CHS Tech Notes
- Half day Vision Thing on Tuesday May 25th 12ish-4ish Can CHS admin
make it? - Topics?
- Role of Tech Comm
- What is Ed Tech?
- COWs vs labs vs Pods vs N computing – access, support, long term
sustainability - Summer Priorities
- Analyze Tech Survey
- Budgeting – the formula needs updating
- Updates
- Site wide wireless – being bid upon, should happen during summer
- Each laptop will have to be touched (might take the first week of
school, with the lab closed and Darreo on full time laptop set up) - Open Office – Possible to push it out and make it the default (laptops
will need to be plugged in to get the update) - Tech Survey w/ Tech Request + Goals– CMS and River integrating the
15-20 minute survey into Friday half day. Room in CHS plan??? - Aubrey (CHS Master Teacher) reported increased tech integration in
other classes based on the Global Studies tech integration - Sophomore Technology Class (Software Apps->Tech Survey->Intro
to CS) - Why does this class exist?
- We need a semester class to back up health
- We want to increase enrollment in tech electives (Graphic Design,
DigiMusic, Video, Robot, Game Design, AP CS) - With integration of tech in core there is still a need for a dedicated
tech skills class taught by a tech teacher (just like Writing Across
the Curriculum doesn’t mean we can get rid of English class) - Computer Science is a new discipline
- Optional tech = low female enrollment (achievement gap)
- Who is in control of this class?
- Clifford is the teacher, but lots of folks have competing visions
- What could this class look like? (some or all of the below)
- In depth software apps to complement the tech integration in core
- Computer hardware
- Programming
- Survey of tech electives
- Digital citizenship
- Issues
- Not a state requirement
- No/little student choice
- Not the best way to fix low enrollment in electives
- study hall/TA limitations the direct route
- Doesn’t increase enrollment in non tech electives
- Do we have the staffing?
- My Back of The Envelope Vision for 18 Weeks of a Mandatory Intro to
CS class (not in this order) - Hardware
- Operating systems/Computer Concepts
- Networking
- Virus/Malware/SPAM
- Programming
- Programming
- Website Creation
- Office Software
- Office Software
- Web 1.0
- Copyright
- Web 2.0-blogs
- Web 2.0-wikis, docs
- Email/Web conferencing
- Digital Citizenship/Reputation
- Graphic Design
- Video
- Digital Audio