Learning And Sharing Teachers

June 1st, 2010

• Network plans - Genki what's the latest?
• Classroom Projector Plans - Christine what's the latest?
• Teacher leaver computer drop offs
• Buy back update - 

 

 

May 25th, 2010

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

 

presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.

more info: http://mediatedcultures.net

 

May 18th, 2010

• Daniel Pink's What motivates us

 

• What, How, Why TED talks

 

 

 

May 11th, 2010

• See how a Apple Mouse can control a iPad, we'll watch 1st few minutes of the video

 

• Watch Conan speak at Google, this is a 45 minute video

 

 

April 27th, 2010

•  We watched TEDxNYED - Chris Lehmann talk on School 2.0 we discussed different points: for example Facebook use in the school day, a different scheduling day, computer class vs. integration model, how we help students, the IT department dilemma do we give students the answer or do we help them find the answer.

 

• Food Fair Prep
• IT Plan update and suggestions from HOD's meeting 

 

April 20, 2010

• The iPad for Younger Children

 

• Leaked iPhone 4G

 

• New Teacher orientation update, Where we at? What are our plans so far?

 

• Summer Image

 

April 13th, 2010

• "Stephen Lehmann, will be visiting us for the week. As such,

  I would also like to invite you all to join our IT Meeting on Tuesday

  to talk IT and all. I figure it might be a great opportunity to talk

  and also download some of the excellent minds that will be moving on

  at the end of the year ;)" -Genki 

• Video Gear 

 

• Department Wiki

  

• MacBooks & iPads + Budgeting

  

• Portal & Moodle

  

• Mapping

  

• 1-1 Plan, Grade 3 Pilot

 

• Network refit

  

• Projector Plan 
• Budget 2010

 

April 6th, 2010

• Can the Server be retired?

 

March 16th, 2010 Genki is absent

• New Staff Ning update
• IT 2010-2011 Budget update
• Question: How can we spend next years budget of 16 Million yen?

 

 

March 9th, 2010

• Priority: 2011 Computer Image https://yis.basecamphq.com/projects/4492423/log
• Priority: 2011 Budget (come or we will spend it all on french fries)
• The Skunk Works
• PBWorks
• photos.yis.ac.jp
• Basecamp HQ

 

March 2nd, 2010

• another great FORA movie to watch real_time-web.mov
• @twestival http://twestival.com/

  Cool, I can now register an event at my school?

  Yes!  Our theme this year is education, so it seemed fitting to invite students to participate in our global events.  There will continue to be one main Twestival event per city, but now there can also be complementary events at high schools, colleges, or universities around the world.  This way people of all ages and interests are able to contribute and get involved on March 25th.  They will be represented with different colours on the map and schools will be given a bit more flexibility to involve a special curriculum around global education.  If you are a student already organizing a City Twestival, you do not have to change it to a School Twestival.  This is a new element to Twestival we are introducing as there are many people under the age of 21 that wish to participate in our movement - so now they can! 

 

Feb 23rd, 2010

• In the News
• Is Google making us stupid video: is google making us stupid.mov a 3 minute section from This Week in Tech
• PA school spying TWIT laptop monitoring.mov
• Facebook gripes protected by free speech, ruling says

 

Feb 16th, 2010

•  Mr. Blum's is our special guest and is joining us, talk about Mapathon iPhone tools http://mapzen.cloudmade.com

 

 

Feb 9th, 2010

• We have a Demo camera let's have fun a play with it
• the iPad, can it work in Education

 

• Planning documents, the latest in the IT Plan and the IT budget proposal
• BTG for Students Update and Request

 

Feb 2, 2010

• We're watching a movie "The Virtual Revolution - The Great Levelling"
• "Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web's biggest names, she investigates whether it has lived up to its early promise. In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit"

 

Jan 26, 2010 9 AM We are Planning on streaming this meeting at http://www.livestream.com/yis

• Road Map
• Apple Anouncement who will be up at 2 AM on Wednesday morning

 

Jan 19th, 2010

• basecamp
• New IT Team members
• Anyother topics

   

Jan 12th, 2010

• Unboxing of 3rd grade laptops

 

Dec 8th 2009

• 1-1 - Christine U
• MS/HS reports, Charlie is here, feed back and adjustments - Brian L

 

November 16th, 2009

• BTG
• Google apps, what's next... maybe email?

 

 

November 10th, 2009

• Priority: IT Requirements for BTG.
• Priority: Request from Dennis: Social Networking Policy?
• Gaming (proposed by Genki... of all people)

 

Oct 12, 2009

• James share his adventures to Apple land

 

Sept. 29, 2009

• Colin Campbell:

I am following a free on-line course called on 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge'  run by  Stephen Downes and  George Siemens. All of the readings, videos etc so far have been really interesting and have had me asking all sorts of questions.

 

Sept. 15,

• 1st part 8:40 - 9 am
• PTO demo
• 2nd Part 9 am - 10 am
• nothing scheduled

 

Sept. 7th 

• 1st Part 8:30 - 9am SALT room M201
• 1st part meeting with SALT: presentation of Parent Teacher scheduling software
• http://www.appointy.com/
• https://bookd.com/
• http://www.ptcwizard.com
• 2nd Part 9 - 10am LAST room M201

 

 

Sept. 1th, 9-10 AM

• Barcamp what?! Christine's not coming in today as she is feeling sick, she was to be the main presenter for  this topic, so it will be postponed to another time
• BTSN logictics
• High School BTSN
• Brad's & Brian's helping out
• Elementary BTSN
• Billy helping out with audio in the GYM
• Genki with audio in Caferetria
• Brian setting up portable projector with portable screen
• Billy & Brian figure out how to wire laptop audio into speakers
• Defining the LAST group

 

August 25th 8:30 - 10 am

Video warm up: Are you past, present or future oriented?