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Cohort 7 Online Meetings toc = Register = Please register for the meetings now and you will recieve e-mail reminders 5 and 1 day before the meeting. The e-mail will also contain instructions on how to join and how to test your system. Please consider using headphones with a microphone. A Web cam would enhance the experience even more.

= Summaries of Meetings =

Friday, April 15, 2011, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Attended: Sean Abajian, Ian Batstone, Susan Briggs, Frances Frazier, Michael Lewis, Teresa Reen, Leif Williams, *** Support Mentors: Susan Coulter, Diane Wallis, Branka Marceta During our last online meeting some of our participant could not be there because they were traveling back home from the Southern California Regional Meeting at Culver City Adult School. There was a Report from North Cal Regional. We got short final updates on the projects in a round robin format. Another report was about 42nd CATESOL State Conference. - The Art and Passion of Language Teaching. Sean talked about the mobimooc he was participating in at the same time. MOOC stands for Massive Online Open Course and is a new trend in professional development – view a [|video]by Dave Cormier for further explanation. April deliverables & May presentations were the main topics of the meeting. Branka gave presentations about what makes a good slide show regarding design. We also talked about what makes an effective presentation delivery. We discussed what hands-on training to do. With CCAE COABE National Conference: Adult Education for the Global Economy, coming around the corner on April 17-21, 2011 we chatted about who would be there, in San Francisco, and the fact that Michael Lewis was co-presenting. The group was remined that April was the month to deliver data, as listed at http://timac.wikispaces.com/deliverables: Some common technical Issues were discussed, such as linking to multimedia files and inserting photos in PowerPoint slideds. We talked about file format differences between pptx and ppt, and Mac versions of MS Office/Keynote. We ended the meeting by expressing how we felt about the upcoming presentations.
 * Evaluations by your mentees
 * Descriptions of your projects
 * May 12, 13 – Presentations
 * 5-7 minutes
 * 5-7 slides
 * guiding questions
 * May 13 – Online evaluations and forms while in Sacramento

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Friday, March 11, 2011, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Attended: all

Resources
Video in PowerPoint – http://timac.wikispaces.com/Video+in+Powerpoint Taking photo of your computer screen and editing it – http://timac.wikispaces.com/Screen+shots New cool tool – Evernote – remember everything - [|http://evernote.com] Deliverables for April/May } March/April – Regional Meetings } March & April – Online Meetings } April – deliver data ◦ Evaluations by your mentees ◦ Descriptions of your projects } May 12, 13 – Presentations ◦ 5-7 minutes ◦ 5-7 slides } guiding questions } May 13 – Online evaluations and forms while in Sacramento

Please check the Deliverables page on the wiki. http://timac.wikispaces.com/deliverables

Attended: Ian Batstone, Susan Briggs, Laura Cifuentes, Frances Frazier, Jesus Gonzales, Michael Lewis, Sharon Ram, Teresa Reen, Leif Williams,*** Support Mentors: Susan Coulter, Diane Wallis, Branka Marceta

During our third online meeting we got updates on the projects.

Frances Frazier is working on the wiki for WASC. Next step is bringing in photos and other elements. She is also using Piclits with students and got email accounts for all Ss. Laura Cifuentes is working with Weebly, and teachers making Web sites. She gave two days of training - 6 hrs total. Their school’s IT guy helped greatly. There were 11 teachers participating, and 2 mentees are using Weebly and sharing with Ss. Next week - Laura will ask her mentees what they'd like next.

Jesus Gonzales is using Weebly, incorporating with a teacher who's taken off with it. They are creating ppts and in the computer lab and incorporating ppts and adding links to the Web site. Next they will add student info and a blog. It is going well overall. Jesus' expectations are exceeded. The hope is to use the snowball effect and teach others. They are also still recovering from the flood

Susan Briggs is catching the college wave, and is sending her teachers to Blackboard training on March 3rd for ESL staff. Susan got training on Voicethread and embedded it in her Blackboard course.

Michael Lewis created wikis with info for teachers to use as reference and and guidelines for the program’s Vision project. They are screening Ss for vision problems related to learning problems. Seven [7!] teachers are using the wikis on regular basis. Michael is updating his Web site to keep everyone posted - all the stakeholders - teachers and district. His project is on track. The next goal after screening is to set up a class with some technology for Vision project – for example auto sequencing and other technology helping with peripheral vision.

Teresa Reen is following up with mentees on the previous training. They are feeling more comfortable with equipment and are using it. Even evening teachers want equipment in their classes. Daytime teachers are not asking for much tech support – they are becoming self-sufficient and more confident in technology use. Teresa has been asked to work with HSD program. During our January meeting the mentoring training was useful for Teresa.

Leif Williams’ mentee’s goal is setting a Web site for the ESL program. They are creating and linking pages and uploading photos. The next step is bringing in external links. Leif also creating his own Web his own class at Williamseslclass.weebly.com

Ian Batstone had a good meeting with two mentees. They are going to develop a directory related to the testing EL Civics and CASAS testing preparation. There will be lesson plans to use in the computer lab, and other lessons for the classroom use. They started a Weebly and posted video clips on it. The whole school recently had training on Internet Safety and have resources related to this topic.

Sharon Ram is working with Senteo ‘clickers’ – student response system. She did a training in January for mentees - three ESL teachers and one HS math teacher, titled //Senteo in Action.//She demonstrated possibilities and challenges while using the SRS in a lesson with her students. She will do another demo for those teachers who missed the training.

After the reports we had a group discussion about upcoming conferences, events and TIMAC deliverables.

We talked about the upcoming TDLS. [3/4 update – TIMACers spotted at TDSL – Susan Briggs, Susan Coulter, Michelle Dullea, Michael Aaron, Ryan De La Vega, Ian Batstone, Donna Edwards-Brown, Vicky Jones, Diana Batista, Josie Majul TIMACers who presented: Sean Abajian, Susan Gaer, Leila Rosemberg, Kristi Reyes, Francisca Wentworth]

Michael Lewis will be presenting with Leslie Peters at COABE.

We went over Dr. Porter’s tips for improved time management. See the presentation below.

The group had a question about the term “dying on every hill”. Dr. Porter clarified it in an e-mail after the meeting: // “It means that the person may not have the ability to prioritize and decide what is important and what is not that important. Instead of doing this prioritizing, they look as every task as the highest priority and one that they are willing to commit massive amounts of time and energy on. They “die on any hill” meaning they go all out on everything.” //

These were some comments after Branka shared the information. //Leif Williams: (15:22) Some very good ideas that i will share with my staff.// //Ian Batstone: (15:22) I like dying on every hill// //Teresa Reen: (15:22) What I need to do is not handle paper work too often// //FranFrazier: (15:24) I think the tickler file would become my procrastination file, unfortunately.//

We then separated in two groups to work on Weebly and Wikis. There were significant technical difficulties while Susan Coulter was sharing her valuable expertise related to creating and maintaining a Web site. Next time, we made sure, it will be an overall better experience regarding the technical aspect. The wiki group talked about the overall challenge for any professional-development-based Web site, wiki or group to motivate the members/participants to contribute their thoughts, feedback and content.

**Weebly**
http://help.weebly.com/index.html

**Time management tips**
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Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Attended: Michael Aaron, Michelle Dullea, Frances Frazier, Michael Lewis, Sharon Ram, Teresa Reen, Leif Williams, Diane Wallis, Blair Roy, Branka Marceta

A few of our TIMACers did not attend because they were at CALPRO’s ePLC training. We are looking forward to hearing from them about what they learned. We did short updates on where everyone is with their project. Then we talked about wiki and Web sites platforms – wikispaces.com, pbworks.com and weebly.com. There was a discussion about online services for audio and podcast. Diane and Sharon introduced us to Vocaroo. As a way to explore new technology tool appropriate for education we tried using Glogster EDU to create interactive posters to depict each participants’ project. Learning how to use a Web 2.0 tool through an online platform had mixed results. A few folks were able to create their poster. Other folks needed more direction and instruction. There were some issues with creating ‘student’ accounts for all.


 * About Glogster Edu - http://edu.glogster.com/what-is-glogster-edu/ **
 * Tutorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80NISdsoouE **

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Friday, November 12, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Attended: All

In the beginning we spent some time familiarizing ourselves with the platform and making sure our audio settings were working. Some had issues with their microphones not working, and some managed to fix it during the meeting. A dozen or more of us tried our Webcams, too.

Branka organized groups with support mentors into individual breakout rooms where they did an update on their projects and November school site visits.

Back in the whole group room, Branka talked about resources by OTAN and upcoming conferences.

Handout:

Selecting a Headset and/or Microphone
Logitech - http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/webcam-communications/internet-headsets-phones

Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/Productlist.aspx?type=LifeChat

= Kristi Reyes' Virtual Visit =

We had our first experience in an online meeting as a group during our training on Thursday, when Kristi Reyes presented from Oceanside. Here's a recording of her 'virtual visit'

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 * Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro - Chat Transcript from Online Meeting Place for TIMAC, Thursday, October 14, 2010 **

michael lewis: (14:15 ) She was very motivating michael aaron: (14:16) your presentation was great! Frances Frazier: (14:16) I liked what Kristi said abaout not being the gatekeeper. Susan B.: (14:16) T he presentation reminded me NOT to just add technology that is cool, but to consider the outcomes or objectives for the students and course first. Good point. michelle: (14:16) Kristi was very motivating and current. Frances Frazier: (14:16) She was very enthusiastic about this Timac program. Teresa Reen: (14:17) I like her attitude about empowering students regardless of their current skills Laura Cifuentes: (14:17) yes, it's good to be reminded not to underestimate what our students can do. Ian Batpebble: (14:17) I like how Kristi talked about making sure that what you are doing is always tied to your educational goals. Frances Frazier: (14:17) I liked it that she gave us ideas for responding to negative voices.
 * Participants’ reactions about Kristi’s presentation **