Virtual+TRETC+May+11,+2010


 * TRETC Planning Committee meeting on May 11


 * All agreed that a virtual component is an important part of TRETC's offerings
 * Norton mentioned that he is working with Cisco on the virtual piece - some contacts in New York

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 * Norton also suggested that we might edit some of the sessions to be more streamlined
 * We will offer Virtual TRETC on a separate day - January 2011, possibly during the 3rd week
 * We can check with AIU and surrounding IUs to see if there are some common days in January where it makes sense to schedule
 * Two ways we could go with presenters - let them apply, and then once selected we follow-up and ask them to create a webinar/recording for on-demand viewing
 * Aileen suggests an alternative method - asking them if they would prefer to just make a recording/webinar and not a "live" presentation at TRETC
 * Justin at Pgh Tech Council indicates the registration form should be online in the next week-2 weeks
 * Kevin suggests offering a webinar/recording slot to those presenters that cannot be fit into the one-day face-to-face conference in November 2010
 * Norton says Mara Linaberger has a good number of folks who need to make presentations - she will approach them about possibly doing the webinars/recording
 * AIU would issue the Act 48 hours for both the face-to-face and Virtual TRETC
 * Contacting Vendors who create/resell capture technology: Mediasite, TechSmith, Wimba (?), RPC Video (local reseller), Panopto, Cisco
 * Karlton reminds us that we need to be cognizant to cross-platform issues - possible to use PodCast Producer from Apple
 * Maybe we could post everything to iTunesU K-12
 * Kevin offers that Mediasite's new software (AIU is upgrading) is capable of producing iPod-friendly recordings
 * Next Steps:
 * Apple will visit Fox Chapel, Norton will approach Matt Little about incorporating Podcast Producer, and then involvement with TRETC
 * Karlton says there is a local resource person who can assist with Podcast Producer software install
 * Norton says Fox Chapel students might be able to asist with capturing sessions live at TRETC.
 * Vendors who supply capture equipment would be given a display table, contribution of time and equipment would be in lieu of payment
 * Norton says that one keynote being considered is Keith Kruger of CoSN - CoSN is interested in developing a strand in the conference
 * Norton says Scott Hand, teacher at FCAHS may want to provide some expertise in editing and so on
 * Possibility of creating a VoiceThread sub-section - classroom examples
 * GigaPan folks - Norton will approach the organizers at CMU

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 * Several districts and Propel locally have worked on and are wrapping up a GigaPan project

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 * CoSN - Vince Humes and Sean McDonough will follow up with the details related to CoSN's involvement in TRETC
 * Keith Kruger could possibly share the Horizon Report or International perspective of Technology Integration
 * karlton makes a good point - if registration for TRETC presenters opens up, we will have to decide if we will include the option to make a recording/webinar
 * Norton says that we could also include language in the presenter application that asks them to agree that there is the potential to be recorded for streaming - maybe an opt-out checkbox available to presenters?

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 * Kevin Conner will include all current members of the Virtual TRETC subcommittee, and will also invite Mara Linaberger (IU 1) and Cindy Shaffer (IU 7) to join the conversation.