Facilitator: Ann

Recorder: Keli

 

Lunch- what will you bring?

Ann- cheese, green onions, salad nuts.... cucumbers

Paul - Grilled chicken

Keli - Garbanzo Beans, carrots, perhaps a little tofu

Amy - Dressing

Karen - lettuce

Cindy - Ice tea, some sort of bread type item

Joel - Chips + BBQ chicken from Brother's

Kathy-cantalope

Greg- Cookies

 

 

 

Informational/Calendar

Holding people accountable

Use the attached document (perhaps this will go into Survey Monkey or First Class)

 

Coordinators will have a final copy of this later this week

 

CIS Class-CDE Compliance (Keli added this)

*This is a copy of Alex's most recent draft from last year.

CIS Homework.doc

 

Professional Learning/Development (Our Coaching Roles)

Tech Camp- Reflection and Celebration

 We discussed how TechCamp changed, etc WAY TO GO EVERYONE! 

- Coaching Support after Tech Camp-What should it look like? What are the expectations before the October meeting? (Joel)

Support the teachers by:

  1) setting up meetings with all before Fall Break

  2) review the google docs--to see what the have been doing

  3) ask....how are you communicating with your group....help to facilitate the collaboration

  4) model questioning in action plans

  5) encourage them to keep the action plans alive

  6) Keep the momentum going! 

 

Let's do a learning community about the C4Ts....!

 

 Walk through reflection models-Mary?

ISTE Observation Tool? 

Keli will invite Mary to come to another meeting....be thinking about what we would like her to talk about

 

Collaborative Conversation Culture...what does this look like....assess where your buildings are....create a plan....-Keli (and who else?)

*a tool that I am going to use... CollaborativeConversationCulture.doc

We had a discussion about how to use this, what it may offer, etc. 

 

Information and Technology Services-Goals-Milestones and Things to Stop (Keli added this)

Jane will ask Dave about what next steps are , etc. 

 

 

Office Hours? (Ann)

Move to next week....we should schedule too

 

T+L Conference, October 28-30, Seatle: http://www.nsba.org/t+l/

Instruction (Teaching/Learning Cycle, Curriculum, Best Practices, Equity, Rigor)

Coaches Teaching Learning Cycle-All

Table this conversation until we have the "fold out thing" in our hands! 

 

Introducing New and Emerging Technologies

iPod-Touch-Jim

Cool Apps (Free!)

Twitterific

Writingpad – just taking notes . . . drag to spell

Geohash – navigation & mapping of latitude longitude

Blanks – vocabulary drill & kill  higher level

Geopedia – locates landmarks in your area and links to wikipedia

Gflash+ -  flash cards

Flip book lite – creates flipbooks out of your drawings

Shakespeare – the entire works

Education category – multiple read aloud books

Word press – to update your blog from your touch

Scribble – drawing on the screen, shake to earase

Scientific calculator

Go figure lite – conversions of units

A2Z convert – angles, distances etc.

Kazoo – basic song creation

Dottie shapes - $.99 connect the dots & recognize the shape

Shazam – song recognition

Weatherbug

Travelocity

Instapaper – save the web page on your device

Urban spoon – locate restaurants near you

Palringo – interconnects chat services

Delicious  - application to bring in your bookmarks

Mighty Docs – caches your google docs locally  read but not write

 

Pandora- Ann

COOL!!!!!  It's an ipod touch all too app too!

 

 

NSDC-Amy

Conference is coming December 6th-10th

Preconference is December 6-7, conference is 8-10

Karen has hotel information-it is @ the Gaylord