Creeger,+E

=Eric Creeger=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** || ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies ||  ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || D2SC || Good Session. I picked up a couple of things from Phillip and it also led me to e-mail some technical questions to people downtown (This summer we tested an upgrade that has, among other features, the ability to export to Excel). ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Adaptive Release || I enjoyed the philosophical overview at the begining. I was disappointed that there wasn't more precise instructions, but it was such a large group that it wasn't possible. Fortunately, there are a lot of video tutorials and resources on the site he enrolled us in so I will be able to go back and look at them later. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Website || Even though Darren has kept me in the loop on the chnages to the site that will make it so user-driven, it is still a little intimidating to see it all laid out. Theoretically, I love the concept. I am just a little aprehensive about the reality. Not so much that people will deliberately caus eproblems, but more that it will take off and change so rapidly that we won't be able to keep up. For example, if kids start publishing news, we could go through dozens of stories a day! It is exciting to think about :) ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || I think this was probably a little dry, but since it was at the end of the day I figured that the best thing to do was just try to finish quickly. At this point I think we are all just anxious to meet our kids.
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || Drew did a great job with this. I hope that everyone gets into it and starts posting curriculum. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || I spent this time hopping from team meeting to team meeting. We have some new team leaders this year and they are doing a great job so far! ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Building up to Project Based Learning || Beth did a great job setting this up. My subgroup was looking at phased assessments and the resources were fantastic. I will have to go back and look at them again later. In the 2nd half I went and visited the other sessions. It is so tough to choose! ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Individual Planning || I met with April and Jerram to talk about the on-line health course she is going to teach this year. Also, with Keith and Angela to work on the 9th grade laptop program. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Digital Storytelling || I spent the first half of this session on the phone with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History ironing out details of our field trip to see the [|Star Wars] exhibit. By the time I got to Elaine's class, they were hard at work making their digital stories. ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time ||  ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments ||  ||