A brief chronicle of the what has transpired over the two week period from January 11 - 23, 2016.

Overview

Scheduled days at

  • Woodworth*
  • Dearborn High
  • Lowrey MS
  • Stout

*Only one day due to MLK Day

Tech Coaches' Corner: One of the highlights of the last 2 weeks

Details

Moving on Mahara

Oakman

  • Met with Principal Radewin Awada
  • Discussed features of Mahara
  • Planned creation of cohort
  • 1/2 day training scheduled

 

Lowrey

  • Continue to work to support Ahmed Charara at Lowrey on his professional Mahara ePortfolio

PBIS & Focus Cards at Woodworth

  • Amy and I met with Bryan
  • Originally wanted to use iLearn
  • Worked together to explore Google Forms instead

Interactive Whiteboards

  • Trained a group of ELA teachers @Bryant on late start, January 20, 2016
  • Basic features of Epson interactive projector
  • Using Whiteboard with ActivStudio

Tech Coaches' Corner

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Google Docs

  • January 13, 2016
  • 14 participants
  • Elementary and Secondary
  • Introduced accessing, sharing, commenting on Google Docs

Google Classroom

  • Planned for January 27, 2016
  • Sent intro email with link to form to reserve spot
  • 14 spots reserved so far

Special Ed Accommodations

  • Helped teachers at EFHS and DHS learn how to use Screencastify to narrate their final exams and upload to YouTube for accommodations

Scheduling

Visited 4 buildings on January 21

  • have debated whether physically visiting is worth it vs. communicating via email
  • I feel like I get a better response from people when I visit in person

iLearn

  • 5 new iLearn users got started
    • Lessel (Bryant, ELA)
    • Ziegler (Woodworth, Science)
    • T. Jones (Bryant, SS)
    • Piche (Bryant, SS)
    • R. Taha (Lowrey, Math)
  • Created quiz for N. Ziegler
  • Helped Bryant teachers create drag-and-drop questions for ELA common assessment

Google Classroom

Worked with 3 teachers on Google Classroom

  • 2 just getting started
  • 1 on how to improve what she's doing (Klemmetson)

Google Certification

  • Finished Coursework for Google Educator Fundamentals
  • Took and successfully completed the Certification Exam
  • Achieved Google Educator Certification Level 1 Status

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