided into topics which include instructional materials (videos and articles) and discussion board activities. Modules and topics include:  Getting Started; Designing your Online Space: Designing your Offline Space; BlendEd in Action. 

Discussion:  Blended/Distance Education Director shared the NVIS budget requests for improvements.  This would be an agreement with ESU 10. 

Discussion:  This project is coming from NETA wanting to promote Virtual Field Trips especially those in Nebraska.  NETA is requesting the support of ESUCC and NDLA. 

Discussion:  Technology Director report through agenda. 

Discussion:  BlendEd/Technology Director reviewed her report with the Committee.  Presented at NDLA on Blended Learning.  She will be attending the Go Open Seminar next week.  Staff will be attending the NROC Conference the end of March.  Starting to work with schools on updating the NVIS site with next years course offerings.  She also shared some data on the course offered through NVIS.