Date:
November 7, 2005
To: CTAP Regional Contacts
From: Bonnie Marks, Director
Subject: November
29 BARC Meeting
We look forward to seeing you at the November
29th BARC meeting. We have two featured
presenters that afternoon. Ben Bongalon
of the Pacific ADA & IT Center will
share information on training and resources
focused on the use of universally designed
technology in schools. Under a grant
from the Department of Education, free
training is available focused on best practices
to make school or district technology accessible
to the broadest range of users. In
addition, Carolyn Paxton of the Sausalito
Marin City School District will present
some of the new and useful resources at
the TICAL website. TICAL is one of
the Statewide Education Technology Services
funded through the California Department
of Education. It serves as a centralized
repository of technology related resources
for school administrators.
We'll be videoconferencing this meeting
to a second site, the Solano County Office
of Education. We will also be updating
you of CTAP's current activities and upcoming
events and we’ll share the latest
word on grants information.
The meeting will be held on:
Tuesday, November
29th
12 p.m. Registration and Refreshments
12:30 –3:30 p.m. (BARC
meeting)
at the
Alameda County Office of Education
313 W. Winton Ave., Hayward • Room 142
with Videoconference
Remote Location at the Solano
County Office of Education
5100 Business Center Drive, Fairfield
Other BARC Agenda items include:
- State
Educational Technology Update
- Funding
and Grants updates
- The
K-12 High Speed Network
- Plans
for future meetings, activities, and
events
- And,
as always, Sharing and Collaborating
There is no need to RSVP
for the BARC meeting, but for additional
information, you may call Shelle Bolar
at (510) 670-4168.
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 Meeting
Agenda and Minutes for the
BARC Meeting held November 29, 2005
at Alameda County Office of Education
with video conference to Solano
County Office of Education and Marin County
Office of Education
Welcome
and Introductions – Bonnie
Marks
State
EdTech Update –
K-12 HSN Update <http://www.k12hsn.org>
Connecting California’s Children Status
Report: The High Speed Network has moved from
the UC location to K-12 realm being hosted
in Imperial and counties. The report estimates
that 76% of students have access to the Internet.
In Region 4, 76% of school districts and 70%
of schools are connected to the High Speed
Network.
Annual Education Technology Survey – opens
January
The survey will be opening up on January
15th. The CDE plans to send out letters with
passwords for the survey before the December
holidays. Upgrades have been made based on
user feedback. For example, when users want
to view survey data from multiple years, they
no longer need to log in separately for each
year they want to view. That and other improved
features wil make this one of your favorite
surveys of the year.
EdTech Profile – <http://www.edtechprofile.org>
The SETS project formerly known as CTAP2 has
changed its name to Ed Tech Profile.
Technology
Funding Alert! – The
new funding alert is online.
CTAP Region IV Update – <http://www.ctap4.org>
Recent and Upcoming
Events
- Web site: The
- Data Management:
- Data Management Seminar: A new
data management seminar will bring
Administrators from the Philidelphia
School District to share how teachers
in their schools use the district
data management system to monitor
student achievement. The event
will be hosted at the Contra Costa
County Office of Education. It
will be video conferenced to San
Mateo County Office of Education.
This event may be registered for
online
<http://www.ctap4.org/registration/>
- Beyond Standardized Tests: The
second generation of data-driven
decision making for site administrators
has arrived. Don't be the one administrator
who misses this opportunity. Workshops
have been set up at San Mateo,
Alameda, and Contra Costa County
Offices of Education. An event
will be set up at the Solano County
Office of Education.
- All resources from the first
generation of School-site Data-Driven
Decision Making live on the CTAP
web site <http://www.ctap4.org/data/resources_data.htm>
- Año Nuevo PORTS Project: 15
classrooms have partnered with SBC,
CTAP IV, and the State Park System.
This project supplied video conference
equipment to each of these classrooms.
By using this technology, students
in Region IV will learn about the evolution
of the elephant seal and culminate
the unit with a video conference with
a park ranger.
- Tech Equity: The
TECH Equity Project has partnered with
CTAP IV to offer two sets of workshops
at the Marin COE and the Alameda COE.
The project aims to:
- Empower females to pursue higher-level
courses and careers in technical
fields
- Motivate all students through
relevant and choice-based work
- Deliver standards in ways that
promote mastery and retention
- Support efforts to increase state
test scores
Presentation
and Discussion
TICAL – Technology
Information Center for Administrative
Leadership <http://portical.org>
Janice Morrison • Carolyn
Paxton
Tical was formed eight years ago by
practicing administrators. Everything
on this site has been reveiwed and screened
by the administrators of the site. TICAL
has six main component areas:
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Curriculum Integration
- Financial Planning
- Operations and Maintenance
- Professional Development
- Technology Planning
Funding and Grants
Enhancing Education
through Technology - EEET Update
Formula Funded Grants:From
2002 to 2006, districts in Region IV have
received a total of $10,886,775 in formula
funded grants. The first round of tech
planning submission has passed and the second
round will close tomorrow. The final round
deadline is April 5, 2006. All schools that
are interested in collecting money for the
K-12 voucher (formerly the "Microsoft Settlement")
will need a current technology plan.
Competitive Grants: Congratulations
to our Round 3 winners; Alameda City Unified,
Oakland Unified, and West Contra Costa Unified.
Round 4 and round 5 of the competitive grant
closed on November 18. Good luck to all those
who applied.
Resource Spotlight
Pacific
ADA & IT Center
Ben Bongalon and Judith Stark
<http://www.pacdbtac.org>
The Pacific ADA and IT Center is a federally
funded program that is free to teachers.
The program is funded to provide services.
Accessible Information Technology has
the goal of increasing accesibility in
governmental agencies for people with
disabilities. As government agencies
require accesibility in the software
they buy, manufacturers are required
to build software with accessibility
features for users with disabilities
that become available to users outside
the government realm.
Download the slideshow.
Discussion: The $100 Laptop
MIT and Negroponte are close to finishing
the development of the $100 laptop. How
will this laptop change the educational
landscape?
Upcoming Events
February 3, 2006
CCSESA Technology Event -- Hold
your space for this event at <http://www.centerdigitaled.com/events>
CUE –
http://www.cue.org --
CUE will have a presence at Mac World.
East Bay CUE --
Cool Tools, the 2nd annual mini-conference
for East Bay CUE, will be held at the Alameda
County Office of Education on January 21.
iCUE -- Event
in February, PodCasting
Wine-Country CUE --
Tech Equity Project
Announcements
Next BARC Meeting
February 7, 2006
Alameda
County Office of Education |
