SUETA

Southern Union Educational Technology Association

Orlando, FL - January 25-26, 2006

SUETA Meeting Minutes
"PENDING SUETA APPROVAL"

Wednesday January 25, 2006

Salli Jenks – “Building a Successful Association”, “IC3-MOS Certification”

Registrar’s Assoc. met informally until 2000

They finally formally organized in 2000.

During their first year, the Registrar’s Assoc. struggled with communication, president made sure bylaws etc. were in place.

Most Important: Need to sell the organization – TALK IT UP

Foundation – Mission/Purpose, goals (state on documentation), long term and short term goals, constitution and bylaws (put on website), figure out membership requirements/benefits.

They started with the mission/purpose.

FOUNDATION:

• Identify target market
• Post names on websites
• Long term goals and ongoing measurable and attainable (define success)
• First year they decided to meet every year and get mission/purpose done.
• Set very clear job descriptions and terms for officers.  Duties are listed.  President set very clear terms for officers.  Starting and ending times.
• Define what criteria must be met for someone to join (dues, purpose, etc.)  Registrars voted– In order to attend the annual meetings with no additional cost, the individual must be a member for one year. Everyone is welcome to attend annual meetings, but must pay the meeting dues.
• Benefits – reduced rates, annual meetings free, free newsletters, etc.

  MAIN STRUCTURE

  • Strong officers (good communicators will communicate to all levels, good people skills, understanding, passion for the association and its goals, skills/time for specific position, accountability monthly goals/ monthly conference calls, send agenda ahead of time (terms posted on website), short-term annual (this year we are doing… at least one big thing a year and include timeline, measurable goal define success, registrars decided to setup a lending library, delegate! ) Communication (clear, constant, and quality… emails once a month to whole group getting them pumped up, online chat message board registrar with password, forums, topics your interested in then compiled in spread sheet, if one surfaces to the top then a speaker would be brought in, you could use a blog,) sell to treasurer and everyone, officers need to call potential target group, email, etc.  need a marketing initiative with good logo letterhead and look sharp,  put out newsletters (post on website and email) send newsletters to principals etc. who are resisting,
  • Annual Meetings – need umph, speakers that are applicable to group- find out what the group wants, need collaboration, think outside the box.  Training opportunities at meeting make the annual dues worth it to many folks.  Have trade/show vendors, planning for next meeting.  Fill out sheet for feedback (they need to turn in something to get something).  Association meeting agenda needs to happen… make sure you have treasurer’s report, minutes report from previous year, on website show pictures and what they did, take lots of pictures for the website. SELL THE PRODUCT

   TRIM

  Be creative, make it fun, engage involve interactive, Use Survey Monkey to get results from folks, need time outside of meeting room to collaborate.  Get feedback from folks.  Be flexible and change according to the wants and needs of the members.

   Aaregistrars.com  hosted by “one on one” 

   Time was the hardest thing to get.

  Used online chat a lot. Salli likes conference calls the most.  She likes chat because transcript is automatic.

  Officers’ meetings were always held to 30 minutes or less.

   IC3-MOS Certification:

  Powerpoint “Certification Answers for Technology Questions”

  Results Oriented Technology Program…Measurable goals needed

  Why – work force, college, etc.

  Salli shared a number of governmental quotes showing the need for technology skills among our students

  NCLB says that 8th graders must be technology literate.

  We need IC3 because:

  • Education requirements
  • Accountability
  • Universally accepted measurement
  • Etc.

  We need consistency of results from school to school.

  IC3 certification 1st semester then 2nd semester with MOS Word and Excel

  Course offered to seniors at Highland Academy

  IC3 ensures knowledge in technology (not history) computer hardware, software, OS, program functions, word processing, spreadsheet functions, presentation software, networks and internet, email, using internet, impact of computing on society.

  2005 IC3 includes PowerPoint

  Salli would like to see 7-8th grade do IC3 to fulfill Computer Literacy requirement.  Jim will be bringing the issue to the Spring Education Council.  There was some discussion about SUETA making this as a formal recommendation.

  IC3 is annually updated.  Salli said that it makes perfect sense for 8th graders to do IC3 and academies to teach MOS.  Salli has the students tell how they would use what they just learned in their life.

  Technomedia.com was used for the online portions.

  QuizStar.com Salli uses this to make quizzes for the class.

  Thompson’s Book is used for training.

  DDC practice testing for IC3

  Self Test and MeasureUp – used for practice testing MOS

   

  Salli’s classes meet three times a week and is a compilation of several training materials.

   

  Certiport.com

  Purchase minimum 30 exams $16.00 each  Highland Academy charges $550.00 for the IC3 and MOS class for the year, per student taking course.

   

Reaction to Salli Jenks… How do we build SUETA, who are we? Why do we exist? Is there a need for us to exist?

We need our own domain name. 

Discussed having profiles of all members on the website (password protected).  Richard Thomason is willing to put up a website complete with forum and listserv. Ready by Feb. 10 listserv to follow…

SUETA.org was the domain name registered for SUETA.

New webmaster will be given all administrative rights and council with Richard Thomason as needed.

Discussed
Audience

Target Audience

Primary - Secondary & Elementary IT & Tech Teachers, All conference tech committees, Conference IT

Secondary Audience_ Principals, Treasurers, SUEC, TDEC, NADTSC, GCCTC

Discussed
Blanket Email

Discussed
Potential Speakers

Speakers for 06 &07

Discussed
07 Meeting

FETC meets at January 24-26, 2007.

Speaker
Richard Thomason

Wireless Security:

1. Don’t broadcast your SSID
2. Don’t allow remote access (disable web based interface)
3. Survey for rogue AP’s –Netstumbler or Ethereal
4. Perform a perimeter analysis – Netstumbler or Ethereal
5. Enable MAC address control – Lightweight approach serves MAC addresses to all AP’s. The new AP’s are dumb so that if someone steals it there is not a chance they can steal keys, etc. 
6. Perimeter Analysis
7. Use an additional layer of authentication – RADIUS now named IAS.  No cost.
8. Disable DHCP

9. Change the IP subnet from 192.168.1.0 and gateway
10. Purchase 128bit WEP
11. Ensure AP firmware is upgradeable
12. USE WPA Wi-Fi
13. internal threats from wired clients
14. Server auditing
15. Port monitoring
16. Wi-Fi Packet sniffers (AirSnort and others)
17. Implement strong passwords use complex passwords with symbols and caps.
18. Limit access hours (Time based access controls)
19. filter  out intruders
20. Watchout  that intruders can’t hit reset button to defaults.
21. CLI  command line interface (disable gui and/or http)

NAD TDEC
Report

Speaker
Jonathan Sumner

Jonathan’s Notes 3:38 p.m. immediately following Richard Thomason's presentation on Wireless vulnerabilities

Technology report September 20-22

Explained that they tried to use Polycom software, too expensive, industrial strength firewall, Watchguard, really hated the software. JS just threw it out. They are still looking for a solution.

Adventist Lego Robotics is continuing to grow. JS has been "forced" into it. Gave registration details. Encouraged Participation.

JS went to seminar at SU and learned about Robotics Educator 2.5, HTML based interface works very well for his situation/environment. Girls are increasingly becoming apart, and we should encourage this more.

NetOp School. Michael Peel and Jonathan Sumner are using it. Richard Stephenson mentioned he was using NetSupport School, a main rival of NetOp School. NetOp and NetSupport are two products that monitor student computer use and encourage teacher/student digital interaction.

Admin Magic is used by Jay R. He is pleased with the product.

JS introduced Serious Magic, a great multimedia tool.

JS then changed laptops, mentioned he was migrating to a new laptop.

NAD TDEC

FALL 2005 Report

Explained the PowerPoint slide presentation that he gave during the afore mentioned conference. He tried to clarify what exactly TDEC does and what the organizations exists for.

TDEC oversees evaluations for technical schools. TDEC is only a recommending body.  Not an authoritative body. Further explained Role of TDEC.

They do have a TDEC website. MS LiveMeeting is offering discount of up to 90% off academic pricing. Contact Larry Blackmer about pricing. Contact Tom Taylor as well. Both Richard Stephenson and Richard Thomason have seen LiveMeeting in action, and recommended the product as a solution.

Writeboard.com is a free blackboard program that can be used to conduct web based discussions.

Attempted to clarify recertification requirements. There were several questions regarding recertification. JS will look into these questions.

Nashville Convention

Discussed what is offered at convention. Wi-Fi is not available without cost.

D2L – Desire to Learn is a great product.

MegaConference, Comsifter was mentioned, Jay R. mentioned that as soon as AD is supported on Comsifter, he would buy. Free websites provided by NAD, Richard T. asked if it was Hosford. JS did not know.

Update on HSI. HSI is using D2L.

Teacher Bulletin was mentioned.

TDEC blog. Not ready yet, but coming soon to a computer near you!

Corel Graphics Suite Download. Ken S. was very interested in this product.

Can IC3 cover the requirements for the Computer Literacy requirement? With Salli’s plan it takes roughly 72 classroom hours (?) to complete the course.  Many elementary schools with dedicated lab time only get approximately 36 hours of training.

Questions:

1. Where will the tests be taken?
2. How much time is needed?  A lot of schools have only scheduled 1 hour per week to 8th grade computer lab time.  This includes time for keyboarding.  Can we spread the training over several years?
3. Does IC3 cover the computer literacy requirements? It does not cover history and database.
4. Should IC3 be integrated into the curriculum or taught as stand alone?  Will the teachers have sufficient time before 2007 to get trained in to implement IC3? 
5. Can IC3 be integrated with classroom curriculum?
6. What are the costs to schools?
7. Are textbooks needed?
8. Can a packet be put together for schools to implement program?
9. Equipment needs?
10. Implementation in small schools?

Jim would like IC3 to be the graduation requirement for 8th grade and MOS certification a 12th grade graduation requirement.    However, each school will decide how this affects students graduating.  Some schools may still allow students to march in graduation and still receive their standard program.

Voted

Recommended to SUEC

Elementary

• Keyboarding starts by 4th grade
• NAD touch type keyboarding test at 7th grade
• IC3 8th grade (72 hours required for this certification… current allotment is 36 hours per year.)

Secondary

• Minimum requirement
  • Word MOS certification
  • PowerPoint MOS certification
• Additional classes
  • Excel MOS certification
  • Access MOS certification
  • A+

Discussed

Discussed

SUETA 2007

Tentative: Next SUETA Meeting (Monday January 22, 2007) in conjunction with FETC (January 24-26, 2007)

Speaker

Laptop program at Madison Academy.  Purchased 110 laptops. Since laptop lease was built into tuition, without line item on student statement, some students then felt that the laptops were a freebie, a possible shortfall.  Incoming Freshmen on this program will have their laptop paid off by the end of their Jr. year. When each student leaves Madison, they have the option of purchasing their laptop from Madison Academy for $1.   Current seniors have the option of buying the remainder of their lease out for $500.00 if this is their first year.  Students can take laptops home over the summer for $70 total.  The actual price of the laptops is $28.00/month.  The conference subsidized the program which dropped the student’s cost.  Some parents don’t want the kids to be able to take their laptops home.  No student has any administrative rights.  There are different levels of customized usage set through group policies.  A lot of the students have two power adapters that cost about $19.00.  Some classrooms have extra power cords while others have outlets in the floor. 

Sharepoint – Microsoft everything web-based.  Password protected. Classes post homework and when they are due.  Can add RSS feeds.  Can have simple folders to hold files.  Most homework is not on paper but filled out online.  Teachers use search criteria to pickup homework that has been posted.  When saved it puts it back on Sharepoint.  Server2003 download freebie.  MSDE Microsoft database or sequel server versions.