May 12, 2009

I had an interesting meeting with a coach, and I had to admit that I was amazed at some of the information she told me about a student who questioned the practice of collaboration among the various disciplines. I have thought about this one, and I do see the student's point. I have been worried about the teachers, and I also feel that we need to address the why to the students. It does follow the learning focused model that we are touting, and whenever I go into a classroom to teach or team teach, I will explain the collaboration to them. What an eye opening experience! I also have been trying to get the solar car competitors together. It is so neat to see what they have created. I hope that they have the foresight to test their vehicles and solve problems. I also have to prepare a kit for them to do repairs. Could be an interesting day Friday! Holy smokes, two exclamation marks in the same blog entry. With all of this, I still met with five teachers today and attended the district track and field meet in Altoona. So, I will be back tomorrow....flick

February 8, 2008

Back in Billtown, whoa o o o o o o. IU 17 is not a bad place at all. It is in a fairly modern building and quite comfortable. Today we learned some audacity and the use of PhotoStory. I must admit that I am impressed with the use of PhotoStory in that Microsoft has made something quite easy to use and somewhat powerful from the ease of use. I used my webcam to set up the entire shoot for PhotoStory. I feel good about the training and the trainers. I have learned some new things which makes going to these worthwhile. Again, I feel the networking with the other coaches is quite valuable. I still have some other trainings to attend: the Adobe and the Promethean training. I hope that these two sessions are as valuable. Talk again with you next week...

This is the PhotoStory that my group did. It is inane but interesting. The second is from another group. It was done with Smarties. Great Job!!!