SIGCT_Exec_Bd_May2008_Agenda

**Agenda for SIGCT Executive Committee conference call, May 27, 2008, 2pm CST**
Introductions (3 min)

Congratulations to our newly elected officers (2 min)
 * President-Elect: Jeff Foster
 * Business Officer: Lucianne (Sweder) Brown (congrats on your marriage)
 * Middle School Representative: Karen North
 * Post Secondary Representative: Jennifer Lamkins

Journal for Computing Teachers (JCT) discussion (John Thompson, 5 min)
 * Report on completed issues and upcoming issues in preparation
 * Status with ISTE
 * Marketing JCT to SIGCT, ISTE, AP-Compsci, CSTA?, others (Scott?)
 * Efforts to get article writers

Breakfast Forum at NECC 2008 (5 min) > (program committee: Jeff, Karen, Luci, Chris, Scott, Steve R) > (operations committee: Philip and Carol)
 * Update on program plans (prizes, national robotics speaker)
 * Operations committee: Report on final agenda and sheet, evaluations, greeters...
 * Registered: 35 as of May 6, 2008 SIGCT Breakfast Forum Attendee List
 * Will send out one last email around May 15 (probably the text from the May newsletter)

SIGCT Involvement Discussion (20 min)
 * A discussion with SIGCT Board and members of ISTE Staff including Leslie Conery and Jennifer Ragan-Fore will be set up either during the Saturday leadership workshop or during NECC itself to discuss issues related to ISTE and SIGCT
 * Issue: Seek support of ISTE to differentiate SIGCT from other SIGs
 * activities such as Journal and Newsletter openly and freely available to the entire CS/IT community
 * involvement with NCWIT and other CS/IT advocacy programs
 * involvement with BDPA with their Minorities in IT Initiative
 * type of sessions (eg NECC and Webinars) oriented around teaching and learning about computers and technology
 * Issue: Seek regular active involvement with NCATE standards and revisions regarding CS/IT teacher preparation
 * Issue: Seek collaborations which are good for SIGCT membership and the relatively small CS/IT community
 * Collaborating with other ISTE SIGs (eg SIGILT and SIGDE and their STEM involvement (eg, stemhi.org))
 * Collaborating with other groups like CSTA, CompTia, EdTech, Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA), including co-membership relationships (eg, reduced rates)
 * Issue: Seek heightened awareness of SIGCT to ISTE and K-16 world (including modifying the ISTE mission statement to include teaching about computing)
 * Issue: Seek ISTE efforts to actively involve SIGCT in any efforts which wholly or in part involve teaching about computing
 * Issue: Seek involvement with NETS standards
 * NETS for Students implementation, particularly developing coursework to include concepts around teaching and learning about technology
 * NETS for Teachers and NETS for Administrators development and implementation
 * Other programs to be involved with
 * Move forward on efforts which encourages membership to share lessons, units and other classroom plans which support the SIGCT mission
 * Creating SIGCT-based award of some type - SIGTel gets much marketing from their awards July 15, 2008 is deadline for NECC 2009 inclusion
 * Creating the opportunity for a stipend to attend the Breakfast Forum free for some well-delineated group - like someone going to NECC for the first time and a member of SIGCT, or some similar criteria
 * Planning, implementing and publishing research and surveys as suggested by Karen and Scott in various recent conversations around teaching and learning about technology standards.
 * Prioritizing activities for 2008-2009 and beyond

SIGCouncil Items (5 min)
 * SIGCT Quarterly Report for May, 2008 (posted on our wiki)
 * Implementing the newly adopted SIGs model for SIGs (including deciding if we are a Division or Forum SIG
 * [[file:SIG+Leadership+Meeting+at+NECC+Version+7+4.8.08.doc|SIG Leadership All Day Event]] on Saturday, June 28, 2008 before NECC
 * Attending will be Joe, Jeff, Carol, Steve C, Scott.
 * Each should be able to get a small stipend to, for example, cover at least one, perhaps two hotel days. ISTE covers some expenses, SIGCT covers other expenses out of our carryover funds

NECC 2008 update and NECC 2009 planning (10 min)
 * The SIGCT Board picks of our top 20 sessions are searchable on the ISTE NECC Program site
 * Our complete list of recommendations is posted on our wiki and has been noted in our newsletters
 * Developing strand of CT sessions and finding or developing presentations to submit to NECC submission process
 * Finding or developing a SIGCT Workshop (this is about the only way we have of increasing our funds)

Other items (10 min)
 * SIGCT Tops - Nifty Assignments to Teach about Computing (Charmaine)
 * Status; generating content
 * Ideas for a Webinar? (Luci Sweder)
 * We should be planning on offering some professional development opportunites and this is one way
 * June and summer SIGCT Newsletter items?

Next meeting: mid-late August - many of these same topics though with updates
 * Approx August 20 (NECC 2009, annual report, future planning)


 * Don't forget** to print and use the [[file:SIGCT_flyer_edited_28Apr08_final.pdf| nifty SIGCT marketing flyer]] when you talk with colleagues or make presentations. I just used it last week and a number of people in the audience didn't even know we existed even though they knew about ISTE!

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