Please respond to the following questions:
What applications do you currently need to support your curriculum?
What software are you currently using?
What are the top 5 applications school-wide that you need and how do they support education? (Aside from Microsoft Office)
Facebook is building toward a web where the default is social.
This is a April 22, 2010 BBC news web story.
“Facebook has won the internet”.
Question: how does our scope of LwICT get included on this “winning” side of the internet with Facebook?
We touched on the new importance of the Web among our other discussions on software, maybe we should put the new ‘basic image’ of the web accessing alongside that of software.
Note: This assignment was presented to students using PBworks. This is the content:
Assignment:
1. view this video.
Lost Generation
Lost Generation
Think about these questions together before starting the work in Word.
1. What impact does this have on you for the issues mentioned?
2. Could a video with the second part only have the same impact on you?
3. How does this video help you learn about yourself and your generation?
4. How important is the readers voice in help you understand the message?
5. How important is the visual presentation in helping you understand the message?
6. What other ways would you use to present the message using You Tube?
7. How important is the media in delivering the message of the “Lost Generation” to yourself at this time?
8. Extra stuff you thought of for sharing about the learning activity.
2. Viewing and Comments
Use Word to prepare the comment on the above 7 inquiry items, then highlight, copy, paste and post you work for sharing.
The You Tube Video will be played in two parts. Press pause at 51 seconds and comment on the Initial Impact of the first part.
In Word, type the heading then make a comment
Initial Impact of first part
Initial Impact of the second part
Below these two comments, answer the other 8 items. The work in Word will be copy and pasted into the comment box after Word work is finished by everyone.
PD:
PD: hands-on activity
Log onto the School Division’s Education Research Complete database: (This is a fabulous Educator’s Resource subscription provided through WSD’s Library Support Services. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as educational technology, health education, and assessment. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.)
search for articles of interest on multitasking – explore what other professional information is available
Locate and open the .pdf of this article:
Gasser, Urs, and John Palfrey. “Mastering Multitasking.” Educational Leadership 66.6 (2009): 14-19. Education Research Complete. EBSCO. Web. 20 Feb. 2010.
Discussion Question:
Business Info.
Next Sessions:
Mentors:
April 21 a.m.
May 18 a.m.
Year Two – Professional Learning Series :
March 10 – all day
May 3 – all day
Year One – Professional Learning Series:
April 9 – all day
May 10 – all day
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Senior Years LwICT Mentor’s Session
February 12, 2010
Computer Lab, Admin #2
Minutes
Present: MaryLouise Lisi, Patrick Logan, Lori Armstrong, Alice Osborne, Monique Turcotte, Max Hegel, Bob Rymer, Ron Lambert, Lea Mansell, Rui Carvalho, Jay Willman, Jamie Leduc, Dominic Zagari, Marshall Mayes, Rhonda Morrissette
http://www.tigweb.org – TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. Participants had an opportunity to explore this site and note the activities – worth sharing with Social Studies Team!
ETSS is working on pictures for each learning centre. These will be posted on the blog. The pictures will include individual components of the centre as well as the whole centre. The centres are now available for booking through Library Support Services (LSS) as part of the automated library system. To book any learning centre, access the LSS site and bookings – then search for the item you wish to book. You will need a user id and password and this can be obtained from LSS.
SMART Technologies have released a new version of the SMART Notebook software that comes with a trial version of a math component called Math Tools. There is a cost to this math component and it is designed for middle and senior years students. Currently ETSS is testing a trial version of the software to see if it will meet the needs of our students and teachers. A demonstration of the new tools can be viewed at http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Notebook+Math+software/default.htm
Participants explored the ITunes site and searched for educational podcasts. Access was slow due to internet problems outside of the division control. Suggested podcasts include TED Talks, EdTalks, EdTechTalk, k-12online . . and more
BREAK (snack courtesy of Lea and Rhonda)
Max – SMART Boards and projectors for every teacher who wished to use this technology, HP Grant that included two banner printers of high quality, two pods of 20 netbooks, charging cart as well. Eight classes using as part of the grant, taking out every morning and returning at end of day. Pods never leave the classroom. One pod on each floor to work with.
Jay – Plasma Cutter
Beehsham – four Dell Vostros – about $900 (like an IMac) 4 GB RAM, built in microphone, 500 GB hard drive
Patrick is trying to get some iPads – low end models
i. Mounting whiteboards & projectors
The Building Department is working with ETSS, AV/Computer Repair and ETAC to develop standards for installation of Smart Boards and ceiling mounted projectors to ensure that we have solutions that meet the needs of students and educators as well as provide long term performance. Currently no custom installations of interactive whiteboards are being done until these standards are determined.
Please remember to register your technology devices as warranties cannot be honored if there is a problem.
ii. WSD web site
The Division is looking to create a standardized divisional website with school portals that are a splash page for a school. A school may chose to just have this component. However schools are welcome to continue their blogs showcasing student learning. The portal will be a doorway into this.
iii. Software bulk purchases
Comic Life and SMART Ideas – letters about this bulk purchase will be sent to all administrators and mentors.
iv. Professional Development registration – Employee Connect
In the fall, ETSS shared about on-line registration through the blog. Now the Division is migrating to using CIMS. It is anticipated that as of September 2010, all division professional development will be entered through CIMS. ETSS will work with the mentors to start this process in the spring. All users will access the registration component through Employee Connect and will see only the professional development that is applicable to them.
Administrators will be able to see all professional development and will also have access to approving the sessions all of their staff register for.
v. Educational Technology Survey
ETSS had an opportunity to review the survey data with Brent Guinn. The anecdotal part is still being collated, with the people in Research classifying all the responses. We have the results from the rest of survey. There are a few common patterns – such as respondents want more professional development in terms of some components of LwICT, inquiry, using SMART Boards and any new technology available. The most requested types of professional development were to continue with what we are doing, going into schools to do on-going professional development sessions and multiple day workshops rather than one day sessions.
Individual schools will be able to get their own results once the data is collated and information has gone to the Educational Technology Administrative Committee.
This item was discussed at the Educational Technology Advisory Committee. It was shared that information had been sent to all administrators in October indicating that varied filtering levels were available to schools. Administrators need to discuss this with their technicians. Filtering can be on a logon basis but we have no schools doing this at the current time. Usually a school allows a bypass of the filter for one hour.
If there is an interest at the school level, administrators should contact Information Services (either Marcia Martino or Kevin Druet) to discuss what the process would be to implement a custom filtering. District and high school technicians are aware of the features available and need to be communicating this information to the administrators.
Next Meeting – March 3, 2010 – a.m. – Room 106 Admin bldg. #2
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Senior Years – Mentor Session
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Admin 2 – Room 106
Minutes
Present: Lois Friesen, Bheesham Dabie, Bob Rymer, Monique Turcotte, Max Hegel, Paulo Queijo, Alice Osborne, Jay Willman, David Styles, Rebeca Decter, Ron Lambert, Jamie Leduc, Marshall Mayes, Merie Ann Delima, Lea Mansell, Rhonda Morrissette
Regrets: Dominic Zagari, John Howden
Sometimes less is more, unless. . .
More is better! (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Next Meeting: February 8, 2010 – Snack will be compliments of: Lea & Rhonda
Changed to Feb. 12 a.m. – Computer Lab, Admin Bldg. #2