A busy day

I went to a lot of places today. I started Grier middle where I met with Chrissy, several teachers, and guidance to discuss the TLA computer tests being given on Monday and Tuesday. Chrissy and I are are going to to some prep for the test tomorrow. While at Grier, I also helped Mr. Edge the science teacher with his document camera and microscope. After a recent update they stopped working it appears to be something about the computer recognizing the devices. I will ask about this tomorrow.
I left Grier and went to Gardner Park for a short time and checked the results from the Ashbrook survey. I was surprised to find its 16 teachers had already responded to the survey.
At 1:30 PM I met with Dr. Ramere, the principal at McAdenville. He wants to begin training on smart boards as he will have boards installed for almost all teachers soon. I will e-mail him early next week to set up web training and other training for the teachers who have boards now. Dr. Ramere also asked about training with Classworks.
I then went to Lowell we’re amit briefly with principal Juanita Knight. She indicated that she probably would not need much training at the school because for pinnacle teachers would be doing that. This was somewhat disappointing. She did ask about Classworks and I told her I would ask about it at the meeting. I did speak to a media specialist Melanie Burton and I think she will be a good “in” at the school she’s very interested in smart boards so I will forward her some links on Friday about the smart initiative. But I also asked Ms. Knight if I could contact her smart Board teachers to offer them assistance. She said I could. I asked the school Secretary, Anita, I believe, to forward me a mailing list of teachers at the school so I can send out an open invitation to smart training.
Finally I went back to Gardner Park to finish up notes on the day.