9-23+Notes

Seth Denney was introduced as a new member of the committee. The meeting with SpEd PD Committee is postponed until the October meeting. ]]
 * ** Review of agenda, Project Updates ** || ** Common understanding, Identification of additional items **** (Questions/Actions are listed below in red) **
 * ** || ** Evan & Others ** || ** 25 ** ||
 * Recording for this meeting is at [[@http://iowaec.na4.acrobat.com/p16352374/|http://iowaec.na4.acrobat.com/p16352374/

• Iowa Core - help from tech people and instructional consultants • ARRA - Nancy looking at options with credit recovery. Attended regional state meeting on online learning. Will meet with math consultants to see what can be developed. Rural Advisory Committee - excited about sharing content across the state. Learned that other states are struggling legally and financially with statewide online trainings. • Instructional Coaching - met last month - Deb shared the deadline for first draft to be written by December - so second half of year can be used for development. • OLLIE - group of consultants from AEAs that are going through tech instruction for OLLIE. Purpose to make content that is modular. Get some train the trainers going. Second course is on instructional design. Third course is facilitation. Three modules from Florida Virtual Schools - getting it ready for Iowa - be available this fall. Group from last summer that went through first cohort. They could also use the course of facilitation. What does the council recommend in terms of putting together cohorts for groups. We have talked about the most systemic ways of getting the best use of ARRA funds. Florida Virtual Schools will sell their content. As cohort groups go through training, can they tweak the Florida Virtual Schools content. Help develop common content for the ARRA grant and help get skills needed to offer own online courses. Suggested that Nancy come back with report on who she would like to see trained and in what this year. She may not have specifics by October, but will have more information after a November meeting with math consultants. Evan is meeting with Science and Soc Studies consultants in October. • Google - have Google training for teachers the 29th & 30th of Sept. Very beneficial to the state if we could put together a packaged content for the trainers to be able to teach other teachers in online format. Like it to be that Google App certified trainers be the only ones eligible to use the course. Andy and Evan will continue to discuss and have an update in October. || • Registration - Heartland programmer Lori The registration system remains on track to be finished by Nov. 1. Work is currently being done to mesh Viterbo and Morningside procedures into the system. If questions come up, Evan will send urgent email to group for response.
 * **Advisory Council Meeting - Follow-up** || Discuss, Next steps || **All** || **45** ||
 * Met Tuesday - had good representation. More of an awareness meeting to update as to where we are. Difference between online council, advisory council discussed. Talked about requirements, code and the process. An email will be sent by Evan with recording and notes from advisory council meeting. Discussed next step - put together online digital discussion place to talk about what we've got and looking at what else is out there. Going to meet again in a month. Talked about moving away from paper textbooks and going digital. The new code defines textbooks to now include digital content and delivery device. ||
 * ** Transition Process Update ** || ** Inform, Discuss ** || ** Evan ** || ** 25 ** ||
 * For an overview of the transition plan, visit here.

• 28E Legal counsel for Heartland have drafted a 28E agreement. Heartland officials are now looking at the document. We are hoping to have a draft of the document for the online council and chief administrators soon. One entity created by the 28E would be a governing council, meant to set the budget and assure financial solvency, as well as oversee the managerial operations of the system. This would be a 5-person committee. Recommended by the chiefs, it would consist of the following 1. Representative from the Chief Administrators - AEA 1 Chief admin was recommended 2. Representative from the Business Managers of the AEAs 3. Representative from the Online Council, (representing professional development) 4. Representative from the IT administrators of the AEAs 5. Representative from the host AEA - David King from Heartland

Agreement would state when the budget must be set, more will be discussed as we go.

Ex officio members would include the Project Manager, Director of Technology of the host district, and other host personnel necessary to provide information requested by the governing council.

• Website/Marketing We will need to select a branded name so that marketing efforts can continue. Suggested at the last meeting was "Iowa PD Online". The website is planned to be set for initial launch in November. It will be slimmed down at the beginning, having basic information on online offerings, who we are, partners, etc. Over time, we will add more news-related updates of offerings.

Iowa Online Prof Dev System was determined to be the official name. No other suggestions for branded name - no objections to Iowa PD Online - after informal vote Iowa PD Online was chosen as branded name.
 * official name of this group AEA Online Learning Council*

Evan is working with web manager at Heartland to develop the website. If anyone is interested in helping with this process, let Evan know - Sue & Julie offered assistance. Launch is targeted for November.

• Licensure Approval (will discuss in Advisory Council Meeting Follow-up above)

• Pricing Structure This work will be picked up by the governing council once they have been established. In October we'll try to have some back of the napkin brainstorms for initial feedback by the online council. The governing council may not be established until November. Questions like do we charge, who do we charge... Would like to have options to present to the governing council when they first meet.

• Technology & Support The statewide Moodle server is on schedule to be up and running Nov. 1. Evan will work with each AEA to assure that they have access to the server for administrators and teachers. He will also have the catalog hierarchy set up and will work with AEAs to import courses. After that, Evan will work with AEAs to import user information. Rep from each AEA except one, IPTV, DE attending the Moodle admin training. Talk about local access to AEAs. Discuss what you want to move over and what you want to keep. Andy has template from Denver public schools using Moodle. Do not want to use Heartland AEA current template. Moodle 2.0 (not stable until next summer). Want to move ahead to get those courses going - look at what the process will entail to move over. Want to let the kinks work out before transitioning. Diton is creating an online training - $150 for enrollment. || Can be used to train master instructors - can pay mileage, lodging, food to train. Use to develop facilitated elements online courses. To train master instructors to facilitate online courses and to align with the Iowa Core. Need to spell out how it breaks down the $36,000. The first course took about $1500 of instructional design support. 5 courses - $7500 for instructional design work (estimated). How much would we spend to train online teachers - go through online facilitation course - tailor toward INTEL content. Look at the Iowa Core aligned Intel. Assuming we can get group of consultants to teach - find a model - they have specific access to that content. Design one training for those facilitators - put together a cohort for that facilitation for the Intel series - make a decision by October. Right now designed as a 2 credit course. Offer to pay consultants to take this on their own time - agreement up front that they would use it to teach Intel - pay $300 stipend for 2 credit course. Need to think about instructor for the course - Intel would reimburse the statewide system for Evan's time if he taught. What about dollar amt for consultants who would go through that training? If Cindy decides that she wants Peter Holley to do the online one - up to $5000 will go to that work. Almost $10,000 to train facilitators. Evan will forward dollar amount information to Sue. Master instructors list will be posted on wiki. • Intel has announced a 5th online course ("Data") will be coming out in the spring. • Intel will release its 2nd course content to us on 9/20. Denise Krefting and Evan will work with Sue's ad hoc Intel content advisers as well as Colleen Anderson's formative assessment committee. ||
 * **Special Education PD Committee** || **Inform, Discuss** || **Sped PD Comm Members** || **30** ||
 * **Intel TEACH Elements Courses** || **Inform, Discuss, Next Steps** || **Sue, Evan** || **30** ||
 * • Look at the proposed budget for $36,000, including dollars allocated to the delivery of online Elements courses.
 * • Look at the proposed budget for $36,000, including dollars allocated to the delivery of online Elements courses.
 * **Review 2010-11 Goals** || **Discuss**

see attached Would like Trista from IPTV to present - possibly in October. Evan has tried to put timelines to things. Hire instructional designers is a priority. If you have feedback on specific action steps that should be in this list, let Evan know. Any thoughts on action goals? Process in there for Iowa Core? Does it need to be talked about in here? Quality Assurance/evaluation procedure. Offerings go through PD committee for the Iowa Core. || **Evan** || **20** || decisions about the INTEL teach series Rep from SpEd PD Committee Hope to have another mock up of the website as well as sample brainstorms of pricing structure 28E rough draft feedback Update on ARRA and a proposal from Nancy on teacher training
 * 2010-11 Goals ||
 * ** Closing ** || ** What needs to be communicated? **
 * Future agenda items? ** || ** Evan ** || ** 5 ** ||
 * Items on the next agenda include: ||