Attending Advisory: Corey Smith, Lauribeth Hull, John Low, Doug Hall, Gail Walters, Rod Morgason, Christine Phippard
Agenda Items: Information Technology Advisory Meeting April 11, 2012
STEM CTE Visitors
First item at the meeting was the introductions of our visitors and the new STEM certifications that the state is implementing and how our school district is encouraging the STEM courses to Advisory Members. EPS is pursuing STEM CTE for all Coord Science Teachers this year and more in the future.
Web Design Class Standards – Where should we be?
We went through the existing Web Design Course Standards below is a summary of recommendations:
HTML 5 is being taught at Community Colleges in the fall and should be implemented fall 2012 at JHS
CSS3 needs to be incorporated into the CSS standards – in order to do this there is a need to upgrade our web browsers to ie9 because of conflicts with ie7.
Design of a webpage for a mobile app should be covered as a design standard.
The final project should incorporate the model of creating a ‘fictional business website’ where students are given the assets needed for the website and would not need to go out and find an actual business but would still have the option to do one for a business if they had a legitimate contact to work with.
Action Items
| · Request upgrade of ie7 in jhs-c240, and other classrooms at EHS (B218) and CHS (420) where web design will be taught. | ||
| · Need to explore software Light room. | ||
| · Recruit new members | ||
| · Email Corey electronic version |
Robotics Class – ideas –
I will be attending workshops this summer to gain expertise for setting up this course. Christine shared some concerns she had with the curriculum she has been working with. I suggested she work with Scratch to help her introduce her students to programming.
Robotics Team Progress - Update
Our team finished in the 6th seed quarter finals and won the Spirit Award,
Next Meetings:
May 2nd, June 13th