2012+05_Meeting+Agenda

Agenda: ( notes from meeting - 5/12 / updated info - 6/12) Attendees: Norton Gusky (recorder), Justin Driscoll, Christy McGuire, Mike Baker, Frank Muto, Nikki Navta, Sean McDonough, Jana Baxter, Kevin Conner, Amiena Mahsoub

1. Pre-Conference (November 13)
 * Focus - gaming and gamnification with Constance Steinkuehler (if available) - ETC will pick up travel costs / Kim Harvey will make arrangements this week
 * CoSN connection - Sean will follow up with Keith Kreuger, executive director for CoSN, in the next week to find out more about the opportunity to provide a CoSN Framework for Essential Skils workshop
 * 1:00 - 3:45 Workshops - student led on app development (Winchester-Thurston / South Fayette), Scratch (South Fayette), and Robotics (Norwin) / Christy McGuire will contact Tom Lauwers, BirdBrain Technologies (Finch robot)
 * 4:00 - 5:00 Keynote
 * 5:00 - 7:00 Vendor Reception

2.. Full Conference (November 14) > >
 * Gary Stager for Keynote ( Jana and Kevin in touch with SmartED for sponsorship/ Justin has a call with Mark DeHaven from SmartEd this week)
 * Spotlight presenters
 * Distinguished educator - Apple ( Justin will contact Apple/ Justin talked with Apple – they are running the idea up the flag pole to do a PETE&C like block of presentations at TRETC)
 * Aaron Sams - Flipped Classroom ( Sean will follow up and see if Aaron is available and interested in presenting )
 * Other ideas - PAECT teacher of the year ( Jana bill follow up and offer travel expenses on behalf of SWPAECT )
 * Special sessions / panels
 * Blended Learning (Mike Baker)
 * STEAM (Justin Driscoll and Matt Strine)
 * Global Conversations and Awareness (Tim Devlin and Amiena Mahsoub)
 * Gaming K-12 (Nikki Navta)
 * Digital Media - Take a Shot winners
 * Other ideas - CREATE Lab / CMU (Norton will contact);
 * DiscoveryEd (Jana will contact)
 * Tech Directors - Online Assessments (Sean will follow up with PDE)
 * Gary Stager - Creativity in the Classroom (Norton will contact Gary)
 * Poster Sessions
 * Game Development
 * Other student projects
 * Digital Playground

3. Vendors / Sponsors > Carnegie Learning > Derek Lomas (playpower.org)
 * Microsoft / Questeq/ Enterasys - Norton Gusky
 * Safari Montage - Sean McDonough
 * Polycom - Tim Devlin
 * Google - Justin Driscoll
 * Smart Solutions - Justin Driscoll
 * Apple - Justin Driscoll
 * GenevaMars (ed video game startup, CMU spinoff, alphalab) - Christy McGuire

4. Review marketing plan Jana Baxter contacted Denise Decheck for STEAM projects / || 5. Discuss other ideas 6. Other Issues > //We did send out a save the date for TRETC with a STEM Summit email.//
 * < **Activity** ||< **Time-frame** ||< **Responsibility** || **NOTES** ||
 * < Develop marketing campaign (theme, logos) ||< 3/12-5/12 ||< Tech Council || New logo by end of May ||
 * Identify keynote speaker(s) || 3/12 – 6/12 || Planning Committee || Norton in touch with Gary Stager ||
 * Update web site || 4/12 - 6/12 || Tech Council / Planning Committee || New logo / Presenter application online / Problem with website - malware infected ||
 * < Identify potential sponsor/vendors ||< 4/12– 6/12 ||< Planning Committee/ Tech Council ||  ||
 * < Identify presenters ||< 5/12-8/12 ||< Planning Committee || Norton contacted Carl Kurlander to have students present videos
 * < Identify sponsors for workshops ||< 5/12 - 8/12 ||< Planning Committee/ Tech Council ||  ||
 * < Register presenters/vendors/ participants ||< 6/12– 11/12 ||< Tech Council ||  ||
 * Distribute marketing materials || 6/12 – 10/12 || IUs/Tech Council ||  ||
 * < Evaluate proposals ||< 8/12- 9/12 ||< AIU/ Planning Committee (sub-committee) ||  ||
 * < Arrange for equipment needs ||< 9/12 – 11/12 ||< Tech Council/AIU ||  ||
 * < Arrange for food ||< 9/12 – 11/12 ||< AIU/ Tech Council ||  ||
 * < Pay bills ||< 10/12 – 11/12 ||< Tech Council ||  ||
 * < Evaluate /Act 48 ||< 11/12 - 12/12 ||< AIU/ Tech Council ||  ||
 * Bring in new presenters/ groups who have not participated in TRETC - e.g. South Side Beaver to present on their 1:1 initiative (Mike Baker follow up)
 * Create a forum to share best practices in the Digital Playground and via Twitter hashtag
 * Develop virtual mentors for people to contact to follow up on ideas at conference
 * News from Justin: //It looks like I may have to move the TRETC site internally since it is still infected with a virus and our web host doesn’t seem to know how to work it out.//