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 * **Review of agenda, Updates ** || **Common understanding, Identification of additional items **** (Questions/Actions are listed below in red) ** ||||  ||
 * **Recording for Today's Session:**

[|Current Projects]
 * Current Projects:**
 * Meeting with Gary Peterson and Linda Van to develop content
 * HR Directors met in October
 * Training on hiring
 * Working with a team from Mississippi Bend AEA to complete this project
 * Due date is January 2013
 * Goal is to create a secondary training specific to each AEA's policies
 * Bullying training
 * Working with Sue Schirmer to develop this training
 * Also working with Urbandale Schools for the videos that will be used in combination with this training
 * January target date
 * Crisis Response
 * Digital Publishing
 * Creating ePub documents
 * Creating interactive textbooks
 * SCROM lessons utilizing SoftChalk
 * Training for Transportation Directors
 * Training for bus drivers
 * Playground training and supervision
 * FERPA
 * Vision Screening
 * Revamped Website**

• Personalized Learning • Conceptual Based Learning • CoPI contributors • Offering services out of state
 * Updates from Directors Meetings**
 * Race-to-the-Top Grant
 * Have asked consultants from each AEA to be an eCoach
 * It is a portal
 * You have an account and can manage the people that are eCoaching participants
 * Walk through to demonstrate the resources that are available
 * How to manage and add
 * Similar to Moodle
 * Self-explanatory
 * Bulk of course is 5 webinars
 * Available for license renewal credit
 * Fee of $119 to take course; includes Community of Practice membership
 * Community of Practice is $35 for lifetime membership
 * Additional $25 for credit
 * Discussion at Directors' meeting
 * Not sure how effective Community of Practice will be in the long-term
 * Hesitation to put resources
 * Research has shown that this a powerful source of professional development
 * If we can collect data that shows this type of learning works; we can change direction
 * How are districts going to be informed?
 * Media Directors are being informed
 * Received updated brochures from Nancy Lockner at Grant Wood
 * Nancy may be able to send to the Online Council
 * Believed that better communication is necessary
 * Possibly involve the Communication Directors
 * Media Directors received an updated flyer last night
 * Susan Schrader shared, but she did not seem to have a great deal of information
 * What group is being contracted
 * www.personlizelearning.com
 * Media Directors are identifying individuals to work on the steering committee
 * What about the people who want to participate, but not on the steering committee
 * Helps consultants connect to districts
 * Statewide visibility
 * Make sure that you have a conversation with your supervisor
 * Group went to Montana
 * Is not a concensus on how this work will be developed
 * Kim Reynolds is spearheading this work
 * Self-paced modules will be created (7 modules)
 * What does it mean to understand - November 16
 * Why teach conceptual - November 16
 * Why teach standards - November 30
 * Writing generalization
 * Interest in offering our training system out of state
 * Approximately one call a week is received by Evan regarding utilizing the Online Learning System
 * Chiefs want date collection on the perspective amount of money that could be brought into the system
 * Hang up is the Code regarding offering trainings outside of the state.

[|• Video] • Specific Individuals • New Logos • Communication Plan • Beginning Newsletter and [|Newsletter Plan] • iPod App
 * Template Creation**
 * Create consistency
 * General conversation with Gail Wortmann and Denise
 * Conversation with Tiffany and Brian from IPTV
 * Regarding consistent templates
 * There have been conversation, but pen to paper has not happened for the high school courses
 * More work has been done on the PD side
 * Some changes to templates have been made
 * Template
 * Design
 * Navigation
 * What activities are part of the course
 * Institute a workflow for this type of work
 * Seeking recommendation from group to move forward with this
 * Stipends to be paid to Brian, Tiffany, Gail and Denise for their work
 * Support from
 * Grant Wood
 * AEA 267
 * Heartland AEA
 * Green Hills
 * Great Prairie
 * Recommendation will be taken back to the Governance Council
 * Actual work will be done by the statewide staff
 * Instructor Recruiting**
 * Julie Townsend
 * Could be someone to ask to teach an OLLIE course
 * Could teach SPED courses
 * Tyler Youngers-teacher at Grinnell
 * Line them up with the correct people
 * Not taken the OLLIE courses
 * Currently teaches Social Studies
 * More experienced in BlackBoard
 * Currently enrolled in Instructional Technology Masters program at UNI
 * Experience in implementing one-to-one technology
 * There is an expectation that he would complete all the OLLIE courses
 * Rosa Maur
 * Assistive Technology
 * Blind and visually impaired
 * Phyllis Anderson
 * She has taught for IPTV
 * Next generation Science Standards
 * Is Department of Education adopting these Science and Math standards?
 * The transition was approved by the State School Board association
 * Timeline is the fall
 * Marietta Rives
 * Co-teaching and Collaboration
 * Recommended to go ahead and support these individual
 * Involve Rita Martin and Yvette with the DE
 * Training System Updates**
 * Conversations regarding the Training System and slow down that was experienced in August
 * Servers were virtualized last year
 * A proposal has been made to purchase dedicated hardware and to unvirtualize the training system
 * Recommendation to superintendents to avoid slow downs
 * Avoiding certain days
 * Cap the number of participants per district
 * Recommending alternative dates
 * Communication Directors Update-**
 * Identified audience
 * A lot of these resources are come to get
 * Teachers may not come and get it
 * There has been an increase in the followers on Twitter
 * Newsletter available on the 15th of each month
 * Webinars
 * Items tied to teachers
 * Items tied to technology
 * Is it okay for webinars to be sit and get?
 * CoPi logo
 * No link to AEA
 * Communities are larger than the AEA's
 * Members will be LEA's, Iowa Department of Education
 * Purpose was to make Iowa centered
 * Nothing about the logo says education
 * Logos
 * We have designed some logos
 * All logos must be created by an AEA
 * Not sure what the workflow for development or management is going to be effective or efficient
 * Is there another option?
 * What would be steps to streamline the process?
 * This is our first attempt to do this with coordination with the Communication Specialists
 * Three week turnaround time is kind of high
 * Is not felt that there is an option
 * We need to find a way to work within this framework
 * Small issues do not have to be run before this council; if there are bigger issues then they need to come to this group

• Prioritization • Branding • Technical Steps
 * Equella**
 * Hired a half-time position
 * Karen Randell from Keystone AEA
 * She will be internal tech person for this year for the Equella database
 * Training Monday-Wednesday
 * Peggy, Brian, Tiffany will be attending
 * Prioritize content
 * Evan has a meeting scheduled on January 9 in Great Prairie
 * Evan will continue to push this project forward

[|• Overview video] • ELA • Math • Science
 * Iowa CoPI - Update**
 * Looking at projects for the spring
 * Meeting invitation to be sent today
 * Looking at projects for the spring

• ITIP • U of Iowa ELL grant • STEM
 * Soft Cloud**
 * Approved and purchased
 * Cloud version of SoftChalk
 * Multiple people can work on the same project
 * Ten pack license
 * Advisory Council**
 * Evan will be working on setting up a meeting in November or December
 * Other Communication**
 * Nancy Movall and Evan have a meeting tomorrow
 * Evan has a meeting set up with Jason Glass
 * Initial stages of meeting
 * Jeff Weld
 * There is a meeting today to discuss what AEA PD Online can do for this group

Discussion on budgetary impacts OLLIE series regarding sequence is suggested because of the high level
 * Current Budget**
 * Data on numbers of participants
 * Data on who from where and what courses
 * Who is enrolling in the training modules
 * Who is enrolling in the online courses
 * What are the intended uses of any budget overflow this time around ||
 * **Closing** || **What needs to be communicated? **
 * Future agenda items? ** ||||  ||
 * Agenda items: ||