June+4,+2013+Tech+Meeting

June 4th, 2013 Meeting at Washington Township School District - thanks to Kim Sigman for hosting (the grapes were delicious)!

PARCC How will we have to lock down PC's? - NJDOE has not said yet - hoping that the designer will make the browser lock down the computer

Netbooks? - Asus Infinity Prime (convertible laptop - screen detaches to become a tablet) - HP 3115 mininote - 11" laptop with 6-8 hour battery life, 4GB RAM, decent processor

Digital Textbooks - iBooks is tough to do since you must be totally an Apple shop - browser based textbooks seem to be the best so far?

Shelby Flakker from Integra One came out to discuss group purchases, shared services, and leases/tech refresh - Pearson is partnering with HP to do educational bundling of hardware and content/services - Pearson also does PD - the more of one model machine we buy as a group, the bigger the discount can be

Shared Services - we discussed purchasing bulk purchases through one school and having that one school invoice the others (lopatcong?) - Quakertown ( [|http://qcsd.org] ) as an example of generating revenue with their online and distance learning classes - also 1:1 and BYOD - partnership programs for teachers and/or students to share the cost of laptops/tablets through the district - generating revenue by creating curriculum/online textbooks to do away with the cost of traditional textbooks

November Meeting - since this is a time that we start discussing budgets, we will try to arrange a tech coordinator / business administrator meeting for the county - discuss refresh leases, partnerships, shared services, and budgeting

First meeting of the new school year will be September 17th at Mansfield Elementary - Ray will host and it will be his birthday! :)

Ray Zuchowski - Mansfield Adam Tucker - Warren Hills Kim Signman - Washington Twp Bob Cammarota - WCTS Michele Bond - Greenwich Nancy Morera - Greenwich Mike Hann - Great Meadows Matt Shea - Lopatcong
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