Willingham,+G

=Gloria Willingham=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies || Robbin on a roll - glad to hear core competencies emphasized and LOVED seeing the Academy scores as compared to other schools. Hope we finally get some respect! ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Basic Blackboard || Will be better able to communicate with Ambassadors through better use of BB. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Setting up a classroom blog || This will be a great tool for virtual book discussions since our book clubs fizzled out. I set up a blog for the Tayshas books. Last year most English teachers gave extra credit for students reading these books and this year they could just post comments for their extra credit. Would like to start blogs for various genres. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Managing the website and student database || This website is very powerful and should improve our parent communications tremendously. I LOVE having the PACE students info at my fingertips. We can work smarter instead of longer! ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || Great floor to be on. Expectations were outlined and we were properly inspired! :) ||
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || Good to know that the emphasis is still the kids instead of the activity. Good feedback as to how to fit both into the short time. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** || favorite books that we could add to the library page. || for regular check-out. Shared Tayshas blog. ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || Adjusted PACE classes, discussed goals, picked up student folders ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Time management with Google || Set up Google mail and loved the features of the Google calendar ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Podcasting || Thinking about having a virtual book club that could do podcasts frequently
 * 1:00-1:50 || Tracking ES scores || Have downloaded Whillock's document and added my PACE class ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time || Met with new teachers for access cards ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments || Went to English Dept. meeting to promote reading and bringing classes