9-30

9/30/10: CRT Meeting Present: Doug, Bruce, Lara, Trish, Chai

1. Doug: Preview of upcoming meetings and agendas
 * Re: interactive whiteboards: Promethean software will work w/ SmartBoard, but not vice versa.
 * Capital Budget

2. Portfolios: Carole Iacovelli intereted in archiving and saving student work.
 * DK: has had class blog where kids are guest author.
 * RBS: Kevin Kawahara has set up individual kid blogs which then feed into aggregate class blog.
 * Showed class blog where kids post work and reflect on what they did.
 * CR and DK meeting w/ Carole re: what she wants to do re: keeping an artist's portfolio: membership process cumbersome for blog.
 * DK: Possible alternatives to blog:
 * GoogleSites: blog like pages
 * Keynote, then exporting to ePub
 * Carbonmade.com example: artist portfolio w/ "slideshow" frame interface at base, so you can clearly see portfolio and click on desired images.

3. RBS: visited Stanford U. and observed three tech programs there:
 * Pilot program (10% of students?) using Digication e-portfolio tool where hyperlinks (e.g. course, course materials) embedded in transcript.
 * iTunes U: can access Stanford materials for free; teachers can also post lectures to it for class viewing
 * Podcast Producer: Video of med school classes automatically produced of class and auto-posted to Moodle course pages by 5 p.m. that day.

4. Doug: showed us iTunes U: good resource for free podcasts related to class material; can be viewed via iPod.
 * Khan Academy: algebra tutorials, finance, economics.
 * To send link, copy link: will give code to embed in Moodle page.
 * Lee Couillard Punahou Tennis Pro videos: CR wondered if permission needed from Communications to put up? DK: thinks if you mention Punahou, need to go via Laurel Bowers-Husain.

5. DK: Portfolio/archiving at Punahou:
 * LC: Students archive work on individual blog, class wiki. Subdept. does not systematically practice archiving.
 * CR: Used to use Ning prior to charging; now uses ELGG.
 * DK: Visual Arts: Foundation Arts students document thinking through whole process.

6. DK: met w/ C. Obenchain re: Naviance College Counseling Program.
 * program can run statistical analysis to suggest school matches/possible career interests based on data.
 * Students and parents can currently use; CC interested in having teachers use.

7. Moodle Pages:
 * Find samples of Moodle Pages that are good, and add to Google Document, "Moodle Showcase".