September+11th,+2013+Meeting

September 11th, 2013 KHS Technology Committee Meeting

Members Present: Jen Pheiler, Matt Summner, Mike Devine, Mike Vose, Stephanie John, Todd Zagurski, Steve Marcheusualt, Chris Denesha, Dan Durand, Wendy Durand, JoAnn Gerardi-Voccio, Gena Torre, Bethany Knowlton

Agenda:

Email: Tony, Mike, Mike, JoAnn, Fred with wikispace access

-Introductions

-Review KHS Tech Plan

-Cases: ClamCase, or other suitable case that can be offered: A discount code- can they go back and reuse the code to get a credit?

-iPad Deployment: Being held up on opinion of lawyer that is determining the lease agreement. Anticipate a signature this week. Fred will email the staff when a final deployment date is firm (message coming from Admin, not Tech Committee).
 * Handbook Revisions
 * If students loose charger or break it, they must buy a new one.
 * Make sure there is a line that allows us to delete non-educational apps
 * Insurance Revisions: Theft ($50 deductible); No deductible for warranty work, crack cases, liquid cases
 * This information has been sent to Brian at CO
 * Can begin contracts with $55 for an insurance fee
 * Deployment
 * Seniors who are graduating, Freshmen will be getting those machines next year.
 * Same serial number assigned to the same student year after year
 * 4 Year lease, with option to buy it out
 * CASPER allows you to make notes that are tied to the machine- so Chris could write up an "incident report", and push it to CASPER so it's "tied to the machine"
 * Down the line would we like to be able to offer iPads to the seniors for a discounted price?
 * Printing
 * App Purchases
 * $30 per machine for money for apps
 * Have "testers" of apps that are teachers to find apps that they like using in their classroom- IT might be able to fund some money
 * AirServer App:
 * SparkVwe HD (Science App MUST be on iPads)
 * iPad "Image"
 * Google Education
 * Charging Stations:
 * Todd will create locked boxes with holes for charging stations in the cafe and media center
 * Use of the School Store:
 * Do we stock some supplies in the school store (Like new chargers, screen protectors, styli)

-Online Professional Development for Staff
 * http://www.edudemic.com/2013/09/high-quality-online-professional-development/
 * New iOS (7)