June 25, 2006 11:04 PM
Exhibit at AWSP
I went and exhibited at the Association of School Principals in Spokane, Washington. My flight was cancelled so I ended up arriving late, but was still able to exhibit one day.
I made two great connections. One was the vendor Achieve3000 who said they would sponsor a dinner at the Oregon Cadre if we let them present for one hour. The second was like EdGate, there name escapes me, but I was wondering if this would be a solution to the ODE REAL project and adding content.
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June 22, 2006 11:07 PM
COSA Seaside
I presented on "To Block or Not To Block" at COSA Seaside. The one hour session was about whether we should be blocking access to websites such as MySpace, blogs and such or teaching kids how to navigate around these environments. There were only about 14 people in the session on a sunny Thursday [cough] golfing afternoon.
In addition I helped with the REAL session presented by Drew Hinds.
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June 20, 2006 11:09 PM
ITSC Lunch
I had an OETC planning luncheon to work on ideas for our 2007 ITSC. I also worked with Jake to make the website registration process more user-friendly.
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REAL Contractor
I hired my first contractor to work on REAL. Sue will help train and enter lessons in writing, math and science. She will work the duration of the project on a contract basis. I will hire a team of educators to enter in REAL lessons as we get closer to August.
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June 19, 2006 11:11 PM
REAL Planning
I met with Drew Hinds, Sarah Martin of ODE and Jon Hunter the web contractor for the REAL project. We outlined the scope and sequence of the $75,000 grant I was awarded for adding content and marketing REAL around Oregon.
My goal is to use the monies to award mini grants to cadre participants who want to create regional cadres. These regional cadres would then share the REAL website and resources and pass it on down to the teachers.
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Carla and Cadre
Carla and I met to plan the 2006-07 cadre. We decided to have a leadership team. We asked for applications and met to choose the leadership team.
- Todd Hamilton
- Lynn Lary
- Linda Vanderford
- Joe Buglione
- Tim Chase
- Debbie Breckner
- Pamela Leland
We will meet in early September for bonding and to plan our first cadre meeting.
Carla and I also worked on our budget for the year. She rolled some funds over to OETC to manage the food and logistics.
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June 13, 2006 11:12 PM
Intel Progress
Met with Thomas today about the Intel progress. He has trainings set up for Oregon and three in Montana. Things are looking interesting with Intel, not sure what is up, if maybe they are not going to continue. They are not wanting to give us the rest of our funding.
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Buy WriteSite?
I have met with Lynne Anderson-Inman, Ph.D., the Director of CATE who hosts the Oregon Writing Project to see if she would be interested in taking over the WriteSite. She was not interested at this point seeing that it is not user-friendly enough yet.
I met with Clarity Innovations to see if they would give me a speck on recreating the WriteSite. The cost was $5-10K. At the same time I have been given hope that OETCs goal would be to make it more user-friendly, so I put Clarity on hold for doing any further research and design specks on the project.
I have put WriteSite on the shelf for now. We still have users, but there is no edits to the code at this time.
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