Team Meeting Notes; August 25

Celebrations:

• The Wii Systems have been delivered!! The laptops have been delivered to the district and are being processed! Yea!!!

Concerns:

• The eta of the COW's. The team agreed that we would happily store the netbooks under lock and key until the COW's arrive on campus. Our understanding is they are slated to arrive at the end of September/beginning of October.

Team Business:

1. Team Meeting Schedule: Our team will meet formally on the 3rd Wenesday of each month during the 1st Semester. We will decide on the day of our meeting for the 2nd Semester on a later date. We will meet after school in room D305.
2. District Meetings: Our team has decided to attend the required district Power To Learn meeting on the follow days: October 20, January 7, May 13.
3. Web Site: Our team web site is in the works. It should be up and running by the 3rd week of school. The site will include links to our team and classroom blogs, a technology usage calendar(with room numbers), and other items yet to be determined.
4. Video Games: We discussed Wii game selections. Some games have delayed publishing dates. We made final decision on 5/9 PC/Wii video games. We selected the following 5 games: Civilization (PC); SimCity 4 (PC); Axis and Allies (PC); Smarty Pants (Wii); Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (Wii)
5. We discussed our individual acticipated 1st projects with the acquired technologies.
6. Questions concerning the manner in which the PC games would be loaded and an e-mail addressing these concerns was sent to our coordinator.
7. We discussed Parent Authorization forms and other SBISD forms that need to be signed by parents, students, and teachers prior to the onset of blogging and archiving student work/photos.

Next formal meeting: September 16 @ 3:15 in D305.

Blogging Information

Hello Team!

Hope you have had a good summer! I attended a couple of technology sessions at Teacher U this week that I think will be tremendously helpful at getting us off to a good start. The link below is to a page that provides excellent information about using blogs in the classroom.

http://csa.springbranchisd.com/bardenc/science_blog.htm

Also, I am almost positive that I am going to use ning for my class blog. It seems to be very user friendly and, well, I think the kids will find it appealing. Please check mine out (it is in a very primitive state) and see what you think. Hard/easy to read, follow, use.....? Let me know what you think.

http://acevedonhs.ning.com

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