PLC Summary 12/19/12

What thoughts, ideas and learnings did you take away from the PLC Showcase?

           

We learned a lot of information and received several ideas from the stations we visited.  It was great to see what other professionals are doing to improve learning in their classes.  We wish we could have had more time to visit more of the stations because our time ran out before our intentions.  We learned strategies and technology that we want to implement in our classrooms.  We did not expect as many "unfamiliar" faces cycling through.

Thinking back over your PLC work this semester, what were some of the lessons you have learned? 

We  learned that technology is not the end all be all.  Sometimes technology fails.  When technology works, it can be an invaluable tool!  Technology can be incredibly beneficial for our teaching and for students' learning.  It can make learning possible for difficult learners and can increase student engagement.

 

How might the information gained in questions 1 and 2 impact our professional work? 

Because technology is constantly changing, we need to keep updating our knowledge and skills.  It is OK to take risks and OK to fail.  What is important is that we just keep developing and growing so we can help our student develop and grow.

  

Finalizing Plans for PLC Showcase

Group 1

• Jason Drew
• Jason Dolezal
• Lazell Williams

Group 2

• Jenny Mitchell
• Jasmine Lowe
• James Newport
• Nathan West

EVERY TEACHER CHOOSE 1 STUDENT TO STAY HERE AND SHOW/SHARE YOUR TECHNOLOGY!!

Candy bowl:  Mitchell, Lowe, Drew

11/28 Technology for Differentiation

We continued working on our presentation for the PLC Showcase.

Intel Visual Ranking-Please review and make comments!

Please review the following to see if this makes sense or needs improvement!


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PLC Showcase Planning Sheet

Mr. Williams

What do I want to know from teachers in other communities?

Rank the following items of concern in order of importance:

1.     Discipline policies, i.e., “tardy policy” (I wish we had a school wide plan!)

2.     Technology integration (Do I use technology weekly to enhance learning?)

3.     Laptop policies (Do you give free laptop time? How do you ensure the laptop is not a distraction?)

4.     Tutoring/motivating students to improve grades (What works for you?)

Visual Ranking Setup

-       teachers are placed into groups based on their community

-       teachers are given a login per community

-       teachers rank all survey questions but place a comment in one box!

-       Responses are broadcasted on the projector along with group results

-       Teacher will see their results (by SLC) and compare to other SLC’s

-       Estimated time at table per teacher: 2minutes

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11/7/12 TEchnology for Differentiation

To Do List:

-Powerpoint created by Jenny
     - Added on by each member, Shared in google docs

-We all need to choose students for student representatives and student work

- Edmodo: Dolezal, Drew-- tutorial
- Today's Meet: Newport-- using as exit slip activity, tutorial
- Intel Interactive: Williams-- activity
- Instagrok/Diigo: Mitchell
- Educreations: Lowe -- tutorial, Educreations lesson on using educreations

Materials Needed:

Projector, power strip, screen,

10/31 Technology for Differentiation

Today's topics,

PLC showcase- show a series of applications used and implemented.  Edmodo, instagrok, Diigo, educreations, today's meet, intel interactive, Today's Meet.....


We will need : projector cart, screen, table... TBC

Edmodo- Dolezal and Drew
Today's meet- Newport
Educreations- Lowe
Diigo/Instagrok- Mitchell
Intel- Williams

PLC Showcase

At the end of our semester of work, all PLCs will be showcasing their work at the Wyandotte High School PLC Showcase on Wednesday, December 12th in the Social Hall.  The showcase will be a public demonstration of our learning, collaboration, and results.  Each PLC will showcase work that reflects how your learning and collaboration has impacted student learning.  Each PLC is encouraged to be creative and innovative in their demonstration (student examples would be highly encouraged); however, please be sure the following are addressed through your presentation -
    PLC Focus

Collaborative Actions   

Summary of PLC Learning

Impact on Student Learning

Connections to Future Teaching and Learning

In addition, all staff will have an opportunity to visit each demonstration during the Showcase.  Many outside guests will also be in attendance.  

If your PLC requires any kind of additional resources, please submit any requests for those materials via the comment section to this blog entry by NOVEMBER 9th. You will receive these materials by or before your November 28th meeting, so you will have AT LEAST two weeks to work on organizing your demonstration.

10/24 Technology for Differentiation

Today we discussed:

1.  Instagrok, we need more time to explore and manipulate for class.
     Pros- lots of information, laid out easily for students, teacher version allows teacher to track views and journal, good reference point
     Cons- not always relevant, level sometimes too high, not sure when it should be used during class

2. Mr. Drew

     Demonstrated Diigo and showed us how we can use it for reference projects, new use with government, shareable , create groups


3. Mr. Williams

     Demonstrated intel Visual Ranking,  used for critical thinking... Prove your reasoning.  Used in music for most important performance and why.  Must use the questions to substantiate the ranking .  Drag in order then comment why.  All set up in advance.  Plans to use with choices of music.  Also has a discuss function for feedback.

    Intel has lots of pre-made resources (K- 12), assessments, etc.  All FREE!!
     Rubrics are included as well

Wednesday 10/17

For next week, we are looking at Instagrok; we will explore the pros and cons of it to decide if we want to register for it. Thanks McGinty!


Successes- Jenny and google forms, trying Flubaroo next.

Lowe- in schoolloop discussion, you must be in the discussion to see attachments and links, does not appear in the grade section.

Drew- contact the schoolloop people to add functions like edmodo.

10/3 PLC Technology for Differentiation

Today we talked about:

• Our experiences with implemented Edomo in our classrooms over the last few weeks - We like it and will continue using it.
• Using the "Discuss" function in SchoolLoop - We love it!
• Most of us have iPads and would like to 

Primary Tasks

•  In "Discuss" function on S.L., explore making sure that links and attachments open in a student's post
• Text-to-Speech
• Google Docs & Forms

Secondary Tasks

• Glogster
• Poll Everything
• iTunes U & Podcasts
• Google Presentations & Maps
• Intel unit plans / Visual Ranking - L. Williams
• Diigo - Drew
• Dragon Dictate / Voice-to-Text / Microsoft Notebook - Dolezal
• TeacherTrainingVideos.com
• Web 2.0 Guru
• Gamequarium.org

9/26 PLC Technology for Differentiation

iPad Educreations and Edmodo demonstrations and tutorial.

Discuss Function in School Loop- where to find, how to grade.

Assignment, use one or both of these (with confidence) in the next week to report out. Due October 3, 2012

Next week we will sort this!

Wish List (want to try, already tried, etc.)

• Apple TV
• using iPad in the classroom
• Macbook Apps for students
• Apps that can be used on iPad and/with Macbook
•  Edmodo - (Macbook and iPad)  10/3/12
• TeacherKit for iPad
• Educreations for iPad - explore and create one together  10/3/12
• Blogster
• Glogster
• Discuss in SchoolLoop  10/3/12
• Poll Everything
• iTunes U
• iTunes Podcasts
• Jasmine sharing
• Google:  Docs, Forms, Maps, Presentations
• Google Editor
• FlipScore
• Visual Ranking - Intel
• Intel unit plans
• Diigo
• Dragon Dictate - Try / Buy for ESL students?
• Notebook section of Microsoft Word can record lectures
• Text-to-Speech: http://www.pd360.com/index.cfm?UUVideoId=691
• TeacherTrainingVideos.com
•  Web 2.0 Guru
• Gamequarium.org
• ShowMe app
• Interactive KWHL chart app
• Storyboards 3D app
• SmileyStory app
• BrainQuest app
• Science apps:  ScienceVL, Science360, 3D CellStain, Periodic Table

Technology for Differentiation PLC Mtg. 9/5/12

**  For 9/26: 

• Try either Edmodo or Educreations in your classroom!
• Think about:  What do you want to do with technology (lesson, project, etc) and in what unit?  Have a time frame in mind for when you want to do it.
• Think about how to sort the rest of our wish list.

Wish List (want to try, already tried, etc.)

• Apple TV
• using iPad in the classroom
• Macbook Apps for students
• Apps that can be used on iPad and/with Macbook
•  Edmodo - (Macbook and iPad)
• TeacherKit for iPad
• Educreations for iPad - explore and create one together
• Blogster
• Glogster
• Discuss in SchoolLoop
• Poll Everything
• iTunes U
• iTunes Podcasts
• Jasmine sharing
• Google:  Docs, Forms, Maps
• Google Editor
• FlipScore
• Visual Ranking - Intel
• Intel unit plans
• Diigo
• Dragon Dictate - Try / Buy for ESL students?
• Notebook section of Microsoft Word can record lectures
• Text-to-Speech: http://www.pd360.com/index.cfm?UUVideoId=691
• TeacherTrainingVideos.com
•  Web 2.0 Guru
• Gamequarium.org
• ShowMe app
• Interactive KWHL chart app
• Storyboards 3D app
• SmileyStory app
• BrainQuest app
• Science apps:  ScienceVL, Science360, 3D CellStain, Periodic Table

iPad

• Apple TV
• using iPad in the classroom 
• Apps that can be used on iPad and/with Macbook
• TeacherKit for iPad
• Educreations for iPad - explore and create one together
• Google Editor
• FlipScore 
• ShowMe app
• Interactive KWHL chart app
  
• Storyboards 3D app
• SmileyStory app
  
• BrainQuest app
  
• Science apps:  ScienceVL, Science360, 3D CellStain, Periodic Table

Reflection PLC

1)  What are we going to do over the next week that contributes to our PLC learning topic?

•  generating list of software, applications, etc. that we want to study/implement into our classroom to improve student achievement

2)  How does this contribute to student learning?

• It contributes to student learning by increasing exposure to technology, increased participation (makes school more interesting), and more assignment being successfully completed (student engagement)

 3)  How will the impact of this week’s work be measured?

• Number of ideas generated and formation of action plan

Purpose: Using Technology for Student Engagement

Topic: Technology for Participation


Reflection Topics:
1)  What are we going to do over the next week that contributes to our PLC learning topic?
- Next week we are going to create a running list of technology applications to implement or reinforce in our classrooms.2)  How does this contribute to student learning?
- Student will increase in their engagement due to using applications that meet their educational needs and learning styles.3)  How will the impact of this week’s work be measured?
-We will measure by student scores on class work.


- Mr. Lazell Williams

PLC 8/29/12

1)  What are we going to do over the next week that contributes to our PLC learning topic?
       This week we are going to put together a running list of technology that we are willing to try or things that we already do and are willing to share.
2)  How does this contribute to student learning?
        Our purpose is to use technology to increase student engagement, by finding what we can learn we are able to implement in the classroom.
3)  How will the impact of this week’s work be measured?
     We are measuring student engagement by tally mark on the school loop seating chart function.

PLC meeting 8/29/12

During this week, each member of our PLC will do two things:
1.  Come back with at least 1 "technology" that we want to learn about
2.  Come back with 1 "technology" that we use in our classroom

This will contribute to our PLC's study about technology by serving as a way to see what technology is out there.  From there, we will keep a running list of what we want to learn more about and implement in our classrooms.

We will measure student engagement by individually tracking how much each student is participating in class.  We can also measure engagement by seeing if there are changes in the assignments that students are completing.