Advocate’s Meeting

March 21, 2001

Attendees: Karla, Jade, Amanda, Darlene, Spencer, Jackie, Lisa, Steven, LaRoyce

 

Announcements

            Next meeting

            NECC conference in Chicago neccsite.org

            Collaborations with Eagan HS this summer

 

Allen Schmieder, JDL Technologies, corporate partner for the grant

• Government works- re: appropriations of money
• Moore’s Law: Every 18 mos. Cost cut in half and power and capacity doubles
• 4 things schools need (National Technology Goals)

computers, internet access, software, professional development for teachers

• We can’t use cost for an excuse
• Michigan is giving every teacher a laptop
• Issues: Quality of computers/connection- 3% of schools have good technology
• Software companies being bought by textbook companies
• Portal wars
• Generation Y- great
• Electronic portfolios
• Sas.org 50-100 best web sites

 

Everybody has the capacity for genius!

 

 

April 25, 2001

Advocate’s Meeting

Attendees: Steven, Amanda, Derek, Spencer, Katie, Darlene, Jade, Jacki, Kim, LaRoyce

 

Log onto Eagan website to see the link to our Tech. Day

Derek has an interview

 

Bill B showed disk on a key chain

 

Sprayberry HS Power Point presentation

Slides showed:

• Our group in front of the school
• Introduction to the school
• Connected on T1 line to the office
• Bob Downs our CCTT connection
• Each dept. has it’s own lab
• Blackboard
• Nova Net
• Virtual High School\
• Century School in downtown Atlanta