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[] Recording 10:30-12:00 = [] Recording 1:00 - 2:30 = [] Recording 2:30 - 4:00 = []
 * **Review of agenda, Updates ** || **Common understanding, Identification of additional items **** (Questions/Actions are listed below in red) ** || **Evan & Others ** || **90 ** ||
 * Recording 9:00-10:30 =

• Introductions

• Updates >> 1. Instructional Rounds 2. Iowa Core Investigations 3. Level 1 Investigator Training 4. Business Schools Officials/IASBO > was grandfathered in; they need 15 CEU's each year, but need 60 CEU's by the end of the third year 5. Ollie Cohort 6 6. Online Training System [|Link to webinar] 7. Instructional Coaching 8. Survey for Instructors/Past Ollie Participants 9. Marketing Updates 10. Intel 11. Mentoring •Marketing • CoPI • Equella • Resource Iowa
 * AEA PD Online hired three additional staff:
 * Rob Brookhart
 * Deborah Humpel
 * Nancy Movall
 * SAI project has been placed on Moodle
 * It was introduced on August 26, 2012
 * Currently 26 people are working through this content
 * We are waiting for feedback
 * Math
 * Beginning Investigations will be introduced to math teachers this fall
 * Deeper Investigations is being developed, January is a target date
 * Language Arts
 * 1-day training is available
 * 3-day course target is January
 * Formally done through the ICN
 * This is being set up as a Moodle course (non-credit)
 * Self-paced course that can be completed
 * Deborah is working on this project
 * Target date is September 17, 2012
 * Email with directions will be sent next week regarding access
 * Evan was connected with Debra VanGorp
 * Rob is working on this project
 * Any school business official that was hired prior to July 1
 * The BOEE is providing the Certification
 * They are leaning heavily on the two organization to work together
 * New business officials need to go through a whole new training
 * Looking at doing webinars
 * Trying to establish what people need to know
 * Looking at seat-time webinars
 * Looking at connecting new people
 * We are looking at ways to archive the webinars and make it more interactive
 * Two different groups working together
 * First training will be held at the statewide meeting of Iowa School Business Officials
 * Contact person is Deb VanGorp, she laying out the curriculum
 * If there are consultants in your AEA that would like to take the Ollie courses, please encourage them to enroll
 * Technology for Online Instruction: Moodle course is just beginning
 * These courses are spread out over a 10 week period
 * These are set up as site-based
 * no charge to audit course
 * $25 for license renewal
 * $70 for Drake graduate credit
 * These courses are on the new Moodle
 * This has been a time consuming process because courses are moving over with missing information
 * We were hoping to have things transitioned for the fall, however; this has been modified
 * New courses are being developed on the new server, but we are not moving the course unless the instructor does want to move
 * We are dealing with support issues regarding two log ins for all Moodle servers
 * Is it possible to have one server that contains the username and password, so it does not required multiple accounts
 * This has been discussed
 * If we had a LDAP server, this would be beneficial
 * A statewide server to authenticate users; this would allow a person to only have one username/password
 * Does Heartland have the capabilities here to accommodate this server?
 * The question of who is going to do it?
 * It does appear that virtualizing the server for Online Trainings did not work
 * We have instituted a 100 user cap
 * There is a back door access to Admin to allow them to look up username/passwords
 * We 27 districts that have pulled out of the system, this is an increase of 9 districts
 * We have had 11 rejoin the Online Learning System
 * We have had 4 UEN's pull out
 * Iowa City
 * Sioux City
 * Council Bluffs
 * Davenport
 * Last year for our marketing campaigns we developed a brochure
 * Evan attended three superintendents meetings to discuss, "What does your 50 cents get you?"
 * Evan will be attending the Mississippi Bend superintendents meeting in October and will be reaching out to the other AEA's
 * Evan will reach out to the UEN's
 * Free Mandatory Reporter
 * One being offered by ISEA
 * One being offered by IPTV; providing this training through a grant
 * We have additional trainings that will be added to the system, due to the volume we have not been able to add them
 * T-Pack
 * Digital Citizenship and Bullying
 * HIPPA
 * Evan attends the HR Directors meetings; they are excited to be working with us and have trainings that they want developed and added to the system
 * Denise Carlson and Rob Brookhart have been working on this course
 * Currently, Denise is looking at start date of October 22
 * Wrapping up items on Moodle
 * Training the trainers
 * This group is going to be looking for any bugs before it roles out
 * Special Ed employees are mandated to take this training in AEA267
 * There is a good deal of variety built into the course
 * Can offer this as a site-based or catalog course
 * It is designed to be a six week course
 * The survey has general information and splits off into specific questions regarding teaching
 * Looking at the supports that are out there for our instructors
 * Mentoring program for our instructors
 * We do have specific plans for marketing
 * Our immediate goal is to identify our target audience
 * We are going to market at conferences
 * SAI
 * IDLA
 * ITEC
 * Regional conferences
 * We did have a booth and "professional" signs are being worked on
 * We will be looking at the governance council for funding
 * We have a website and are experiencing difficulties with the management of this website
 * How can we manage
 * newsletter
 * social media
 * Why do we have to continue to go to Heartland for our online classes?
 * How can we market it better that we are not Heartland?
 * Initial discussions to create an online course
 * My create a train-the-trainer course first to look errors
 * Tom has spent a lot of time on content and structure for the course
 * We did have some mentoring that was performed last spring
 * We would like to increase the number of mentors available
 * Deborah is looking at this program for possible improvements ||
 * **K-12 Initiative** || **Discuss, Create Action Steps** || **Evan & Nancy** || 60 ||
 * There are four parts to this initiative:
 * Content
 * On-going professional development
 * Technical infrastructure
 * Resource Iowa
 * Support Moodle installations
 * Hardware and Bandwith
 * Vision
 * Working with leaders to help them understand what steps need to be taken
 * What do we call this?
 * Is this AEA PD Online? or do we brand this as something else?
 * How does this interface with AEA PD Online?
 * Nancy is our K-12 specialist, she will be focusing on
 * Content
 * Community support around content
 * Vetting process, is there a work-flow
 * Is there a certain emphasis or direction that we are leaning towards first?
 * We may need the year to explore this, the goal is to continue to teach face-to-face and incorporate digital technology
 * K-12 liason
 * How does it interface with what the AEA's are doing?
 * Be on committee work
 * What is emerging practice?
 * What does that mean for the direction of AEA PD Online?
 * As we message this out, it is really about 100% learning. If you believe that you can use this tool in a face-to-face, but we will not be supporting that type of blended learning.
 * Each school district will submit their online learning curriculum for approval and must be in the SCIP for the district
 * Educational Reform Bill (link below)
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 * Sub-committee to go forward to provide definitive communication prior to the beginning of October
 * Over the summer the AEA's turned of the license for Equella to the Department of Education
 * It is a goal to get Equella up and operational soon
 * We need to check our licenses to ensure that we can place courses into Equella
 * It would be optimal to create the professional development opportunities internal in January/February and to districts in the spring
 * This is a searchable site that will connect you with what is available to you
 * This can be embedded into Moodle
 * We are gearing this to the online instructor
 * Is the name of the statewide Moodle site
 * It is through Remote Learner
 * We do support districts in hosting their Moodle sites
 * Some issues
 * Five deployments that we can use, we have a 1.9, 2.0, 2.3 servers
 * The servers have been slow
 * Moodle 2.0 has been slower because of the features
 * We are monitoring
 * Is this a service for schools?
 * Is this the way we are going to continue in the future?
 * Cost is $27,000 per year; the majority of this money goes towards a maintenance agreement
 * We need to find out what the terms of our maintenance agreement truly are
 * Why don't we create a statewide Google login
 * Who would manage it?
 * Part of the issue was that they were being taken to a Google log in page

(Lunch**)** ||
 * **Team Areas of Expertise** || Discuss || Evan || 30 ||
 * Current PD Plan for AEA PD Online Staff
 * As a team AEA PD Online Staff attended the Madison Distance Learning Conference
 * The AEA PD Online staff identified 15 areas of expertise
 * The statewide team is discussing the PD for the staff
 * There appears to be a lot on this list to try to accomplish in a year
 * Some of the items are reflected in our conversations everyday and nice to see that we are on the same page
 * Partnerships may be formed with the specialty people in the AEA's to accomplish these goals

Graduate Institutions Evaluation Artistic Design Partnership Coordination Updated Course Standards Professional Development for 2011-12
 * We are trying to steer the graduate institutions towards one common course proposal
 * Drake has started "site visits" of the online courses
 * They do not evaluate the instructors
 * It concentrates on the "value" of the course
 * Issues with Viterbo are being worked out
 * Rob will serve as our "expert" on this task
 * This will look at creating common rubrics
 * Here are ways to look for quality
 * Ways to train other people to do this also
 * Creating tools to use statewide
 * Being able to see results from what we do
 * Since we are a self-funded group; we have to pay the individual AEA's for anything that we want
 * The AEA PD Online team does not have a background in artistic design or video production
 * Building on a foundation to identify our possible partners
 * Online courses have a different course syllabus than face-to-face courses
 * We are trying to come up with a common course proposal ||
 * **2012-13 Goals** || **Discuss, Create Action Steps for 2011-12** || All || 60 ||
 * Review 2011-12 Goals
 * We were looking at offering 300 courses in 2012.
 * We have 227 from May 2011 to May 2012
 * We have not looked into the question of what other online communities are out there
 * We do not have a plan of systemic online communities
 * We have created more than 10 online trainings for the Online Learning System
 * We did the quality assurance, but they could be improved upon
 * We have consistency items around the course proposal
 * We are looking at consistency in the design of a course
 * We can improve upon the analysis of our data
 * We have made progress on fostering our relationships
 * We have had discussions with the graduate institutions around partnerships
 * Drake has a full online Talented and Gifted program
 * We also want to expand our partnership with PBS Teacherline courses
 * Talked a lot this year about systemic planning and marketing
 * This work is not finished
 * Updated our current website and using Web 2.0 tools
 * We did become self-sufficient
 * Explore new revenue streams
 * Look at hiring more staff
 * Look at ways to reduce costs to our districts
 * RTI was put on the wayside
 * Bus driver education was set to start in the fall
 * Had a discussion with the DE and this already exists
 * Data Team Development, no foundation has been created for this

What Do We need to Do this Year?
 * As a Council?
 * Helping the AEA's/LEA's understand the value that is added by AEA PD Online
 * Strengthen our relationships with AEA's/LEA's
 * Unified AEA with everyone represented
 * Action created
 * As a Statewide Team?
 * Professional Development for the AEA PD Online team is a must
 * Share out what is learned
 * Prioritized content
 * RTI
 * Competency based education
 * Paraeducators-what needs to be in the curriculum to be certified?
 * Safety
 * Bus Drivers
 * As a Statewide System?
 * What are we going to do with CoPI?
 * Marketing and information
 * Creating the structures to make that work
 * LDAP issue
 * Define/Brand of K-12
 * Equella
 * Who has access?
 * When can it be accessed?
 * Plan is necessary
 * Resource Iowa
 * Are we getting our money's worth?
 * If it is working or not?
 * Does it provide equitable access to everyone?
 * Analyze user experience
 * Be a part of Conception Day 1
 * Consistency Measure
 * Target areas of deficiency (no math courses) ||
 * **Training Survey Data** || **Discuss, Prioritize for 2011-12** || Evan || 60 ||
 * Results
 * **Closing** || **What needs to be communicated? **
 * Future agenda items? ** || Evan || 5 ||
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