2012-13DatesandFocus

=EASTCONN Tech Council Dates for 2012-13= 3:30 - 5:30 PM || **Focus:** **Cloud Computing, BYOD, Mobile Device Management** 3:30 - 5:30 PM || **Focus: Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Technology** For resources on this Wiki on CCSS & Tech, click on the following links: 3:30 - 5:30 PM * What are the technological implications of online testing? || EASTCONN Hampton Annex Tech Center, 376 Hartford Turnpike, Hampton, CT 06247 || 3:30 - 5:30 PM || **Focus: PD and Online Learning** Check the blended learning tools that Mike Vose shared from the Killingly High School pilot in Jane's Delicious account: https://delicious.com/jcookgough/blendedlearning || EASTCONN Hampton Annex Tech Center, 376 Hartford Turnpike, Hampton, CT 06247 || 3:30 - 5:30 PM || **Focus: Web 2.0 Tools and New Technologies**
 * Standing Agenda Items:**
 * SBAC
 * BYOD
 * Mobile Device Management
 * Federal and State Updates
 * Burning Questions and Issues
 * Prework for all meetings:**
 * Bring ideas, questions and materials to share.
 * **Date & Time** || **Meeting Focus** || **Location** ||
 * **Thursday, October 4, 2012**
 * What are districts doing in the cloud?
 * How are you managing mobile devices?
 * Who is implementing BYOD?
 * What are the issues that you're having with cloud computing, BYOD, mobile device management?
 * What lessons have you learned? || EASTCONN Hampton Annex Tech Center, 376 Hartford Turnpike, Hampton, CT 06247 ||
 * **Thursday, December 6, 2012**
 * How do they intersect?
 * What are the implications of CCSS and digital literacy?
 * How do we help teachers and students use appropriate tech tools to ensure the rigor that the standards are requiring?
 * Create a crosswalk between curriculum and tech tools
 * Pre-work: Bring ideas. Kathy will email a sample of a template that she's using in Griswold. We should add ideas to this template and bring them with us
 * CCSS
 * CCSS & Tech
 * Tech Standards || EASTCONN Hampton Annex Tech Center, 376 Hartford Turnpike, Hampton, CT 06247 ||
 * **Thursday, January 24, 2013**
 * Snowdate: 1/31/13** || **Focus: Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Online Testing**
 * What devices are appropriate for online testing?
 * How is virtualization working?
 * How can data from online testing be used to inform instruction?
 * The NWEA MAP online assessment
 * Who Is using this?
 * How are you using the data?
 * **Thursday, March 21, 2013**
 * Who's doing what?
 * What are they using as a platform?
 * How are they using it?
 * Who are they using it with?
 * Where are good sources of Webinars and Webinar archives?
 * Who's doing what with blended learning? Mike Vose will have data on their 9th grade pilot by then.
 * **Thursday, May 2, 2013**
 * What's new and cool?
 * Who's reading what blogs to stay current? Which do you recommend? || EASTCONN Hampton Annex Tech Center, 376 Hartford Turnpike, Hampton, CT 06247 ||