Summary and Reflection:We did not have a professor for more than about two seconds.
We had a great conversation and shared stories of the weekends LCE test. We discussed ILD requirements and all of our future plans.
The conference was nice to get to chat live with peers that are working through the same program as I was. I appreciate the opportunities of having web conferences and I believe they serve a great purpose in this program.
Transcript: 7:30 to 8:20
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: I read the posts from above, if there is no professor, does this still count as attending a web conference?
Amy Tennison: I need to get that done then
Kyla: good question Ashley?
Amy Tennison: hahaha - great questions - I hope so
Cody Gore 1250: Ashley im in the same course
Mike Gil Nunez: I believe this will count
Christina Daniels: Ashley, I sure hope so. I'm going to post to my blog and let them know. I'm sure it's some technology issue
Cody Gore 1250: i send an e-mail
Ashley Hunt: @Ashley C. I don't know the link that was given for this week didn't work.
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: Latoya and Cody, we are, I remember you from the discussion board postings
Ashley Hunt: If not they have one more scheduled for the 22nd.
Cody Gore 1250: I think we can.....we are conferencing
Kyla: do you have the link for the 22nd?
Mike Gil Nunez: We should all email our professors and let them know we had a great webconference. We should get credit we worked hard to find this room. hahaha
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: I tried several links before this one, I went searching through all of announcements and discussion posts looking to see if something had changed, but I didn't find anything
Kyla: or is that this link?
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: we are conferencing, true
Jamie Cormier 2: is anyone else exhausted?
Kyla: yes
Cody Gore 1250: there are 15 other people in here so we can't have all been wrong
Amy Tennison: ok - so you guys recommend the face to face ILD training. Where do I find those locations and times?
Christina Daniels: i am!!\
Christina Daniels: i went to region iv's website for ild times
Kyla: Region IV does it, where do you live?
Kyla: CFISD does one too in the summer only though.
Amy Tennison: @Jaime - I am!!! Had a baby in Jan. and really overwhelmed.
Amy Tennison: midlothian
Christina Daniels: congrats amy!
Amy Tennison: work in mansfield - dallas area
Mike Gil Nunez: Amy congrats!
Wayne McLaughlin: Do you have to complete a test or anything after the ILD training?
Amy Tennison: thanks - a huge blessing!!
Ashley Hunt: @Amy look on the Region XIII website. It lists all the trainings across the state.
Kyla: Try your regional office then'
Ashley Hunt: @Wayne No.
Ashley Hunt: @Amy take a breath. I started when my daughter was 5 months old.
Amy Tennison: Thanks - I had a feeling I should be taking care of something else
Jamie Cormier 2: congrats.
Jamie Cormier 2: I dont know how you are doing this
Wayne McLaughlin: How much is the ILD training?
Ashley Hunt: @Amy pace yourself it can be done. Ask for help.
Christina Daniels: 400 face to face
Ashley Hunt: @Wayne 375
Christina Daniels: i think its 600 online
Amy Tennison: wow!! need to budget that in
Wayne McLaughlin: @Christina- thanks! Is it over multiple days?
Christina Daniels: it was 4 days
Jamie Cormier 2: so if i am in my 8th class it will be ok to take all of these things this ummer?
Jamie Cormier 2: summer
Ashley Hunt: @Wayne 5 days
Ashley Hunt: Yes.
Kyla: yes jamie
Wayne McLaughlin: plans for the summer then
Christina Daniels: the next region iv face to face sessions are in the summer
Cody Gore 1250: what is ILD training.....did i miss something?
Jamie Cormier 2: good...i can breath
Amy Tennison: I am in my 10th class - I'm not too late am i?
Christina Daniels: jamie, you need to complete ild training and lce before you graduate
Amy Tennison: @Cody - don't feel bad I'm learning about it to!!
Ashley Hunt: @Amy no. But you can't take the LCE w/o the ILD training.
Mike Gil Nunez: Thanks for the conference guys. I am headed out. God Bless and Keep having fun!
Wayne McLaughlin: i htought that was for the certification, but you can graduate since the program mis just the degree right?
Jamie Cormier: i've gotta go eat dinner...have a great week back everyone
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: I'm only in my 5th class, does ILD training come up later, or should I worry about it now?
Christina Daniels: they're both tied together for me, but i think so
Wayne McLaughlin: I just took the lce and I haven't done the ILD
Patrick Page: It comes later on.
Cody Gore 1250: sweet ashley we are in the same boat
Christina Daniels: @ashley, it's after the 8th course
Amy Tennison: @Ashley - Later - they said to take after 8th class through region center
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: @Cody are you using the TKO?
Kyla: i took mine ILD after my 5th class.
Cody Gore 1250: I just bought it today
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: @ Amy - thanks!
Genny Wessels: for those who tried todays meeting, dr. Abernathy closed it
Cody Gore 1250: so not really
Kyla: It is the LCE that you can't do before end of 8th class
Amy Tennison: when did Dr. Abernathy do that?
Kyla: WHY?
Genny Wessels: tonight
Ashley Hunt: @Genny why?
Genny Wessels: i was in that conference
Kyla: we all tried to get into it
Genny Wessels: everybody was typing and responding at thesame time
Christina Daniels: i tried to log in beginning at 7:10
Genny Wessels: VERY HARD TO follow
Amy Tennison: Ok - just so I'm straight - what is the LCE? getting acronyms all mixed up
Christina Daniels: lamar competency exam
Ashley Hunt: @Amy Lamar Competency Exam
Wayne McLaughlin: i tried all different links starting at 7:25
Genny Wessels: she even apologized for classmates behavior
Amy Tennison: Thanks!!
Genny Wessels: then gave her personal e-mail address then closed the session
Kyla: what is her personal address?
Genny Wessels: ??? she closed it so fast that I could not even write it down....
Kyla: She should be here, we are all being very well behaved.
Genny Wessels: was on for about 3 minutes tops
Genny Wessels: it was crazy!!!!
Christina Daniels: we are kyla :)
Genny Wessels: this is way better
Wayne McLaughlin: hope we get credit for this
Amy Tennison: wow - so what do we do now
Genny Wessels: ???
Genny Wessels: I went ahead and posted my reflection to my blog about that but could not even type something to find out how to check in and get credit
Ashley Hunt: Her personal e-mail was sent out in gocourse in the messages section.
Genny Wessels: something at gmail.com
Christina Daniels: i guess we just get ready to return from spring break...
Kyla: somebody yesterday said we had to do something with wordle this week, but I have not found that in the current assignments.
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: kayabernathy@gmail.com
Genny Wessels: thanks!!!
Ashley Hunt: Goodnight everyone! It is in the e-mail that was sent out by the IA.
Kyla: thanks Ashley
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: I found it on the discussion board
Christina Daniels: goodnight all
Amy Tennison: what do we have to email her about? Just that we participated tonight?
Wayne McLaughlin: so we all email her and tell her we participated in this?
Genny Wessels: that is what I am going to do
Amy Tennison: ok thanks - I'll do the same
Genny Wessels: Where you in there too Amy?
Amy Tennison: I've just participated in this conference
Genny Wessels: oh ok
Amy Tennison: I tried the other address sent out, and it didn't work
Genny Wessels: probably because she closed it
Kyla: I took a screen shot and emailed it.
Genny Wessels: it took her forever to accept me in to the conferene
Amy Tennison: it said the next conference was on March 12th @11:30 am
Genny Wessels: LOL
Patrick Page: Who do we email?
Amy Tennison: i know right
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: That's what mine said too, I was so confused
Genny Wessels: little late for that one...
Wayne McLaughlin: I'm going to email Dr. Abernathy and cc my IA
Patrick Page: This is pretty much how the whole program has been..........unorganized.
Genny Wessels: Ok well, I am going to e-mail her and do the same for my IA to find out how to get credit
Ashley Chandler EDLD 1250: Good night everyone. Have a great week!
Genny Wessels: my next web conference says Tues at 6
Wayne McLaughlin: that's great that there's another one, but what if this is the only one you can do? that stinks.
Cody Gore 1250: So is everyone else reflecting on this one?
Wayne McLaughlin: I'm going to.
Wayne McLaughlin: at least my efforts will be documented
Genny Wessels: there are 3 listed on my week5 overview
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Technology Action Plan
Goal: To increase the frequency and level of utilization of COGNOS to desegregate data.
Results/Accomplishments: With successful implementation Ault Elementary and CFISD will better prepare students to live, work and thrive in the 21st century.
Evidence of Success
It will be evident that the teachers are being successful by how they break down the data and use it to differentiate the curriculum. Success will be shown through classroom observations, TAKS and benchmark scores and evaluations of the COGNOS program from the teachers.
Evaluation Process
Teachers will be able to graph their student’s progress from previous years, by objectives just to name a few. By doing this they will be able to monitor the progress from each benchmark and TAKS test. The success of the program will be shown by the growth of the students in the areas that the data was desegregated.
Goal: To increase the frequency and level of utilization of COGNOS to desegregate data.
Results/Accomplishments: With successful implementation Ault Elementary and CFISD will better prepare students to live, work and thrive in the 21st century.
Evidence of Success
It will be evident that the teachers are being successful by how they break down the data and use it to differentiate the curriculum. Success will be shown through classroom observations, TAKS and benchmark scores and evaluations of the COGNOS program from the teachers.
Evaluation Process
Teachers will be able to graph their student’s progress from previous years, by objectives just to name a few. By doing this they will be able to monitor the progress from each benchmark and TAKS test. The success of the program will be shown by the growth of the students in the areas that the data was desegregated.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Blog Posting #3 EDLD 5352
The Obama plan for transforming American education includes two very important goals.
The drafted plan provides support for the online professional development courses that are now being offered and states that the past ineffective professional development is being replaced with, “collaborative, coherent, and continuous… online environments full of resources” (TEA, 2010. p. 8) I agree that the professional development moving to technologically inclined status is progressive and required, however I disagree that the past professional developments were ineffective. I believe that the professional developments needed today, are not what was needed ten years ago, however, I do not believe that during that time, they were ineffective in anyway.
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. (2010). Transforming
american education: learning powered by technology Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files
/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
“ We will raise the proportion of college graduates from where it now standsThese are very progressive and aggressive goals as they just about double the current percentages. The idea behind the plan is that today’s students already have access to so much technology information from the time they are born, their toys are now almost all electronic and either wireless or require batteries. The wooden blocks and toy dolls are now sold on the “vintage” racks at the stores. Students coming into Kindergarten not only know what a computer is, but most of them can turn it on and use it without assistance.
[39%] so that 60% of our population holds a 2-year or 4-year degree. We will
close the achievement gap so that all students – regardless of race, income,
or
neighborhood – graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and
careers.”
The drafted plan provides support for the online professional development courses that are now being offered and states that the past ineffective professional development is being replaced with, “collaborative, coherent, and continuous… online environments full of resources” (TEA, 2010. p. 8) I agree that the professional development moving to technologically inclined status is progressive and required, however I disagree that the past professional developments were ineffective. I believe that the professional developments needed today, are not what was needed ten years ago, however, I do not believe that during that time, they were ineffective in anyway.
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. (2010). Transforming
american education: learning powered by technology Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files
/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
Blog Posting #2 EDLD 5352
The TEA progress report from 2006 to 2010 shows great strides we have made in our technology progression of teaching our children of today and tomorrow. The state, as a whole, is moving toward turning our classrooms into technology accessible environments. The main success to date is the 24/7 access to information for parents and students about the classrooms. Parents are now able to view grades and schoolwide information at any time of day, via their home computers. In many cases, teachers have active webpages that students and parents can find daily assignments or tutorials on skills missed in class. The state has moved in an educational progression where our textbooks k-12 can be accessed online from school or home, our teachers are completing professional development hours online, from the comfort of their own homes, and our students are spending time on computers in their classrooms meeting the technology TEKS by the 8th grade level.
The state has even made changes to the original documented plan for technology, however, according to the TEA the one thing that has stayed the same is, “the state’s blueprint for technology in education continues to manifest the belief that technology, applied to the practice of education, can be an effective tool to facilitate positive changes, and that technology can be used as a means of achieving the vision of an education system hallmarked by excellence and equity.” The progress report does not only state where we are now, but what the next step is to moving toward our state goal.
Texas Education Agency, (2010). 2010 progress report on the long-range plan for
technology, 2006-2020 Austin, Texas: Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=5082&menu_id=2147483665es/default
/files/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
The state has even made changes to the original documented plan for technology, however, according to the TEA the one thing that has stayed the same is, “the state’s blueprint for technology in education continues to manifest the belief that technology, applied to the practice of education, can be an effective tool to facilitate positive changes, and that technology can be used as a means of achieving the vision of an education system hallmarked by excellence and equity.” The progress report does not only state where we are now, but what the next step is to moving toward our state goal.
Texas Education Agency, (2010). 2010 progress report on the long-range plan for
technology, 2006-2020 Austin, Texas: Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=5082&menu_id=2147483665es/default
/files/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
Blog Posting #1 EDLD 5352
Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020: Teaching and Learning
In the first category of the STaR chart, Teaching and Learning, the main focus is the thy of instruction being provided to the students in the classrooms. The results sort the classrooms by teacher-centered, teacher –directed, teacher-facilitated, and teacher as facilitator and co-learner in the classroom. In order to achieve the Target Tech title the classroom must be technology based and students must have readily available systems to access technology at any given time in their learning and in some cases, at all times.
My campus has seen a progression in the teaching and learning category over the last 3 years, remaining in the developing tech stage though. We began in 2007 with a total score of 11 points, and our lowest area being the specific online learning. We have progressed to a total of a 14 in the category now and moved from a 2 to a 4 total in “design of the instructional setting” and we moved from a 1 to a 2 in the online learning area.
The state summary shows that the majority of the campus stated that they were at the developing tech stage. This is a great place to be as we have moved past the “early tech” and now are almost all focused on trying to regularly use technology within our daily teachings.
I believe that the principals today are working toward moving their teachers to the Target Tech stage, however, this is a timely process as change does not happen over-night. I believe that the key to making our way to the Target Tech is that we keep moving in a forward direction, providing teachers with the training and the classrooms with the technology to grow.
In the first category of the STaR chart, Teaching and Learning, the main focus is the thy of instruction being provided to the students in the classrooms. The results sort the classrooms by teacher-centered, teacher –directed, teacher-facilitated, and teacher as facilitator and co-learner in the classroom. In order to achieve the Target Tech title the classroom must be technology based and students must have readily available systems to access technology at any given time in their learning and in some cases, at all times.
My campus has seen a progression in the teaching and learning category over the last 3 years, remaining in the developing tech stage though. We began in 2007 with a total score of 11 points, and our lowest area being the specific online learning. We have progressed to a total of a 14 in the category now and moved from a 2 to a 4 total in “design of the instructional setting” and we moved from a 1 to a 2 in the online learning area.
The state summary shows that the majority of the campus stated that they were at the developing tech stage. This is a great place to be as we have moved past the “early tech” and now are almost all focused on trying to regularly use technology within our daily teachings.
I believe that the principals today are working toward moving their teachers to the Target Tech stage, however, this is a timely process as change does not happen over-night. I believe that the key to making our way to the Target Tech is that we keep moving in a forward direction, providing teachers with the training and the classrooms with the technology to grow.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Sunday, December 19, 2010
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