Last day before break. I worked with teachers on SMART and some printer issues at Gardner Park

Worked at Ashbrook to do a few websites and to assist Mrs. Nelli with her PLC presentation. Then Lowell to fix Mrs. Collins' SMART board, but she was out with a sick child. I will try that again in Jan.

Finally went back to Gardner Park and worked on misc. things.

Snow day and Lots to do

We had a two hour delay today. I went first to Lowell for my first sit at the school day. I didn't get to sit down very much. I helped teachers with a few minor tech problems, but I also helped set up a document camera and did a lot of informal discussion about the SMART initiative. I'm going to start spending Fridays at Lowell for the next few weeks, starting in Jan.

From there it was on to Sherwood, where I worked with a teacher and the learning coach on a math video. It turned out great. I will be finishing it up for them as a .flv, computer version and DVD.

Throughout the day I have gotten emails from Ashbrook about the NCWISE outage. I get the feeling they aren't ready and will have crises on Monday.

Busy at Ashbrook

Today at Ashbrook the pace of website construction really picked up. I helped probably another 6 people get their basic sites in order. I also helped Ms. Kiwala again with her airliner. It seems that it loses the bluetooth connection if the dongle is unplugged. Unfortunately, it won't let her reestablish the connection if she is logged in. It wll let me do it if I am logged in. I told her it was job security ;-)

I also worked with several teachers to show them how to save documents as .pdfs and why we would want to do that. Finally, I worked wiht Mrs. Nelli, the learning coach on a Notebook PLC presentation she will be making next month.

Monday, Dec. 13

Today was a half day for my arm appointment. I helped some teachers at Gardner Park, sent out some information about the NCWISE outage, and worked on the document about a course repository for our meeting Friday.

Tuesday

Met with 3rd grade teachers at Gardner Park to disucss NCWISE issues.

Today I worked at Sherwood and helped a number of teachers. I worked with one teacher who was having problems aligning her board. I showed her the proper technique. I also talked with the guidance counselor who wants a counselors group on Gaston Digital. Kyle is making me an admin so I can set that one up.

I worked for a while with stickam and livestream to test ideas for a announcements broadcast for Sherwood. I like Livestream best at this point, but I need to get Ustream unblocked.

Finally I went to Gardner Park and worked with Mrs. Barker, who is still having trouble editing the website from her home comps. I will try it myself.

I also gave a quick spreadsheet lesson to the assistant principal.

Thursday, Dec. 9

Today I was at Grier where I taught a SMART intro class during planning periods. I had a good turnout, with 18 people total. I also downloaded the rest of the Grier TLA results. I helped several of the teachers get their SMART boards working that had minor problems. I need to go out there one day next week to sort out a few other SMART issues and check the version of SMART in the lab.

Wednesday, Dec. 8

I spent today at Ashbrook helping teachers set up their web sites. We had a number of people come by and it was pretty successful.

Tuesday, December 7

On Tuesday I worked with one of the groups in Ms. Coombs class at Ashbrook to finish recording their rap.

Later I went to Gardner Park and helped a few people with misc. things.

In the afternoon I went to McAdenville to make sure their lab had the latest SMART software.

Monday, Dec. 6

Back from the Learning.com training and off again.

I spent most of the morning working finalizing my schedule for the week and doing a few other tasks. I spent a while working on some video issues, mainly dealing with some new features of Premiere Elements. It will now format and upload directly to YouTube, which is nice. It will also easily make videos in .flv, which is useful for uploading to teacher tube. I also worked with anoter app to address the opposite problem; getting videos downloaded from TeacherTube in .flv into a format that can be placed into Moviemaker for editing. Movimaker will not accept flash video. I found and downloaded a program called any video converter. This is the free version. The pay version does fancier stuff like convert to ipod video. But the basic will let you go .flv to .mpg or .avi, which is perfect for our needs.

In the morning I also worked on my November report.

Friday, Dec. 3

Met with counselors Debbie Rhyne and Ashley Warren to discuss TLA scores at Grier. I agreed to separate the passes and fails and provide them a list for remediation.

I also worked with Mr. Clontz a bit on Glogster.

After lunch it's off to Cullowhee for Sky training.

Thursday, Dec. 2

Today was SMART training part 2 at Rader

Wednesday, Dec. 1

Today was an Ashbrook day. I spent time in the lab, helping about 10 teachers update their web sites. Some will be coming back next week after their initial site is set up. I need to put next weeks workshop in the staff development system.

Tuesday, 11-30-10

I met with Chrissie at Grier and she showed me how to pull the reports off learning.com. It's pretty straightforward. I will bring the results to Grier later in the week.

Next I went to Sherwood for the day. I worked with several teachers, including 2nd grade teacher Christy Turner in room 204. She uses delicious to prep links for her students to use, but recently, the filter has started blocking her from using the required Yahoo login. This is making it impossible for her to add new sites at school. I need to check in to this.

Next time at Sherwood I need to talk to Tracy McClean about Ustream.tv and using it for their morning announcements.

Monday, 11/29

I started today at Grier where Chrissie and I were going to meet to discuss the TLA results. She had to cancel so I went over to Gardner Park. I planned for two workshops later in the week, a SMART intro and an update for wesites.