Tech+Meeting+9-16-09

Mr. Gregor, Mr. Wendlandt, Mr. Borglum, Ms. Scheurer

Agenda: 1. Share what you have learned this summer. Mr. Gregor: Made website more usable for the students, it is time consuming until you figure things out. Mr. Wendlandt: Took Moodle and Socrates classes. Has a 9th grade English class on-line, 11th grade partially complete, completed the class but didn't get a certificate, Ms. Scheurer: Put some documents on her website, planning to utilize discussion boards with her class. She did the Moodle training. Will be adding and changing as she goes.

2. What are you implementing in your classroom. Mr. Wendlandt showed us his Moodle page for 9th grade classroom. Would like to use it as a supplement for the class. Mr. Gregor demonstrated his website. It has the textbook, lessons, notes, resources, etc. He is using it with MSU Biology on the first day of school. He did a scavenger hunt in the website with the 10th graders. Ms. Scheurer would like to implement the discussion boards in class, has not done so yet. Feels discussion boards for all her classes.

3. What are our needs presently to move forward? Computer availability, implement in classrooms and see what comes from it as we are not sure what challenges will face us.

Gregor not planning on adding much at this time, summer is more conducive for this work?

4. What do we want to share with the rest of the staff. Would like to wait and see how what we have works before sharing with the staff.

5. Next step and next meeting. Meeting in November and talk about where we are at and prepare to show the staff what we are are doing.