February 1, 2017 at 4:00 PM - Technology Committee Meeting

Discussion: 

Call to order at 4:00 PM

Staff:  David Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Beth Kabes, Rhonda Eis, and Scott Isaacson

Discussion:  The Technology Director reviewed the Tech Plan.  We have slow steady progress.  

Discussion:  Technology Director shared that there have been about 30 applications for the Adviser Dashboard.  The team has been meeting on a regular basis.  Will be starting to work with the SRS Project to get them on Adviser. 

Discussion:  There has been a big an increase getting schools onto the single sign on.  They have been making adjustments on the portal to speed up the process.  They will continue to work on performance issues.  NOC will be doing some training next month on single sign on. 

Discussion:  Not much happening in this area.  Scott presented to a conference in Florida virtually. 

Discussion:  Continue to update as things change.  Back-up system is nearly complete.

Discussion:  The SRS work to convert to Zend 1 is currently in the testing environment and continue to make the updates.  The AAP application is ready for testing. 

Discussion:  Hosting infrastructure and sustainability is a project the Tech Director will be working on and continue to update.

Discussion:  Committee Chair has been working with the NOC team to work through the by-laws.  The group is going to get together the day before the training at ESU 2 to work on the by-laws. 

Discussion:  We have been receiving feedback and the updating the procedure manual and will be approving in March. 

Discussion:  We will be able to align this contract with our fiscal year.  We will have a two month contract to make the contract to align to fiscal year.  There is an optional package (Classroom Video on Demand) available for purchase but has not been vetted or tested. 

Discussion: 

Discussion:  Executive Director reviewed the budget requests for NOC, TLT, BlendEd Leadership. 

Discussion:  BlendEd/DEC Director reviewed the usage reports for NROC. 

Discussion:  Technology Director report throughout agenda. 

Discussion:  BlendEd/Dec Director reviewed her report for BlendEd.  She continues to schedule and observe the BlendEd pilots schools.  Continue to work on creating videos to help teachers for resources.  Regional meetings were to happen for the BlendED pilot this week.  Region 1 and 3 visit Bellevue this morning and then got back together at ESU 3 to work on some activities.  Continue to promote and present at various workshops, conferences, etc.  Distance Education will meet next week to discuss VTF's in NVIS and update those records.  She shared a bookmark and postcard that she will be using to promote our resources.  She gave a demonstration of the Nebraska Hippo Campus website. 

Discussion:  IMAT Coordinator discussed her report.  Discussed more of Learn360.  She highlighted the meetings from TLT.  TLT has identified some training needs.  Discussion regarding the TLT leadership structure.  Sub Committee have been discussing for the learning resources funds available and possible uses for the MyVR Spot, ARC, and Kaltura.  The committee is looking at video management system to give teachers and students video resource.  Committee continues to review Amazon Inspire.