posted Mar 11, 2009 8:53 AM by Daniel Rivera
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Observations & VisitsObserved Darlene: - relationships of 30/60/90 triangles.
- Using board & Smartboard in tandem
Observed La Rae- Smart board & TI Emulator
- Similar Triangles & proportions
Visited briefly with Alisa Daniel- Google Docs
- Request for Forum install
Stopped by Marty's Room- Students out on field trip
- spoke about probability unit
- Spoke about calendar & scheduling for rest of year - possibly move to after EOCT?
Stopped by Pam Shuman's office - not in - left message Spoke with Felicia- general checkup
- resource requests
- scheduling & calendar
Resource RequestsTest generator software or solutions - QUIA (about $50/year, single license)
- Games, quizzes, etc.
- Create your own or use public ones
- Sample Game: http://www.quia.com/pop/36147.html
- Sample Flash Game: http://www.quia.com/jg/65822.html
- Sample Quiz: http://www.quia.com/quiz/268641.html?AP_rand=2102434545
- Moodle - a course management software that lets you create a class and register students
- Keep grades in the class
- Maintain a forum within the class
- Create assignments for students
- Collect files as part of an assignment
- Create a wiki for the class
- Create chatrooms for class that are open when you specify and for users you specify
- Group students and make materials available to specific groups
- Create quizzes or tests for students to take (and grade) online
- Create a class glossary that integrates into the text on the site. Words appearing in the glossary are highlighted and linked within the course.
Moodle is free and I can install it quickly. Training will be something else, but we could do it after EOCT and you all could try it next year if you want. We can put it on Waynelearns.com |
posted Feb 18, 2009 5:29 AM by Daniel Rivera
Visited with grant team, made rounds to assist with various issues. - Tried to resolve why teachers are unable to upload files in Google pages or Docs
- Student laptops are working and are able to edit, but not teacher stations
- Vredeveld looked into it and teacher station worked... still cannot pinpoint the problem
- Spent time cleaning teacher computers (file management, add/remove programs, optimizing)
Taught Mrs. Arem's students how to use Google Docs. Had some technical difficulties with timeouts and general network connectivity, but otherwise ok. |
posted Jan 20, 2009 7:19 AM by Daniel Rivera
Scheduled to work with students - 2nd period with Darlene Arem. She was out and there was a sub.
Checked in with Marty Townsend.
3rd period - 10:15 - 11:15 AM. Observed Bilbrey & Thornton - technology drop-in
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posted Dec 16, 2008 9:56 AM by Daniel Rivera
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updated Dec 16, 2008 10:01 AM
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Townsend
Arem
- Set up collaborative work with students for Jan 20th - help them with Google Apps
Bilbrey
- Worked on slate - very sluggish and not responsive
- Re-installed smart board drivers - working
- Installed Smart board 10
- Need to get registration key - 30 days left!
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posted Dec 1, 2008 10:45 AM by Daniel Rivera
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updated Dec 2, 2008 6:34 AM
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- 8 AM - 9 AM: Planning for 9th grade academyMarty - probability unit?
- 10:15 – 11:15 - Observation: Daniel & Darlene observe Felicia Hayes
- 11:20 – 12:50 - Observation: Daniel & Brenda observe Marty Townsend
- 1:00 PM – 2: PM – Observation: Daniel & LaRae observe Marty Townsend
Check in with Darlene - student surveys & google accounts? |
posted Oct 22, 2008 5:58 AM by Daniel Rivera
Observed Felicia HayesLesson on adding/subtracting/mutliplying polynomials. Using Senteos for formative assessment and student engagement. Performance task sheet was used. 10 minutes to work solo, then with partners. Students struggled but were engaged in the process. Very comfortable with using Senteo & Smartboard. Checked in withPam Shuman
Observed Marty Townsend (x2)
Lesson on factorials and Pascal's triangle. Warmups and homework review done seamlessly with notebook & Senteo. Students and teacher very comfortable with tools. Task sheet slowly introduced concepts of factorials, to be further explored in following days. FeedbackSpecific feedback and suggestions were shared with teachers and will not be printed here. PLC MeetingMarty & Felicia were prime attendees. Larae & Brenda showed up later and had unexpected duties. |
posted Oct 7, 2008 9:49 AM by Daniel Rivera
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updated Oct 7, 2008 12:18 PM by Daniel Rivera
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Pam SHuman
- Verified training for Oct 8th. Subs and War Room are reserved
- Basic update on grant status.
Marty Townsend - dropped by to check on things. Technology issues still making laptop use prohibitive. - Three laptops will not connect to the internet.
- Teacher computer cannot do windows updates
- Often, when trying to login, unable to. Get message: "Currently no login servers available"
- Some laptops cannot access start menu. Also cannot right click
- No consistent login directions. Still have dop boxes available?
- One machine doesn't have icons - can't place them back because cannot right-click or access start menu.
- Fortress vs. Deep Freeze vs. Panda???
- Outstanding tickets. Teacher update ticket turned in August 29th. Now October 7th.
- Printer not set up on laptops
Felicia Hayes
- Thinks 2 laptops are not working.
- printer not working
Martha Vredeveld- Stopped by office around 10 AM and 12:30 PM - not in. Had media specialist page her, no response.
- Got a hold of her after lunch. Spoke with her about problems in Townsends's room.
- Went to go look at the problems, but was unaware of several.
- New ticket procedure that was emailed to the faculty. Link from county main page.
- Will review procedure at next PLC meeting.
- Said was waiting on students to log in and create accounts.
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posted Sep 16, 2008 9:36 AM by Daniel Rivera
8:15 AM - Spoke shortly with Pam Shuman about grant.
Darlene - Statistics
- Virtual TI Calculator (in the files section)
- Virtual TI How-to
- TI-83 Calculator manual in PDF format
- Demonstrated Google Spreadsheets & Forms: http://docs.waynelearns.com
- Going to help teach students how to use this to gather survey data
- Students will need to create 1 google account per group. www.gmail.com
- On October 7th, I will lead a class session on getting ther forms set up.
- Showed a couple of humorous graph related sites (not for student use, though could pull occasional image or two from the sites as openers, and the concept of the sites is very easily adapted to classroom use).
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posted Sep 2, 2008 12:41 PM by Daniel Rivera
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updated Sep 16, 2008 9:36 AM by Daniel Rivera
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Assisted several with their Google Sites. Cleaned up site lyaout and links for Brenda & Darlene. Helped Thornton with forum.
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