Notes On Our Beginning

Welcome to our NCHS Professional Development Chronicle site

On April 2008, at the invitation of Frank Orga, President of North Catholic High School, the first meeting of the Technology Advisory Committee took place. The Committee was charged as follows;
"The role of the NCHS Technology Committee is to enable and support the NCHS mission and vision through effective and efficient application of technology to the educational and formational activities of the NCHS community. Specifically, this group is chartered to provide oversight of Information Technology issues at NCHS, including strategic planning and objectives, operating plans, and budgets, in service to the school's mission and vision."

In order to provide a framework for our task, I started a blog and a wiki. Please, take time to familiarize yourself with the progress of the committee. The committee is still functioning and after a pause to await the arrival of our new principal, is now poised to resume it's work.

As one of the Plan Objectives, the Mission and Vision Statements were adopted in October 2008. Objective 3, among other things, calls for:
"5. Provide a systematic, interactive, collaborative online process to enable learning of tools categories and other associated learnings"

In order to implement this objective, on September 11th, Trudy Van Kirk (Chairperson of the Tech Committee), Frank Orga, Jason Lucia, Mike Pendred and George Appel (Class of '56) met to discuss "next steps" toward professional development related to 21st century technology skills.

I determined that the best platform for our work would a wiki.