Minutes+from+11+2006

2006 11 Minutes Attendees: Karl Fisch, Mason Gregg, Ben Nuebel, Curt Christensen, Heidi Dudley, La Donna Lenz, Diane Frank, Linda Gray, Randy Stall, Mike Porter
 * from Secondary Coaches Meeting Nov. 14**

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 * 1) **Wireless Classroom** - Karl showed us one of his three wireless classrooms. He has 36 Dell laptops on two Bretford carts. The computers are charged overnight using two different circuits and timers so that half of the computers charge at one time. The computers have dual core processors, DVD readers, CD-RWs, 3 year warranties and the price point was $1200.00. Most of the time one charge will last all day. Students using these machines can access the district network and the Internet. Students or staff using personal machines cannot currently access the district network or the internet via the wireless network due to licensing issues with the Internet filter (guest access that provided Internet but not district network access was available for a few weeks until the licensing issue was discovered).
 * 1) **Internet Filter** – Coaches asked about using current BESS filter for students using their own laptops on district wireless. Randy explained that the cost is too much to cover extra students on top of what the district is already paying. Coaches asked Randy to ask Dan Maas to get a committee together to look at filtering issues. Coaches asked Randy to provide a list of categories that are filtered and unfiltered. Randy has provided that list:
 * P2P/File Sharing ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Personal Network Storage ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Personal Pages ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Phishing ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Politics/Opinion ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Pornography (N2H2 Adults Only) || Always Blocked || Always Blocked || Always Blocked || Always Blocked ||
 * Portal Sites ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Profanity || Blocked 8am to 4pm || Blocked 7am to 4pm || Blocked 7am to 3pm || Blocked 7am to 4pm ||
 * Provocative Attire (N2H2 Lingerie) || Blocked 8am to 4pm || Blocked 7am to 4pm || Blocked 7am to 3pm || Blocked 7am to 4pm ||
 * Religion and Ideology ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Remote Access ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Resource Sharing ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * School Cheating Information ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Search Engines ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Sexual Materials (N2H2 Adults Only) || Always Blocked || Always Blocked || Always Blocked || Always Blocked ||
 * Shareware/Freeware ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Shopping/Mechandizing ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Spam Email URLS ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Sports ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Spyware ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Stock Trading ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Streaming Media ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Technical/Business Forums ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Text/Spoken Only ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tobacco ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Travel ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Usenet News ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Violence *Murder/Suicide) || Blocked 8am to 4pm || Blocked 7am to 4pm || Blocked 7am to 3pm || Blocked 7am to 4pm ||
 * Visual Search Engine || Always Blocked || Always Blocked || Always Blocked || Always Blocked ||
 * Weapons ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Web Ads ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Web Mail ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Web Phone ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1) **Student Servers** – Powell M. S. has committed the funds to purchase a new student server this year. Mason asked about the possibility of 2 or 3 middle schools sharing one server. Backing up the server with data from different schools is a problem. Wiki’s provide a good sharing environment. Since Boni did not attend, it was agreed to bring this item back up at the next meeting.
 * 2) **Specialty Software** – Apparently Special Services has purchased software that stores data locally on the computer’s C drive. Often software comes with textbooks that either doesn’t work at all with our equipment, or it is a major deal to make it work. Coaches would like some sort of review process to see if proposed purchases even work with district hardware and network. Randy agreed to take the issue to Dan and Boni. Randy could not say when a response might be forthcoming.
 * 3) **Parent Computer Classes** – Curt has been asked by administrators at his building to run some computer classes at night for parents. Curt asked about district policy regarding room rent and charging parents tuitions. There is no district policy about charging parents for classes. Mike Montgomery is sponsoring some computer classes for parents at Field Elementary, so he would be a good resource for Curt to speak with. Karl thought that parents would actually pay the school and the school would then pay Curt for teaching the classes. Minimum pay would be around $600.00 for a 15 hour class.

Next meeting is December 12. Location to be determined.

Carry over items: Student Server discussion Specialty Software Review Process