Casti+Futures+Group

The Castilleja "Futures Group" evolved out of our school's One-to-One Laptop Committee that was charged with preparing the school community for an eventual student laptop program. While the student laptop has been put on hold due to extraordinary budget circumstances, we're still going forward with using this committee as a space to discuss the learning ecosystem here at Castilleja. We'll use a variety of spaces, including moodle, to plan and collaborate as a group. This page will primarily contain meeting agendas and notes, while recordings of the meeting and forums will take place over at the moodle virtual learning network.

Futures group email from FirstClass has been summarized and placed in a Google Doc here: []


 * Meeting Agendas:**
 * Next Meeting**: Wednesday, May 13th at 8:00 am
 * Location**: Conference Room in the MCL Wing (204)

[|Collaborative Notes]


 * Agenda Items** (please contribute your ideas by clicking the "Edit" button, adding your ideas, and then clicking save)


 * Presentation of the IRT Award
 * Unconference/open mic
 * Gmail/Google Docs Transition Committee Update
 * Summer Grants Update
 * Suggestions for Summer Work and/or Next Year Futures Committee
 * 2010-2011 1-1 program


 * Next Meeting**: Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 8:00 am CANCELLED
 * Location**: Conference room in the MCL wing (204)

Student Cell Phone Policy - Steve Extended (1/2 day) Futures Group planning meeting for May Vision Statement: Please review this and contribute to it: []
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 * Next Meeting**: Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 8:00 am
 * Location**: Conference room in the MCL wing (204)

[|**Collaborative Notes**]**-** Please help contribute to the notes both during and after the meeting if you'd like


 * Agenda Items**:

IRT Award Presentation for the Month - Mary Jean The rising cost of textbooks - Matt Next steps on moving to a new collaboration environment Student Cell Phone Policy - Steve Extended (1/2 day) Futures Group planning meeting for May Vision Statement: Please review this and contribute to it: []


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 * Next Meeting**: Wednesday, February 25th, 2008 at 8:00 am
 * Location**: Conference room in the MCL wing (204)


 * [|Collaborative Notes]** - Please help contribute to the notes both during and after the meeting if you'd like.

Celebration of innovative teaching and risk taking - Holly to pass out the award

Learning Devices Discussion - Heather's thoughts on her netbook trial
 * Check out [|this blog post] and the ensuing comments on netbooks
 * [|Castilleja Student Review] of the netbook that she trialed.

I'd like to get the groups read on several items: - how to move forward the discussion about a new email system - how to get help designing faculty portal pages for Finalsite - how to engage community about 1-1 program for 2010-11 - increasing faculty use of Moodle; may relate to email discussion - feedback on ideas for faculty guidelines on social networks. See my [|blog]. Steve


 * Archived Meeting**: Wednesday, January 21st at 8:00 am
 * Location**: Conference room in the MCL wing (204)

[|Collective] Collaborative notes from today's meeting

-Innovation and risk taking traveling trophy presentation (5 minutes-Matt) **NOTE**: Still working on finding an appropriate artifact for this purpose...any ideas??
 * Round table sharing

-School 2.0 Vision - Give one, get one activity (20 minutes-Matt)
 * [|NY Times article on lectures]

-Old Business-[|Student focus group session] -Nuts and bolts biz: March 9 professional development day, pilot group needed for evaluating new email system options, evaluation of highly portable laptop computers, and open source software CD