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We're on our way to TIE and we hope to learn: Our plan was to find sessions to enhance our existing technology, which centers around putting Promethian boards in our K-8 classrooms.

At TIE, we attended sessions on (give a couple of sentences for each session by each member. You do not all need to attend the same session, however if you do attend the same session then work together for a single response) : We thought that Google might offer some features that many classrooms could share. Two specific Google features we both liked are Google Earth and Google Sketch up. We liked the concept of Google Docs, and email, but felt that Gaggle covers those needs pretty well. ||
 * MEMBER || SESSION || How it influences / changes / supports proposed TIE student project ||
 * Will + Rich || Google Apps || We were looking to expand classroom use of Promethian whiteboards specifically, and technology in general. We see the whiteboards as a great way to stimulate students working in teams, and doing projects where presentations are central.
 * Rich + Brian || Promethean Instruction that Works || Our main purpose was to increase our skill level with our Promethean technology. In addition to learning some new tricks with our boards, we were able to pick up a number of ideas on how to facilitate the clickers (we now have three sets) more quickly and easily. As an added bonus, our presenter gave us several curricular ideas and resources across the curricula as a means of incorporating the technology into our classrooms. ||
 * Brian || Challenges to Inquiry Based Science || As a science teacher, one of the most important skills for me to teach to my students is the importance and process of inquiry. Not only is this a difficult skill to teach, but is often scary to let the process take its natural course as the students often become unruly throughout. This session was everything I needed it to be in that it offered several suggestions for attending to some of those very concerns (scaffolding the Inquiry skills for instance to deal with the students ability to "get started"). Fortunately enough for me, our presenter was a middle school science teacher, and also has a Promethean board, so it was nice to hear his countless suggestions for improving my ability to foster Inquiry skills in my students. ||

Our classroom learning project for students is: After working with some of the programs, we decided on a project where students would create a business plan. The goal was to be the team that could get a loan from a bank. The bank was represented by the class, who voted on which team to finance. The business plan had to be digital and be presented via power point. Students were required to make a 3-D model of their business as part of the plan. Students were required to include a graph, pictures, and to discuss how their business would improve the community. This project was done in the computer lab, and is intended to help model potential classroom projects for our staff.

Our timeline for implementation of our plan is: This project was completed during the first semester of the 09-10' year.

**Below are posted the projects we developed and used as a result of attending TIE:** 2 Business Plans from 6,7,8 tech elective. Each business plan has a Power Point and a Sketch up file. You must also have both Power Point and Google Sketch Up already installed on your computer to view these files. Unfortunatly, all the model files are too large to be hosted on this wiki, so I just uploaded the power points.

[|power point 207 Irv.ppt] [|Rene’s Pastries!.ppt]