PLANS+FOR+OCT+6+FOLLOWUP

IDEAS tossed together

Mixed salad format:

FIRST: LOGISTICS covers some logistics...Sound/Sight, hand raising/clapping/laughing, chat scroll, white board, presentation arena, Are we going to have specific roles? I feel like there is going to be a lot going on with so many people in the session... I'm stressing. No Stress, no worries, its all good. Remember the fuzzy happy feelings we left with ... Polly - I think that if many of us are in the same room we can choose to assign small groups to specific areas. Some of us can watch for the back channel stuff while others are more engaged in the real time conversation. I would suggest that we have a couple of co-facilitators who can play off each other as we move through, and that we make a point of not only having our agenda clearly posted for when folks log-in but also email the agenda to all participants prior to the actual session. Beth

Begin with RECAP video. This video highlights the New Literacies Summer Camp (One minute in length or so)

Welcome folks back.
 * Reminder of New Literacies objectives/goals
 * MassONE protocol, directions on sign-in, discussion protocol If we know ahead of time which folks do not have MassONE accounts that would make life a bit easier. If we plan on having follow-up sessions the two weeks after the Oct. 6th date we should come up with a rubric and figure out how many groups we would like to have. One question to consider here is if we want administrators exploring the same question or different questions that the teachers. Mary Ellen, would you want to facilitate an online dialogue that is more focused for administrators or do you think we can sprinkle them across our smaller groups? And how many people do we expect? How soon should we assign the groups? Beth
 * Jim and Zach are already working on the MassOne

Mary Moynagh's Xtranormal to segue into teacher feedback/reporting out on Changes Made and Classroom Happenings
 * Two teachers share personal stories How are we going to set this up? Are we going to try and have it be organic or are we going to plant moles? Have we heard from anyone? I would be willing to go talk with teachers at JFK and see if I can get one of them to talk, or possibly the group since they are all on one team. Beth
 * We haven't sent out the request... We thought we would ask folks during the session, and for those who volunteer after our initial TWO responses, we can direct them to report out on a forum page in MassOne. This is one way to stimulate a discussion and a great place for folks to go to share ideas.
 * (maybe create a discussion page for others to share/exchange ideas) This could be one of our topics on MassONE. If a teacher has not yet implemented anything from the conference we may want to ask what issues are they experiencing that is causing them to not be able to do so. Beth
 * One districts shares on the iPad journeys through their district Are we thinking of this only with those districts who received more than one iPad, or is it possible that there are also districts that participated but were also going to roll out some iPads? Or do we want to see if we can find a district that is rolling out iPads and have them share their experience? And would this be a look at the issues, or how the iPads have impacted the teaching and learning of students as related to our new frameworks? Beth
 * The district that won the iPads

Discussion on something relevant to what we are doing (Beth? Others?) Can you clarify this please? Okay, I know I came up with a bunch of ideas but no one has responded to them so we may all be barely keeping our heads above water. There are two areas that I keep coming back to this year at school. One is how our students access information online. So many of our students are visual learners yet our search engines are not necessarily good at providing visuals. There are some search engines I have found that seem to be better at this and the folks I have shown them to at NHS are very excited about some of them. We could demo a couple of these and have a discussion around that. The relevance here is that we want our students to be able to access information, but if they are struggling with reading what else can we do to assist them...and that brings me to the concept of infographics. This is an area that is growing rapidly and we could look at a few infographics (perhaps asking folks to look at them prior to the online meeting, and the same could be true with search engines). Then we could pull up some to share and discuss them. This also raises another question for me. Do we want to split folks into smaller groups ahead of time, so some discussion may take place in smaller groups rather than one large group? If folks are interested in these ideas I will willingly share my sites. Beth

Discussion on Question on required readings for MassOne forum (Greg?)

Teacher Leaders Roles? Can we facilitate the help of teacher leaders to stimulate the online discussion and prompt responses? Maybe on idea is that we partner teacher leaders with content teachers so that we have a team of folks working with each online discussion group and assisting in responding to prompts? Beth

CLOSING VIDEO