InCommon Pilot Call

October 9, 2014

PARTICIPANTS: George Laskaris (NJEDge.net), Jim, Bernie A'cs (IlliniCloud), Guy Jones (MDREN), Jennifer Griffin (The Quilt), Mike Zawacki (Internet2), Scott Issacson and Mike Danahey and Jordon Clark (Nebraska), Janet Yarbrough (Aegis Identity) Emily Eisbruch (Internet2) (Nebraska) Shaun Abshere (WiscNet)

MEETING NOTES: (Call Recorded)

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  1.  Nebraska Pilot Update
    1. Serve 300K preK-12
    2. Served through 17 ESUs There is a coordination council
    3. State of Nebraska filed for a grant
      1. Built a dashboard Ed-Fi Model
        1. Professional Development side
          1. Gaining a lot of steam
            1.  Based on student learning and testing
            2. Demographics
            3. Perception data
            4. School Process Data
        2. The whole basis for this s Identity management
      2. Establish a data store
        1. People can have access to this data in a more convenient way
          1. This is done through the dashboard called ADVISER
          2. There are 9 pilot school districts from Omaha
            1. Cooperation between various vendors to collect data
            2. This has also had the effect of focusing and driving the pilot effort
          3. There may be interest from up to 50 districts next year
          4. The starting place is static demographic data
            1. Formative Testing Data will be more useful
          5. There is discussion around Identity Management
            1. One account per user
            2. Automatic real-time Application
            3. Automatic real-time Authentication
            4. A State-wide portal system will be important to people
            5. A searchable staff directory is important
        2. Ed-Fi development kit is a windows application
        3. 9 School district directories
          1. 2 districts are using Google Social to SAML
    4. Next Steps
      1. Uportal
      2. 18 safari montage servers and will be working with their SAML testing
      3. Will be working with learning management system already in place
        1. Discovery Learning
        2. Atomic Learning
        3. Projects at the Department of Education
          1. If these stay on track it will bring on all School districts
      4. State-side Support Model
        1. More cooperation with teams
        2. Network Nebraska is functional and in place.
        3. Would be good to discuss hosting services
        4. On a higher level – to provide equitable access on a statewide basis
          1. They are asking the State legislature for funding to address the rural inequity issue
            1. Sioux county Nebraska v. Omaha
  2. Q&A
    1. Discussion on Infographic
      1. Legislative action passed to investigate the processing of Data
        1. 655,000 hours have been spent on processing data

END OF CALL

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