April 17, 2009

• Updates on the learning plans
  • We continue to work with the AERO standards and adjusting them to our needs
  • blogs are isolated to Middle School within a few departments
    • Some elementary teachers are piloting it's use at a personal level
      • Mike Mural & Shanel Catasti
• Review of gaming issues: policy and opinions are being hashed out in a Google doc I'll invite you to it

February 27th, 2009

We'll be talking about digital portfolio, if you can bring your laptops

The Middle School English Department has been piloting digital portfolios using edublogs http://yisenglishdept.edublogs.org on this site you'll see links to students blogs.

Benefits

Effective feed back loop

It's all in one place

Scaleable

Portable

PTC wiki this might be a better way to have our sign up for parent teacher conferences. SAS Singapore is also piloting the same system. It's not to bad for something that is free.

Actions items:

     demo inResoance Reporting

     demo scheduling software for Parent Teacher

OCC find criteria for IT standards

substitute apps list for Web 2.0 site

standards for teachers

January  30th 2009

1. Review of Keystone, database project 
2.