SIGCT_Exec_Bd_Aug2008_Agenda

**Monday, August 18, 2008: 4:30pm ET / 3:30pm CT / 2:30pm MT / 1:30pm PT**

 * Introductions (3 min)**


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

We need to decide and agree on the SIG level we wish to achieve. We have been mostly operating at the highest level, Division SIG, for this past year (2007-2008).
 * Division or Forum SIG level (5 min)**
 * ISTE SIG Handbook || _Page About Division SIG || _SIG Resources || _SIG Deliverables(Responsibilities) ||


 * [[file:sigct-2008annualreport.doc|Annual Report Draft]](5 min)** - please review before this conference call if you can
 * Are items related to goals appropriately?
 * Note the item on page 2 regarding our meeting at NECC with ISTE Leadership and SIG Staff (our handout to ISTE for this meeting is located [[file:SIGCT Future Involvement-May2008.doc|here]]).
 * We need to also write a SIGCT plan for 2008-2009 (and hopefully a year or two beyond); perhaps Jeff and I can collaborate on that one and send it out by the end of August; at least in part this plan will be based on this conference call and its agenda.


 * Journal for Computing Teachers (JCT) - John (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


 * NECC 2008 items:**
 * - Breakfast Forum at NECC 2009 (8 min)**
 * Committees and committee chairs: For NECC 2008 we had two committees: Program and Operations. Need chairs for each.
 * Program Committee: create and plan the content (about 2-2.5 hours of time); recruit speakers; prizes, handouts
 * Operations Committee: market to our membership (listserve mailings, newsletter, flyer), decide on accommidations including room and food, create final agenda sheet, evaluation form, greeters, summarize evaluations
 * These are two committees that we could extend opportunities to our active SIGCT membership (ie, those who attended either the breakfast or the membership meeting). We had three volunteers from the SIGCT Business Meeting [[file:Minutes_SIGCT_2008_Annual_Meeting.doc|minutes here]] but this is so important that we need one of our elected board members who will actively work on the Program through the year (similar to Jeff's leadership for the 2008 Forum).
 * Discuss our reactions to the evaluations summarized by Audrey [|here] or 
 * Discuss the direction and content on the program.


 * - Program Involvement - Philip, new NECC Liaison (8 min)**
 * Need Board members or others who will take the lead to recruit sessions that support both CS and IT, though not necessarily at same time. IT Career Cluster and ACM K-12 Curriculum should be our guides (both include all 4 IT pathways: networking/support, information systems/database, interactive media/web design, software development and engineering).
 * IT: Scott Horan is heading up a committee to seek out good sessions for NECC 2008 (based on IT Career Cluster)
 * We are in discussions with the NECC 2009 Program Chair McAnear to increase involvement of SIGCT in recommending and evaluation both CS and IT sessions.
 * We should try to offer a SIGCT-sponsored workshop which might pull in funds for future work. Would be appropriate to make sure that it covers at least Middle School and involves a larger spectrum of IT content. Karen? Scott? Carol?

At the leadership workshop in June, there were some early discussions of collaborations with We should move forward with at least one of these based on our Leadership meeting with ISTE at NECC and its results.
 * Collaborations (3 min)**
 * SIGTC - Jeff and Steve
 * SIGAdmin - Joe

This item was discussed during July and needs followup - Jeff, Karen, Scott? By "Officer" do we mean Elected Officers (8) only or the Executive Board (adding 3 committee chairs for a total of 11)?
 * Officer Support - Jeff 2 min)**

Webinars **- Luci (5 min)**
 * an excellent membership benefit to fulfill our quarterly professional development offerings for our membership
 * must be free (at least at this time)
 * possible topics should be able to draw perhaps 25 individuals and involve pre or early hs experiences and include IT experiences (based on the IT Career Pathways document)
 * [[file:Webinar+Request+Form.pdf|ISTE SIG Webinar Request Form (draft)]]


 * CT Tops - Charmaine (5 min)**


 * Involvement with revision of NCATE Standards for Teaching CS (2 min)**
 * Standards and Accreditation Committee representative, Steven Rainwater


 * SIGCT award? (2 min)**


 * SIGCT Newsletter items and editor (2 min)**


 * Action Items from this meeting:**

Next meeting: mid-late November (NECC, JCT, membership prof dev opportunities, membership volunteer opportunities)


 * 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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