CILC Symposium: Issues and Challenges

Issues and Challenges
Panel and Breakout Sessions
Action Items and Strategies

In Connectivity
Facilitator: Carol Willis

Action Item:
Recommendation to the equipment manufacturers to work towards non-proprietary products to solve interoperability issues.

Strategies:

• Continue to communicate needs to manufacturers
• ”Like a telephone- it doesn’t matter what the device is on the other end. It just needs to work!”

In Getting Started
Facilitator: Janine Lim

Action Item:
There is a need for content in the following areas: computer classes, math, high school business, content in-depth enough for high school, and content for PreK - grade 2.

Strategies:

• Share this need with the Content Providers

Additional Outcomes:

• Shared resources and solutions
• See the CILC Symposium landing page for these links

In International Connections
Facilitator: Carol Woolbright

Action Item:
Establish an international database of willing parties

Strategies:

• Two volunteers are working on creating this for us!

Additional Outcomes:

• Plan the learning experiences to establish goals/purpose/outcomes of the videoconference
• Establish protocols for connections as well as the technology
• Never make assumptions when connecting internationally

Creating a Sense of Community
Facilitator: Monica Cougan

Action Item:
Build a strategies approach that is shared among state leadership advocates (administrators and educators) sharing

• steps to create an active community in videoconferencing usage
• a repository of tips and techniques to more them to buy in and implementation

Strategies:

• This group is going to begin online discussion and planning to create these repositories and share ideas
• Groups will most likely share globally, but also focus on their areas of leadership, administration, state/district and classroom

Additional Outcomes:

• Need to create a sense of ownership and community among state administrators and teachers
• Keeping teachers informed and getting them to take hold
• Sharing strategies to move folks through adoption model