Plybon,+E

=Elaine Plybon=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies || It is always good to reconnect with everyone. The core competencies review was helpful, although I had already had a review of this at the newer teacher academy. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Managing website and student database || Very helpful. I really like the idea of being able to add student projects to the website and I'm excited about being able to contribute to the website content. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Present: Using digital videos in your classroom || I always learn something new from the people who attend my workshops. I feel like I rushed through and would enjoy the opportunity to spend more time showing people the many ways to use video in their classroom. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Present: Using digital videos in your classroom || Interesting, being two places at once, but it was a great group of people who patiently waited for me to show up and facilitate. ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || Eric is always so well-prepared. I am excited about the opportunity to be a part of the first floor team this year. ||
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || It is good to begin to get to know my team members. It will be interesting to be on a senior team this year. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || We got several things discussed, but seemed to get hung up on one or two goals and so didn't complete our goal-setting :( ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Varying Instructional Strategies || Angela did a good job of modeling an instructional strategy while helping us to learn about others. I will definitely use some of the strategies we learned today in my classroom. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Social Bookmarking || I got the del.icio.us button installed on my browser and will try to remember to use it. However, I find delicious to be a little cumbersome since we cannot create folders to organize all the sites. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Digital Storytelling || Presenting was fun. I wish I had more time so that we could do a bigger project, but it was very entertaining to see all the different perspectives that came through in the little still picture project we did. ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time || I spent most of reflection time in a meeting with Melinda Schott, but did manage to get about 5 minutes in to finish my reflections, etc. What I am mostly thinking now is that I have a lot of work to do before Monday rolls around, but I'm very excited about being a better teacher after all I've learned this summer! ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments || It was a good opportunity to touch base as a department and make plans for how we'll ensure our students' success this year. We tentatively scheduled an alternative workshop to replace the ones Ann has scheduled for us in September. ||

Adding five words to the vocabulary database was harder than I thought it would be. Choosing five words wasn't so difficult, but being sure to put a decent definition with it was more difficult. It makes me realize how difficult it must be for students to define words.