agenda_11_1_07

Meeting Time: 3:45 Place: Hope Street - Note these items are **not** listed in order of priority.

1. (From Boyer) CheckPro is displaying "unable to read" message when checking MS Word documents created with the software. Resolution: 10/24/2007 7:38:39 AM (GMT-5:00) Central Daylight Time, Logged by: Marv Hiestand - Went onsite to observe the problem. This error is caused by running CheckPro, which was developed for MS Office 2000, on computers running MS Office 2003 or MS Office 2007. The fix is to remove all MS updates related to MS Word from the computer. Removed MS Word updates from selected computers and verified the fix. Worked with Joe to confirm that the clone image will need to be updated and the room recloned.

This is a TRAKKIT communication involving District Keyboarding software but is going to be problematic for other software packages as we move further away from the baseline operating system existant when the particular package was developed. Moving to 2007 will exacerbate the problem that we now have with XP/2003 with packages originally written for 98/2000. Either this committee or a higher level District committee will need to address this problem before we start seeing more and more software packages have problems with 2007. M Boyer


 * We support this and should make sure this is a consideration for the textbook adoption.**

2. (From Marv) PhotoStory - Should we add this to the Approved Software List


 * Add to approved software list, add to Launcher, and Teresa send district wide email.**

3. Approved Software list - Here is the link to the work in progress Approved Software List. Please download the spreadsheet and make additions or deletions to the spreadsheet after you download it. Bring a copy of the spreadsheet that you have made changes on to Thursday's meeting. We hope then to be combine all suggestions to one master copy.

4. "David Ramsey's Financial Peace for the Next Generation" curriculum - I received the following email from Tammy Austin: I have a parent (of a gifted student) who would like to purchase a $500 site license for Robinson so we can access to "David Ramsey's Financial Peace for the Next Generation" curriculum. He's wanting this to not only be available to students, but to staff as well. He says the site license will be forever. The mission statement of the curriculum is "Our goal is to empower students with the skills and knowledge needed to make sound financial decisions for life." The whole curriculum is about how to plan financially for the future without going into debt. Our gifted facilitator could use the curriculum as could our Careers, Skills for Adolescence, and FACS classes. I'm also certain it will peek the interests of our staff. (tj)


 * Teresa has contacted the company and they are sending a preview cd that she will share with Tammy Austin as well as go over the software approval form. Update: We received the preview cd, Marv looked it over and said it should be fine. I will email Tammy Austin the approval.** (tj)

5. NXT Robotics Engineering I: Introduction to Mobile Robotics Curriculum - Eisenhower Middle School Melinda Patterson has filled out the Software Approval form and sent me the hard copy which I will share with everyone at our meeting. (tj)
 * Approved**