Teachers in Poudre School District use this interactive site to collaborate

and share their lessons, units and resources. The DEP teachers are using

the Harvard based Understanding by Design to create units that are engaging

and effectively use technology.

 

The Digital Educator Project helps students achieve

21st Century Skills and enrich their learning experiences

with engaging, inquiry-based lessons and units.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our next meeting will be November 2, 4-6 pm at Dunn

 Snacks provide by Moore Elementary

 

 

DEP Monthly Meeting

November 2, 2009    4:00 – 6:00 PM

Dunn IB World School Media Center   501 South Washington

Agenda

 

4:00-4:10 Announcements

 

4:10-4:30 Sharing of student work/success stories related to use of technology provided through DEP. How have your kids used the technology?

 

4:30-5:10 Teams will be grouped together to be “Critical Friends” of the culminating “Unit Project” and the Unit Assessment Rubric. You need to print out your Unit Plan and a print out of your Unit Assessment Rubric for each of the teams you will be working with. We will provide the DEP Unit Rubric for Critical Friends for you to use.

 

Bauder-McGraw-Riffenburg	Lincoln (Liz, Tianna, Amy) Polaris (Deborah)
Beattie-Irish	Lincoln (Damon & Jess) Polaris (Molly)
Moore-Rice

 

5:10-5:40 Using NETS standards to refine unit learning activities to encourage development of 21st Century Skills

5:40-6:00 Tech tools questions, wrap up and talk about tasks before next meeting

 

Before our meeting, please:

 

____ Post Unit Assessment Rubric

 

____ Post most current version of your unit on DEP Wiki

 

____ Post “critical friends” feedback (using unit rubric) on DEP Wiki

 

____ Post time frame for your Unit

 

Please Bring:

 

____ Examples of student use of technology in relation to or preparation

           for your DEP unit (including a few actual work products if you have

           them)

 

____ Hard copy prints of your Unit and Unit Assessment Rubric for “Critical Friends” review

 

 

• Snacks provided by Moore: Barbara DeSalle and Jodi King

 

Our next meeting will be December 7, 4-6 pm at Dunn

Links are on the left hand side. You will be creating your own google site or wiki for each school. We have created a place for you to add the link on the Schools and Units page. This will make it easier for you to save changes and use the site with your students.

 

Your Wiki or Google site should include at least the following things (See the Sample School Wiki Site in the links on the left hand side)

 

 

 

 

We will assist you in creating your wiki or google site on our first meeting September 14th, 2009.