Technology Advisory Committee
Meeting Agenda
April 25, 2014
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XIII.
Welcome and Introductions
RWAN
a. Project Timeline
b. Equipment
c. Service Dates
IU28 RWAN Services
a. Moodle Hosting
b. Keystone Catalog
c. Video Conferencing
d. Storage Solutions
e. Blackboard Collaborate (Evaluating WebEx)
f. Discovery Streaming Server Cache
g. SAS Portal
h. PAIUnet
i. Virtual Servers (Temporary and Permanent)
j. Schoolwires Consortium (7 schools)
i. Training and Implementation Support
k. EdInsight Hosting (4 schools)
Adobe Site Licensing Agreements
Discovery Streaming SSO
PATI Survey
Email Archiving
DRC Caching Server for Testing
STEM Design Challenge
Internet Issues – QOS, Bandwidth, etc
Electronic Board Documents (Agendaman)
Statewide LMS Pricing
a. Schoology
i. $5.00/student
ii. Increases capped at Act 1 index
b. Canvas
i. Year 1 - $3.63/student
ii. Year 2 - $5.77/student
iii. Year 3 - $6.06/student
iv. Increases at no more than 5% after third year
c. Desire2Learn
i. $7.70/student
ii. Increases at no more than 5% after third year
Budget Season
a. Big Ticket Items
b. Consulting Services
c. Other items
d. Shape the Future – Microsoft Program
XIV. Useful Educational Apps
a. See list on second page
XV. Open Discussion
IOS Apps
 Mailbox-email management app, can apply certain tasks to email
 Apple apps: Pages (can password protect), Keynote,
 iMovie has become very user friendly and there is a new movie trailer feature
 Notability (password protected projects)
 Nearpod
 Groupme - allows for group chats, keeps things nested and organized in easy way
 SlideShark-can bring a ppt or presentation onto the iPad, it will display the presentation and the notes as well
 Toca Builders-elementary students, building
 Clumsy Ninja-game for kids, you “teach” the ninja to do things, constant reinforcement...the ninja interacts with
you
 Lucid Chart-apply for the FREE educational version, mind mapping, concept mapping, you can build out your
network with templates (iOS, web-based)
 My MathPad
 Number Pieces Basics (math)
 Voxer - speak your texts to contacts
 Skitch- take a pic of anything on your screen and annotate it (Evernote owns it and they integrate)
 Unseen World
 Haiku Deck for presentations
 Go React - chemistry app
 Hopscotch - looks primary but it is really higher math, 8th grade and up
 Crowdmics - launching in February to broadcast your auidio to all devices and allow each device to become a mic
 Science 360
 Sock Puppets
 Puppet Pals
 Stick Pick - Blooms levels, ESL folks love it
 Too Noisy  Bouncy Balls
 Undecided - kind of a random generator, ie: pick the short straw
 Tip of my Tongue  Class Dojo
 Say Hi - a translator, it will translate any language. Some schools keep an iPad at reception desk with the app to
help translate when parents, etc come in
 Board Cam - mount iPad and it takes pictures and you can annotate while it’s live recording or taking pictures,
you can also narrate while annotating and save as a presentation
 Real Chalk HD - just like a chalkboard
 Touch Cast - record vid and you can set websites or images and the recording can be watched while those sites or
images are shown in a bottom window
 Chirp
 QR Scanner
 Aurasma - virtual reality
 WiFi Photo Transfer - turns iOS device temporarily into a web server
 Photon - great browser for flash on the iOS device
 RSCE Auras - augmented reality
 QR Code Reader and Scanner by ShopSavvy, Inc. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/qr-code-reader-andscanner/id388175979?mt=8
Web Based
Followupthen.com -email management
Socrative has been updated (but not the mobile app yet)
List.ly to create lists of apps, etc
Ed Shelf