March 28 to 4/1

Monday, March 28

Started today at Gardner Park. I helped a few of the 1st grade teachers with SMART board issues. They continue to be enthusiastic about using the boards even though they haven't had formal training. This is a good thing.

Later I helped Mrs. Torres set up her rolling SMART board. She is having some graphics problems switching between screens and her ESL department laptop does not have the video drivers it needs to change these settings.

After lunch I went to Grier, where I worked with Ms. Sanders on setting up her SMART board and document camera in a little more efficient manner.

After that it was back to Gardner Park where I prepped for my SMART lessons.

Tuesday, March 29

Started today at Sherwood for 2nd grade planning to assist with SMART homework. Made a quick trip to McAdenville to help Mrs. Walkup with a NCWISE prep problem. Then it was back to Sherwood for the rest of the day. Day ended with SMART Day 2 at Sherwood assisted by Debby Ray

Wednesday, March 30

Started at Ashbrook today. I helped Mrs. Seawell set up a Slate and took a partial inventory of which rooms have SMART in the main building. I'll continue this next week and get to the classes I couldn't get into. I also helped teachers set up websites and worked on grading SMART lessons.

In the afternoon I was back at Sherwood where I did an additional session of Day 2 SMART accomplished.

Thursday, March 31

Spent the entire day at McAdenville. Helped with SMART issues in several places.

Friday, April 1

March 21 to 25

3/21
Today I worked at Gardner Park and had a full day. I worked on teachers with Voicethread, SMART, and a few other issues.

3/22
Today I was at Grier and worked with teachers on SMART response, Airliner, and e-mail. I also went over to Sherwood where I set dates for the second and third day of SMART training.

3/23
At Ashbrook, I worked with teachers on SMART accomplished training. I also worked with their learning coach to prepare for a staff development day in April. We will be splitting the faculty to do some SMART training now, and some next year.

3/24
At Sherwood today I worked with teachers on the SMART training and homework.

3/25
TSS staff meeting.

March 14 to 18

3/14
Today I spend the day at Gardner Park. I presented some basic ideas to 1st grade on using their SMART boards with graphing. I also helped a few other teachers with SMART issues.
In the afternoon, I did SMART Developing Day 1 at Sherwood in the afternoon.

3/15
Today I helped Grier with their pilot web-based writing test. Afterwards, I went to Sherwood for SMART developing Day 1

3/16
At Ashbrook today. I worked with a number of teachers with gradebook issues, mainly dealing with preps. In the afternoon I did SMART proficient Day 1

3/17
Started today at Sherwood, where I handled some SMART questions relating to Day 1. Later I went to Ashbrook where I helped the sysop install some SMART slates.

3/18
Today I was at Lowell in the morning. I helped a few teachers with SMART issues and other litle things. I got the lab computer’s SMART software re-installed. In the afternoon, I went to McAdenville and worked with a few teachers on their SMART homework.

March 10 and 11

3/10
At Sherwood today. Worked with a number of teachers on SMART lessons.

3/11
6th Grade Science at Rader today. Worked with SMART slates.

Monday through Wednesday, 3/7-3/9

Monday, 3/7

Out on a sick day today making sure I didn't break my stupid arm again.

Tuesday, 3/8

At Gardner Park in the morning. I helped a number of teachers on the 1st grade hall use their SMART boards. They were using the ink layer with math CDs they have. It worked pretty well although the old 260s are a bit slow. I also graded all the completed online activies for McAdenville and Sherwood.

before lunch I went to TSS to make SMART copies

In the afternoon I did Day two of SMART for counselors.

Wednesday, 3/9

Spent the morning at Ashbrook. It was pretty quiet but I prepped for my afternoon class, graded some McAdenville SMART and caught up my mileage. I also helped a class doing a photostory.

In the afternoon I did SMART Proficient Day 1 at Sherwood. It was a very sharp group. They will be good to help others with SMART.

Friday, 3/4/11

Went to Lowell and McAdenville today. Worked on SMART in the lab at Lowell and helped a few teachers with SMART questions at McAdenville.

Video at Sherwood

At Sherwood for most of the day. Helped a teacher with NCWISE issues. Mainly worked with Ms. McClean on video. I taught her how to pull video from a Flip, convert it to WMV, edit it, and then upload to Teachertube.

In the afternoon I taught a second session of SMART for counselors at Sherwood. It went very well.

Wednesday 3/2

At Grier to start. Worked with Mrs. Ryan as her class used Smart Response for the first time. It went very smoothly.

At Ashbrook I worked with Several teachers on minor issues.

Finished at McAdenville where we held SMART developing day 2. It went well.

Tuesday 3/1

No work today due to Lily's doctor appointment.

Monday 2/28

Started at Gardner Park today. Where I helped teachers get ready for their SMART installs. They got a lot of boards and are getting close to having all rooms.

I then went to Grier where I worked on LanSchool with the CTE teachers and worked with Mrs. Ryan on SMART response.

Finally I finished at Rader where I got a first look at DASH. Pretty cool way to look at data.

Wednesday 2/23 - Friday 2/25

Wednesday 2/23

Did administrative PD today. It went well. The principals really seemed to like the SMART walkthrough ideas.

Thursday 2/24

At Grier today for TLA makeups. I also worked with teachers on SMART response and a number of other issues.

Friday 2/25

TSS meeting

McAdenville SMART

I started today at Gardner Park where I took a look at Mr. Doorley's SMART board. It looks to have a busted pen tray.

Then I went to McAdenville and worked with a number of teachers on their SMART lessons and on their boards. The board in the lab has been installed and looks really good.

After that I went to Rader to do a run-through of the Admin PD presentation.

Then it was back to Gardner Park to my office to finish off some things.

Grier TLA prep

I spent today at Grier, Getting ready for the TLA. All students are entered and should be ready to go on Wednesday. I also took Catherine Ryan's laptop to install SMART response before I meet with her again on Thursday.

In the afternoon I met with Emily Brown at Sherwood to plan SMART counselor dates. I need to ask about using the GP lab for one date.

Fiinally back to the office at GP to catch up on e-mail and other stuff.

Week of FeATb. 13

Another busy week with many schedule changes.

Monday, 2/14

At TSS then over to Rader working on admin PD.

Tuesday, 2/15

AT Sherwood in the morning, helping with Flip video project. Also took some time to set up Grier TLA remediation. In the afternoon previewed admin PD with Mr. Booker.

Wednesday, 2/16

At Gardner Park in the morning. Worked on SMART board and SMART table as well as some NCWISE issues.

Took the afternoon off to stay with sick Lily

Thursday, 2/17

Off all day with Lily

Friday, 2/18

At Ashbrook for NCWISE prep issues, SMART, photo story, web sites.

Week of Feb. 7

Busy Busy.

Here's a recap of this week.

Monday, 2/7

We met at 9 a.m. to go over our admin PD presentation.

After that I went to Grier and worked with Ms. Backus, who was concerned with her SMART online training. She is happier and less stressed now.

Tuesday, 2/8

At Gardner Park in the morning.

At Sherwood in the afternoon.

Wednesday, 2/9

At Ashbrook today. Worked with teachers on SMART response and web pages. Also a lot of issues with NCWISE preps for 2nd semester

In the afternoon did a second session of SMART developing day 1 at McAdenville.

Thursday, 2/10

Moodle training all day at TSS

Friday, 2/11

In the morning at TSS to work on the Admin PD. Then at Lowell for the afternoon helping with SMART mostly.

Busy at Grier

Today I started by meeting with Teresa and Chrissy to finalize our presentation for the administrative PD.

Next I went to Grier and they kept me hopping all day. I got a sub's SMART board up and running and I worked on SMART with Mrs. Stoudt and Mrs. Backhaus. I also worked with Mrs. Jones on NCWISE setup issues. I set up appointments for next week as well.

Ashbrook and Sherwood

I started today at Ashbrook where I worked with a teacher to discuss the placement of her new SMART board. I'm not altogether satisfied with the way it has turned out. It's almost in the corner the short wall. This is not "centrally located."

Afterwards, I went to Sherwood and answered SMART questions.

Tuesday, 2/1/11

Today I started off at TSS, meeting Chrissie and Debby Ray to plan our administrative PD on SMART evaluations. I am doing the "good" presentation.

Afterwards, I went to Gardner Park where I worked on gradebook issues, SMART questions and prepped the admin PD presentation. I also had a chance to play around with our new G-mail and Docs tools on Google Apps.

Monday, Jan. 31

I started today at Lowell since I won't be here on Friday. They kept me busy. I helped Mrs. Dellinger the AIG teacher with a number of SMART issues and answered SMART questions for the long term sub in 5th grade as well.

After lunch, I went to Grier, where I helped them get ready for the online writing test and worked with a few teachers on SMART and desktop publishing.

Friday, 1/4/11

TSS meeting

Thursday, 1/27/2011

Today I was at Sherwood. I also went over to Gardner Park to help with some grading issues. In the afternoon, I did a workshop at Sherwood for school counselors on SMART. It went well. We will be doing another soon.

Ashbrook gets SMART

Today I was at Ashbrook. I helped a long-term sub get set up on NCWISE and helped Mrs. Bartlett with her website. Ashbrook had several SMART boards installed today and Mrs. Carver and I went ahead and set up dates for SMART training.

A took a few minutes at lunch to work on a laptop issue at Gardner Park with Mrs. Mathews at the newcomer center, but she was not able to make the appointment.

Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 24-25

Monday

I spent the day at Grier and had a lot of people want to work with me. I worked with teachers on SMART questions and setup, website issues, and slate setup.

Tuesday

I spent the day at Gardner Park where I worked with teachers on voicethread, e-mail, and SMART Notebook. I also went over to Ashbrook for a bit to help with final grade entry questions.

Friday, Jan 21, 2011

Today I was a Lowell most of the day. I helped Mrs. Mullis with some SMART issues and Mrs. Dellinger with a new computer setup. I took some time to go by Gardner Park and finish some setup issues on their SMART boards help Mrs. Medlock and Mrs. Johnson with voicethread.

Wednesday th 19th and Thursday the 20th

Wednesday I checked out the new SMART boards at Gardner Park, met with Paul from Learning.com and then went to McAdenville for a Q&A session about SMART.

Thursday I was at Sherwood. I spoke to Emily Brown about the SMART for counselor's training next week at Sherwood. I'm going to put together a presentation and send it to her before the session. I also worked on grading some SMART lessons and helped a few teachers out with SMART issues.

Tuesday, Jan. 18

Today I took a half-day in the morning. When I got in, I worked on rescheduling some remaining things from the snow and then I checked out the new SMART installs at Gardner Park. They look pretty good except for some Notebook software problems in two room and some questions I have about the way the screens are hooked up. After school was TRICKS at Woodhill.

SNOW SNOW SNOW!

Whew, Lots of snow, lots to update.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 10, 11, 12 - No school due to snow. I took these days off.

Thursday, Jan. 13 - Snow day, no students. Back to school, I went in and worked with whoever needed me. I ended up going to Gardner Park and Grier

I may have found the answer to our speaker questions. I think the DVD and Discovery Streaming playback is stuck on Dolby 5.1 and we are not hearing the center channel. For DVD we can just switch from Media Player to PowerDVD, but for Discovery Streaming, we need Media player. Now to find a video that shows this problem and figure out how to turn off 5.1

Friday, Jan. 14 - Snow day, no students. I went in again. Many teachers were out. I helped out at Gardner Park and Ashbrook.

busy Busy Busy

Monday 1/3 - Back from break. Today I spend the day at Ashbrook, mainly working with Mrs. Nelli on a presentation she has to give to district officials on PLCs. I convinced her to do a Notebook presentation on the SMART board. I think her buy-in on SMART will be important to help win over teachers. I also did some other teacher support.

Tuesday 1/4 - I started at Ashbrook, continuting to work on the presentation. Later I went by McAdenville to troubleshoot some problems with the new NCWISE updates. I later went by Lowell and Gardner Park doing the same. In the afternoon, I attended TRICKS at Woodhill

Wednesday 1/5 - I assisted with SMART developing Day three at Cherryville all day.

Thursday, 1/6 - At Sherwood today. I met with Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Kennedy to finalize and upload the Rules of divisibility movie to teachertube. It turned out great! The movie can be seen here. I also worked on ironing out some final NCWISE issues. I also prepared a Notebook file for Mrs. Andrews to use with 5th graders learning pre-algebra concepts. I headed over to Gardner Park for a short while to meet with Shay Matthews. She is concerned about the speed of the SMART initiative and I assured her that she is ahead of the curve. She is supposed to have 6-7 boards installed within the next week.

Friday, 1/7 - I spent the full day at Lowell and worked with a number of teachers on SMART, general issues future training possibilities. One problem that might be a big issue for SMART installs is that the heating units in many of the rooms seem to aim directly at where projectors will go. This is already causing a projector in one room to overheat.