Let’s Talk Meeting Notes October 4, 2008
Location: Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Attendance: Eileen Heasley, MaryJeanne Franzinger, Sue McFeeley, Carol Klosowski, Carol Isakson, Angie Saylor, Chris Skogland
Note taker: Angie
Snacks: Carol I. coffee & doughnuts, Carol K - juice
Business Meeting:
Membership dues this year: $25 (individual meeting fee for non-members)
Looked at a sample padfolio for consideration as a “Let’s Talk” give-away. Rather pricey minimum order of 96 at $5.39 + $55 set up charge, After discussion we thought we’ll look for something that we could get in a smaller quantity. Possibly smaller padfolios.
http://4imprint.com
Upcoming meetings (all held at Academy of the Sacred Heart):
November 8 – Moodle (http://m-dc.org/itt/) presented by Angie, Carol & Laura snacks: Carol K & Sue M
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 -
other important events:
May 15 – Road Rally for ASH – shall we get a “Let’s Talk” car?
September 2009 – Used Book Sale
shopping list –
(Sue M.) water, paper plates, hot cups, napkins, regular tea, & coffee
(Carol I.) coffee pot
Program: all (no fee) "What we did on our summer vacations"
Eileen - Shared new brochure, “A Vision for Clean Water” – she will be going to Nepal on Sunday, October 12. “A Vision for Clean Water” will go into an area and set up clean water and the local Rotary Club will commit to do other projects. Training information is on the back of the brochure. It costs $100 for a filter for a school. With a donation “A Vision for Clean Water” will come and share. Leaving today to pass out “A Vision for Clean Water” at environmental demo house created by Lawrence Tech students near Troy Public Library.
Carol I - School is supporting a clean water project – Interact Club (school-based) – works with local Rotary Club. Panorama now owned by Google – has the ability to geotag pictures. Maybe Eileen can use it to show where the water filters are in Nepal.
Carol K -- Chris, Carol K & Bob, Carol I. & Laura attended the MITS – Michigan’s Integrated Technology Conference in early summer, June 18, 19, 20 in Traverse City. This a great deal, only $50 for the conference. National speakers present. Carol K. was very impressed with a 5th Grade Teacher from Florida. Handouts were presented on a flashdrive, but also located on the MITs website
http://www.cenmi.org/mits/
Maryjeanne - Changes in school, not enough enrollment at the beginning of the year to have 2 sections. End result was 1 section for each grade. Would like to use KidzOnLine (
www.nnkol.org/TechTraining/). Used Brimingham Yard Fair & Birmingham Library has a used book sale in September – excellent resource. Book sale has been an excellent fundraiser for years
Carol I. - This summer attended the Lilly North Conference (
http://www.facit.cmich.edu/lilly/default.shtml) – College and University Teaching in Learning in Traverse City. Sessions vary in length. Provide a notebook with great resources.
MACUL – 240 proposals for the March 2009. SigTELE – Miriam Taylor – pre-conference presenter.
Passed around newspaper article about Greg Marten, MACUL friend who’s band is having a CD release party tonight in Plymouth.
Sue M. -Lots of combination classes at school. Teacher’s learning how to use Drupal (
http://drupal.org/) – may be a good replacement for FrontPage & DreamWeaver. Royal Oak classrooms will have websites. Doing Year 2 of Stella, extended it to the Math.
Great site for spelling lists - SpellingCity.com(http://www.spellingcity.com/)
Angie & Laura attended NECC this summer. Angie demonstrated ASH’s SIS System, PCR Educator. Discussed ASH Road Rally fundraiser – will share flyer in the spring.
Textbook buy back – Larry Sills…not sure of the name of the company. Books are also sent to ASH sister school, Our Lady Guadalupe Middle School For Girls (
http://www.olgdetroit.org/en/index.html)
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