Bradley,+B

=Beth Bradley=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies || It was good to go over the Core Competencies again. I use the TIPCE (tipsy) model to remember them. Hurrah for our Academy TAKS scores! I loved the pat on the back we got from Robbin. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Building electronic portfolios with wikis || Angela helped me to set up a wiki for each of my subject areas. She and John gave us ideas on how to use these pages to save student writing. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Differentiation with Adaptive Release in Blackboard || I've been to several adaptive releaase tutorials. I got a little further along the road to understanding at least how to do an AR warm up. I'm sure I will be attending more AR sessions as they are offered on Teaching and Learning Tuesdays. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Managing Website and Student Database **(REQUIRED)** || The new website looks great. I really like the adaptibitlity of it this year and I loved seeing pictures of my PACE kids. ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || Always nice to go to one of Mr. Reyes' meetings. We went over the 3 R's again and were reminded about greeting the kids as they come in and having warm ups ready each day. ||
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || Good material here. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || We spent the entire time working on the rosters for our PACE classes. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Facilitate - Teacher's Toolkit:Building Up To Project-Based Learning || Putting together this presentation helped me to actually learn how to manipulate a wiki for a classroom situation. I also got to take a good look at how I actually do approach Project Based Learning. I hope the folks who attend the session don't mind that I used my own materials for examples. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Vocab Development - Online Activity - || I posted some US history vocabulary on the Academy site. I also enjoyed seeing what other folks posted. I got an insight into what is important in other subjects. How can we set up a dictionary wiki like this for our kids to contribute to? (To which our kids can contribute. . .) ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Digital Storytelling || Elaine presented a well organized and interesting session. I came away with several strategies for use in my classroom. We had a lot of fun creating our own PhotoStory project. ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time ||  ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments || Kenneth was a terrific help today. He even helped Miranda and me load up a dolly full of books and put them onto our shelves. Thanks, Kenneth! ||