Date: September 7, 2004
To: CTAP Region IV Contacts
From: Bonnie Marks, Director
Subject:
BARC Meeting October
5, 12:30 p.m.
CTAP² Presentation October 5, 10:00
a.m.
Greetings and welcome to a new school
year! We hope your summer was restful and
restorative. CTAP Region IV has been busy
over the last three months, and there is
much to report. We look forward to seeing
you again at the upcoming Bay Area Regional
CTAP (BARC) meeting on Tuesday,
October 5. Please note the dates
for all of this year’s BARC meetings
follow at the bottom of this message.
The meeting will feature a presentation
by Dr. Sara Armstrong,
who will share the George Lucas Education
Foundation’s new Moving Images CD,
the third in the GLEF series. CTAP will
provide attendees with a copy of Moving
Images 3 to use in district and school presentations.
We'll also be updating you about CTAP's
current plans to support your work in the
upcoming year.
The first BARC meeting of the school year
will be preceded by a morning presentation
on changes to CTAP²,
the state’s free education technology
self-assessment tool. Beginning at 10:00
a.m., Jim Freese of the CTAP staff will
provide information about changes to CTAP²
and to the state’s CTAP² reporting
requirements for EETT grants. For more information
go to http://www.ctap4.org/pdf/CTAP2Oct5.pdf
The BARC meeting will immediately follow:
Tuesday,
October 5, 2004
9:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 – Pre-BARC CTAP2 meeting
12:00 Registration and Refreshments
12:30 - 3:30 p.m. BARC meeting
at the
Alameda County Office of Education
313 W. Winton Ave., Hayward
with a videoconference remote location at
the Marin County Office of Education
Other BARC Agenda items include:
-
State Educational Technology
Update
-
Funding and Grants updates
-
CTAP Region IV summer
activities
-
Plans for future meetings,
activities, and events
-
And, as always, Sharing
and Collaborating
|
 Welcome
and Introductions – Bonnie Marks
State Education Technology
Update – http://www.cde.ca.gov/edtech/
Tech Plan Submission
– This fall, the California Department
of Education initiated a new procedure for
district technology plan reviews. Here
is a summary of the changes:
- Districts may submit
their technology plan for review, whether
or not they are applying for EETT formula
or competitive funding
- Tech plan begin and end dates standardized
to 7/1/xx to 6/30/xx
- Technology Plans must be submitted in
MS Word or RTF formats.
- Districts will submit their technology
plan to their regional CTAP office for
grooming. In CTAP Region IV, districts
should submit their tech plan to Micheline
LeBlanc via email (mleblanc@acoe.k12.ca.us)
by one of the deadlines, October 6, 2004,
December 1, 2004, or April 6, 2005.
- Regional CTAP offices will upload district
technology plans when the plans have been
groomed and revised to meet state and federal
criteria
- A CTAP Coordinator from another CTAP
region will perform the State-Level Review
- EETT-approved tech plan can suffice for
E-rate, with an addendum regarding E-rate
expenditures,
- Districts with expiring tech plans must
complete Appendix I – Education Technology
Plan Benchmark Review. The district
will submit Appendix I along with the updated
plan.
District tech plans meeting the EETT criteria
will be a requirement for future education
technology funding/grants, including the
K-12 Technology Voucher Program
CTAP²
– The self assessment has been modified,
and is much shorter. Section have been combined.
Region IV will be hosting a series of training
sessions for CTAP2 administrators this fall.
CTAP Region IV Update
– http://www.ctap4.org
Summer 2004 Activities
– Staff shared information about Summer
2004 Activities
Literacy Academy: Two four-day
institutes, one in Solano and one in Alameda
county
Digital Storytelling: A collaborative
workshop hosted by the Contra Costa COE
Middle School Math Project: Further
development of the project focused on algebra
for middle school
Coaching and EETT Partner Trainings: Further
development of the project focused on algebra
for middle school
Upcoming Workshops
–
New Literacy: Six evening
series workshops will be held in Solano and
Alameda Counties
Data Management Support meetings and Principals’
Breakfasts: These early morning workshops
are designed to assist principals with data-driven
decision making
Tech Plan Implementation
–
Technology Funding
Alert! – The newest issue is
out and features information about currently
available grants: (http://www.ctap4.org/grants/funding_alert.htm)
K-12 Education Voucher
Program (Microsoft Settlement Update)
– This program will likely
roll out in early 2005. Districts that have
not yet developed a state approved tech plan
should do so, as one will be required as
a condition of receiving this funding.
Enhancing Education through
Technology - EEET Update
- Formula Funded Grants
Three cycles: October 6, December 1 and
April 6.
Tech plans submitted to regional office
for regional grooming
Tech plan may required revisions and re-grooming
Regional office will upload the tech plan
when it meets state and federal criteria
State level reading completed by one state
coordinator/reader
New RFA available at the EETT website.
- Competitive Grants –
No definite information about the new RFA
yet
Eligibility list will be posted when the
RFA is posted.Five Region IV schools were
funded this year. See details in the CTAP
Region IV May-June Newsletter.
MIT Academy – focus
is on expanding their Environmental And
Spatial Technology program to their middle
school
Antioch USD – focus
is on math
Fairfield USD – focus
is on science and math. Schools were added
to their Year 1 program
San Lorenzo USD –
focus is on literacy
Napa USD – focus
is on literacy. A new school was added to
their Year 1 program.
Resource Spotlight:
TechSETS– Recent audit indicated
that TechSETS was under-utilized. It also
showed that 50% of the users were teachers.
Establishing an account is free. It also allows
the site to be customized for users and for
TechSETS to track who is using the site and
how often.
GLEF Moving Images
3 (Sara Armstrong) — Moving
Images 3 has just been released by GLEF. The
new cd contains 8 stories with 5 of them being
local stories from the greater Bay Area. The
web-site has a new section that features free
teaching Instructional Modules under the Professional
Development tab of the GLEF
website <http://www.glef.org>.
Speak Up Day is a survey that will be open
for student input. It will be open from October
11 to October 29. The survey is located at
the Net Day
website <http://www.netday.org>
Intel Teach to the
Future (Joanne Miller) —
Intel TTF is a world-wide initiative. There
are K-12 programs and pre-service program.The
program is a free, train-the-trainer model.
Intel provides all materials. To hold a course,
15 master teachers are required. Those master
teachers turn around and train 10 other teachers.
There are 10 modules of 4 hours each.
2 new interactive thinking tools have been
developed:
- Seeing reason tool
- Visual ranking tool
Trainers can go back to Intel to get training
on these two tools.
The 3 hour administrative forum will help
administrators learn how they can support
teachers in the use technology. This training
also looks at the ISTE standards and case
studies.
JoAnne Miller, jmiller@ict.org,
(707) 255-5457
Admin forum: http://www.intel.com/education/teach/forums
Upcoming Events
CUE –
http://www.cue.org
Dates for next year's CUE conference is March
10-12 in Palm Springs “Hotspot for Learning.”
Strands will continue and a new strand will
be data management. Hand-on training are continnued
and increased this year. Another feature that
will continue is hand-held sessions. Doug
Prouty will be leading the Technology Coordinator
Resource forum.
California League of Middle Schools conference
is in Monterey on January 14 through the 16th.
<http://www.clms.net>
CUE Affiliates
EBCUE — EBCUE is holding a January
22 Mini-CUE Conference. Cool Tools for Learning
will be held at the Contra Costa County Office
of Educaiton.
iCUE — On the same date, iCUE will
be holding a mini-CUE at Woodside High School
in Woodside.
Announcements
— Cisco Systems held a successful seminar
on e-Rate strategies. They are going to re-run
the seminar in November. This hands-on seminar
is presented by Funds for Learning.
Next BARC
Meeting
October 2004 at the
Alameda County Office of Education |
