Let’s Talk Meeting Notes November 8, 2008

Let’s Talk Meeting Notes November 8, 2008

Location: Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Attendance: Dayna, Camille, Angie, Jane, Mary Margaret, Sue C., Sue M, Bob, Carol K, James, Chris, Laura and Carol I.

Regrets: Maryjeane & Eileen

Note taker: Carol I - feel free to update and edit , add your name here!

Snacks: Carol K & Sue M

Introductions and updates

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Dayna (Canton HS, Plymouth-Canton Schools) will be presenting at MACUL with colleague, talked about administration resturctuing at her school- wondering how it will affect life as she knows it.

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Camille (Eppler Jr High, Utica Schools) 7th & 8the grade English

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Jane ("retired" St Isaac Joques) is running classes in SE Michigan MI-LIFE (Michigan Leadership Improvement Framework Endorsement) http://www.mi-life.org/ where she is helping administors learn to use web2.0 tools

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Mary Margaret (retired) long time member of Let's Talk, keeps up with us whn traveling

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Sue C (St Isaacs Jorges IT Dept.) had to rebuild their website when Comcast lost all their data

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Sue M (Royal Oak, 2nd Grade) her team has applied for a technology grant - more next month

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Bob (IT consultant) recently went to a Security conference and recommends a book by Dan Lohrmann, "Virtual Integrity" beyond identity theft is integrity theft - becoming a problem with so much info available through social networks. Bob has been adding to pages on the PBWiki site on Cloud Computing and Shift Happens. He asked if anyone knew about “Flock”, a new social network from Firefox.

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Carol K (Counselor at Henry Ford HS) her school missed out on a Skillman grant. She is building a college prep class using Career Cruising whenever she can get access to a computer lab.

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James (retired from auto industry, new career using Moodle to support online learning) is providing us with a Mood site to experiment with this year. He will be using Moodle to support tutoring services for senior citizens and learning tools for a friend who is a high school counselor.

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Chris (Assistive Technology Coordinator for Detroit Public Schools) has been doing lots of workshops through DPS, She and Laura were at a Conference on Assistive Technologies yesterday and were very impressed with Denise DaCoste? from Montgomery County MD. She spoke about their High Incidence Accessible Technology (HIAT) an awesome repository of lessons and technologies that employ UDL principals http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/ Her handouts demonstrated a practical example of differentiated note taking – they were slides and outlines of varying completeness. Jane recommended Scott Elias’ “Taking your slide deck to the next level” http://www.slideshare.net/selias22/taking-your-slide-deck-to-the-next-level/ 

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Laura (Oakland ISD) is a Moodle facilitator at Oakland ISD where they are supporting 24 out of the 28 districts in using Moodle. They just hosted a "Moodle Party" to share the many ways that the courses are being used. There is a lot of concern about copyright and course management systems (CMS or LMS).

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Carol I (Plymouth-Canton Schools, many hats0) Moodle coaching after school

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Angie (MS Girls Technology Integrator at Academy of the Sacred Heart) School is re-developing their “academic integrity policy” at the suggestion of students who complained that the old one wasn’t effective. Everyone must cite everything they use – pictures used from the internet must be attributed. Students are starting to become more creative and developing more of their own materials.

Plugs for MACUL Pre-Conferences sessions sponsored by Special Interest Groups

• SIGSpEd? – Chris is an officer of SIG Special Education – their Preconference session will be at Wayne ATTC (Mach & Mt Elliot) with speaker Rose McKenzie? on writing.
• SIGTele - Laura and Carol I are officers in SIG Telearning and shared that their pre-conference speaker is consultant, Miram Taylor. She will present 2 half day workshops focused on enhancing web based earning environments: "Blending learning and authentic online activities"" and "Using technology to create authentic online activities" They will offer another half day workshop about M.O.R.E., Michigan Online Resources for Educators http://mel.org/more

Business Meeting: Membership dues this year: $25 (individual meeting fee for non-members)

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Upcoming meetings (all held at Academy of the Sacred Heart):

December 6 – Podcast (pre-MACUL places/things people can do in Detroit)

January 10 – Podcast (finish editing with Audacity)

February 7 – Invite a MACUL presenter to do a practice presentation (fee for non members)

March/April – 28 – Post MACUL debriefing

May 2 -

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