2012+06_Meeting+Agenda

Agenda: ( notes from meeting - 5/12 / updated info - 6/12) Attendees: Norton Gusky (recorder), Christy McGuire, Mike Baker, Matt Strine, Jana Baxter, Aileen Owens, Tim Devlin, Kevin Conner, Sean McDonough, Nikki Navta

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 Vince Humes who has been in touch 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
 * 1:30 - 3:30 Workshops - student led on app development (Winchester-Thurston Norton contacted WT about joining the session / South Fayette), Scratch (South Fayette), and Robotics (Norwin) / Christy McGuire contacted Tom Lauwers,BirdBrain Technologies (Finch robot) who agreed to conduct a workshop/ Tom Lauwers will submit a presenter application / Max number for workshops - 15 => need for pre-registration
 * 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 ) Sean reached Aaron Sams who has tentatively agreed to be a presenter/ Kevin Conner suggested we use the term "invited presenter"
 * Other ideas - PAECT teacher of the year ( Jana bill follow up and offer travel expenses on behalf of SWPAECT )/ Jana will finalize arrangement after PAECT meeting on Saturday, June 16


 * 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) / no word after initial email request
 * Tech Directors - Online Assessments ( Sean will follow up with PDE for possible presentation/ video conference )
 * Gary Stager - Creativity in the Classroom (Norton will contact Gary after sponsor has been identified or before ISTE with focus on "creative production" - project based learning/ Maker/Tinker activities
 * Children's Museum/ ETC - Designing Maker Spaces for Learning Environments - Norton will ask Kelley Beeson to connect with Children's Museum


 * Poster Sessions
 * Game Development
 * Other student projects


 * Digital Playground

3. Vendors / Sponsors > Carnegie Learning - interested in participating / need to submit application > Derek Lomas (playpower.org)
 * Microsoft / Questeq/ Enterasys - Norton Gusky
 * Safari Montage - Sean McDonough / Norton contacted Jim Snyder - Sean will follow up with Andrew Schlesinger at ISTE
 * Solutions - Tim Devlin
 * Google - Justin Driscoll
 * Smart Solutions - Justin Driscoll
 * Apple - Justin Driscoll - considering a series of sessions/ Need to review at corporate level
 * GenevaMars (ed video game startup, CMU spinoff, alphalab) - Christy McGuire
 * Brainpop / Study Island - Matt Strine

4. Review marketing plan Jana Baxter contacted Denise Decheck for STEAM projects / || 5. Discuss other ideas
 * < **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
 * Nikki Navta suggested that TRETC invite "Assemble" to conduct workshop for participants/ Nikki will conduct Nina Barbuto / Include activity as part of Digital Playground
 * Norton will contact Rita Cavalone at the Fred Rogers Center to ask for their participation to showcase their new early childhood apps

6. Other Issues > //We did send out a save the date for TRETC with a STEM Summit email.//  //NEXT MEETING - JULY 9//
 * 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.//