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May
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What did you do this month?
- Offered three Cyber Cafés on opening new documents, saving
to the network, creating
and organizing files/folders. It seems to be happening more on
an individual basis.
- Trouble shooting with individual teachers.
- Shared with tech aides teacher concerns with changing computers
next year.
- Created three PowerPoint slides for ITLT program.
- Created some more iMovies for teachers
What do you have planned for next month?
- Run two more Cyber Cafés.
- Get the TV studio going
- Organize portfolios for the kids in the club
- Finish the tech catalog (I hope)
What help do you need?
- what are the districts goals for us next year?
- What are the principals goals for us for next year?
- How can we be of more service to more teachers next year?
- Is there $$$ for classes over the summer (things that joyce
and craig not teach)
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April
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What did you do this month?
- Delaware State Technology Conference
- AG Technology Faire
- Taught merging Excel and Word to some teachers
- Refreshed merging Excel and Word with some students
- Read lots of e-mail from ITLT
- Evaluated some technology classes for summer school
- Continued to work in the technology catalog for the building
- Started to explore Adobe PhotoShop elements
- Continued to work on the TV studio
What do you have planned for next month?
- Evaluate some more technology classes for myself
- Cyber Cafe on saving to network folder
What help do you need?
- Complete the p.o. for the TV studio equipment
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March
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What did you do this month?
- Spent a lot of time checking out educational web sites.
- Reviewing and editing JEOPARDY games with PowerPoint.
- Ran a Cyber Café on opening new documents, saving to
the network, creating and organizing files/folders.
- Brainstormed ideas of how to make a movie for staff on what
technology exists in our building and how to go about signing
it out for use.
- Brainstormed/listed technology in the building and where it
will be stored next year.
- Trouble shooting with individual teachers.
- Continued working on new teacher inservice
- Continued working on the MS catalog
- Continued working on iMovie solutions for teachers
- Worked on iMovie tutorial
- Started Final Cut Pro class
- Signed up for the technology part of the districts strategic
plan
What do you have planned for next month?
- Run another Cyber Café.
- Fine-tune the JEOPARDY game.
- Work on movie of current technology in the building
What help do you need?
- Will some of the Macs stay at the MS so the computer club can
continue?
- If not then I need to start learning the PC world's way of video
editing
What programs, what computers, cameras, classes?
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January
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What did you do this month?
- Spent a lot of time checking out educational web sites.
- Created another list of useful web sites for middle school teachers
- Worked on setting up some Mac classes for after school.
- Read a few technology articles.
- Used digital video recorder, downloaded to iBook, and working
on an iMovie.
- Installed OS X on the Mac laptops
- Created iMovies
- Explored the new iPhoto program for Mac
- Completed online training in iMovie
- Attended building technology meetings
What do you have planned for next month?
- We would like to run a cyber Café on making iMovies.
And how to create CD's
- Check out the Inspiration and Skills Connect programs.
- Complete some online training with the Mac/iMovie.
- Finish making an iMovie.
- Start a project (power point or quicktime movies) that would
show the teachers what technology was available in the building
and
- Show some ways they could use it in their classroom.
- Start to plan part of a technology induction program for new
teachers
What help do you need?
- Can anyone create more hours in the day?????
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November
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What did you do this month?
- I am still spending a lot of time working with and exploring
my new iBook and DELL laptops. I have sought out a number of people
to help me with various applications and questions that I had.
I have been searching for a way to work with my network folder
when I am at home.
- I am still working with a 6th grade teacher to update a web
page we created with our own version of a Web Quest for Ancient
Egypt.
- Networked with other teachers to find out how they currently
use technology in their classrooms.
- Working on a PowerPoint project with a 7th grade teacher.
- Creating a list of useful web sites for middle school teachers.
- Planning and putting the final touches on an Inspiration project.
- Trying to get the CD burner to work with the dell…..they
are not compatible.
- Phase one of MLP.com form writing.
- Creating music CD's for a team to use in the classroom.
- Finished the first run of the PE team's video.
- Completed some online training with the mac/imovie.
What do you have planned for next month?
- Karen and I would still like to get a needs and strengths assessment
underway in our building so we know who has questions and who
can answer them.
- Karen and I would like to run a cyber Café on either
"How to use Macs" or "How to Organize and Save
Things to Network Folders" for teachers in the beginning
stages of technology.
- Finish the video taping for the PE team.
- Create a rough draft of the video in imovie.
- Using the Inspiration program in the classroom with another
teacher.
- Finish the forms on mylearningplan.com
What help do you need?
- How did others "package" or "market" the
time involved to other staff?
- Obtaining a cleaner for the video recorder.
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October
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What did you do this month?
- Explored and worked out issues with the ibook and Dell laptops.
- Worked with another teacher to create our own web page with
our own version of a Web Quest for Ancient Egypt.
- Burned 3 CD’s for teachers needing only approved songs.
- Discovered how to set up the launcher on the Mac
- Signed up for iTools, and explored the options it gives us.
- installed FCP on the Mac (thank you Joyce)
- Invited Joyce to demo some ideas for the PE team.
- Finished the online Mac course
- worked with Joyce to create resources, such as power point lessons,
that other health teachers can access on the server.
- Took many tutorials on atomiclearning.com on imovie, FCP
What do you have planned for next month?
- Would like to get a needs and strengths assessment underway
in our building.
- Complete the Web Quest project
- Design a plan on how to inservice our “PC world” teachers
on the new iMacs they will be getting
- Video tape the PE team’s first project and begin to edit
it in iMovie.
- Download the movie from the G4 to iDisc then to the powerbook
- Play “guinea pig” for the teacher test
- Get feedback on the ITLT hours log. Make changes
- Design and create a form for the Act 48 committee to be used
on mylearningplan.com
What help do you need?
- What forms of needs/strengths assessment worked for others?
- How did others minimize resistance to completing the assessment?
- How did others “package” or “market” the
time involved to other staff?
- More inservice with Joyce concerning the inspiration program.
- Get the other lead teachers ideas who have helped their teacher
work with the iMacs
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September
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What did you do this month?
- This month we introduced ourselves to the staff as the Instructional
Technology Lead Teachers and explained what that means for them.
- A few teachers approached us within the next few days and asked
for help performing some operation with their computers.
- Leanne spent time learning how to use a new computer software
package as well as some new applications for Excel.
- We did some brainstorming on what we would like to accomplish
in our building.
- Helped the teachers through the Bloodborne Pathogens module
- Set up and taught teachers how to change the settings for their
e-mail
- Started to learn the Mac world…had several lesson with
friends and family
- Started the "Intro to iMac" online class
- Explored the "resources"
What do you have planned for next month?
- We would like to complete some kind of a needs assessment within
our building. We would like to know who is proficient in what
areas, who is willing to help teach others, and who would like
to be helped.
- Finish the tuition reimbursement form from MLP
- Finish the ITLT log on MLP
- Karen's Learning
- Finish the iMac class
- Start the next Apple class
- Sign up and attend the apple workshop
- Explore our web site
- My DVD project
- Find and sign up for a Final Cut Pro class
- Explore the Final Cut Pro tutorial
- Install DVD-r, DVD studio on the Mac
- Explore the IDVD tutorial
What help do you need?
- A computer would be helpful. Any word on our laptops?
- I would like help setting up groups within my email address
book. Thanks!
- Phone # to call Imperial
- Finding a Final Cut Pro class
- Set a meeting with Gus
- Time to explore the tutorials
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