October 3, 2017 at 10:00 AM - Technology Committee Meeting

Staff:  David M Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana, Scott Isaacson, Beth Kabes.  

Call to order at 10:00AM.  

Geoff Cravin, NAMTC Executive Director was present to give a presentation.  Angela Burke, current NAMTC President was also present.  Ron Cone will be the incoming president and Molly Aschoff will be the Secretary for the organization.  NAMTC conduct Shared Conversation that last about an hour, lead by peers.  Presentations on data privacy, professional development, open spaces, etc.  These meetings are held via zoom and also recorded for later review.  The NAMTC Summit will be held November 28/29, 2017 in San Antonio.  Beth Kabes will be the recipient of the 2017 Braselman Award.  

Executive Director shared that there are talking points attached for each of the ares in the Innovation Grant.  

The governing policies is a memo from KSB Law regarding the research so far on policies and procedures.  

The Technology Director shared that the software vendors are ready to update software in system so that publishing can begin.  Six SIS vendors, with one almost complete, publishing to the data store.  The group will begin to have work days.  All district publishing that are currently certified and all publishing by the end of the calendar year.  

Technology Director reported that 222 districts are now connected to advisors (85%).  Updates to App Launch Portal over semester break.  Continue to add applications.  

Technology Director continues to review options for sustainability in the future.  The committee will consider all options before recommending their choice to NOC and Technology Committee.  

SRS went through a strategic planning process this past summer.  Expansion, Interoperability, User Experience, Infrastructure, and data are the areas of priority needs for the SRS Committee.  Mindshine continues to work with ESUCC on updating the Zend Conversion.  They are about 2/3 way through the process to be certified with the Adviser process.  

BlendED/DEC Director reviewed the talking points with BlendEd pilots.  Ready to begin advertising for the Co-hort 2.   Co-hort 2 will be funded by the Innovation Grant.  They have been visiting classrooms.  They are organizing an administrator reception at Fall Ed Tech to be held at the Comfort Inn in Kearney.  She also shared some results from surveys they have collected.  

Executive Director shared the talking points with the committee.  We need to continue to get the NROC/EdReady resources out to our schools.  We will be working on regional meeting plan to get out information to our schools.  This will provide an overview and help make an impact on student learning.  The Language Arts piece will be the next piece added to our EdReady.  We will need the ESU support to continue to scale us this process.  

Executive Director shared the five pilots and the other five ESUs that have joined these meetings.  They will begin to advertise their meetings via Open Meetings since there are now 10 ESUs involved in the process.  The pilots are working on their data digs.  There will be an advisory committee meeting prior to each meeting so they can organize the questions/concerns to be discussed.  

Executive Director shared the evaluator for Innovation Grant talking points.  They have attended some trainings/visitation for the BlendEd Pilot

Jason Everett was present to share the OER Commons HUB Proposal.  TLT had Evan Abbey join their meeting to discuss OER Commons Proposal.  From there they create a sub-committee to research further.  This committee wants to provide OER awareness, resources, and training across the state.  There is a combination of ESU, ESUCC, and NDE representatives on this committee. The OER commons Hub will allow a place to curate and share resources.   The cost of the proposal is $16,500 of which NDE has agreed to pay half and for each year after it will cost $1500 of which NDE will pay half. The Tech committee would like to see more of an implementation plan.  

The E-Rate Resolution will be on hold until next month.  

Review of the inventory that is recommended of disposal.  This equipment is longer repurposed.