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Alumni TIMAC Online Meetings 2010-11 toc

Third meeting - ** Friday, April 15, 2011, 12-1:30 pm **
Friday, April 15, 2011, 12:00 -1:30 pm Attended: Myrna Montenegro, Sybil Cartwright, Branka Marceta, So Cal Regional Participants



Since on the same day the So Cal Regional Meeting was held, the participants at Culver City Adult School joined for a few minutes at the beginning. Branka and Myrna chatted for a little while, and Sybil joined the conversation a little later.

Myrna gave an update. She is not teaching in adult ed but has created literacy level materials with a colleague. She is working on the online companion resources. Focus on parents to work with their child. k-1st grade student level – and parents level from literacy to beginning low. Parent centers at k-12 schools. Online resources directly relate to materials, leading to a one –stop-shop. They are also planning to set up weekly topical sessions in online format, with recordings of online sessions available for viewing. Myrna had experience of setting up summer online school thorough Skype in El Salvador (lots of technical difficulties) and Mexico (two groups: professionals and villages).
 * Myrna Montenegro, formerly North Hollywood Polytechnic, LAUSD DACE**

Sybil shared her extensive list of useful Web sites. She made a bingo game for irregular past tense verbs. Her coordinator asked Sybil to create another copy for the resource room for all the teachers. Here’s the document she shared -
 * Sybil Cartwright, Grossmont Union High School District--El Cajon Adult**

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Second meeting - ** Friday, February 11, 2011, 12-1:30 pm **
Attended: April Oliver, Leila Rosemberg, Catherine McNally, Branka Marceta 

It was so much fun to connect with April, Catherine and Leila.

Leila is still very connected to OTAN. This year she is a trainer for the F2F and online workshop about Using Math Web sites. She compiled a collection of her favorite ones at otanmath.wikispaces.com.
 * Leila Rosemberg, Culver City Adult School **

Leila is doing a pilot for National Repository of Online Courses ([|NROC]) Network for their new Algebra 1 course, At the same time she is participating in OTAN’s new OTAC academy. She will modifying the same algebra course to customize it for adult education ASE learners.

One thing April boasted is that one of her TIMAC mentees had just offered some professional development for other teachers in their department. Their agency has had budget cuts but keep on going.
 * April Oliver, Santa Rosa Community College **

Catherine is still teaching at a significantly downsized program. They moved once and will be moving again next year. Fortunately their Interactive whiteboards are following along (and you may remember Catherine as our IWB expert and enthusiast). Catherine uses CDLP online and utilizes the writing part with her students and she’s created a Facebook group to communicate with her class.She has also created and compiled a number of resources regarding the topic of Internet Safety. Here's a link to one of the resources Catherine uses - http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-privacy-new-2009-12
 * Catherine McNally, Eureka Adult School **

We chatted about various resources and mentioned two in particular:

TED – an outfit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading []

Copyleft – copyright safe resources http://timac.wikispaces.com/Copyleft

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A great re-union indeed. See you all next time.

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First meeting - ** Friday, November 12, 2010, 12-1:30 pm **
Attended: Blair Roy, Susan Coulter, Leila Rosemberg, Branka Marceta



We talked about how the school year is progressing at our schools. Everyone is feeling the effects of budget cuts with fewer hours and more non-working days. We summarized TIMAC (October 14-15) and OTAC (November 9-10) face-to-face events in Sacramento.

We were hoping that Tina Sanders could join us from her engagement in Antarctica, but she did not make it this time around. We hope she can join us in February. Leila and her high-school students are following Tina’s reports on a regular basis.

Also planning to join us was Myrna Montenegro, but was not able to make it this time.

Francisca Wentworth had technical difficulties joingin us, even though she was online after an interesting morning at Jefferson Adult. She had just held what was their first attempt at bringing in students from the waiting list to a face-to-face classroom and orienting them on how to use their ELS course in Moodle, until they can get into a regular class. Branka shared a link to a 12 minute video about TPACK – a theoretical construct about the importance of teachers being equally proficient in their content knowledge and pedagogical approaches, and understanding what technologies best complement each learning activity.

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See you in February.

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view notes from last year's meetings at Alumni Meetings 09-10