Jesus+Gonzalez

Jesus Gonzalez

Delano Adult School http://delanoadult.weebly.com/

TIMAC Application: [|JesusGonzalezTIMACApp.pdf]

Administrator's focus:
Jesus Gonzalez is the director at the Delano Adult School. He has been in this position for almost two years. During his tenure at the adult school he has been able to work with all staff to become more technological literate and have staff embrace technology as a resource to help them with their everyday responsibilities. Before his arrival at the adult school, staff members did not have an e-mail account and seldomly used their computers. Mr. Gonzalez made it a priority to have all his staff members trained and connected to the district e-mail and internet services. He also provided his staff with professional development opportunities sponsored by the district and professional development that he and his staff created using the Professional Learning Community model that he was trained on by CAL Pro. The PLC concentrated on the integration of technology into the curriculum, which spearheaded the integration of E-testing, Smart Boards, a portable rolling computer cart for staff to use, and the A+ Program the centered on having students complete credits using the computer labs that he helped refurbish when he came on board. In addition, Mr. Gonzalez used TOPSpro data to have staff members concentrate on the creation of competency-based lessons and exams to target student weaknesses. This was done by having teachers work on computers to come up with their own type lessons and exams. Mr. Gonzalez is a type of person who will quickly integrate any new technological ideas that he comes across, so I would like for him to concentrate in the area of lesson planning with the use of technology and continue to support staff with technology that he has already integrated at his school site.

The following are agendas, resources, and a detailed timeline that discusses the implementation of our project at Delano Adult School:







10/22/2010 - First Meeting With Mr. Hernandez Today, I met with my mentee, Mr. Hernandez, and we able to begin our tutorial with power point. The following are the areas that we covered: 1. He completed a Skill Changing Survey- Examine growth once we complete project. 2. We logged onto [|www.otan.us/lswanson/ppTutorials.htm] and were able to cover the following on the tutorial: a. Intro to power point b. Defining the power point work area C. Creating a title slide D. Adding additional slides

The focus from our tutorial on power point was that Mr. Hernandez understand that he keep it simple and not to add too much his first time around. He needs to be cautious with the color schemes he chooses for his slides and play around with the menu bar so he gets familiar with where different commands are at. Overall, had a good idea as to his ability to manuver his way in power point.

3. We then visited [|www.eslamerica.com] and got ideas as to how to compose powerpoints using lessons. This site was very insightful and it lends itself very well to what we are wanting to accomplish here on our project.

We finished off our meeting with starting on his homework and Mr. Hernandez advised me that he would be perusing through power point to add to his three slide he needed to compose with what he learned today. Overall, a good start to our project and we are very enthusiastic about the ideas that we are getting when it comes to developing lessons on power point. I advised Mr. Hernandez that I would be available to answer any questions or concerns that he might have in between the next time we meet, which is on 11/08/2010.

11/08/2010- Met with Mr. Hernandez for our second meeting and we went over the following on power point tutorial: Running a PPT Presentation, Adding Clip Art, Other Images that can be added, and Adding Additional Slides. Tutorial went smooth and we then went into having Mr. Hernandez show me his power point he had worked on for his homework assignment. His power point revolved around grammar and the explanation of abstract and concrete nouns. Mr. Hernandez is an over achiever and went above and beyond his assigned homework. He had 12 slides and had already included clip art and animations to his slides. We worked on making it more user friendly for students and he was going to work on adding some suggested slides and completing the slides on concrete nouns for homework. We are making good progress and are excited about completing our first ppt slide show. Mr. Hernandez will work on his homework and we will meet on 11/19/2010 for our third meeting. We should be close to finishing ppt and familiarizing ourselves with creating a website using weebly.com.

11/19/10 - Mr. Hernandez and myself met for our third session today. We had already covered the topics for power point at our previous meeting so he showed me the changes he had made to his power point. His power point on abstract nouns is coming along and he has used a lot of what he has learned to put in his slide show. Advised him to finish his power point and was given a handout on weebly.com to begin perusing through it for our next meeting on December 03, 2010. We will begin to construct our school web page at that time. Things seem to be running very smoothly

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">12/03/10 - Mr. Hernandez and myself started to work on creating a weebly website to begin posting his power point. We did not succeed very well because this is new to both of us. We went ahead and to some material home to read on creating a weebly website. I then set up a web cast with Susan Coulter to go over some questions with us at our next meeting on 12/13/10.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">12/13/10 - Both Mr. Hernandez and myself attended a web cast meeting given by Susan Coulter. She gave us a quick demonstration on using weebly and went over the basics. She then answered any questions we had. The web cast with Susan was very informative and gave a nice sense of direction. After the web cast, we applied what we had learned to the website being created by Mr. Hernandez. We were able to get quite a bit done. I then had Mr. Hernandez work on formatting website and add the power point to it. When we come back from winter break we will be taking a look at what he has accomplished. We are on our way to having our first link on our website. At our next meeting we will be linking our new website to our school's website.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">1/14/11 - Both Mr. Hernandez and myself continued to work on our weebly website. He was able to add picture and his own ppt. to the website. He also added some links. He will continue to work on website, but we do have some logistical questions that I will be asking at our meeting on 1/21/11. Mr. Hernandez is very proud of the fact that he has his very own website. He was asked to continue to make another ppt. so that we can post it onto the website.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Mr. Hernandez's new website is [|http://www.delanoadult.weebly.com] The site is still under construction.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">2/3/11 - I met briefly with Mr. Hernandez and shared with him some websites that he could post on his webpage. I also reviewed with him how to manuaver around in weebly.com and answered a couple questions he had. I let him know it was very important for him to visit and tinker with his website so he becomes more familiar with making changes to it. I e-mailed him on Friday morning and and gave him some homework. I wanted him to complete the two empty boxes we had on our website and I gave him suggestions as to what he could include in those specific areas. I will check on his progress next week.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">2/28/11 - Met with Mr. Hernandez today. He had a couple questions in regards to links so I was able to show him how to add links to his page. We went over the progress he has made on the website. Website looks good. He will be inviting me into his class to take pictures because he wants to add a photo gallery to his page. He seems to be doing well. I will keep checking on his progress via classroom visits and e-mail correspondence.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">11/2/11 - Mr. Hernandez has been working with our designated mentee teacher for the past two months on creating a weebly website for her business class. The mentee teacher this year is Mrs. Segura and she presented her webite to us at our PLC meeting yesterday. She and Mr. Hernandez have done a fantastic job with the creation of her website. She plans on unveiling it to her students sometime this month. The following is the link to her website: [] Please make sure to vistit the website.