Pickens,+M

=Maureen Pickens=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** || I also really love the student database as a great way to organize parent contact information building wide. || I went to the 1st floor. It was interesting to see the data on failures, attendance and test scores comparing the floors. I also found out I need to be working the mini registration both Monday and Tuesday when school starts starting at 6:30ish AM. ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies || I don't like burritos. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Managing Website and Student Database **(REQUIRED)** || I really like that we can easily add things to the website.
 * 11:00-11:50 || Getting Started with the TI Navigators || I think it went pretty well. A few teacher see the Navigators as too much work, which in some cases might be the case. Several other teachers, however, see interesting in using them in their classrooms. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || //“Tracks of a Killer” - Collaboration between Math and Science// || It definitely was an eye opener that most of the science teachers are not familiar at all with using graphing calculators. The activity is probably a little too intensive to do in one class period with the directions given. The session did get a lot of math and science teachers (and some specialty) together to talk about how they can work together. ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || What floor am I on? Can I be the 4th floor?
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || Got enrolled in Senior Blackboard course so I can get the announcements and so I can see all the PACE activities. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** || and Talked about a lot of other stuff too. ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || It was interesting to learn about how much prom costs and how fundraising went last year since I really did not have much part in it. We started to talk about goals but did not get very far. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || **Academy Vocabulary Development** || It took me awhile to narrow my list down to 5 really important words without duplicating what other teachers had already added. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Social Bookmarking and sharing Math/Science Websites || I'm not a huge fan of delicious but I agreed to help present this class anyway. Hopefully the teachers will at least have some time to look at some of the cool websites I have found. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || **Managing Collaborative Sessions in Blackboard**
 * Creating Groups in Blackboard** || Wow does the narrator have an exciting voice!!! Really these two videos were mainly basic how-tos. I was hoping they would give me ideas of how I would use collaborative sessions. I also was hoping there would be some short cuts shown in the creating groups sections since it takes me forever to set up my groups. ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time || Anyone have a mirror? ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments || We discussed goals for the year and got our calculators.