Welcome to the CESA 7 Tech Coordinator's Wiki

This site was developed as a way for the CESA 7 District Technology coordinators to work together as a team to compile our expertise, efforts and beliefs to move stakeholders in the best direction to advance Instructional Media and Technology in our schools.

Next Meeting:

May 22, 2012

9:00-11:30 AM

Register Here

May 22 agenda items:

Tech Coords discussion items: Please post

June meeting date? - Keep June 5 or change to later date?

Ed Camp Milwaukee - May 12 - Free @edcampmke  http://edcampmke.blogspot.com/

SITA/EWITC Update

ETS Professional development catalog 2012-13 Click here

Google on the Air Summit - did anyone participate?

Link to Marzano research - 9 strategiess that work, with technology links
http://www.tltguide.ccsd.k12.co.us/instructional_tools/Strategies/Strategies.html

Speak UP Day results     Report

SSIS DPI Update page: http://dpi.wi.gov/ssis/

LDS DPI Update page: http://dpi.wi.gov/lds/index.html 

Other items as come up

April 24 Topics: See minutes for further details

• WEMTA Share
• Carts On Wheels COWS ready for the Smarter Balanced Assessment (or be able to be upgraded to meet those requirements), what kinds of devices/make/models would you suggest
• How secure are the devices that your admins are carrying around? Interesting article on study that finds BYO devices not being secured: http://gcn.com/articles/2012/04/09/byod-devices-not-secured-study-finds.aspx?s=gcndaily_100412
  
• Thorough iPad 2012 review (go to last page for summary): http://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review
• Midwest Google Summit -- https://sites.google.com/site/gapsmidwestsummit/home Nov 12-13 Wis Dells. Sign up at the site for further information.
• Take part in the first (and future) Google Education on Air conference, May 2, free! Uses Google+ Hangout. The link is  https://sites.google.com/site/eduonair/   Many sessions and presenters to choose from.   Not available to K-12 GAFE accounts, use personal accounts.

• Early Registration Closes Friday, April 13th
  

          Games+Learning+Society Educators Symposium June 12, 2012 | Madison, WI

          http://www.glsconference.org/2012/glses.html 

• BYOD Whitepaper Feb 2012 offers some planning strategies for getting up to speed with scalable one-to-one and BYOD 
  

March 27 topics:

Upcoming online achievement testing: Judy Sargent 

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/technology/

Pearson Online Readiness Document

New Wisconsin online assessments 2014-15 - technology implications:

http://assess4ed.net Moving to Online Testing WI Survey 2011 Online Assessments Preparing for Change

States to launch ‘IT readiness’ tool for common assessments

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/03/06/states-to-launch-it-readiness-tool-for-common-assessments/ 

Google Voice - Jen (WDP)

WEMTA's GoogleGroups discussion site:  http://groups.google.com/group/wemtalistserv/ Very helpful!

iPad storage cabinet/case - Stacie - Green Bay uses Spectrum. 

thoughts on iPad 2 vs 3 - Stacie

loading a book to Nooks - how many (6)

Upcoming CESA 7 ETS Workshops: CLICK HERE

2011-12 Meeting Minutes

Upcoming ETS Workshops and Events

Upcoming Conferences 

Conference Resources and Reviews  

Educational Resources  

Social Media Information  

Mobile Device Information 

Aligning Technology Literacy Standards and Curriculum Workspace 

Research Links and Findings  

Project RED Updates 

Equipment Recommendations 

2010-11 Technology Coordinators Members

Other Wikis:

• Literacy 2.0 - where technology meets traditional literacy 
• CESA 7 technology integration presentations: Roxannnys.pbworks.com

• CESA 7 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Wiki - http://cesa7stem.pbworks.com/

          Under construction

• Alternatives to Textbooks Wiki - http://cesa7onlinetextsandbooks.pbworks.com    Looking for funding, any input welcome.