FIeld+Based+Activities+September

This month began with an entire day of training devoted to my new role as the campus Technology Integration Coach (TIC). This day was spent getting to know other TICs in the district and lots of other cool technology tools and activities that I got to bring back to my campus and share with the administration and staff. Our district is having a big initiative with CyberSafety this year, and as the TIC, I piloted the premierre showing of all of the resources I was provided and had hound on the topic to my classes that I teach. I also spent time going over some basics of copyright and safety as the students will be expected to use on our class blog throughout the year. After presenting the CyberSafety activities with my students, I was ready to present to the teachers. Since I had shown the material to my classes, I was able to help the teachers see some areas that they may want to focus on, as my students had questions or comments in different parts of the video lessons. I also modeled where to find the technology integration tools that the district facilitators have included in our online curriculum for us to use. These activities and sites help shorten the time we, as teachers, would spend trying to find or create something for our students to use. Once my students had the opportunity to get on the blog and I had the opportunity to moderate their comments, I sent an invitation to the students' parents to join us on the blog. They were told about the blog at the beginning of the year, but were asked to not check in until we had been able to work out the beginning issues of just getting started. The parents received a letter with information on how to access the site and how to make comments. See the attached files for this month's report.