12-6+Notes

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 * **Review of agenda, Updates ** || **Common understanding, Identification of additional items **** (Questions/Actions are listed below in red) ** ||||  ||
 * **Recording, part 1-**

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 * Recording, part 2 -**

[|Current Projects]
 * Current Projects:**

• Chiefs Update (Evan) • Directors Update (Evan) • Special Education Course Update (Peggy & Rob) • Instructional Coaching Course (Evan) • Ed Info, DE A&A (Rob) • Instructor Recruitment (Deborah) • Equella (Evan)
 * 1. Updates**
 * Another meeting will be held in December
 * Peggy and Rob met with Gary Peterson and Linda Van
 * Content has been put together
 * First two projects will be reviewed before April 1
 * Will ask SPED teachers and directors to pilot
 * Will be a facilitator guide
 * Three ways of delivery
 * Hybrid
 * face-to-face
 * online
 * We are on the agenda for the SPED Directors for December
 * Will ask for input on this project
 * Will share information from David Happe's group
 * Recommended that workflows be put in place the "need-to-know" people are contacted in the beginning
 * Compliance is one thing; let's work toward quality
 * Train-the-trainer session is starting on January 6
 * Registration has been sent out; this is a site-based course
 * Five people are registered, this course will run
 * Mississippi Bend - 3 people
 * AEA 267 - 1 person
 * Dubuque Schools - 1 person
 * Ed Services directors commissioned that a course be created
 * Each AEA will have a trained consultant and can offer this course as site-based in their area
 * They could also offer a catalog course in off-contract hours
 * The DE is creating a new portal
 * Part of the portal includes an A & A database
 * **Ed Info portal will be turned off on December 31, 2012**
 * Meeting in November, three projects came from this meeting
 * How do you create an A&A account
 * Security officer account
 * Accessing the portal
 * The new recruits are in the course development stage
 * Assistive Technologies
 * Brought by a single person
 * This may not have been worked through a community
 * Parts of the course have been offered through the ICN in the past
 * Co-teaching will be developed
 * Working with Marietta Rives
 * Early Childhood-more content is needed
 * Developing collaborative partnerships throughout the community
 * This course has 10 topics, so it could be more than one course
 * Units on
 * Funding
 * Community Resources
 * Visioning and Missions
 * Evan met with Laura Bell's group last March
 * There was not time within the group to commit to comprehensive plans
 * The first step was Tom Rendo project through grant money
 * Next Generation Science content
 * Viterbo has asked that this go forward because they need the content now
 * Not exclusive with Viterbo
 * Deborah has been in contact with Yvette
 * We have a policy to offer all three options for graduate credit (Drake, Morningside and Viterbo)
 * Paraeducators for Early Childhood is in the initial stages
 * License Renewal Coordinators are revisiting this program
 * It is a desire of the Coordinators to have some consistency in the program
 * This will not be fully online because they would like some face-to-face components in the training
 * Poetry seminar
 * Structure has been set up on the Moodle 2.0 server
 * Been offered through the CoPI group
 * Evan attended this training in November, along with
 * Brian and Tiffany from IPTV
 * Susan Schrader
 * Karen Randel
 * Jeff Berger
 * Aggressive timeline to get things done
 * Questions regarding getting content in
 * Branding and Marketing this has been an issue
 * Communication Directors have been pulled into this issue
 * Do we brand everything?
 * Do we brand certain things?
 * Steering community members are in the process of generating names
 * The deadline of January 8, 2013, may not be met
 * Tiffany suggests that the Meta-data scheme not be used

• Bullying Training (Peggy) • Interviewing/Hiring Training (Evan) • IASBO/Business Training (Rob) • K-12 Content Template Creation (Evan)
 * Requested by the HR Directors
 * Working with Sue Schirmer
 * Target date of February 2013
 * Different from Workplace Bullying and Cyberbullying
 * This is Student-to-Student Bullying
 * Sue put in content
 * We are moving forward with design and activities to make more interactive
 * Marv will provide feedback
 * Practice for Interviewing Committees and Hiring Teams
 * This is directed towards the hiring committee
 * Work with a team from Mississippi Bend AEA
 * Final draft will be sent to Marv on December 15, 2012
 * Up and ready prior to mid-January 2013
 * Step two will allow each AEA to create mini trainings which will be AEA specific
 * Evan has been contacted by three AEA's regarding the mini trainings
 * Mississippi Bend
 * Heartland
 * Great Prairie
 * The first three hour webinar was held
 * Discovered an issue regarding Adobe Connect Pro
 * Adobe has made updates which makes the export file is not convertible to anything else
 * We are unable to edit into units
 * Evan can use QuickTime Pro that will work on his computer, but not on any other computer
 * Tiffany from AEA267 will contact Evan with this issue
 * There is a required endorsement for School Business Officiers
 * Hired prior to July 1, you were grandfathered in
 * Hired after July 1, you are required to obtain an endorsement through a two-year program
 * Meeting with Brian, Tiffany, Denise and Gail
 * Taking a template that was created previously by Brian and Tiffany
 * Gail will be using the template for her current course to see if it is an easy project
 * Allows people with non-technical training in Moodle to create a course
 * They would work with an Instructional Designer to set up the course in a delivery mode

• December Newsletter Items • AEA PD Online Blog, AEA K-12 Online Blog • Logos
 * 2. Marketing/Communication (Deborah & Evan)**
 * Will be sent out on the 15th of each month
 * We are always looking for content
 * Newsletter is being disseminated by each AEA Communication Director
 * If a person has signed up for updates at the booth, they will receive the newsletter
 * Anyone who has taken the OLLIE course will receive
 * These are up and running
 * Content from newsletter is currently appearing here

• App • Correlation with ITIP, Iowa AEA Online
 * Communication Directors have commissioned a third-party to develop an app for the AEA's
 * Directory with links to places on the web
 * Marv Howard is interested for the online trainings
 * Moodle mobile apps that have mixed reviews
 * Connecting it with Equella
 * Podcasts and webinars
 * Course Registration
 * Ability to check grades
 * We do not know if the work can be part of the Communication Directors work
 * It was recommended that we have our own app
 * Nancy Movall and Evan have been working on making the correlation on how these two areas are related
 * ITIP has some representation by each AEA
 * Heard from a few Directors that this should be an Issues Alert
 * Bring to Media Directors to have a discussion in January
 * Evan has had a discussion with Sheila King regarding Ed Services group
 * For internal use to assist groups understand how each group works together
 * Another group to be included should be Instructional Technology consultants
 * Evan will coordinate with Stacy Beemer immediately

• Webinar Series • Podcasts • Upcoming: Soft Chalk
 * 3. AEA PD Online Live (Rob, Evan)**
 * We would like to ramp up our access to our Live events
 * Create a calendar of upcoming events
 * Our first Webinar that we are going to create is on Softchalk
 * Rob has been working on Best Practices
 * Ensure technology is working
 * Person presenting should not be monitoring the technology
 * One person is lecturing, but more than one is a conversation
 * Topical type resouces
 * Bringing in webinars that are already out there
 * Place a disclaimer regarding the selling of any product that is being advertised
 * This is something that has not been centralized throughout the AEAs
 * We could market this to different groups
 * It takes a lot fewer resources compared to trainings, courses or modules
 * Our goal is one webinar per month advertised in our newsletter

• Update, Upcoming Projects and Calendar • Communities of Practice AUP
 * 4. CoPI (Nancy & Evan)**
 * All groups have met with ongoing meetings set up
 * Look at immediate projects
 * Process of writing this up and will be put into the update to the Directors
 * Evan is visiting with the Dowling Catholic School guidance counselors to create a course for students
 * Nancy placed a link on the left-side of the Wiki titled CoPI
 * We need to spell out some policies around Communities of Practice

• Agora/Digital Habitats
 * Communities of Practice meeting place
 * Logistical issues need to be discussed
 * Are we going to have separate Communities
 * Common hub and then separate into Communities
 * How will information be disseminated to schools?
 * Not sure as of right now
 * Ramp up process will be part of group discussions
 * There is no cost to the districts

• Addendum Days for Instructional Designers, K-12 Online Specialist • 2013-14 Budget • Budgetary Impacts for AEAs
 * 5. Budget (Evan)**
 * Evan will take this to the Governance Council for approval
 * Addendum days vary from nine to fifteen days per consultant
 * These folks need to be available during the summer months, as well as during the school year
 * Going forward 192 day contracts may not be doable
 * Built on a zero growth basis
 * Is also built on 192 day contracts
 * Heartland has a 192 day contract with a 33 day supplement to 225 days
 * If we continue with the 192 contract, a serious discussion will need to be had around the purpose of our work
 * We have Directors groups in the AEAs that are making a lot of recommendations around the work we do
 * Good for them to get the advantages of the things that we can provide
 * Resources are involved in this also and the system must invest the resources to make this happen
 * If we are few a simply a moneymaking entity
 * We may have to begin charging an hourly rate for our services
 * If we continue to invest in projects that do not bring money back to us
 * Priorities will begin to shift from priority-based to whomever can pay for the projects
 * Any surplus is distributed back to the AEA's

• Intro to the Online Learner (Jan 15) • Technology for Online Instruction (Dec 31) • Instructional Design (Current) • Facilitation (March 1) • Assessment, Feedback, and Evaluation (Dec 31)
 * 6. OLLIE Re-Design (All)**

• Using Online Resources (Already Offered) • Blended Learning in the Classroom (Late Feb) • Creating Online Lessons and SoftChalk (Summer) • Instructional Design 2: Visual Design (Summer) • Synchronous Learning and Media (Summer) • Adult Learning (???)
 * 7. MOLLIE Courses**


 * 8. Soft Cloud Demo (if interest)** ||
 * **Closing** || **What needs to be communicated? **
 * Future agenda items? ** ||||  ||
 * Agenda items: ||
 * Identify new projects in our written updates to discuss level of support
 * Discussion regarding graduate partner courses
 * More to demonstrate on AEA PD Online Live
 * May have budget approval or will provide the feedback from Chiefs meeting
 * Ongoing updates