Sean+Abajian


 * Sean Abajian (Copperige)

LAUSD, DACE: Jefferson Community Adult School

TIMAC application: [|SeanAbajianTIMACapp.pdf]

Administrator's focus:
Current assignment: ESL Instructor & Teacher Advisor Technology experience: Sean Abajian has given workshops and in-service on Technology to teachers. Leadership qualities: As a Teacher Advisor he has demonstrated his leadership ability through his communication with other teachers. He has also displayed his leadership abilities with the innovative projects he does in his classes. Our school's commitment to technology: We provide computer classes at our main branch as well as satellite branches. We also have a weekly computer lab for our ESL classes Area for Teacher Mentor focus: curriculum development of technology tutorials for other teachers to use during the computer labs and computers classes.

Sean's Web site with his presentation for TDLS 2011 - http://hooper41.org/

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We're reviewing our Road Maps we drew up in fall 2010. People have made a lot of progress!
Topics of Interest, to address:
 * Talk of organizing a Weebly meeting for TIMACers
 * Online Teaching Academy - OTAC - something to consider.
 * Downloading videos:
 * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
 * Frances & Michael A.: interested in tutorial on how to do this.
 * interest in available grants / funding.
 * Michael mentions F.A.C. as a source he's been able get funding from.
 * 231 money can be spent on technology.

Dr. Paul Porter - on Resistance (to change, buy-in) CUE conference March 18 Tech Questionnaire: questions for my students...
 * it's natural, don't panic
 * dealing with resistance is a part of mentoring
 * modeling is the way to get people to give it a try
 * infectious factor. tipping point...once you get to a certain level, it takes a life of its own
 * Magic Wand: "every student would have a clicker"..."If i had a $100 bucks"...sometimes these interests can actually be addressed. Great way to deal with resistance.
 * Asking permission to give feedback "could I give you a hint about that?" nobody says no.
 * "I tried you technique and it didn't work"
 * response: (tone is key) "What do you think we should do"
 * "my students don't even have computers in their homes"
 * magic wand: every student would have a laptop. [maybe you can start with 2 laptops]
 * crossed arms
 * "Can i share some ideas with you"
 * "Nope, I've tried that. and I've tried that, and I've tried that"
 * Let's give it a little time.
 * "There's just not enough time"
 * I've done this before, can I suggest some ideas that will save you time?
 * My students don't even have computers. it's not relevant.
 * talk about the importance of 21st century skills
 * I'm interested in connecting with CUE and ISTE people in the L.A. area.**
 * I'm interested in connecting with CUE and ISTE people in the L.A. area.**
 * Susan Coulter attends regularly
 * You can attend free if you volunteer (tip from Susan Coulter)
 * Also interested in how to submit presentation proposals to them.**
 * do you have your own computer with internet at home? work?
 * Do you have access to a computer with internet at home? at work?
 * What do you use the internet for at home? at work?
 * Do you have an email address? What is it?

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Dr. Paul Porter FEEDBACK:
 * No Baloney Sandwiches (compliment - criticism - compliment) because people will be expecting a criticism after any compliment. Ultimate is for people to solicit feedback.
 * Don't give general positive feedback. Be specific!
 * writing notes is great way to give feedback (handwritten)
 * get mentees to praise themselves. I was really impressed by what you did, but what did you think about it? Get them to think about it themselves.

AFTER LUNCH (In computer lab) Branka gives overview of what's coming up in TIMAC: > []
 * Regional Meetings at March/April (with Alumni)
 * Willing to host at our school?
 * CDE office reps/consults for each region may attend May presentations (no pressure!)
 * CUE conference March 18
 * Susan Coulter attends regularly
 * You can attend free if you volunteer (tip from Susan Coulter)
 * Technology and Distance Learning Symposium, February 25 and 26, 2011

Branka demos Google Voice: []# Amazing possibilities!



via OTAN.us site Jan 20:
 * The Department of Labor has released several papers, funded in partnership with OVAE, that reflect the latest analysis of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) on key areas of adult education. These include papers on providing English language learning to adults, helping public assistance recipients gain literacy skills for employment, improving literacy of incarcerated adults nearing release and preparing young adults with literacy skills that will build their future.
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We spent time updating our TIMAC Project Planns

Use of Audio How to Download Videos (when Youtube is blocked)
 * http://timac.wikispaces.com/Audio
 * http://timac.wikispaces.com/DownloadingVideos
 * http://timac.wikispaces.com/Video+in+Powerpoint

DAY 2
Dr. Paul Porter

"Mentoring is for the the mentee...may sound trite" but sometimes we forget that.

"What do you think of the mentor/mentee relationship?" -Jesse and I [Sean] talked about it. Jesse talked about the importance of being supportive and modeling. I shared how i feel I need to incorporate more of giving, not just taking (e.g. asking someone to use a new tech as taking as opposed to giving to them e.g. creating a step by step tutorial that the teacher sees I took the time to make and which the teacher can readily incorporate...so the teacher doesn't see me and automatically think...oh no here's more work"

COMPUTER LAB Project Plan and Surveys: [] We can identify/edit our goals 2-3-5 years as well as for our 1st Mentoring project (to be completed by May 2011) Conferences: CATESOL, CCAE, CUE, ISTE

DAY 1
SEAN'S NOTES from today, October 14, 2010 links from Diane Wallis: http://efl20.blogspot.com/2007/11/voicethread-as-collaborative-efl.html http://voicethread.com/ http://www.voxopop.com/group/78582bdd-1e1e-44c2-8be0-fdc50dd2d8ab http://www.voxopop.com dianewallis.podomatic.com edublogs http://dianewallis.edublogs.org http://edublogs.org audio worksheets http://fog.ccsf.edu/~dwallis/index2.html
 * voicethread**
 * voxopop**
 * podomatic**

Links from Blair: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx also uses MovieMaker very cool Jeopardy Template http://eslamerica.us/uploads/Civics_Jeopardy1.pps

Links from Blair: http://eslamerica.us http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx http://eslamerica.us/uploads/Civics_Jeopardy1.pps http://www.spellingcity.com
 * Her own website!** (very impressive! lots of links to great content!)
 * Photostory 3**
 * MovieMaker** (she also uses it)
 * Jeopardy Template** (very cool)
 * Spelling City**

http://ning.com Sean A. is a moderator of this Ning at Jefferson Community Adult School: http://cybervida.ning.com
 * NING:** Social Media like Facebook

Links from Susan Coulter: http://www.quia.com/pages/scoulter10/page53 (fun quizzes! great layout!) http://coultersc.weebly.com http://weebly.com http://moodle.otan.us/login/index.php
 * Quia**
 * Her own website!**
 * Moodle** (OTAN) a course management system

OTAN is creating a course repository (classes created for Moodle) Advanced ESL, wraparound USA Learns, English for All Created by Cathryn___ It's in Alpha test (Jan/Feb 2011) (OTAN is 8 people...4 work on content/training) soft skills (customer service skills)
 * Branka:**

http://www.otan.us/index.cfm?fuseaction=training&catid=10830 http://www.caadultedtraining.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=calendar
 * CALENDARS: TRAINING**

http://www.otan.us/otac (too late for this year, maybe next year)
 * Online Teaching Academy:**

**AFTER LUNCH**


Kristi Reyes Job Search Lesson Plan http://www.miracosta.edu/home/sramirez/jobsearch.pdf http://connect.otan.us/gotimac make sure to go through the steps of Audio Wizard everytime you access the meeting (and want to talk).
 * Voice/Video/Chat**

http://timac.wikispaces.com/otanwebbasedactivites2010 http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&catid=10722 http://www.otan.us/digest/
 * Kristi Reyes' monthly column:**
 * What's Happening at OTAN:**

http://www.thinkfinity.org/ (Michael mentioned he's a Thinkfinity trainer)

Sharon and Ian use: http://www.news-for-you.com/index.asp Puzzlemaker

Sharon recommends these free online books (Ventures, etc): http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/students/?site_locale=en_US#

our **Group (2)** talked about "Sites for creating interactive and printable vocabulary exercises" http://www.otan.us/images/internetclassroom/Clozetestcreatordirections.pdf

Melinda does Google Docs training for OTAN

very cool activity http://voicethread.com/#q.b36403.i192294 http://voicethread.com/#q.b61467
 * Group 3**

http://kreyes.glogster.com
 * Group 4**

California Reality Check http://www.californiarealitycheck.com/start.htm http://www.uplanit.org/
 * Group 1**

The Lesson Plan Builder makes it easier for you to develop quality lesson plans that address adult education content standards in the context of CASAS and SCANS competencies. http://www.adultedlessons.org

Computer Using Educators www.cue.org

TPACK - Technology, Pedagogy, Content http://tpck.org http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/tpack/ Video: http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/topics/iste-tpack-video-%E2%80%93-all-the-tpack-2x-the-commercial-interruptions/ ISTE Conference in Colorado June 2010 http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/registration

"The Teacher is the Guide on the Side, not the Sage on the Stage" said Frances

William & Mary College http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/ http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/file/view/K-6LiteracyLearningATs-Feb09.pdf

Barry Bakin's wiki http://coasttocoast.pbworks.com

Facebook - Ron Fujihara http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=240223841715

Draft of Plan for when W.I.A. (Federal Funding) is re-authorized http://www.otan.us/strategicPlanning/draft.html

OVAE on occasion consults OTAN/TIMAC on tech in Ed http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd/tdlearn.html
 * OVAE** is Federal office for Adult Ed

http://timac.wikispaces.com/Clickers http://www.prometheanworld.com/server.php?show=nav.15997 Clickers using cellphones: http://www.polleverywhere.com/how-it-works
 * Clickers**

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