9-22


 * Where we left off, in May of 2010

Dear CRT Group,

Thanks for all of your thoughts and ideas about our "syllabus". There's some great stuff here! Moving forward, we'll refine and build on this for the coming school year.

It would be great if you could look this over, and think about which of these areas you might be able to address for the group -- either by facilitating an exploration of the topic, or showing examples, or suggesting other people who might be able to speak to the topic.

Mahalo,

--Doug.

Attached:

Topics for next year Differentiated instruction / Individualized learning - How do we see the difference? "Meeting each student where he/she is" Ways of demonstrating learning Collaborative groups Student work Personal learning network Inquiry into students' "real" use of laptops Communication with parents about expectations, limitations Data collection Not just students with learning differences Students and faculty DEFINE Differentiated Instruction: Develop our working vocabulary Digital Archiving "Open classroom" Teachers can see what's going on Student Portfolios Survey teachers for other topics Concerns? What do you do well? What's the added value? 1:1 Tools training iMovie HD / iMovie 9 Moodle Interactive Whiteboards Copyright Work with Library / Deb Peterson Citation Creative Commons Metacognition**

CRT Large C Day, 5/11/10

Goal: Brainstorm topics to be covered within our group next year

Building on the idea of what Dan called a "syllabus" for CRT professional growth, what topics/ideas should be included, so that CRTs can "cross-train" and share knowledge with each other?

Can be a series of workshops, or willingness to provide specific examples that fit into a theme.

Could be a complete description of a class you have taught, or experiment you have done, or sharing data you have collected…

Could be a report about a "student for a day" visit.

If teachers are responsible for building learning environments for students, are CRTs like architects and interior designers?

9/22/10 CRT Meeting Minutes. Present: Doug, Lara, Chai, Trish, Dan

1. What we're doing: a. LC: conducted session on backing up work/backing to school servers; Moodle. Used Kodak camera for Speech. (DK suggests using student as videographer.) b. CR: questions re: Moodle, MSWord, Excel. In-class: teaching students re: Diigo. c. TC: Lent camera to Micah Pavich for football practice: immediate feedback. d. DG: working w/ Junko Ady re: Moodle, publishing online.

2. Possible Tech Trainings for CRTs and others a. http://crtseminars.wikispaces.com/trainings

3. DK: College Counseling: DK met w/ them a. Naviance: setting up C.C. mtg. re: how to make better use of tool, e.g. doing college recs. b. Working w/ Visual Arts: using Keynote presentation as way of preservinvisual images.

4. New York Times Magazine: Education 2010 a. Livescribe "smart pen": allows audio recording of lecture i. Sci: Judge/Sweeney: Experimenting using Livescribe pen to record notes. (Might be good to work w/ them to document). b. Cell phone article (CR) i. ActivEngage: we have subscription. Server is free; students must download client individually. Kids can use laptops to take survey and click in. Teachers have options to hide answers. DG: looked @ AE over the summer; seems like no real advantage over GoogleForms. (DK: AE faster on the fly for quick student assessment during class, w/o need to have browser open. GF takes longer setup). c. "Online Curiosity Killer": perhaps easy answers destroy the resilience of kids. d. "Does Exercise Make You Smarter?" (LC) e. "A Textbook Solution" (TC): Uses MathType via MSWord for teaching. Students currently handwriting on paper, not using laptops; is there a way for kids to quickly input and share responses? DK: answers might be overridden on GoogleDocs; maybe use Apple's Remote Desktop as means of projecting laptops.