Tuesday, May 10, 2011; 1:00PM CT
NET Board Room, 1800 N. 33rd St., Lincoln
Remote: NATS Conference Room, Wayne State College, Wayne
Remote: Alliance High School, 100 W. 14th, Alliance
Remote: Metro Community College, Bldg 30, 30th & Fort
Streets, Omaha
Remote: ESU 10, 76 Plaza Blvd., Kearney
VOTING MEMBERS/ALTERNATES PRESENT:
Mr. Ron
Cone, ESU 10
Mr. John Dunning, alt. for Dennis Linster, Wayne State College
Dr. Terry Haack, Bennington Public
Schools
Mr. Stephen Hamersky,
Omaha Gross High School
Mr. Leonard Hartman, Alliance Public
Schools
Mr. Ed Hoffman, Nebraska State
College System
Mr. Jeff Johnson, Centennial Public
Schools
Mr. Chuck Lenosky,
Creighton University
Mr. Randy Schmailzl,
Metropolitan Community College
Dr. Bob Uhing, ESU 1
LIAISONS/ALTERNATE MEMBERS PRESENT: Mr. John Stritt, ESU 10; Mr. Ken
Clipperton, Midland University; Mr. Gary Targoff, NET; Mr. Mike Kozak and Ms.
SuAnn Witt, NDE; and Steven Stortz, Norfolk Lutheran
School
MEMBERS/LIAISONS ABSENT: Mr. Gary Aerts, Alt. for Arnold Bateman, University of Nebraska; Mr.
Clark Chandler, Nebraska Wesleyan; Dr. Michael Chipps, Mid-Plains Community
College; Ms. Brenda Decker, DAS-CIO; Marshall Hill, Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education; Ms. Yvette Holly, University of Nebraska Medical
Center; Mr. Craig Pease, Ashland-Greenwood Public Schools; and Mr. Jeff
Stanley, Conestoga Public Schools
CALL
TO ORDER, ELECTRONIC POSTING, LOCATION OF OPEN MEETING LAW DOCUMENTS, ROLL
CALL, INTRODUCTIONS
Co-Chair, Dr. Haack,
called the meeting to order at 1:03 p.m.
There were 10 members present at the time of roll call. A quorum existed to conduct official
business. Meeting Notice Posted to the Nebraska Public Meeting Calendar
04-01-2011. Agenda Posted to the NITC Web site 05-06-2011. A copy of the
Nebraska Open Meetings Laws was on the southeast wall of the NET Board Room and
at each of the remote locations..
Guests who were present introduced
themselves.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA FOR
THE MARCH 10, 2011 MEETING
Mr.
Hamersky moved to approve the May 10, 2011 agenda as
presented. Mr. Hoffman seconded. Roll
call vote: Cone-Yes, Dunning-Yes, Haack-Yes, Hamersky-Yes, Hartman-Yes, Hoffman-Yes, Johnson-Yes, Lenosky-Yes, Schmailzl-Yes, and Uhing-Yes.
Results: Yes-10, No-0,
Abstained-0. Motion carried.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF MINUTES
FROM THE March 10, 2011 MEETING
Mr.
Hartman moved to approve the March 10, 2011 minutes as presented. Mr. Lenosky
seconded. Cone-Yes, Dunning-Yes, Haack-Yes, Hamersky-Yes,
Hartman-Yes, Hoffman-Yes, Johnson-Yes, Lenosky-Yes, Schmailzl-Yes, and Uhing-Yes. Results:
Yes-10, No-0, Abstained-0. Motion
carried.
PUBLIC
COMMENT
There was no public comment.
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
Tom
Rolfes, Office of the CIO/NITC
Dr.
Chipps is resigning and will need a replacement. The University of Nebraska will be
recommending a replacement for Arnold Bateman to complete the 2010-12 term. Mr. Lenosky will be resigning from the Council but has agreed
to remain on as an alternate. Mr.
O’Neill is looking for a replacement for Mr. Lenosky. Mr. Pease is retiring. Below is the proposed nomination slate for
membership renewals and new members:
Higher Education (2011-13 term)-Awaiting
confirmation
·
Yvette
Holly, representing the University of Nebraska System
·
Chuck
Lenosky, representing Independent Colleges &
Universities [resigning]
·
Mike
Chipps, representing Community College System [resigning]
·
Ed
Hoffmann, representing State College System
K-12 Education (2011-13 term)-Awaiting confirmation
·
Bob
Uhing, representing Educational Service Units
·
TBA (Craig Pease retiring), representing
Administrators
·
Stephen
Hamersky, representing Nonpublic Teachers
·
Leonard
Hartman, representing Public Teachers
New Members (2010-12 term)-Awaiting confirmation
·
John Dunning, representing State College System
·
TBA (Arnold Bateman retired) UN System
The NITC
staff will need sector confirmation by June 23rd for approval by the NITC at
their June 30 NITC meeting.
Mr. Hoffman moved approval of proposed slate
of nominations upon recommendation and confirmation from their sectors. Mr. Johnson seconded. Cone-Yes, Dunning-Yes, Haack-Yes, Hamersky-Yes,
Hartman-Yes, Hoffman-Yes, Johnson-Yes, Lenosky-Yes, Schmailzl-Yes, and Uhing-Yes. Results:
Yes-10, No-0, Abstained-0. Motion
carried.
VIRTUAL SCHOOL UPDATE
Mike Kozak, Nebraska Department of Education;
Gordon Roethemeyer, ESU Distance Education Council
Nebraska’s
Race to the Top grant was not awarded.
In the January 2011 State of the State Address, Governor Heineman stated that he wanted Nebraska to develop a
Virtual High School. Matt Blomstedt and Mr. Roethemeyer
were charged with assessing what Nebraska was doing in the way of online
education. The virtual school discussions
were held with many interested groups participating. Mr. Roethemeyer
proceeded with his presentation of ENVISION:
A Nebraska Virtual Instruction School.
ESU 10 hired a Remote Leaning Specialist who is responsible for teaching
online and blending learning classes.
By 2012,
ENVISION’s goal is to have 40 virtual school teachers teaching at least 100
online courses with access to 450 two-way interactive courses. By August 2015, the goal is to increase enrollment
to 700 students and increase the number of online courses to 400 courses. The target implementation date for the virtual
school is set for August 20, 2012.
After
the presentation, Education Council members expressed the following concerns,
issues and/or questions:
·
The
Virtual School is primarily ESU-focused.
There are a lot of potential providers that have not been part of the discussion.
For example, the University of Nebraska-Independent High School, Higher Educational
Institutions, Career Academies, etc.
o
Mr.
Kozak acknowledged that a statewide effort would need to involve more state
resources in the development. With the current budget crisis, the Legislature
and the Dept of Education have no funding to
contribute. Per discussions with Dr.
Breed, Mr. Blomstedt and Governor Heineman,
it was decided that an inventory of existing courses would be gathered and developed
into a virtual school portal where parents, students and counselors could go to
access course availability and information. At this point, the project is
moving forward slowly since there is no source of new funding.
·
Nebraska
public schools’ requirements for graduation. A review of graduation and accreditation requierements will occur this upcoming year. Rule 10 states that any online course offered
by another Nebraska high school can be approved for credit at the local level
by school boards.
·
Assistive
technology. The Department of Education
has Mark Schultz with Vocational Rehabilitation as a resource. The Educational Service Units were reminded
to address accessibility issues with the system and web design. Mr. Weir, CIO
of the University of Nebraska, recommended that project administrators contact
Christi Horn, ADA Compliance Director at UNL.
She has the compliance regulations that all educational institutions
must follow.
For
more detail on the Virtual School presentation, please contact Gordon Roethemeyer at groethem@esu10.org.
GOOGLE NEBRASKA UPDATE
Mike
Kozak, Nebraska Department of Education
Nebraska
Google. Other states have signed on with Google to be
one of their education states. Once enrolled, local districts can set up their own sites. Mr. Kozak provided a brief demonstration of
the Nebraska site from http://google.neschools.org .
John Stritt/T. Rolfes
NNAG
April 26, 2011 Meeting Agenda. For
Network Nebraska phase 5, the Office of the CIO received 36 Letters of Agency (LoA) primarily from school districts in the southeastern
part of the state. Twenty-three did not return their Letters of Agency but can
still join this summer at a little higher backbone rate. At tomorrow’s CAP meeting, Brenda Decker and
Walter Weir will develop a Letter of Commitment, as requested by the schools
considering the Network. Metropolitan Community
College, Hastings College, and the Grand Island Public
Library are also planning to connect this summer. Once they have joined, 90% of Nebraska’s educational
entities will be participants of Network Nebraska. Within the last 30 days, Network Nebraska
conducted an emergency power study on Grand Island College Park. A new emergency power generator will be purchased and installed
in time for the upcoming school year. For
over a year now, NNAG has brought together Educational Service Units, Higher Education
institutions, K12 educators and administrators to work towards the same goal of improving Network Nebraska to serve the educational entities of Nebraska. The group is in the process of discussing Network
Planning for 2011-12
TASK
GROUP REPORTS -
EMERGING
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES
Group
Members: Jeff Johnson, Steve Hamersky, Clark
Chandler, Yvette Holly, Lois Dietsch, Jeff Stanley,
Leonard Hartman, Mike Kozak
Mr. Hamersky
reported that this is a new task group with much of the first meeting’s discussion
focused on the Task Group's description, responsibilities and possible action
items. Below is the result of the
discussions.
Task Group Description: The Emerging Educational Technologies Group
will identify, evaluate, and make recommendations regarding new technologies
and innovations and the resulting impact on education within the state of
Nebraska.
Goals and Responsibilities:
·
Identify
technologies and innovations that will impact or are impacting education and
advise the NITC and state representatives on ways to improve the return on
investment regarding these technologies.
·
Determine
resources, applications, or systems that can be coordinated or shared to
benefit educators across the state.
·
Suggest
user-based network services to the Network Nebraska services group.
Possible Action Items:
·
Research
what groups are doing within Nebraska and in other states in the area of
emerging technologies.
o
Determine
which emerging technologies are most significant to education ideas: pads,
smart phones, cloud computing, social networking
o
Advise
the state how to assist educators utilize emerging technologies
§
survey
about best way for state to help with new technologies
o
Determine
services that could be shared statewide
§
survey
about current or emerging services to be shared
§
develop
shared services to reduce costs
·
Research
what groups are doing within Nebraska and in other states in the area of digital
media.
o
Monitor
the status, usage, and make recommendations regarding content management
systems
o
Monitor
the status, usage, and make recommendations regarding digital media resources
and digital media repositories
Also
discussed were current Council action items that may apply to the new Task
Group.
Mr. Kozak
stated that that he has a staff member, Brent Gaswick, who has a job description that matches many of the possible action items. Mr. Weir
suggested that the Task Group keep the NITC standards and guidelines in mind as they explore and recommend new action items, especially assistive technology compliance. One of the guests suggested desktop virtualization as an emerging technology
TASK GROUP REPORTS - SERVICES TASK GROUP
No
report. Mr. Rolfes volunteered to send the last two years of Network Nebraska marketing survey data that dealt with desired services to the Services work
group.
TASK GROUP REPORTS - GOVERNANCE
Mr. Schmailzl reported that the Governance task group has not had a follow-up
meeting since the last council meeting.
TASK GROUP REPORTS - MARKETING
Network Nebraska
Marketing Survey Report
Ms.
Witt is co-chair along with Mr. Hoffman.
Market survey results were linked to the agenda. Ms. Witt reviewed the draft results. Some of the items members indicated need to
be addressed included the following:
virtualization, leadership & management of Network Nebraska, rates
and shared services. Next year, the
survey will ask what types of shared services entities would like and how that
will save them money.
The Action
Plans from Education Council Task Groups still need to be included in the
report. This year the survey included
demographics of the participants. Dr.
Uhing stated that for future survey timeframes, it would be better for K-12 schools
to get the survey earlier in December so that more staff could participate.
NITC ACTION ITEMS UPDATE
Task
Group Membership.
There will be quite a few transitions with the resignation, renewal and
new members to the Education Council.
Action
Item Matrix of Assignments. There will be new action items from the Emerging
Technologies group, as well as other new items from other work groups.
Action
Item Listing.
Members were asked to review these for discussion, completion, or elimination at the
next meeting.
OTHER/ANNOUNCEMENTS
FCC Public Forum,
May, 18, 2011. Several of the FCC commissionres are coming to
Nebraska to hold a public "workshop" on the modernization of broadband. Mr. Rolfes
reviewed the day's agenda. Dr. Hoesing, NITC Commissioner
and Superintendent of Alliance Public Schools, will be part of the “Consumer
Discussion and Public Forum” to be held from 4:45-6:00 p.m.
There
have been lots of discussions at all levels regarding IPV6. Mr. Rolfes informed the Council that June 8th
has been designated World IPV6 Day.
AGENDA ITEMS AND LOCATION FOR THE 7/XX/2011
MEETING
For the
next meeting one of the agenda teams will be continued discussion of the Task
Groups, Membership and Action Items. The
next meeting date will be determined.
Mr.
Johnson moved to adjourn. Mr. Hoffman
seconded. All were in favor. Motion carried by voice vote.
The
meeting was adjourned at 2:45 p.m.
The
NITC Education Council wishes to thank NET for helping host the May 10, 2011
meeting.
Minutes were recorded by Lori Lopez Urdiales and reviewed by Tom Rolfes.