February 10, 2016 at 10:00 AM - Technology Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 10:00AM. Staff: David Ludwig, Scott Isaacson, Rhonda Eis, Deb Hericks. Guests: Jamon Hall, ESU 6

Discussion:  Executive Director reviewed the K-12 Federation meeting that was held the end of January in Las Vegas. The goal is to have a framework for the projects to share resources across the United States. Center for Education Innovation from New York has joined the group. Deadline for this grant is the end of March 2016. This is a short pre-grant to develop the long term grant.

Discussion:  Technology Director reviewed the progress with single sign-on. The six early adopters will be ready to go "live" within the next couple of weeks. Then a group of twenty-four will continue to work on get their information ready to go "live." There have been some updates to the uPortal and Technology Director will update our uPortal system with the updated information. Craig Hicks, ESU 13 will give a demonstration of the ESU level uPortal work. Microsoft have begin to offer more single sign-on options. We have a list of over 50 applications that will eventually become a part of the portal system.

Discussion:  Technology Director discussed the diagrams and that we are trying to communicate out statewide so that everyone can be on the same page. Technology Director will be attending a NETA Technology directors meeting next week to discuss the cloud deployment model. We need to continue to review the LR264 study that was done a few years ago. This document should drive the conversations across the state.

Discussion:  Technology Director reviewed the overview tab within the tech plan and updated the committee on progress. He gave an update on the SAN hardware. The SAN has been repaired and we are ready to move forward with the new equipment that was purchased last fall. LMS discussions regarding those available to schools with the sunset of ANGEL this summer. He discussed the back-up service that he has been researching. Looking at a way to help others across the state through this implementation. ADVISOR pilot districts are moving into production along with six of the early adopters. He met with some students from UNO (Capstone - software development) and they would like to help developing an Account Provisioning Tool.

Discussion:  Committee reviewed the BlendEd budget. Would like BlendEd to remove the NROC/EdReady line item since the funds for that project are not part of their budget. Executive Direct or will continue to work with NDE for funding source for NROC/EdREady.

Discussion:  IMAT Director reviewed the affiliates revisions for their area of the Master Service Agreement for 2016-2017. Discussions to remove the LMS area from MSA due to this is now available through the Coop store. Discussion was held to have the flexibility of to discuss/revise after final decisions through an amendment. An update on LOR Committee discussions including Amazon, ISLE, and Learn 360 are some options. There is no one source that has everything needed for our specs, so possibility of a combination of sources to create our environment. TAG Affiliate budget extended to end of February. Will send out to Committee when received for their review.

Discussion:  Committee reviewed the NOC budget requests. There is no change in requests from last year.

Discussion:  TAG Affiliate budget extended to end of February. Will send out to Committee when received for their review.

Discussion:  Scott Isaacson's report was given throughout the Technology agenda.

Discussion:  Committee reviewed her report. Discussed the joint meeting held with IMAT, DEC, TAG, BlendEd. Looking to combine the groups into Teaching and Learning with Technology, within that group has bucket/focus groups for the individual affiliates.

Discussion:  Rhonda Eis's report covered in other agenda items.

Discussion:  Cloud based services - Lifesize