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Attendees:
 * Aleah Dacey, Rodeph Sholom School
 * Elizabeth Preston, St. Lukes's School (CT)
 * Paula Zamora (pzamora@churchillschool.com), The Churchill School & Center
 * Bro . David Bruner, S.M. - Kellenberg Memorial - Uniondale, NY
 * Erich Tusch, Hackley School, Tarrytown, NY
 * Rebecca Duvall, Brooklyn Heights Montessori School
 * Talia Neffson, The School at Columbia University
 * Jacqueline Oduro - St. Bernard's School
 * Jill Maza - Montclair Kimberley Academy (NJ)
 * Cassandra Parets - Horace Mann School
 * Alia Methven - Avenues School
 * Kristyn Dorfman - The Packer Collegiate Institute
 * Nadine Renazile: nrenazile@theschool.columbia.edu
 * Kathleen Ellis: kellis@berkeleycarroll.org
 * Eve Wolfsohn, ewolfsohn@gcschool.org
 * Bill Campbell, Dwight-Englewood School campbb@d-e.org

Google Play Issue
 * Google Play cards not redeemable on the iPad
 * Only platform that plays nice with Subtext

Purchasing
 * 64 copies - have each child add
 * Go through Natalie Rios (rep)
 * Kids work through gmail accounts
 * Share Google drive excel sheet with Natalie - ok for no email (just drive account) and she will send invoice
 * buying class set of books - some people charge the students (bill family back) - like buying a paperback (bill is iPad + software)
 * MPS for books, Classbooks, FastPass - eopportunitties? Frustrating user errors purchasing books (by parents, school, etc.) - easier to buy the copies and bill the families
 * textbook: KNO, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson, etc. - customer service issue about importing to iPads
 * middle school text - permission from publisher to get PDF and make adjustments (sometimes ok, sometimes not)

Can you have the same account open on several devices?
 * Each time is another license
 * Big piece is the collaboration

Premium account
 * other features, like reading monitoring, quizzes
 * Free this year (pay after July)
 * Need for assessments

Vs. print books
 * English teachers love it for book clubs
 * Helps for non-fiction research
 * Ease of use
 * Depends of preference
 * Unique and purposeful experience for ereading (can customize content)
 * practice digital citizenship

Issue about multiple platforms (textbooks, etc.)
 * need to be adaptable
 * pilot programs for eReaders (trying to find commonalities)
 * problem: checking ISBNs and finding the most common platform ( Kristyn made a spreadsheet!)
 * problem of Java versions of ebooks

Engagement
 * read-aloud component
 * can highlight the text as it reads
 * helps shy kids
 * can work with other schools as well
 * seems fun in a way that completing a packet is not
 * can talk about respectful responses
 * supports constructivist learning
 * Small group learning (lit circles) - multiple choice quizzes created, answered by other members

Edmodo accounts
 * Need another login, but can read at home
 * works when there is not a 1:1 program

Technical issues
 * some glitches about sharing / multi-user function
 * major update last year
 * IOS7 has helped
 * customer service very helpful
 * "go to" feature does not work (but can search for the phrase instead)

OverDrive
 * NYPL
 * can check out through subtext (for personal reading)
 * one way to do w/o buying multiple copies

PDFs
 * moral issue about DRM removal - buying the correct number of copies but use one file
 * can scan textbooks as well
 * can take articles off the web as well
 * issue about searching certain books (i.e., Sound and the Fury)

Apple ID
 * JAM self service management
 * need to get whitelisted from Apple first (lock out after 5 IDs) need to keep requesting whitelist
 * need unique identifier for Apple ID
 * Tie the book to the iPad
 * need for Adobe ID (?)
 * Talk to Natalie about it - can do a Google Hangout

Google Play
 * does not always play nice with iPad