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Okay, so thus far, we have decided that we want to do some sort of 2.0 tool. I like the idea of doing a project on wiki, such as wiki training for a school faculty.

What other ideas do we have.....I think we mentioned Photostory or MovieMaker. Feel free to add your ideas....Jen, 9/8

I like the idea of doing a wiki as well. It is a versatile tool that can be used in many different ways. ~Cindy, 9/8

Lee and Latisha, how do you feel about doing our group project on wiki? I think we are all pretty familiar with wiki, which may make the topic easier.

We also need to decide our roles: Instructional Designer/Project Manager Content Expert (usually the person that is going to do the actual implementation) Graphic Designer Editor

I know that I am not good at editing and therefore wouldn't be the best editor. I am fine with any of the other roles. However, I would say that I would prefer not to implement at my school. Our morale is super low right now. The teachers have had to learn three new grading software systems in the last three years and they are constantly verbally abused by the principal. I just don't see them reacting favorably to anything that isn't "necessary" at this point. So, I guess I would prefer either Instructional designer or graphic designer.

What does everyone else want to be? Anyone willing to implement at their location? - Jen, 9/11

Jen. I'm sorry to hear about the moral at your school. I once had a principal that was verbally abusive. Half the staff left at the end of the year and the principal "resigned."

Are we going to use this wiki for communication and the Google Doc for creating our documents?

I am flexible about what I can do. We need to look at our ADDIE Flavor. Are we going to do that on the wiki or in the Google Doc? I'll check the google doc.~ Cindy, 9/12
 * I can do the editing. Of course, this could be a challenging job for this class but I think that I can do it fairly well.
 * Perhaps be the content expert (I currently have one individual who is working with me to do a wiki. I'm not sure how many others I can convince to voluteer to create wikis but can ask. Do we know how many individuals that we would need to be involved in this staff development?
 * I could do one of the other roles as well. We'll just need to define tasks for each position so that we're all on the same page.

Hello guys,

I am quite flexible about what I can do. The only role that might not be suitable for me is Content Expert, because we have new administration at my school. Similiarly to Jen, we have had low moral at my school for a really long time. Now that we have new administration, the goal is to boost moral. The prinicipal has heard many pleas to not add extra meetings and trainings to our work load unless mandated my the district office. So I don't know how she will feel about me implementing it in my school. If we don't have anyone willing to be the Content Expert, I will definiately ask to see what she says. -Latisha 9/13

Hey Ladies. One thing I was thinking about was at my school we have "Techie Tuesdays" every month which are optional and led by the media specialists. If no one else can implement at their school, I could possibly take over one of the techie tuesday and implement to those teachers that show up voluntarily.

I made a page for each stage of the process. We need to work on our Addie flavor. I guess on that page, we can add what we think should be done during each stage and we will go from there. How does that sound to everyone? - Jen, 9/13

Great idea Jen! I also like the idea of having a "Techie Tuesdays". I might mention it to our media specialist. That's pretty cool. -Latisha 9/13

Jen, I'm doing some staff development at my school as well. I was thinking about doing Tech Tuesdays as well. Another idea that I had was to do some mini-lessons. I thought that if I could offer some brief "lessons" about organizing the computer, creating folders, managing Outlook, supporting keyboarding support. Yesterday, I found out that one of our staff members didn't know how to properly shut down the computer!

If we do the wikis, I do have at least one teacher who is interested and I believe that I can get some others involved as well. I need to contribute and this is one way that I could. You've all done a lot of work.~ Cindy

Okay, so we are starting to gain a little ground as far as our roles, but we still have some work to do. Plus, Lee, where are you? I haven't heard from you and I don't see any posts. We miss you! :o)

I am going to put down my suggestions as far as roles, but that is all they are. We can adjust as we all see needed. I do want to be completely honest with all of you first. In 709, which was the previous Senn class I was in, I was ridiculed because I did too much work. I was the content expert of the group, and I felt like a lot of the analysis and implementation was up to me. Anyways, I don't want the same thing to happen again. So that being said, here is what I am brainstorming:

Instructional Designer/Project Manager: Lee or Jen Content Expert: Cindy (perhaps you can have a mini session like you were talking about) Graphic Designer: Latisha or Jen Editor: Lee or Latisha Evaluation: All of us

What do you all think?

Next order of business: We need to work quite a bit on our Addie Flavor. I have starting adding things that I think should go under each phase, but I am not sure this is what he wants. I don't know if it has to be based on a specific instructional design method or not. Anyone have any clarifying words for this assignment? It is due Thursday, so we need to start generating something. Please add stuff to each phase.

FYI: My email has been down all day, just in case someone tried to send something via email. -Jen, 9/14

Sorry......wasn't checking the wiki often enough! I was just reading over ALL that I have missed. I am okay with any assignment! I am no longer in a traditional teaching role, so I am unable to help with the implementation. I will take the Editor position....that's okay with me. I was looking at the ADDIE flavor paper and my old info from Dr. Wissicks class and though we could use it as a starting place.....thanks for loading it Jen! I will try to check this more often! ~Lee 9/14

What about ?????who is sending the info to Dr. Senn?~Lee 9/14

Yea!! Lee is back. ;o)

To answer your question about sending the info to Senn, in my past groups the editor did once it was all ready to go. But, that is up to the group I guess. I also posted a question on the discussion board on how he would like us to submit the ADDIE Flavor. I didn't see his instructions on this anywhere.

As far as the flavor, what you have typed up is awesome Lee. I think it pretty much matches up with what I have placed in each phase thus far. What does everyone else think?

Latisha, would you like to be the Project manager or the graphic designer? -Jen, 9/14

Jen, I think the graphic designer is the best position for me.- Latisha 9/14

OK. Now I see that I've been on the wrong page! I'll catch up now.

It looks to me like he does look more at the formatting of the work than the content of the work. I am happy with my role as well and will be glad to help out as needed in any other area. I just sent an email out to you and revised a bit on the ADDIE flavor page.

One thing that we may want to consider using is the discussion forum. Using that allows us all to type, save, and submit at the same time. We won't have the problem of messing someone up when we are adding to the discussion.~ Cindy 9/14

How would you like us to submit the ADDIE flavor? Jen Gorlewski ||
 * TechsQuad has another question we would like to add:
 * One person in each group should submit the assignment to me as an email attachment. The subject line should start with the group name and then be followed by the assignment. For example, the subject line for your group's submission might be:

TechsQuad ADDIE Flavor

Identify the group and the group members in the Word document. I recommend that the person submitting the file use the CC field to include the other team members. That will let your team members know that it was submitted. Additionally, I will respond to all people who received the message. In this way the group will know that I received the submission. If I have any comments or ask for additional information, all in the group will know.

//This is Dr. Senn's response to Jen's question about submitting the email.// || This is due tomorrow???? I actually like Cindy's flavor better than mine! What do we do next? Tweak it? ~ Lee

Okay, so first I think we have our roles. We can celebrate that accomplishment. They are as follows:

Project Manager: Jen Content Expert: Cindy Graphic Designer: Latisha Editor: Lee

On that note, please make sure you tell me if you think I am taking over too much. As I put in an email, sometimes the stress gets to me and I just want to get things done and out of the way.

Lee, the flavor is due tomorrow. I agree with you. I like Cindy's flavor. I am going to work on typing up a document that summarizes the stuff we have posted. I will post it at the bottom when I have it complete. Lee, will you edit and submit it after I have posted it? I will work on it now. Hopefully I will have it posted by 6:00pm. -Jen, 9/15, 5:20pm.

Update: So I am putting something together. What I guess I don't understand about the Learning Centered Model is why instruction in under development. To me,instruction should be under implementation. Developmet should be where instruction is developed. Because of this aspect, I like the Kemp model better. Help! - Jen

Hey Jen, I would say the reason is development of instruction, and I agree instruction, in my mind, should be under implementation. I say lets just go with that! I will edit it and submit it tomorrow. Call me if you need to.~Lee.......Jen...thank you for doing this. I think that we will all get our fair share of this project, and since you are the manager......well....you are just fulfilling your role!

Sometimes I have a challenging time figuring out what goes where. If you think that the strategies should go under a different category, please adjust it! I have a tricky time figuring out what goes under each label. Should I adjust the graphic organizer? I'll check back later and see what you all think. I was thinking that the strategies would be developed in the Development phase but implemented in the Implementation phase. So, how should I change the graphic organizer?

Jen, I LOVE working with you...and Lee and Latisha. I appreciate all that everyone does to contribute to the project. I always feel that I am catching up and just want to make sure that I'm contributing instead of sitting on the side lines trying to make a decision! Thanks everyone.

Notice that I changed the diagram to reflect the group comments. How does this look now? You all made some great comments. That is what is so good about working with a group. There is a citation from the book that I use for LFS.

The paper describing the ADDIE Flavor looks good. Another difference that I see between the ADDIE and the Morris Kemp and LFS is that Morris Kemp and LFS are more specific in their steps. They seem to break the processes down more. For example, LFS has the essential questions, activating strategies, teaching strategies, and summative strategies as part of each lesson. That is more specific than ADDIE.

Morris Kemp breaks the steps down more specifically as well. We used LFS in my school in Georgia so it is a model that I am more comfortable with and know more. The funny thing about it is that it wasn't welcomed with open arms. It took a lot of staff development for it to be part of our school culture. My new school doesn't use this model but I still find myself trying to develop my lessons with the LFS approach. If I neglect to do the summative part, I feel that I didn't really finish teaching. ~Cindy

I FINALLY think that I figured out how ADDIE works with LFS. Please see my newly revised diagram. This is different from the one that I posted last night. I had "Design" and "Development" mixed up. Sorry~ Cindy

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have been trying to plug out the paper that is due on the 22nd. I wasn't trying to ignore the group. :o) Our next task to work on the analysis. I have posted the sections that we included in our "flavor" on the analysis page. We probably should start answering the questions and generating stuff for our analysis. - Jen, 9/20

Hey Ladies.....speaking of that paper due........where did you find the journal articles???? I have everything else I need and have a good outline written, I just can't find any articles to suit me to reference??? Lee 9/20

I will work on the analysis part but I do need to finish up my paper as well. I will start organizing this tomorrow. ~Cindy 9/20

How do you guys feel about setting up a specific time for us to meet, maybe in Secondlife or in Adobe Connect, to discuss the project. I know that we have all been working on the policies paper and the group project has been on the back burner, but I would like to get a head start on some things. Latisha 9/22

That would be good for me to do that. It would be helpful for all of us to plan. Speaking of planning, I am working on the Analysis part and will get it posted this weekend for your review and thoughts. The policy paper took me more time than it should have taken. Cindy 9/23

Most any day/evening is good for me to meet. Just let me know! Lee 9/25

How about Monday or Tuesday at 6:00 on Adobe Connect? I can set up a room and email you the link. Latisha 9/25 Either is good for me. Lee 9/26

Tuesday is OK but for Monday, 6:00 is too early. I'm not usually home from work until later. 7:00 would work for me for Monday. We have meetings on Mondays. Cindy 9/26

I have placed some analysis information in the Analysis section for you to review. I didn't do the task analysis yet--well, it is sort of mentioned in the body of the work. I'd like your feedback before proceeding any further.

I was thinking that something like this might work for our staff: 1. Faculty will be introduced to wikis, defining what a wiki is, what it can be used for, and how it can be developed. Several examples of wikis could be shared. 2. Faculty will be shown how to edit a wiki a. Upload files b. Upload, insert, and resize images 3. Faculty will use the discussion forum to respond to a question such as "How can I use technology in teaching or planning?" 4. Prior to the staff development training, faculty will respond to a question, such as, what is one thing that other teachers know about what I teach? This will be written in Word. Working in small groups, faculty will format this according to the wiki guidelines and import this into the wiki. 5. Before departure, faculty will respond to one of these questions: a. How can I use this wiki? b. What would I like to see on this wiki? c. How could I use a wiki in my classroom instruction? ~Cindy 9/26

Hey Ladies. Sorry I have been distant. I had to fight out some issues that I was having with my internship. But, i am back! Cindy, the analysis looks good thus far. I think it looks great. I do have a few suggestions however, but minor editorial stuff (not to take over you job Lee!). I would be happy to meet tomorrow. After 7:00 is fine with me. Just let me know and I will be there. Adobe connect or second life is fine with me. Thanks Latasha for bringing this up.

We need to work on the Task anaylsis part. Cindy, what you posted above looks good. I think we should have a task analysis for what we are going to accomplish also. Sort of like and outline of what needs to be done for the instruction. I am going to start working on typing something up on this now. I will post it on the analysis page when I have it complete. - Jen, 9/27

Update: I have added two task analysis, one for the possible sequence of instruction, one for what we need to develop for instruction. I posted them under Cindy's task analysis on the analysis page. I based mine mostly off of Cindy's, with a few changes in sequences and added tasks. I also made some comments in blue on what Cindy put for the rest of the analysis. -Jen, 9/27 7:30pm.

PS: Cindy, I LOVE the pre-assessment survey! It looks great. One thing I did think of when I read it though was if all teachers know what a web 2.0 tool is. I know some of my fellow teachers don't. Maybe a question can be added asking "I know what a web 2.0 tool is" or something like that. :o)

One of the things that is GREAT about working in a group like this is how others can take ideas and make them better. I truly like all of the suggested changes and think that they will make this a better project than the original design. Jen's Task Analysis is right on target and Latisha offered some good suggestions as well. I agree with everything that has been said. I truly enjoy working with this team. ~ Cindy 9/27 9:45pm

Hey Cindy! I looked over all that you have and the additions, and I agree with the comments that Jen made. It looks great! I also agree with the 2.0 issue concerning the pre-assessment, because lots of my folks have no idea what a web 2.0 tool is either! Talk to you tonight at 7! Lee 9/28

I have added a couple pages to our wiki. One has wiki links on it that Cindy can use for instruction. The other is instructional tools. I started uploading the docs and jing videos I have created previosly for other projects. Take a look at them. Lee, you may be able to combine them to make one. I am going to make a flowchart for our task analysis and post it tonight. I am also going to plug out a general timeline for tasks. I will post that on a new page. -Jen, 9/29

Hello all, Today I began working on the introductory video "What is a Wiki?" I had some of my students to illustrate some pictures to include in the video, and I am very excited about this project. I will be done editing it by Saturday, so I will posted it then. The next portion of project, the design paper is due on October 21. I know we have a while, but I would like to get a head start. I will start posting in that section soon. Jen, thanks for adding the resources that you had. They look really good. -Latisha 9/29

I typed up a final analysis document. It is uploaded to the analysis page and I emailed it to everyone. I also created a fun task analysis chart which is a part of the document and embedded into the analysis page. Check it out. Cindy, I did make some changes to the wording. I hope you don't mind. Lee, can you edit the document using a fine tooth comb? Then submit it to Senn? Thanks! -Jen, 9/29

Lee, my curiosity is killing me. Did Senn make you resubmit that email in the "proper" format? Any email that I send that isn't proper, he makes me resend it. I am just curious since he seems to like you and hate me. -Jen, 9/30

He just said "Thank you!" I thought you were kidding.......the only stipulations I could find about email is the subject line, and that was done according to directions! Lee 10/1

Hey Ladies. I started the design phase. I added the steps that we need to complete for our design report. Please look over the sequence of instruction. I am not sure of some steps. For example, Cindy, do you want the teacers to learn how to add pages to the wiki in the first session or the second session? We have most of this already planned out, we just need to type it up. We also should have some instructional tools to show.

A few requests: Cindy, make sure you add your time that you spent on the analysis to the timelog. Latisha, if you could, I would start making the Flavor and analysis pages look presentable. You probably can just copy and paste the stuff that we included in our reports into the wiki. Since we are going to submit our wiki as our group project, we need it to look good. We should probably discuss what we want our home page to look like. Does anyone have suggestions? We possibly could have photos and short bios for each of us, and include our roles for the group. What other ideas do you all have? -Jen, 10/3

Jen, I will start working on that asap. Out of curiosity, do you know if its possible to embed a flash video into a wiki? I've never tried it, but I think it would be cool for me to use some of those skills learned in previous classes to add some flare to the homepage. Also, ladies I had high expectations for myself this weekend. I was planning to get the intro video finished by Saturday, but I have been stuffy the past few days so I'm going to wait until tomorrow to do the narrations and edit. I know I still have time, but I like to get things done early "just in case". -Latisha, 10/3

Hello Ladies. The good news for me is that my internet is working again--as it has been for the last few days. But we've had phone, cable, internet, and power out during the week. I've been looking at some YouTube wiki videos and wonder if we might like to use one of those to introduce wikis. I think that the one that I put up on the page is one that we may have used in Dr. Wissick's class because it looks familiar to me.

As for the first and second day, I'd prefer to do the "add a new page" on day one and "add a table" on day two. Tables aren't as easy for me to work with. Perhaps I need to learn a little more about managing them in the help section of the wiki. I'll work on more of this when I get my paper done.

Latisha, I don't know how to embed flash into the wiki. :( I hope that you are feeling better. My voice sounds like a 90 year-old smoker right now. Ever since I went back to teaching, I have hoarseness and frequent laryngitis. Cindy, 10/3

Thank you Cindy! I am actually "remaking" a video that I found on YouTube. I changed the storyline a little. Instead of campers, I am using a group fo students preparing for a group project. What do you guys think? -Latisha 10/3 []

Latisha, That is the same video that I picked out! :) Look at the page in the development section! Too funny. Obviously, I think that is perfect so go for it!

I found an interesting article that perhaps, I could make into a "video" or something. This article, //Let the Kids to the Work//, is an article in //Learning and Leading// (March/April 2010), the ISTE magazine. It is about a teacher who creates a wiki for student learning and the teacher is overwhelmed with student response. Ultimately, the students take over the wiki and "help" other students learn as the students offer suggestions about each other's work. The students take a lead role in using the wiki for teaching and learning.

I'll scan it tomorrow and then see what I can do to make it into something that compliments what you are making. I'm going to post some of my wikis onto the page. They are all a work in progress but that is what wikis are, aren't they? Off to work on my paper. ~ Cindy 10/3 @ 6:30pm

Hey Ladies, Check out what I have so far. Its taking a lot longer than I thought, because I just got a Macbook Pro so I wanted to try out some of the cool things that it has to offer, but I'm not a Mac user yet. ;( Its different and its taking me a little longer to do everything sorry. Please give me feedback because I plan to finish up tomorrow night or Thursday.

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Hey Everyone! I have been reading....just not responding. Let me know when it's time to make the handouts. Everything looks good so far! If I can help anyone, please let me know! Lee 10/7

Latisha, I absolutely love the video! It is so cute. Great Job!

Lee, I had to redo my wiki handouts for my district professional development (I am teaching all the visual arts teachers in my district how to use and create a wiki on Monday). Below is a new handout. Let me know what you think. You can use it, use parts of it, throw the entire thing out if you want to. I just thought I would put it out there.

I am going to try to knock out some of the Jing videos this weekend. Do you all think I should have short little videos, one for each little step? Or longer ones that go over more than one thing? Let me know and I will film accordingly. -Jen

Why is it that when I save my document in my wiki, it will not indent? Lee

Jen, Your handout looks great! Just go over the sections and add page breaks where needed, to adjust the sub-headings that are at the bottom of a page with only a sentence or two below them. I like the way that you included screen shots. Explanations are concise and easy to understand. As for the Jing videos, I like the idea of several short videos rather that one long one. I think that most people would prefer that, making it easy to refer to like a chapter in a book.

Attached is a document that I found about why we should use wikis in education. Its called, //Let the Kids Do the Work.// Lawlor, Joseph. "Let the Kids Do the Work." //Learning and Leading with Technology//. 37.6 (2010): 30-31. Print. I'm putting in both the pdf and the Word version. The Word versions kept the footer which has the citation. The pdf didnt' save the footer part--maybe it was too far out of the margin range. Jen, you may want to look at this article and see if it works for your school.

Lawlor, Joseph, “Let the Kids Do the Work.” //Learning and Leading with Technology//. 37.6 (2010): 30-31. Print // This is an excellent article written by a sixth grade language arts teacher telling about his experience using wikis. At first, he was simply trying to find a tool that he could use to integrate technology into his teaching. After his introductory lesson for the wiki, he found the students’ engagement with learning to be overwhelming. When Mr. Lawton asked for a sentence, they gave him a paragraph. He was overwhelmed with their participation in collaborative learning, with peer editing, and with wiki development. This is a great article to use to introduce wikis to teachers who may wonder how they’ll have time to manage one more thing. If they can see how Mr. Lawton’s students managed this tool, perhaps they may be more interested in investigating wikis. // Also, I have some videos that I made on my original wiki, a motivational movie about needing to use technology--//Right or Left?//

I'm wondering if I should put a new page on the wiki that I have for the staff to put all of this staff development or are we doing to create a new wiki to put everything?

I'm thinking that the PowerPoint that I'm making should have a link to everything on it. One question that I have is when do you all sleep? You are all so productive. Cindy

Hey ladies I have finished the video check it out. Latisha 10/10

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Latisha, Excellent job. I like the way that you used the characters and integrated the narration and music into the video. This was a lot of work and it looks great. ~ Cindy

Lee, I don't know how I did it but I managed to post hanging indentations in my citations on my wiki page. At first, the formatting didn't work. Then I did it a second time, getting all of the formatting done in Word, inserting horizontal lines inbetween each citation. I tried to get it set up so that I wouldn't have to change anything. When I try to change formatting in the wiki, it can do funny things on me--like changing the size of font in just one paragraph or putting little horizontal lines--like = signs--in spaces.

For the first time in my wiki life, the formatting stayed on the wiki. I'm not going to change anything on that page forever and ever.

That is one of the trickiest things about wikis is that to me, there are still a lot of inconsistencies in the formatting. Sometimes I try to adjust the alignment and it just won't take. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

One thing to try is to have horizontal lines between everything. Dr. Wissick once told me to put my table between horizontal lines when I was having a difficult time inserting a table into the wiki. http://cdsteach.wikispaces.com/Annotated+Bibliography ~Cindy

Thanks Cindy.....I just put in google docs and linked to that page. I will try that the next time. ~ Lee 10/11

LATISHA!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!! What program did you use to create this? It is great! ~ Lee 10/11

Latisha,I absolutely love your video. It turned out so good. I am very impressed. I must say, I feel like I have had to put the group work on the back burner for a bit. The midterm report took all my time this weekend. I slacked on the a. bib until the last minute. Not a good idea at all, I might add.

I did teach my fellow visual arts teachers in my district how to use wiki on Monday. I showed them a little in Photoshop. that was a disaster. They did like teachefiles.com though. It was a success overall, but teaching teachers is tough! I had some teachers younger than me. They grabbed on to wiki and went with it. The teachers close to (or past) retirement looked like they wanted to kill me at first, but they got it after a few tries.

I promise I will start Jinging tomorrow. I will also type up our report for the design phase. Keep up the good work everyone. Let me know if I am forgetting something. I feel like I am. -Jen,10/12

True confessions. Sorry about the slacking but I used the weekend--and Monday night--to complete my annotated bibliography and midterm report. It just snuck up on me. I need to do more for the group. And, OF COURSE, when I got home from work on Monday, after our faculty meeting, I didn't have phone, internet, or TV. Comcast eventually came on later in the evening, but it was a little scary for a while.

Jen, what size graphic do you use to make the personalized logo? I tried to do one and it took up the whole screen! I didn't see how it could be resized in wikispaces.

I would be glad to do some of the Jing tutorials. Which one can I do?

I will make a "flyer" invitation for the second session. Everything looks great! Thanks for your feedback, Jen. Thinking about what you said, I really think that the first wiki session should focus on getting the teachers familiar with editing the wiki. Then, the optional second session can be the meat and potatoes, for the teachers who are interested in using technology. I believe that if we can get them HOOKED in the first session, perhaps they can see how EASY it is and find a use for it in their classroom. ~Cindy 10/13

I made comments on the design draft and sent them to you. As soon as everyone has completed the edits, I will do the final and send it to Dr. Senn. Just let me know when all corrections are complete. It looks really good! ~Lee 10/18

Hello All!

I looked over the last version of the design paper that Lee sent out and it looks good. I love the graphic! Jen, what do you need me to do for the group project? Who needs help? ~ Latisha 10/18

First of all, is anyone having hard time this semester? I feel like I am underwater and can't seem to get up to the surface to get air. I have been trying to get this stupid technology plan paper out of the way. It has got to be one of the worst things I have had to do yet for this program. A word for the wise, do NOT wait to work on this one. It is a process.

Okay,moving on. Cindy, I will make the Jing video for the logo. I will also create a handout with the instructions on it for anyone that is interested. When I did the wiki training, my teachers were really excited to get their logos up.

Lee, can you get the paper edited and sent off to Senn?

Latisha, I would start organizing our wiki and making it look pretty. We will be submitting the wiki as our finished product, so it needs to be up to Senn standards. If you need ideas, we can help.

Can everyone upload the small photo we submitted for the class to our homepage? I will make a table. That is it for now. -Jen, 10/18

Before I begin making changes to make our wiki look snazzy, are there any suggestions or things you would like omitted/added. ~Latisha 10/18

The paper has been edited and sent. Check your email for a cc. Lee 10/21

Good job, Lee! Latisha, I am confident that you will make us look good! :) ~Cindy 10/20 Latisha, it looks good....very sanzzy and uniform! Lee 10/23 Jen....how was the conference? Lee

Latisha, I think it is looking good. I do have on suggestion however. I like how you show our collaboration. Perhaps we could be the collaboration in our wiki, but edit the navigation bar so it isn't on it. I will try it to show you what I am talking about. I like the headings. They are very nice. Should we what is in our word document on the page as well, in addition to the word download? I think it is a good idea so everything is on that page without having to download. What does everyone else think?

I will start building what we need for our development page as well tonight.

Lee, the conference is Wednesday through Friday. My presentation is Wednesday at 1:00pm. Cindy, when are you presenting? You are presenting at EdTech right?

Update: I have added an addie collaboration page, edited the navigation bar so it doesn't show up, but it is linked on our Addie flavor page. this way our logo is still there and it looks uniform. Let me know what you think. Latisha, now when you add pages, they won't show up on the navigation bar, but you can still link to them.

I have added what we need to do for our development phase. I have posted it on the design page. Please take a look and add to it. I wasn't quite sure about some of the things, like activating activity. Please help contribute to the sections. Who needs help with whatever they are developing? Lee, do I need to do the final changes to the handouts or are you taking care of that? Cindy, how are the jing videos coming along? You said you were going to develop a brochure or invite or something similar. Can I help with this? What else do we need for instruction? Are we still developing a powerpoint with the questions for the teachers? Or are we just using Latisha's video to start with? I think we should have a powerpoint if we are expecting the teachers to respond to questions. I can make the short powerpoint if we need. Let me know. I guess I need clarification on who is doing what and who needs help etc....put what you are developing and how far you are on developing it below:

Cindy: Lee: Latisha: Jen: Final Development Paper, whatever anyone else needs help with

One last thing, Cindy, when are you implementing?

-Jen, 10/24/10

Thank you Jen for the feedback. I will finish up the design of the wiki on Thursday. My workload as been very stressful for the past two weeks, but thank God for fall break. It helped me catch up on some things in my classroom. Unfortunately, I will not be attending the EdTech conference in Myrtle Beach this year. I am teaching/facilitating a class for my school district and their just isn't enough time in a day for me to attend. Good luck to all that are presenting. ;) Latisha -10/25

Jen, I am okay with the handouts and will do the final changes. Lee 10/27

Lee and all - I have posted two handouts, divided into session one and two on the instructional tools pages (at the bottom). Lee, can you edit these and make whatever changes you think are necessary?

Cindy, where are you on the Jing videos? Do you need help? Also, what about the invitation you wanted to make for the faculty? Do you need help with this?

Our development report is due Nov. 4th I believe. I need help with some of the sections. These are listed on the development page. For example, I know we discussed an essential question, but I can't remember where. Maybe it was in an email. I am not sure. There are a couple other sections that I am not sure about as well. I think we should post all of the instructional tools we have developed on the instructional tools page. Before we submit our report, we should clean up the instructional tools page so Senn can view the page.

Cindy, let us know what you need help with. Lee I hope you don't mind that I produced the handouts. They do need editing though, I am sure. :o) -Jen, 10/31

I sort of do mind Jen........patience dear........I have been working on the handouts for two days........let me do my part, please! Lee 11/1

Lee, first of all, please try not to be condescending. Remember, everything is communicated through text. That means it is hard to interpret tone. I am not trying to cause problems. I am only trying to do my part as well. I have posted the two handouts that I made (I basically took the one I created for my presentation and split it into two). I didn't want you to have to do something all over again tthat I already started. That is all. I am going to start typing up the report, but I haven't received any feedback or help. I guess I will just type something up and everyone can make changes as needed. -Jen, 11/2

Jen, I am not trying to be condescending. I appreciate all that you do. I took the handouts that you posted earlier and tried to edit them to follow the flow of the design. On 10/27 I posted that I was okay with the handouts and would finish them, and then you do them anyway. I don't understand. I know that you are much more talented with this type thing, but the three of you have contributed so much and I was just trying to help. We will use yours and I will edit. Lee 11/2

Hello Ladies,

I have been editing the look of the wiki, but I can finish this weekend if anyone needs me to help them with anything. Please let me know your needs and provide feedback on what I have done thus far. Latisha 11/2

All- I have emailed the first draft of the report. Please look over it and make the necessary changes. I feel like we still need to discuss many of the sections on the report, such as the essential question and the various strategies. I also created a short powerpoint (it isn't very impressive) for the prompts and beginning instruction. I emailed to you as well, plus it is posted below, along with the report. The report for development is due on Thursday, Nov. 4, so please look over it and make changes as necessary. I am not sure about some of the strategies that I included. I just picked what I thought would fit the best with what we have already discussed and planned for. I decided to include the handouts in the report as appendices. Lee, please make whatever changes that need to be made to these in the report.

I am feeling a little uneasy about this stage. I feel like we need to regroup and come back together to finish this thing. We have done so well so far. We only have a little bit more to do. So, lets keep plugging along!

Lee, you are doing your part. You are the editor. I didn't mean to upset you. Sorry.



-Jen, 11/2

Jen, I think it looks good. Both follow the design and I saw nothing in need of change. Lee

It looks good. I made some suggestions for making this work for our school. Here are my suggestions. I would like to enroll all the faculty so that their user name and password can be set before they even start. It will be one less thing to do during the instructional phase.

I've heard some GREAT things, Jen, about your presentation at the Ed Tech Conference. I'm sorry that I couldn't attend your session and didn't realize that I wouldn't get to see you. I was signed up to go to the Google Earth project and it was at the same time as your session. :(

I will start the survey questions for us to reflect on. I'll get them posted by the weekend.

The session should be on Wednesday, November 10. We wanted to do it on Tuesday but that won't work out. I'll see if I can do the second session the following Tuesday but I need to find out a date that will work for the people who want to attend.

Cindy 11/2

I created images to use for the tutorial hyperlinks and inserted them on the CDSTeach wiki. You can see how Latisha's movie :) is on the page along with the tutorials.

http://cdsteach.wikispaces.com/Tips+%26+Tutorials

~ Cindy 11/2/10

Issues pertaining to our Development report are posted on the Development page. Please read and contribute to what I have posted so we can get our report completed and submitted on time. I must say that I am quite upset at this point. I asked several times for everyone to contribute to the development items that were posted on the development page. Since no one posted anything, I had to research everything on my own. It took many hours yesterday. Cindy, many of your changes do not coincide with my research on the different strategies. I have posted my comments in Green on the development page. I feel like a lot of my work was a big waste of time at this point and I don't have time to waste.

-Jen, 11/3

For implementation, we will need to be able to present this wiki to Senn as a final product. Therefore, everything needs to look good and presentable by 11/18. It probably should be ready to go by the time Cindy implements. Therefore, we all may need to pitch in to help Latisha get the job done. -Jen, 11/3

At this point, I am have some difficulty with getting the design page to format correctly. I have been working on it for the past two days. Other that what else would you like to see done to the wiki. The goal was to make everything look uniform and neat. At this point, I am waiting on other portions to be completed so I can work on those pages as well. -Latisha, 11/3

I see what you mean about the formatting of the design page. I will try to see what I can do. i think it is because we copied and pasted from Word. - Jen, 11/3

Thank you! -Latisha 11/13

How's the editing of the development report going Lee? I am not trying to be impatient. Just checking in. Cute invitation Cindy! I also like your banners that you have on the CDS wiki for the tutorials. I like them so much, I stole them and used them on our instructional tools page. I hope you don't mind. Could you possibly make one for "editing the navigation bar" as well? -Jen, 11/4

The new image is on the website. ~ Cindy, 11/4

Editing complete. I cc'd all of you and did not include the PowerPoint. Lee 11/4

The report looks good Lee. It is due today!!! I just tried to call and text you. Can you send it tonight instead of tomorow at noon? - Jen, 11/4, 7:35

It was sent already! I sent a copy to everyone. Lee

I tried adding the report to the wiki, and I accidentally deleted the banner that Latisha put on the page....sorry! Also, the time log table is out of cells and it would not do what I asked it to, so I added another under it. Lee11/4

I updated the PowerPoint and will send it to you in a file. There are some personal photos in it and I'm not sure that I want to post it on the wiki. I'd like to hear your comments when you have a chance...no hurry. ~ Cindy, 11/4

All- We are now entering the implementation and evaluation phases! Yeaaaa! :o) Okay, so I know that implementation and evaluation are two separate phases, but we need to prepare surveys and assessments so Cindy can have her staff complete the survey(s) after the instruction.

Implementation: The "finished" program or product must be submitted to Senn. This wiki will be submitted. Or we can submit the CDS wiki, but I think this wiki may be better. We can include the link to the CDS wiki on the Implementation page. There are also several items added to the implementation page. Cindy, did you post these? I was just wondering where they came from because i don't think I posted them.

Evaluation: We probably should develop an assessment for "grading" the students on their performance. We should also make a session one and session two survey for faculty to complete on the instruction. These surveys should be ready at the same time the instruction is implemented so Cindy can refer the faculty to the surveys. I have placed an area on the evaluation page for possible survey questions. Everyone needs to add at least 3 questions to the page. We will pick the ones we want to include. I think a 10 question survey for each session is plenty. What do you all think? -Jen, 11/7

I added two "invitations" to our staff development. Although the headmaster sent out an email telling ALL of the faculty that they were coming to this staff development (I am truly surprised that he is requiring them all to come but know that some won't be able to make it for one reason or another). When I showed him the first "invitation" that I made, he said that it looked to much like an optional activity and that it wasn't optional. So, I changed the invitation and reposted it on the instructional tools page. I also made a second "invitation" describing the second session. I'm thinking that this should be handed out at the first staff development and then followed up with an email.

As I look over what we have written, I'd like us to consider modifying the second session to include two additional goals: I already added those to the invitation and believe that these are quick items to address and should be shown in the second session.
 * 1) customize the wiki settings
 * 2) add members--students, parents, or faculty

I should do a second PowerPoint to follow the instruction. Don't worry: it WILL be simple and direct. I'll do it this week.

As you see on the implementation page, I have the dates for the 2 sessions. I'm sorry that this has taken so long to do the implementation part but it can be difficult sometimes scheduling things. I'm happy that EVERYONE is required to attend this first session and think that will be valuable for our school.

I'd like to put your pictures and a description of your jobs on this staff development on the CDS wiki. Perhaps we should include a short bio telling our staff about yourself. You've all worked hard on this staff development and I want our staff to see how we work together to do this. Is iit OK with you if I use the photos from our home page? If you can a brief bio here, I'll put that in as well.

Thanks, Cindy 11/7 (off to working on that paper due this week!)

As we look at the evaluation section, we need to think about what we are evaluating. ~ Cindy 11/7 (Now I'm REALLY going to work on that paper)
 * 1) Are we evaluating our staff development?
 * 2) Are we evaluating the instruction of the staff development?
 * 3) Are we evaluation the tools of the staff development?
 * 4) Are we evaluating the effectiveness of the staff development by seeing if the participants see a purpose in using this wiki to collaborate and communicate?
 * 5) Are we evaluating the particpation in the staff development? If so, how can this be done without interferring with the staff development instruction? Can it be a self evaluation?
 * 6) How long should the evaluation be? I'm thinking that 3 to 5 questions should do it.

Okay...where should I start. First, I will edit the second session handouts to reflect the changes you mentioned above. I will have those posted tonight. Second, I am okay with having my photo and a short bio on the CDS wiki. No problem with that. I will add a column on our homepage for all of us to add a short bio. Third, I think we need to evaluate everything that is important to us and the instruction. I was thinking we could have a short survey for each session, rating instruction, instructional tools, sequencing, etc. I thought we should also have some sort of checklist or something to assess the faculty as well, but I wasn't sure how that would work. Lee, Latisha what are you thoughts? We all need to participate in the content of these last two sections. We all have our own roles, but everyone should contribute to the content discussion. Please add questions that you think should be on the survey to the evaluation discussion page.

For the session surveys, I was thinking max 10 questions because survey monkey allows only 10 questions to be asked (for free anyways). I would like to be able to create the session one survey be tomorrow, Tuesday, so it is ready for Cindy on Wednesday. Add your questions by tonight, please. That way I can create a survey and we can make adjustments as needed. We are in a little bit of a time crunch, but we can get through it if we work together. - Jen, 11/8, 7:30am.

Cindy, what all did you want to go under "customize wiki settings"? I do have a changing the "look and feel" portion. I wasn't sure what else you wanted to include. Let me know so I can adjust the handouts. -Jen, 11/8

Jen, I want to adjust the permissions, from Public, Protected, or Private. I'm not sure that it needs to go in a handout but feel free to add it if you want. ~Cindy 11/8 7:23pm

Cindy, I did add this to the worksheet posted below. :o) -Jen

Here is an updated session two handout. Please check it out and see if there is anything else that you think should be on it or removed. -Jen



I have embedded a possible survey for session one on the evaluation page. At this point, I just used the questions that I and Cindy posted. Let me know if I need to swap out a few questions or change anything. that will take only a few seconds to do, so it is not problem. I like the new feature at SurveyMonkey. The embedding feature is new. Pretty exciting! -Jen, 11/8, 6:45pm

All, I prefer the more open-ended questions as opposed to the rating questions. I'm not sure that rating the instruction is going to tell us much about our staff development but it will tell you about how the faculty feel about MY teaching that day. Personally, I think that we want to know more about the work that WE did together.

Maybe we should ask a question about the tools--movie, tutorials, handouts--that were made. Our teachers will be in awe with Latisha's movie and I know that they will find the handouts easy to read and quite helpful. ~Cindy 11/8 7:23pm

Hmm...I will have to think about some of the questions then and see how we can change them to open ended instead of rating. I have posted 3 alternative questions. Check them out, they are on the evaluation page below the survey widget. -Jen

From the email I just sent: Hey y'all. So I thought we might want to discuss somethings. I will post this message on the wiki as well.

First, for the implementation, it is my understanding that we have to submit something to Senn as the "finished product". This is what was said in the syllabus: Guidelines: Implementation: Submit the completed staff development program. It should be long enough to be thorough. When you submit the final product to me, you should also provide it to your real group of people. They can begin using the program and you can begin the evaluation phase. The final project should include at least the following items:

This makes me believe we have to submit something that has all our instructional tools and the like in one place. Is anyone else getting this same impression? This is how it was in 703 as well. For example, my group submitted our website as the product. So, my question to all of you is, what do you want to submit? We don't have to submit our wiki, but we need to have something to submit that has everything that we developed. We can make a separate wiki to submit that doesn't include all our discussions and stuff. I honestly do not care how we do it. We just need to all agree on it. I don't think we can submit the CDS website because that doesn't show exactly what all of us did. My vision was to submit the wiki or a wiki with the tools. We can either get rid of all our discussions or make a new one. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Second, the evaluation. I think we need to have the session one survey done by Wednesday night, since Cindy is implementing session one on Thursday. I have posted an initial survey on the evaluation page. Please look it over and suggest changes. I don't mind changing anything and everything. It is just a starting point. I used the questions posted by Cindy and I. Also, look for typos. I am very bad with typos.

Third, do you think we should develop a checklist or rubric as a way of "grading" the teachers on their wiki contributions? Perhaps this is something that Cindy can use as the teachers start collaborating. I don't know. What does everyone else think? Cindy, what type of assessments/evaluations would be the most useful to you?- Jen, 11/8

Hey ladies,

Cindy, I agree with you on having open end questions. I think they are more valuable and they will provide us with more feedback in the end. I will post some suggestions later today. Jen, creating a separate wiki might be the easiest route at this point, and I don't mind creating it. Just let me know what we want on it and I can get it done by Thursday, yay for Veteran's Day! I have not had the opportunity to look over the evaluation page in detail, but I will do that during my lunch around 11:30 a.m. Also, I wouldn't mind creating the checklist/rubric if we need one. Sorry, I’m so brief. My class will back from guidance shortly. -Latisha 11/9

I have created a new wiki, called techsquad746. This will be what we "submit" to Senn. Latisha, I will help you start transfering stuff. I am making the pages now. We should have our finished report for each stage on each of the correlating pages. All the instructional tools we developed should be on the instructional tools page. I like the idea of have a heading for each page as well. MOre later...Jen, 11/9

http://techsquad746.wikispaces.com/

I have changed some of the rating questions to more open ended questions. I am not sure about #3 though. Cindy, I am not sure all that you are using for the first session. Can you check out #3 of the survey to see if it works. Check out the first four actually. I am not sure I like the wording on #4. If someone can think of a better way to state that question, I will change it. It just doesn't sound right to me.

I have copied and pasted most of our work to the "new" wiki. Am I totally insane at this point? Does anyone else think we have to submit something as the "finished product" to Senn for the implementation? I am totally aware that I am clinically insane at this point in the semester. Therefore, I need to grasp on to someone else's sanity, if there is someone that may be partially sane out there. Let me know. I posted a question on the discussion board but Senn has not posted anything as of yet. -Jen, 11/9

I am with you Jen! This has been a rough semester. I don't want you guys to think that I've forgotten about the group project. I am just trying to finish up my paper for tomorrow, work on internship stuff, and help you guys out as well. I have looked at the new wiki and its a great start. I will update the headings on each page (change the color to match the new background color) and create a heading for the pages that do not have one. -Latisha, 11/9 I am just going to change the background color to be more like this wiki. It is easier and takes less time. -Jen

The new wiki looks good. I placed my info in the new one, and I do think we need to submit the finished product to Dr. Senn. We have done so in the past, and even if he doesn't want it, it looks good! Lee 11/10

Here is Senn's response to my question: Jen's Question: Senn's Response: //You are correct. The implementation should be the final product that you will implement with your audience. The final product will be the bulk of the submission. If the final product speaks for itself, then the report will be very brief, if even necessary. If the final product needs some explanation of any sort, then that explanation would be contained in the "report" portion.//
 * //For the implementation, we are to submit a report as well as the finished product, correct? Therefore, if we developed instruction on how to use a wiki, we need to submit to you a wiki or website, or something similar with all the tools, handouts, videos, etc. that we created for the instruction, correct?// ||

I posted a start to a possible self assessment for the faculty members, for each session. It is posted on the Evaluation page below the survey. take a look and let me know what I should change and/or add. - Jen, 11/10

All, I LOVE the way that the survey has been edited! It looks like it can provide some valuable information for us.

Two suggestions that I'd like for you to consider:
 * 1) Question 3--Maybe we should ask, "What 2 or 3 instructional tools did you find most useful?"
 * 2) Questions 9--Please add this for an answer choice: "I did not participate but will attend the make-up session."

For questions 3, I feel that we put a lot of work into a variety of tools and I don't think that one is the only one for instruction. Another option could be to have them rate each one on a scale so that we can get feedback for each. It is fine with me to leave it as is but these are my thoughts.

Will the survey be ready for the end of tomorrow's session? I need to think of a way to send it out. Either it can be done in an email or it can be posted on the CDSteach wiki--or both.

I am excited and nervous about our work. This morning I woke up with a UTI and stayed home from school. After a visit to the doctor, some meds, and a 3 hour nap, I'm feeling human again.

You ALL did a fabulous job and our faculty will benefit greatly. My headmaster is on board and told me that if teachers cannot attend then they need to attend the make-up session. He NEVER says stuff like that! Thank you so much for this work. I will work on the implementation section over the weekend when I can start thinking again--for a second. ~ Cindy, 11/10 @5:22 pm

All, About the self evaluation--it looks good to me. One additional bit of information that COULD be helpful is to have participants ALSO rate their comfort level with technology. My assumption is that those who are less technology literate will NOT be as comfortable as those who are strong users of technology. ~Cindy, 11/10 @ 6:00 pm

Cindy, I changed #3 and #9 for you. Here is how to embedded it into your CDS wiki: Go to edit (on the evaluation page) Click on the widget for the survey. Click edit widget. Copy the code that comes up. Paste it into your CDS faculty wiki!

This is the link that can be emailed: []

I like the idea about adding the comfort level for technology in general to the self assessment. I have also starting typing up something for the implementation section. Cindy, it may be way off. Change what you need to. At least it is there as a starting point. It is posted on the implementation page. -Jen, 11/10, 6:10

Thanks, Jen. I didn't realize how easy it is to copy the code for the widget. Do you always post the widget code to "other?" Yes. I have always that that was the easiest way. -Jen

I'm reviewing everything for the staff development session tomorrow so I doubt if I will be able to think about the implementation section until the weekend. From what I remember, it seems that this section is one that I will do most of the contributing. I will work on it this weekend in my "free" time. How many more weeks? ~Cindy, 11/10, 6:50pm

Ladies, We have all done an amazing job. I just looked over the survey and the implementation section and they look amazing! I am excited to get feedback from the teachers at your school Cindy. I agree with both of you, I would like to add the technology comfort level element. It will help us when we analyze our data. No school for me tomorrow, Veteran's day, so let me know what I can do to help finish up the project. -Latisha 11/10 6:50

Latisha, I am soooo jealous of you with having a day off. I would absolutely love one. However, usually days off of work are filled with days working on homework. :o( If you could, please add a heading to the instructional tools page of the new wiki. I don't know what else we can do until Cindy implements. Then we can start working on that report. We do need to think of questions for the session 2 survey. You can post some on the evaluation page, under the survey 2 section.

We are doing good ladies!!! Keep hanging in there. Cindy, I forgot to tell you that I love your video you created! Good luck tomorrow Cindy! I can't wait to hear how it goes. -Jen, 11/10 7:34

I'm very excited about this staff development and feel wonderful about how lucky our teachers are to have it delivered at their school. You will be the first to know how things go. I should be getting home from school about 6:00 (I have a 45 or so minute commute) or so and will get online and share with you.

Jen, I'm glad that you like the video. After learning about all of the information from the Kaiser Report, it may be time to make another one.

I'm proud of what we've done and can't wait to see how things go! I am going to add one more slide, one that inserts your photos. ~Cindy 9:30 pm

Implementation went well today. It is always challenging when folks are REQUIRED to attend a session but sometimes that is necessary. Our school hired me to help them move forward to a higher level of technology and this was an opportunity to do that.

The most gratifying part of this experience was when one of the more technology-uncomfortable participants asked when the make-up session was so that she could attend again! She said that she wanted to do everything over so that she could practice. She said that it is difficult for her to keep up with others who are more comfortable with technology and wanted to do it over. She asked me to help her set up a wiki for her students. That is HUGE to me!

Another interesting part of the staff development was the group work. The participants seemed to be quite involved and made sure that I showed the pages that they created! What I did was set up some cards on the table and told participants that they could sit in whatever group they wanted to sit in or they could work on their own.

I previously made banners to put on some of the pages. In the PowerPoint, there was a page that told them the goals of the group work: This worked really well. When they were done, they made certain that I shared their work. I promised myself and others that I would keep this to an hour and I did. They didn't answer the last question on the discussion board but I can ask them to do that for homework. A few people still need to do the survey. The movie was a great stimulator. The handouts were extremely helpful. Teachers didn't spend as much time as I'd like for them to look at the different pages on the wiki. However, I'm anxious to see if some of them will come to the second optional session and set up something for themselves. I'm not confident that some of the teachers have a full understanding of the wiki but it seems that they are interested. To me, that is a perfect start. I hope that someone comes to the next session! Time to fix dinner. I just want to share this experience with you first. ~Cindy 11/11
 * create a new page
 * insert a banner
 * upload and insert a picture with a caption
 * insert text
 * save

Well, it sounds like it went as well as could be expected. I had to do this same very thing in October. I had about the same reaction as you did. Teaching teachers how to work a wiki is hard work. Good job though Cindy. I have copied and pasted the responses to the survey thus far into a word document. It doesn't look very pretty, but at least you can see what 9 people said. It is posted below. -Jen, 11/11



Here are the responses to the discussion questions on the wiki page. To be honest, I believe that this is a process. It is doubtful to me to win a large audience overnight. The teachers actually seemed to enjoy using the wiki (in the small groups) and I believe that a few will consider creating one. Creating a wiki can be a lot of work, especially for people who are not as technology literate.

Although I would love to hear everyone embrace this new technology, it is doubtful that will ever happen with any new idea. If we can get 25% of the teachers to create and use wikis, I would feel quite satisfied. The teachers did not participate by choice but because they HAD to attend. I'm confident that teachers are more likely to use the faculty wiki and some will consider creating their own.

This was a good experience for them and I believe that they will be more open to other technology staff development. One teacher actually asked me to help her with Excel today. We did a good job, ladies! ~ Cindy 11/11, 8:15pm



Here is a copy of a group email I just received from one of my students on the school newspaper.

// heyy guys if u write a sports story please email it to me and dont just put it right on the page.. thanx //

// PS- IM TALKING TO YOU, BEN!!!!!!!!!!! //

Wikis are the best! ~Cindy

LOL! That email is too funny, how old is that student? I looked over the results from the survey and most teachers seem to have really gotten a lot from it. This weekend, I can analyze the results and make charts for the results to make it appeasing to the eye. What do you guys think?

Cindy, I also know how difficult it is to teach teachers, because I am facilitating a course for my school district on Habits of Mind and those teachers can be really rude and opinionated. From the results though, many teachers enjoyed it. GREAT JOB! -Latisha 11/12

I will look over the discussions you posted this weekend. I am burnt out right now though. TGIF!!! That is funny about the student post. Latisha I created two graphs, but please make more!!! I did it last night to see if I could. Not a big fan of making graphs in Excel. I downloaded a free trial of a program, but it had a watermark. Thank goodness for Jing!!! Let me know what you think of my first two. We may have to change them if more teachers complete the survey. Good job everyone! We are almost there. Cindy, you are totally right as far as teaching teachers. I have found that making it mandatory sometimes makes teachers even more turned off because they don't have a choice. I am sure you will win over a few. :o) Jen, 11/12

I hate excel too! Just fyi if you ever need quick and easy graphs visit http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx -Latisha 11/13

I posted the description of the implementation. I'll send it in an email as an attachment. Please let me know what you think and feel free to suggest or do edits. ~Cindy 11/13

Cindy and all, I read through your implementation report. I have attached it below. I only have minor changes (grammatical). The only thing that I was wondering about is if it should be in third person. What does everyone else think?

Also, Cindy are you planning on typing up something for session two? If so, it might be pretty lengthy.



Another thing. I can't believe the survey was blocked. Is there something I need to do for the session two survey? We need to start developing that survey as well since session two is coming up. The self assessments need to be completed as well. I think we need to add more quesitons, especially about technology confidence and knowledge in general.

Timeline: 11/15: Jen: Post survey for session two by 8:00 11/15 (I am working on it). 11/16: Jen: Post completed self assessments by 8:00am. 11/16: All: Make comments, changes, additions to survey questions (by 7:00pm 11/16) 11/16: All: Make comments, changes, and additions to the self assessment (by 7:00pm 11/16) 11/17: Cindy: Sesson two

I will get the two things up on the evaluation page momentarily. - Jen, 6:30.

Update: I have posted an updated version of the self assessment. It is posted on the evaluation page as well as below. Please check out the questions I added to see if I need to be make any changes. Cindy, will you be giving the session two attendees the self assessment at the beginning? I wasn't sure what you plan was on that one. I have also posted the session two survey. Please look through the survey questions. I only have 7 questions on it at this point. If you can think of any other questions, please let me know. Also, please let me know of typos or changes that need to be made. I don't mind making them.

These two items (self assessment and survey 2) need to be ready for Cindy for 11/17. Therefore, I need changes and edits by tomorrow night (let's say 7pm) so I can have them ready.

The survey for the second session looks good to me.

Not to be a spoil sport, but I'm wondering if it is really necessary to do the self assessment. The teachers have already responded to 3 discussion questions and a 10 question survey. The ones who are participating in the second session will do a second survey. Do we really need then to do another assessment?

If so, I'll do it but I'd feel better not asking them. We already have a survey that I shared previously about the teacher's comfort level with technology. I'd rather not bother the teachers with this when I have other favors to ask of them! ~Cindy 11/15

Cindy, I agree. If they have already completed one survey, that it enough to assess the training, and that is all we need. Lee 11/16

I agree with you. We have asked the teachers a lot already. I think we made the self assessment to make our evaluation more robust but I think the surveys are enough.

Cindy, what are you plans for the implementation report? Do you have more to add or should I start generating the report from what you have posted? Or did you want to generate the report? Let me know how I should proceed. -Jen, 11/16 7:00am

Oops! Last night when I posted my response to everything I guess it didn't save. Anyway I looked over the survey and it looks really good. Also, I created two pie charts to go along with the data from the first survey. When I started posting them on the wiki I realized that the format( font and color) of them were extremely different from the graphs Jen created. So my plan is to redo them today and post them by 6:00. Lastly, I agree with you all. Lets omit the self assessment. -Latisha 11/16 7:20am

I have started working on putting together the first draft of the final implementation report. I will try to get this posted tonight. -Jen, 11/16

I'll ask Dr. Senn if it should be changed from first person. ~Cindy,11/16 Dr. Senn says that it is fine to have it written in first person. Whatever the group wants to do is fine with me. Right now, I am opting for the most efficient option! ~Cindy, 11/16 @ 3:00

Most efficient sounds like the best solution to me! Let me know when the final editing should begin....*WARNING* I have training all day Thursday, so it will be later than usual when I turn this in......but I will cc all of you when I turn it in! Lee 11/16 5:34

All: Below is the first draft of the implementation report. I think it is a little lengthy. Personally, I don't think we have to add every little detail in to the report. I don't want to cut out something that others may think is important. Therefore, I didn't. Cindy, is there anything that you think you can cut out? Stuff that might be just minor details? I did change it to third person. I started before Senn responded. I have been waiting for days sometimes to answer my questions. I just don't have the patience for that. it wasn't that difficult anyway. Please look at what I have included and see what needs to be changed or can be eliminated. Cindy, should we include a paragraph about session two or is that cutting it ttoo close? let me know.



FYI: I will be at a late meeting tomorrow. I may not be able to post until after 8pm. I will try to check in throughout the day, but my usual afternoon wiki shift probably won't happen until later.

Cindy, I hope session two goes well. I hope everyone attends! (haha). :o)-Jen, 11/16

All, I edited the report that Jen published, taking out much of the detail. It reads a lot better without my name splattered in every sentence! I hope SOMEONE shows up for the second session. I'm really getting nervous because I've only heard from one person. She said that she can't come on Wednesdays because she works for afterschool. I'll help her with this another time.

~Cindy,11/16

The make-up session 1 is scheduled for Monday, November 22. The teachers who were interested in creating their own wikis were unable to attend this afternoon's session. Instead, I am going to meet with them individually to help them get started. This will be more personal. I will be meeting with the first person tomorrow morning. We are going to set up a wiki for her students to post their science fair projects.

Meeting individually with teachers will work for me but will not be documented in this staff development before the implementation report is due. One of the benefits of having the online Jing tutorials is that they can be accessed online when people are ready to learn instead of delivering instruction when the need and interest is not quite there.

I'm learning from this experience about the needs of the people at my school. It seems like they want one to one instruction. If we can get the ball moving, perhaps others will jump on board and work in small groups.

Doing staff development the week before Thanksgiving is probably NOT the best time of year for implementation. Of course, when IS the BEST time? ~Cindy, 11/17 @ 6:00pm

Okay, so since no one attended, we should probably just go with the implementation report that we have. One edit would be to include the Nov. 22nd make-up session. Other than that, I think it will be fine. Cindy, I am sure that you have inspired a number of teachers to look into using the wiki tool. These sort of things take time to transpire. Although we can't necessarily report the direct effects, I am sure you have made a difference to at least a few of your people. And, you are right. When they are ready to tackle the wiki, the resources are there.

Lee, you have the green light to edit away. I understand that it will be later tomorrow that you can get back to us, unless you are working on it tonight. Thanks!

Next is the evaluation. Our report is due Dec. 2, but I think we can have the report complete before then. All we really need to do is analyze the data from the survey. We could also put in something about the individual teachers wanting individual help. This can be qualitative data instead of quantitative. I will start putting something together this weekend hopefully. However, I need to work on the Technology Procurement paper. Has anyone started this? I am just not sure how to start or where to find the proper info. It is the last one, but it is a monster!

Anyone traveling for Thanksgiving? I am going to Florida and will be gone from Wednesday through Saturday next week. I will have wireless internet at the condo though, so I can check in and do some work while I am on the road. -Jen, 11/17 7:40pm.

PS. Just check the survey and still only 9 responded.

Editing complete and sent to Dr. Senn. All of you were cc'd! Lee 11/18 15:40

Thanks Lee! - Jen, 11/18

I, for one, am going to do some serious celebrating after completing this paper. One thing that I have learned from this class is to do my bibliography first. If the bibliography is all set and the citations are correct, then all else is good. I am NOT looking forward to doing this paper and am just starting now. Happy Thanksgiving.

I will get the teacher evaluations as soon as I can--hopefully on Monday. That is also the make-up session that I am sure everyone is looking forward to attending! ~Cindy, 11/20

Below is the first draft of the evaluation paper. Cindy, I hope it is okay that I went ahead and typed this up even though the make up session is Monday. I can adjust things as needed, or we can just submit it as is. Let me know. I am just trying to get as much done as possible before I leave town. I will email the report to everyone as well. - Jen, 11/21

Cindy, any luck today? Did anyone show for the make up session? - Jen, 11/22

Ladies, as we begin to enter the evaluation phase, make sure that you have recorded your work in the timelog. Don't worry if it is out of order as far as date. Just make sure you add your work. Cindy, also make sure you add your teaching time as well. this is work as well. This will come in handy when we start to evaluate ourselves and each other. -Jen, 11/2

Hello? Is anyone there? I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Unfortunately we have to come back to reality now and start getting stuff done. :o( Cindy, how did the make-up session go? I checked the survey and no one else has completed it. Has anyone looked at the evaluation report? Let me know what is going on and what everyone is doing. Welcome back! -Jen, 11/28

Hello Ladies,

I'm back! Jen, I have not had the opportunity to read over the evaluation report yet. I will read it in the a.m. and provide insight then. It is so hard to get back to work! I hope all of you enjoyed your break. -Latisha 11/28

I'm back as well. Jen, I'm surprised that there isn't one more response to the survey. I was with someone who was filling it out on Wednesday. Maybe she didn't hit the submit button or something.

The make-up session was disappointing with only two people showing up. There were too many things going on to get people's attention last week.

All in all, however, I feel that this staff development has been quite successful. There are several people that I am working with to create wikis. I don't think that they would be doing this without the staff development. One teacher said that she regretted that this wasn't done at the beginning of the year. However, I really don't think that there is a best timen for EVERYONE to engage in staff development. I think that we can light a few fires, get some teachers and kids excited, and then try to engage others in the second round. I'll look at the evaluation and provide some feedback. AHHH....time to get back to real work! ~Cindy, 11/28

Attached is my edits to the evaluation that Jen started. Jen, it looks fabulous! I edited and added a few things. My edits are in purple. These are my suggestions. Please feel free to use or remove them. This was just how I saw this from my perspective. Looks great! Cindy 11/28

I think Cindy's edits look great! If no one else has anything to add or change, then Lee, I think you can edit it up and send it out. -Jen, 11/29

Also, below is a screenshot of the survey results, just to varify that I am being truthful and not just lazy about the survey results. :o) Where is says "sort" it shows how many have completed the survey. Jen