ISTEC 30/05/2012


Location: The British International School Shanghai, Pudong Campus
Present: Chris McAnally, Steve Clarck, Mark Solomons, Kevin Murphy, Adriaan Defraeije
Next meeting: TBD
Cloud based apps that are/can be used in schools
  • SkyDrive free for education
  • SharePoint from Microsoft
  • Evernote
  • Box.net
  • Google apps
Student conference
  • All were positive about the idea of organising a student conference
  • In the remaining weeks all are to get as much as possible student feedback to gage student interest and get ideas
  • Below are some of the things that were discussed:
    • Date of the event to be confirmed but the 9th of January was suggested
    • Involve CAS students
    • Find a good location
    • A keynote speaker could be asked if students see value in this
    • The different workshops should be chosen by the students
    • Ask students whether they would be interested in a BBQ at the end
    • Schools involved:
      • SASS
      • SCIS (Puxi + Pudong)
      • BISS (Puxi + Pudong)
      • CISS
Next ISTEC meeting
  • To be organised by Steve Clarck at SCIS Puxi


To be done by September 6th
  • Talk to other schools
  • Model workshop to be created by AD
  • Identify and select possible students
  • Create wiki: http://shanghai-sc.wikispaces.com/
  • Next meeting to be organized on September 6th