PTL Meeting 12-2 Preparing for guests

Meeting of our Power to Learn Team
12-2-09
· Observation dates: 1-11 through 1-15
· Christa made a cool rubric for family interviews. Maya will check the Spanish.
· 1-11 through 1-15 who is doing what?
Estelle- I pod touches kids will listen and record dialogues French class. ESL support will use I pod application to look up their words and do flashcards.
Christa and Mary- Flip Camera’s- Christa will be doing a play. Mary research Hispanic writers and pretend to be the famous writer and interview each other.
Laurie- blogging , active board, 4 netbook mini’s in centers, Show visitors the power to Learn blog and the science and math blogs.
Maya – netbook mini’s- Introduction
1 computer with our blog.
1 computer to go to kids blogs.

Power to Learn Class Schedules for observations
Ms. Mack 7
107
Pd. 1,2,3,7,8
Mrs. Serrano 8
204
Pd. 3,4,8
Ms. Whitten 8
202
Pd. 1,2,3,7
Ms. Wolfe 6
105
Pd. 1,2,6,8
Mrs. Pickup 6-8
103
Pd. 1,2,7,8


Power to Learn Observation Schedule
Period 1 8:35-9:30
Period 2 9:35-10:30
Period 3 10:35-11:30
Period 4-5-6 are special classes for most of our kids or lunch.
Period 7 1:35-2:30
Period 8 2:35-3:30

What do we need to organize for our visitors?
1. We need to have a sign in log for each class. A regular spiral, composition, Tu Opcion.
2. Have technology open and easily accessible.
3. Make sure activboard presentations are hands on and kid friendly and touchable and all that good stuff.

Respectfully,

Laurie Pickup

No longer so DEL.ICIO.US!

As a fervent user of Delicious.com, I am a little disappointed that I won't be able to introduce this social bookmarking website to my students as a way to keep track and share URL addresses. I have just found out that Delicious is now part of the Yahoo! company and you are therefore required to have a yahoo! email/ID account in order to sign up. Since I don't want my students to have a Yahoo! ID on top of their mysbisd.com email, I will try to find another social bookmarking service with similar features. I found a whole list online but will wait to meet with Karen Justl tomorrow and see which one she recommends or which one is suggested by the district. Since my students spend so much time typing in erroneous URLs accidentally, I think that having social bookmarking accounts is a must and will be a definite time saver. [efm]