Wyrick,+K

=Keith Wyrick=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies ||  ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Teaching Beginning Blackboard Session || Had teachers of various experience in session, including the counselors to get ideas on how to disseminate information to seniors and other students. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || GPS Units and Geocaching || Gained some good ideas for use in class such as putting out travel bugs to see where they travel around the world. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Managing Website and Student Database || I see great benefit in this application. Our team used it with great success last year and using it school wide will increase parent knowledge. ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || Informative meeting. Always great to see the success we have had and see how to build on it. ||
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || Kay did a great job of presenting the information and stressing the importance of PACE. And don't make Cathleen cry. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || Good Meeting. We were able to assign responsibilities for each team member as well as review SIP/SAS procudures. We discussed the tutoring program and how it will work this year. We also dicussed the importance of doing more cross-curricular assignments this year and being in each others classes to see what the students are learning. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Time management with Google || Using Google Calendar in Blackboard, need to learn how to sync Outlook and Google Calendar ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Meet with Angela about Laptop Training || Set up laptop training schedule, updated PowerPoints, upload to Bb ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Blogging || Good session--learning how to use blogs in class. I still need to decide how to set it up for student use ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time ||  ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments || Dissemination of pertinent information about Social Studies dept. ||