Horrocks1112

Meet bi-weekly with DeWitt Technology Committee to guide and develop the school's technology mission. Worked the first two weeks of school with many staff to re-connect to printers. Still some concerns that all printers are not accessed the same way, confusing and time consuming to figure out which protocol to use. Can't really teach staff to do this on their own until there is a standard protocol. (Kivilisild, Sherman, Jacobson etc.) Worked getting all the 6th graders their NT accounts for the first week of school. This is the first time we have done this and it was very successful. Helped new staff with NT accounts and district email. Helped Woodridge with setting up email to go out to whole school for band lessons. Gave three Edmodo workshops because of requests from staff. Staff very excited to use it. Helped Walters and Buchner with resources for back channel type of class interaction. Helped Vanvleet with Google Docs set up for RtI committee. Helped SS department set up and use Google Docs for district PLC day meeting. Helped get video going for Volckmar presentation. Fixed Smart Board issue for Volckmar Worked with Forton to introduce cloud storage, dropbox etc for her use. Developed the 6th grade Digital Literacy Course Curriculum and presented to SS, Sci staff and Tech Committee Created a pamphlet about the 6th grade Blue Team for Open House Demonstrated Edmodo parent portal at Open House Helped Voorheis set up personal computer to work at school. Demonstrated online quizzes and games with Quia to clubs. Look for and send out annotated online resources to the whole staff several times a week. (Have gotten a lot of positive feedback about this.) (I have tried linking files to some of the notes above but am getting error messages.)
 * Work done September and October 2011**

Worked with Camille on formatting issues in WORD. Developed and presented several Smart Board lessons on essay writing, paragraph organization, transition sentences, supporting details. Developed and presented Smart Board interactive lessons on: Egyptian Geography, Egyptian Pyramids, Mesopotamia Timeline. Created and used Smart Response test for Mesopotamia unit. Demonstrated how to set up Smart Response assessment, use of clickers for Bob W. Sent out technology emails to staff 2-3 times each week. Give mini-workshop on Dropbox. Send out Smart Response documents. Taught workshop on Diigo. Worked with B. Carter getting internet connection set up. Developed several pages of Diigo documentation, sent out to interested staff. Sent out documentation to staff for how to set up a CSV file. Demonstrated freerice to P. Clare Worked setting up Edmodo course with Marianne D.
 * November 2011**

Worked with Laurie V. on Bb powerpoint problem. Helped Bob W. set up Smart Response, work out problems with it. Did research to help Bob W. find alternative ways for kids to poll using their own cell phones. Helped Mariane. D. with blogs. Helped JoAnne C with youtube downloader. Tech Committee meeting Eric P. find parent/ student online calendar tools. Patricia F. with ESOL tools, "jokes" for kids. Prepared presentation for Digital Literacy Course. Working on presentation to staff for editing online, paper saving resources.
 * December 2011**

Diigo Dropbox Smart Response

Worked with Sterk setting up and practicing Smartboard use. Helped Boisvert with setting up Blog for club. Helped set up Writers Club with Google Doc. Helped several teachers with some basics of iPad use when they were newly given iPads. Held technology committee meeting. Worked with several teachers and Maureen Jakobson setting up audio book accounts. Helped Blake set up her projector, fix some glitches with video. Helped Mac K. set up Google Doc for online staff meeting. Worked with Church to practice and use Smartboard. Had several "informal" work sessions showing staff members Diigo, Edmodo, and Essay Grader. Showed several online interactive ancient China activities to SS teachers for China Day. Set up Common Core Quizzes on Edmodo and demonstrated how they can work to collect data for team.
 * January 2012**

February and March 2012 Created a Google Doc to record hundreds of annotated web resources for staff. Helped Judy F. with Google Docs for disseminating information to staff. Worked with 6th grade to create a data sheet on study hall assignments. Helped many staff to re-enroll their iPads. Presented Edmodo to a joint staff meeting with Boynton Helped Margaret H to reconnect to printer Helped Anne B. with SB orientation issues. Helped Judy Hoffman with creating PDF from Survey Monkey Worked with several ELA staff to find good note taking apps for iPad Presented 3 separate technology programs on our PLC Day. 1. Review of Schoolnet 2. Intro to Edmodo, Diigo, Google Doc, 3. Resources to help with Common Core and 6 Shifts. Helped Andrea hook up to printers, dropbox Fixed a touch pad problem on Mac laptop for Cernera's long term sub

April 2012 Very short month because of vacation, snow day and ElA and Math testing. Gave a workshop to science department introducing their new netbooks Showed group of teachers how to add printers. Worked with Mark W. to get his internet connection working. Worked on presentation for Digital Literacy Course to Connie Evelyn, met with interested parties to present. Worked with Shane at Boynton to talk about new DLC and ideas for next year. Demonstrated how to use Smartboard for supporting simulations in the classroom. Demonstrated how to set up a Google Doc for science project. Showed several interactive ancient Rome websites to SS staff.

May 2012 Worked with science department to work out glitches and problems with netbooks. Helped Laurie V. with printer issues especially with netbooks. Worked with Yvette to hook up to new copiers as printers. SS classes used online interactive to tie into ELA Mystery unit and SS Rome unit. (BBC Death in Rome site) Helped set up Google Docs for Yvette for science class collaboration. Helped ESOL staff with Youtube Downloader. Introduced and demonstrated Edmodo to several newer staff. Discussed expanded use of Edmodo for Eric P. to use next year. Will work with him one on one next week. SS Dept. discussion about Stratalogica vs. Google Earth. Will work up presentation for Google Earth for early next year. Demonstrated Xtranormal as presentation tool. Sent out weekly (+) technology suggestions to staff with annotated links. Will work with staff to prepare laptops for "clearing" at the end of the year. Took SS classes to interactive virtual tour of Viking villages.

June 2012 Ran two, well-attended workshops on various ways to back up and secure documents from hard drive to prepare for summer re-imaging. These both turned into workshops about Dropbox and Diigo. The participants were really excited, especially about dropbox. The workshops ran well over time as I helped individual teachers set up dropbox on their laptops. Also spent a lot of time demonstrating Diigo and how it can be used for class collaboration. Presented 1/2 day session on the new DLC content to staff who will likely be teaching the course in the fall.