Team,

I hope everybody had a happy break. This week's schedule has not been posted. I will be available through email only as I will be attending a large number of out of district meetings.

One of these meetings is the social studies collaboration day. This event will take place on Tuesday. Mark Marino and Brian Shaffer will also attend this event. It is a collaborative meeting with many of the social studies teachers in our IU. I will be presenting our use of wikis at this event. You can see a number of the wiki's in use in WR by clicking this link. The main example used in this presetantion is the wiki operated by Amy Swartz and her classes. We hope to bring back a great deal of insight from the many other school districts.

On Wednesday and Thursday I will be at Penn College for IU17's computer fair. Due to all of your successes this year, I have been selected to judge the large amount of student works submitted for this event. I plan to make it back for both afternoons.

On Friday there is a collaborative meeting in our IU between CFF coaches, technology directors, and lawyers. This will take place in the morning, and therefore I will be back for that afternoon.

Please e-mail with any concerns, or if any of you would like to plan a collaborative training session over this week.

Thanks,


Justin VanFleet
jvanfleet@wrsd.org

Team

Schedule
Next Week's training schedule has been posted. Again, any individual that would like to jump onto the cff training schedule must email. If any individuals would like, I can put you in the bi-weekly automatic schedule. http://warriorruncffcoach.wikispaces.com/Training+Schedule

Wiki News
Our use of Wikispaces has become an ever-expanding theme. By creating a wiki one can create a class discussion board that has a large number of applications. The cool thing is that you can create student user names very simply without using student email. This eliminates the hassle of remembering which student is soccer4life32 by creating recognizable usernames such as joesmith2010. It also generates passwords for the students and allows you to know every edit any individual makes. Pretty cool stuff. Here is a video tutorial accomplishing the above task. http://warriorruncffcoach.wikispaces.com/Wikispaces

Wiki Video
You can also create a video library of Youtube videos. I would not reccomend playing Youtube videos from youtube's site. The side panel can be filled with inapporopriate materials. To create a video library with content from various tube sites such as youtube, view this video tutorial. http://warriorruncffcoach.wikispaces.com/Wikispaces+-Video+Library

Promethean ActivInspire
Promethean's new software is spreading throughout the school. I am still looking for some more feedboack, but the appeal is definatly present.

Laptop Cart Use
Both Laptop carts have not been reserved for a large part of this coming month. Secure the laptop carts ASAP if you would like to use them. Check the website for availability. http://warriorruncffcoach.wikispaces.com/Laptop+Cart+Signout-+and+Procedures

Projects and Copyright
Check out this website for some guidance in terms of copyright. As teachers, we must teach our students the importance of this. If you are going to conduct a project using web-resources consider this a valuable resource. http://warriorruncffcoach.wikispaces.com/copyright



Justin VanFleet
Warrior Run CFF Coach
jvanfleet@wrsd.org

Team,

Next week's schedule has been posted to my wiki.
http://warriorruncffcoach.wikispaces.com/training+schedules
Please email if the time scheduled will not work, or if you would like to be added to the schedule for next week.

Promethean Training

Earlier this week i attended a two day Promethean training. I learned a great deal of new tricks. For a new cool trick... right click on the next page button to allow for transitions. Very cool. Thera Dreese reports that her students enjoy the transitions.

Embedded Learning
Congratulations to the math group. We had our final sync point discussion this morning. It went well. Thank you all for your continued hard work in this area.

Promethean Update
They have made an updated IWB software called ActivInspire. It is currently being tested out by Kip Hoffman, Corey Dufrene, James Ulrich, and Larry Beaver. The update provides a new program that is much simpler to use as well as being much more visually appealing. I will be installing this major update on all your computers once it is installed on the network drive. DO NOT WORRY. It is not mandated to use the updated software. It installs seperate from ActivStudio.

Skype
Still working on the waning issues involving skype. Please be patient.


thanks,


Justin VanFleet
Warrior Run CFF Coach
jvanfleet@wrsd.org
skype me!