Weekly Progress
This project spanned 10 weeks, and involved 6 meetings. The school had a 2-week spring break, and we did not meet at that time.
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Week |
Progress |
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1 (Feb 5) |
Initial meeting with group of teachers to plan coaching for their classes. Begin research |
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2 (Feb 12) |
Initial group of three bows out. Looking for new group |
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3 (Feb 19) |
Contacted by former colleague about bad class behavior. 1st meeting to discuss blogging |
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4 (Feb 26) |
Skype meeting with teacher, instruction in setting up Edublog accounts. Had to reassure teacher and help set appropriate ground rules |
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5 (Mar 5) |
Meeting with teacher canceled, she had students set up accounts. As per my suggestion, students set up own accounts to increase buy in. Some inappropriate account names, but overall successful. |
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6 (Mar 12) |
School on Spring Break, no meetings. |
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7 (Mar 19) |
School on Spring Break, met March 22 to discuss topics for blogs, blogs are to be used for warm-ups. Students are using class iPad cart (first real use this year!) Decided to blog on Digital citizenship. |
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8 (Mar 26) |
Students blog at the beginning of class ever day this week. They first blog for 5 minutes on the prompt, then have to find a classmates blog to respond to. Blogs are mostly appropriate, and student interest is high! Class discusses blogging and digital citizenship Friday. I was not able to attend ( L ) but Ms. Murphy reports the discussion went well and students had positive attitudes towards blogging. |
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9 (Apr 2) |
Students blog this week, but only twice |
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10 (Apr 9) |
Meet
with teacher once more, April 13. Discussed project,
outcomes, future direction. Discuss expanding tech use, and starting next
year with blogging. |
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