Kunsmiller

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Attendees: Emily Post, Elaine Folkesson, Cori Herbst-Loehr

We're on our way to TIE and we hope to learn: how to effectively, purposefully and easily use technology to create meaningful classroom wikis that involve parents, engages the community, and encourages the children to own their learning. We want to support the philosophy that every child, and their families, are essential to the survival and success of our school.

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) : Cori Herbst-Loehr || SESSION 1111 - Tim Tyson, Film Festival Bootcamp || How it influences / changes / supports proposed TIE student project Teachers and Administration have discussed documenting the evolution of Kunsmiller over the next three years. I believe that the children need to own this historical perspective. Creating a Film Festival to support the product encourages the children to own the experience and strive for a quality product that represents their best work. In relation to our student wiki project we plan to support the addition of historical documention in film and the ideas I learned in the seminar provided me with a framework and strategies to contain and produce meaningful product. ||
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 * Cori Herbst-Loehr & Elaine Folkesson || 2101 - Dave Dellwardt, Promethean Basics and Up || The session about Camtasis that we intended to go to in support of the wiki project was cancelled and we jumped in on this session thinking it would be a class in basic Promethean use. We did not get much from this session. ||
 * Cori Herbst-Loehr & Emily Post || 2211 - Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, Elizabeth Hubbell || The session about using Wikis in Instruction was cancelled so we attended the Featured Speaker lecture in hopes of getting some actual classroom instructional modeling, instead we received many of the same web 2.0 resources that we had received in most of the other seminars from the earlier sessions. There were some good ideas about how to help teachers easily integrate technology into the Marzano framework of instruction. We did get some reinforcement in training about the use of shared documents in wikis and also how to use polling links in our wiki pages to track parent involvement and also to reinforce the sharing at home of daily lessons through screen casting and pod casting by posting the links to these on teacher wiki spaces. ||
 * Cori Herbst-Loehr & Emily Post || 3111- Create, Communicate, Collaborate - Projects for the Global Classroom, Howie DiBlasi || We attended this session in hopes that we would see some modeling of instruction using technology effectively. Again, we received information on many of the same web 2.0 resources that have been REPEATEDLY covered throughout the sessions. We had hoped to see a model of an effective classroom wiki and how it was used in both instruction and the resulting improvement from the technology that was infused in it. We did get a sample rubric for website assessment to assist us in creating a schoolwide rubric that we will publish for student and faculty use. This assessment will help us to develop a common philosphy that will be posted on all classroom wikis. ||
 * Cori Herbst-Loehr, Emily Post & Elaine Folkesson || 3218 - Worldly Wikis, Carrie Sheftel || This session helped us create a personal wiki page on Wikispaces, and showed us basic steps of how to set up and organize the wiki. The presentors were incredibly helpful and made sure everyone understood the process. This helped us to know better how to pass along the information to the staff in a professional development session. Our project is based in helping to make Kunsmiller a school that uses wiki technology as a tool of instruction and communication therefore this session was imperative to our knowledge base as lead teachers. ||

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**Below are posted the projects we developed and used as a result of attending TIE:** Classroom Wiki page for Emily Post's 4th grade class: http://post4thgrade.wikispaces.com/