February+2012

Meeting @ Christian County 200 Glass Avenue Hopkinsville, KY 42240

Agenda 9:30 - Welcome - Amanda

9:35 - Socrative - Tracy/Shea
 * Student Response System
 * Teacher and Student Apps (FREE) or [] (teachers) or [] (student)
 * A "room number" will be given for students to take the test; this is assigned to you from the site
 * You have the option to ask oral questions and students can respond
 * Student Paced (students take on their own) or Teacher Paced (we do it together)
 * M/C, Text Response, Exit Ticket

9:50 - Story Lines - Tracy/Shea
 * FREE App
 * Similar to "Telephone" or "Gossip"
 * 3-9 players

10:00 - SimpleK12 - Tracy/Shea
 * []
 * Offer webinars, resources, etc.
 * Districts can pilot for FREE right now - Contact tdalton@simplek12.com
 * Learning Programs, Webinars, Shared Resources, Collaboration
 * Sam Gliksman's webinars are great! []

10:20 - BREAK

10:30 - ePubs - Marty Park
 * Marty is the "owner" of iTunes U Project
 * You don't have to have an iTunes U account
 * McCracken County has great math videos
 * Great distribution path
 * Superintendent signs MOU agreement to particpate
 * Digital Textbooks
 * Some districts have pulled people out for 12-24 months to create digital content for their schools
 * What do you think of when you hear digital textbook? (Interactive, text, pictures/audio/video, free, easy of use, can be updated)
 * []
 * What are we going to design content for? eReaders such as Nook, iPad, iPhone, iTouch []
 * Ways to create ePubs (see blog post above)
 * iPad - Book Creator for iPad can be put in DropBox, website, etc. ($4.99); Rapid Book Creator - grab a feed from evernot, posterous, blogger, wordpress, rss/atom feed to create book (2.99)
 * ePub converter - [|www.2epub.com] (loss interactives but gain some of the tools of ePub); [] (mobi file); [|www.epubbud.com] gives you a web experience of the file, easy for students to create ePubs (text, images and audio
 * Mac - iBooks Author creates iBook files

11:00 - Update - Jody Rose
 * [] -
 * eRate - July 1, 2012 will instruct students on internet safety; what it means from districts is that you must document policy, how you are teaching internet safety, etc.

11:30 - District Share Time 11:40 - Middle School visit

FYI: KATE is thinking about sponsoring a Boot Camp this summer for administrators and teachers through CASTLE. Here's a link to information on former Boot Camps. We would like to know if there would be interest in this before we commit to hosting it.

http://uceacastle.wikispaces.com/bootcamps

Bookcamp - June 14, 15 College of Ed Summit (College and Career Readiness) - June 13

Patti Oakley KATE