MInutes+Sept+23+2010

=Agenda for the inaugural meeting on September 23, 2010= Refreshments are available as you enter and during the breakout session.
 * 1) Welcome from Julie Lindsay, meeting convener and chair
 * 2) Round the room introduction from guests - a chance to get to know each other
 * 3) 'What's New?' - update from schools as to new implementations and ideas for this year and last year. eg new online learning approaches, new 21st Century PD initiatives etc.
 * 4) 'The challenge of 21st Century learning in China' - A chance to share challenges and issues pertinent to developing a 21st Century, innovative, technology rich curriculum while in China. Let's share solutions and achievements!
 * 5) 'What's Coming Up?' - Share PD and other opportunities at your school, or in Beijing and beyond.
 * 6) Break out Groups: Break into specific interest groups for further discussion - IT, Curriculum, IT Managers, or whatever other groupings we decide will be useful.
 * 7) Final check in and reporting back on break-out conversations and suggestions for future planning including a date and venue for the next meeting.
 * 8) Meeting close.

=Minutes= Sharing ideas for PD, curriculum, infrastructure and community engagement and other items WAB Dulwich BISS ISB Harrow IST
 * PD courses
 * one-off, low numbers of people, personal approach, could be a series eg video production
 * small training rooms for teacher PD
 * block schedule, available at various times
 * Lunchtime PD - with food
 * Main focus this year: IWB (Promethean) level 1 & 2; Mac fluency; blogs, wikis and video server; Moodle
 * Teachers bring TAs as well
 * Moving from iWeb to blog (Word Press) for ES blogs - [|WAB blogs]
 * Web publishing guidelines
 * VLE - Moodle
 * Student Geek Force - 15 min training for teachers, Gr9-12
 * PD
 * Focus on Macbooks, StudyWiz
 * IT competency standards for teachers created
 * Mindmapping, some Web 2.0, spreadsheets
 * VLE - StudyWiz
 * 1:1 - Grade 9 up, mobile carts Gr7-8, Teachers all Mac, Year 7 up MacBook
 * 1:1 Grade 6-12 - Macbook predominantly
 * StudyWiz VLE
 * [|Wikispaces imlementation] - wiki digital portfolios
 * [|Digital citizenshi]p approach
 * Curriculum development be informing and driving the use of technology
 * Looking at fundamental understandings eg tech infusion
 * Major infrastructure upgrades recently
 * 1850 students, 2,500 computers including about 1500 student-ready laptops
 * StudyWiz and eLockers, rolling our SharePoint
 * Mobile devices login to guest network(P
 * 1:1 Macbook for teachers, allow some mobile devices but not mobile phones
 * PD linked to appraisal, minimum expectations
 * GRE connection

Parent connections
 * IST - parent sharing sessions
 * WAB - friends of the library; education and hands on for systems including user names and passwords
 * BISS - digital citizenship sessions parents and students together on StudyWiz and wikispaces
 * Dulwich - using child's login ID for SW; parent orientation evening, focus on IT policy and parental controls etc

What's On
 * K12 Online Conference
 * Beijing Learning Summit - Madeleine
 * Global Education Conference
 * 21CHK - 21st Century Learning conference in Hong Kong
 * Flat Classroom Conference