Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Tech team meeting notes

The focus of today's meeting was next year...
how to take the program to the next level.

Here were the major ideas discussed:

1. We need to work on the schedule first, and the overview of the program second.

2. Nmuta will work on starting the schedule

3. Nmuta will work on the project manual (this summer)

4. Pascal and Tre will help start putting the Program Overview together.

5. Focus on short (two week) projects in general. The project manual will have a detailed, step by step
description of how to execute a project.

6. We are strongly considering BRINGING BACK MAJORS to New Media. But before we know this, we need to know what type
of resources we have in terms of Lincoln Interactive and other tech staff.

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I am excited to have our whole tech team returning in the fall. Tre, Shoana (for four months) and Pascal all
are slated to return this fall. Our next major goal is the marriage between outstanding technology and rigorous content.
The content part is not a small issue, as it speaks to a much larger, systemic issue of rigor in academics for public school children
who have not been used to that much rigor at all in the past, and who have certain deficiencies that we need to address. Of course, this is all stating
the obvious, but we have our work cut out for us this coming year.

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