February 25, 2008   

 

 

Facilitator:  Keli Kinsella      Recorder: Greg      Time Keeper: Ann

 

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Start Time: 8:15

1. Review the Agenda-make necessary adjustments

 Minor shifting of time allocations accomplished with aplomb and right good will.

 

2. Calendar: include Office Hours and C4T summer dates  

Who-All Time: 10 minutes

 Upcoming C2MO, Tech camps in August, C4T afterschool kickoffs, JumpStart 5/9

Office Ours...  Should one of us take the lead to send a notice / reminder or upcoming office hour dates...

• 3/14 1-2:30 Office Ours

• 4/7   11:00 Office Ours (noshing time)

• 5/2   2:00

 

We need to schedule Office Ours for next year as well.

 

3. C4T visits Unit Planner    

Who: ?  Time: 10 minutes

 Keli reported struggles for her peeps with the forms, getting hungup in the checklist aspect of the planner.  Amy reports some of the same. 

Greg reports the same with 25% of his peeps. Jane reports that this was the norm, requiring additional meetings. 

 

One page planner sheet is a useful template to use.  Sample units on TLT for reference if needed. 

 

Keep in mind:

"If you're not feeling a little insecure, a ittle uneasy, a little uncomfortable, then you're not learning..."

 

If coaches are worried about individual teachers, please refer them to Jane and Karen to avoid difficulties with final unit completion and posting. 

 

Posting of final unit must be done by June 3 to receive credit.

 

Make expectations clear for C4Ts using the expectations sheet.

 

 

4.  Tech Planning Info and principal meeting update   

Who: Karen and Jane Time: 20 minutes

Planning guide available in FC

 

Schools can send two people to tech planning day, but OT will only provide one sub. 

 

Alex's schools are now divided between Jane and Karen.

 

Principal meetings should supercede much of our other work (if at all possible).

 

 

Tech Plan Professional Learning Options were shared.  Schools should not attempt to do everything, rather, they should strive to align tech planning with school goals.

 

Tech Integration Workshops were shared.  21st Century has been dropped but topics will be integrated into all workshop topics.

 

Leadership Academy (3 day workshop) intended for tech staff with leadership role that supports classroom instruction (aka person who writes the tech plan). 

OT will pay for two subdays.  SAS-level is intended audience.  One of the ten allotted subdays will come from this opportunity.  Present iTLC participants are encouraged to continue. 

Recertification credit will be offered for all of our workshops.

 

Karen and Jane support the idea of  "sharing the wealth" of workshops among as many teachers as possible,

not just on the techies or the teachers who "just love Jane."

 

Bundling purchases will continue to require $1,000 to process the order.

 

 

5. Changes and Reconfigurations for next year  Who: ? Time: 20 minutes

 

 

6. Scheduling Meetings for next year?

Days, Times, How should we structure our meetings?

3 things that we can work together on during our meetings - Topics, Ideas, Professional Dev. Ideas,

Coach Meeting Ideas for 08-09                   Who: Jane?   Time: 20 Minutes

Goal of this page is to collect thoughts around possibly shifting our meeting focus and procedures for next year.

Include thoughts around nature and purpose of Office Ours.

 

Jane sees the need for continuing staff development during our meetings (EG book study, presentations, etc.)

 

 

7. Job Description? 

How do we reply if teachers say, "My coach won't help me do..."?              Who: Amy Time: 20 minutes

Strategies to work with teachers that lend themselves to gradual release models:

• Coach takes the class while teacher podcasts.
• "Do you think you can do this on your own next time?"
• Is the issue technical, or classroom management?
• Insert a plug for your coach.
• Letting the teacher know publicly, "I'm here to work with your teacher..."
• Podcast Kick-Off Model: introduce whole class, teacher shadows coach troubleshooting; switches role.
• Teach older students to help younger ones.
• Pre-meet with teacher (from Keli).
• Ask coach to help you generate some strategies to get recording done.
• It's all about relationship: Sometimes it's about stepping outside the role in order to truly get inside and move the work forward.

 

8. Tech Coordinating Council Update   Who: Karen and Jane and Joel  Time: 10 minutes

Fiberoptic upgrade to network is a key focus for the future.

Combining data silos

Thin Client: The role of open source resources is starting to emerge in our schools, and will develop further in the future. 

• What kinds of support are needed to assist?
• What kinds of staff development will be needed?
•  What kinds of knowledge and expertise do we need to stay with this apparent trend?

 

 

9.  Kindergarten Podcast      Who: Cindy Time: 10 minutes

Cindy shared Colorado Podcast Summit presenter Carol Greig's work in Oregon working with kindergarden podcasts as send-home instructional materials (Take-My-Teacher-Home program).  This work, and the accompanying research documentation, recently received IRA Presidential Award for Research.  Jennifer Hansen is working on podcast pilot in BVS and Cindy will be piloting similar program at Buffalo Trail. 

 

• How, and when, will this information be shared with other kindergarten teachers across the district?
• How can we collaborate to create content and learn how to effectively manage this and similar program?

 

Greg and Ann need to be on future agenda to share their podcast work.

 

10. Server Best Practices    Who: Joel Time: 10 minutes

 Server space is being treated as workspace.  Drag from server, work on desktop of computer, save back to server seems to be the best solution.

What procedures are we using in schools? 

• Deepfreeze in use? 
• Training kids to empty clear desktop and empty trash after use?
• Opening files directly from server? 
• Does using flashdrives lead to lost tracks in GB? 
• Does the size and number of tracks lead to lost tracks and .aiff files?
• Should we be having workshop participants using SARC server as precursor to server use in schools?  Advantages?  Disadvantages?
• What constitutes 'best practice' among our group?

 

Best practice needs to be modeled by coaches in order to respectfully modify existing procedures in schools. 

 

 

11. Power Up to Read         Who: Joel  Time: 10 Minutes

http://putr.telecompioneers.org/putr/auth-login

Student Login -

Username: ccsdteacher

Password: ccsdteacher

 

Teacher Login -

Username: sarc

Password: sarc

 

To set up accounts for you or your schools,

Contact: Bekah Wyman- bwyman@telecompioneers.org

 

 

12.  Podcast Summit          Who:?  Time: 10 Minutes

Broadly defining unconventional podcasting to include voicethread, gcast, and other 2.0 tools. 

Podcasting from home, phone, saved as MP3, and posted to website. 

 

The problem isn't in learning new stuff -- it's in unlearning all the stuff we think we know -- but don't.

 

 

 

13.  What is a Colorado 2.0 Conversation?   Who: Ann and Jane Time: 10 Minutes

 

 

...and a fine time was had by all!