12/19/12 assignment blog

1.  The demonstrations were well done, but as a special education teacher (collaboration) I am unable to make use of the materials and information presented.  The Lead teachers, I would imagine, would have found benefits in many of the demonstrations.  I found them all interesting.

2.  There was an opportunity to work with other professionals, and to participate in doing some more projects. 

3.  Again, the presentations were nice and I am sure that they may be of benefit.  Speaking on behalf of many of the special education teachers, we already had enough work and assignments, due dates, and paper work that had to be submitted and re-submitted.  

PLC SHOWCASE RESULTS

#1. Vast variety of resources available to the staff thru research of staff members and their presentations.
#2. Two heads are better than one! It is always good to have an opportunity to share thoughts with those of similar experiences to have other ideas of how to attack different situations.
#3. There are many different ways to increase your knowledge utilizing all facets of modern technology. This will give students the opportunity to increase their knowledge or ability in all subject areas.

Dec 12 Presentation

I will work on getting student work for the IMovie.

Wednesday 11/07/12

Wednesday afternoon.  I went to Mr. Murray's room to attend the PLC.  I entered the room and listened to the plans for December 12, 2012, and what my role and responsibilities will be for the extra assignment that we are required to preform.   Bill Webber

WED NOV 7TH MEETING

TODAY OUR TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES GROUP TODAY SET UP PLANS TO HAVE OUR DEMO FOR DECEMBER 12 DESIGNED. WE DECIDED THAT WE WOULD DO AN IMOVIE SHOWING AND INCLUDING QUIZLET (QUIZ SET UP THAT WILL ALLOW STUDENTS TO TAKE TESTS AND PRACTICE TESTS AT THEIR OWN SPEED) ALONG WITH THIS WE WILL HAVE STUDENT WORK SHOWING HOW IT WILL WORK WITH SCHOOLLOOP AND IMOVIE.

Observed Quizlet.com program.  Appears that it can be a very useful instrument for implementing learning.   I was glad to learn about the program.  If I am in a situation where I am assigned to a "Lead Teacher" that uses the program, I will be aware of the program and will be able to follow their directions.  I always welcome to have the opportunity to learn something new, and I can see how the program would be an asset, but it is very unlikely that I would be directly responsible for the implementation of such a program in a classroom.   Bill Webber

quizlet

10/31/12

Today we went to Ms. Gladdis room and had her instruct us on the use of Quizlet.net. The operation is a system to pre write tests and exams and it will give you several versions of a test to give to a class or multiple classes. The test can be taken online or by paper. If taken online the grading of the tests will be done automatically by the Quizlet.net software. I am going to try it for both my Am. History and World History classes. Hardest part will be setting it up on Excel spreadsheets first and then typing in all the corresponding answers.

PLC Showcase

At the end of our semester of work, all PLCs will be showcasing their work at the Wyandotte High School PLC Showcase on Wednesday, December 12th in the Social Hall.  The showcase will be a public demonstration of our learning, collaboration, and results.  Each PLC will showcase work that reflects how your learning and collaboration has impacted student learning.  Each PLC is encouraged to be creative and innovative in their demonstration (student examples would be highly encouraged); however, please be sure the following are addressed through your presentation -
    PLC Focus

Collaborative Actions   

Summary of PLC Learning

Impact on Student Learning

Connections to Future Teaching and Learning

In addition, all staff will have an opportunity to visit each demonstration during the Showcase.  Many outside guests will also be in attendance.  

If your PLC requires any kind of additional resources, please submit any requests for those materials via the comment section to this blog entry by NOVEMBER 9th. You will receive these materials by or before your November 28th meeting, so you will have AT LEAST two weeks to work on organizing your demonstration.

TODAY MS TROYER TAUGHT US THE BASICS OF MAKING IMOVIE. I did mine on the Presidential election of 2012. Need to practice a lot more and maybe get more instructions on how to perfect the process.

Today we were introduced to i Movies... Now I need to figure out when where and how the students can use it in the classroom.

How can we help?

We discussed when where and how we are going to share new manuplicatives to help boost student learning.

September 26 meeting

At today's meeting  which included; C. Gladdis, D. Gibbens, Paul Murray, B.Webber, D. Loya we found the following;

#1. Start putting tests and quizzes on line so that students will have immediate feed back from the tests.

#2. Immediate feedback should allow students to  justify learning and continue the learning process and not be held back because of other slower working students that might not be up to their ability.

#3. Continue to share different learning strategies to see what works well.

#4. The ability of students to proceed at different paces through a course.

Bulldogs

Mr. Murray, The Voice of Bulldog Heaven.

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Learning to Blog

Today 9/5/2012 Brittany McWilliams taught us all how to set up the blog and how to blog for this PLC. The great purpose of this is to teach us how to use the blog for this group and how to set up for use in our classes. This   hitchhikes on the idea of our PLC (Using technology to its fullest with our students)


Question #1. What we plan on doing over the next week to contribute to our PLC learning topic?
 Answer: Practice blogging each other and use some if possible in our classes.

Question #2. How does this contribute to student learning?
Answer: It will increase our students ability to utilize technology in pursuit of a better understanding of their classes.

Question #3 How will we measure the impact of this weeks work?
Answer:  By the amount comments that we (teachers) post and the amount of activity we view for the students.