Meeting+Notes

Meeting: January 20, 2010 // Present: Mark Ault, Kerry Daus, Garth Jay, Marian Herman, Rebecca McFarlan, Kim Miller, Arline Pique, Mark Richardson, Martha Stephen, Melissa Stewart, Andrea Weis //

1. Reviewed next site visit date (Feb 4) and possible other sites to visit (University Heights, Beechwood, Columbus Bishop Hartley and School for Girls, Local-SUA and Seton, and possibly Hinsdale in IL). 2. Kerry Daus reviewed best practices for tablets and gave committee members hands-on activities to try, showing the benefits for learning with a tablet. 3. Kerry/Melissa are reviewing the classroom observation sheet 4. Site visit questions were modified and distributed to be reviewed and amended via the WIKI. 5. Team members were asked to review and update the project goals. 6. Reviewed those attending the CCDS conference and what they should expect.

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Meeting: October 14th, 2009 //Present: Mark Ault, Kerry Daus, Garth Jay, Kris Groth, Marian Herman, Rebecca McFarlan, Kim Miller, Mark Richardson, Arline Pique,//

1. Exit Exams (especially from 8th Grade) 2. Review of the site visit questions we created last year – I’ll be updating them per the committee suggestions on the wiki. Be sure you have access ([] ). Review them there and feel free to update if you have suggestions or corrections (that’s why it’s in a wiki). 3. Next Steps -- Site Visits to be determined (4 people, HS/MS, will be going to CCDS on October 19th/20th for their tablet conference). -- We will be working with a consulting firm called Educational Collaborators. They were formed by the pioneers who implemented 1:1 (like the original tech directors at Moeller, CCDS, and other partners). They have access to all the research, and this gives us access to their experience. They will be working with us to determine best-fits for site visits. -- We would like to try to conduct a site visit before winter break 4. Next meeting will be scheduled in November. One of the things we will do at that time will be to start creating goals for 1:1 at Indian Hill. These will obviously morph as we learn more.

Yesterday Mr. Jay brought up a question about physical effects of students working so much with laptops/tablets. This was in an article sent to us by the HS librarian (Vicky Mendoza), which was relevant to that question:

“Reading on screen requires slightly more effort and thus is more tiring, but the differences are small and probably matter only for difficult tasks.” This was in the comments by Sandra Aamodt, former editor-in-chief of //Nature of Neuroscience//

The full article is here: []