Hill

School / Group:

Attendees: Martha MacCormack, Anne Sinn, and Lee Jackson

We're on our way to TIE and we hope to learn:

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) : Forever in Mind || I have learned how to record lessons from my Promethean board, convert them to MP4 and post them to my web site. [] || Learning || similar to my reaction to Design session above. I have made screencasts - in this case I used them to teach my coworkers about IC and posted it on a ning site that I started for the staff at Hill. I have thought about making screencasts for students - in this case I would post them to my wiki site [] ||
 * MEMBER || SESSION || How it influences / changes / supports proposed TIE student project ||
 * Martha || Design with
 * Lee || Clickers in your classroom || I learned different ways to use clickers, as an assessment tool and for classroom instruction. ||
 * Martha || Student Centered
 * Martha || Shifting Literacies || I designed a project in which the students were asked to review the content covered in the first semester. They were asked to use sites like __[|www.goanimate.com]__ one example is found at []. Another student did an incredible animation but it is not public becasue he used images off of the internet and has not identified the links in his animation.

I learned that I am more internet savey than most of my students. || Our classroom learning project for students is: ||
 * Martha || Digital Educator || I liked seeing what Douglas County did using Ning.com so I started a ning for Hill. It was slow to catch on and fast dying off. I would like to revive it so that when the principal or a coworker shares information it can be posted to the site and accessed throughout the year and even in future years. ||
 * Lee || Clickers to inform Instruction || This involves the use of (cps) to review assessments. Review the tests and focus on the most missed questions. Students generate discussion on why they clicked their answer. Those who chose the wrong answer can tell us what was their thinking. Those who clicked the correct answer can tell us what, if any, clues they used. ||
 * Lee || Clickers in Your Classroom || Do You Think There are UFO's? Click in Yes or no. Questions such as this can be asked following an astronomy unit. Discussion can center around the vastness of space and what might aliens look like. ||
 * Lee & Martha || Clicker research study ||
 * Clicker research program || 6th science grade teachers have been invited to participate in research involving the use of clickers in the classroom. There will be an active group and a comparison group. Each group will teach the grade 6 IES earth science investigations. Because of my TIE learning project, I chose to be a part of the active group. I will also get training and support from the principal investigators in creating new uses with clickers. Go to the website for more information. ||

Our classroom learning project for students is:

Our timeline for implementation of our plan is:

**Below are posted the projects we developed and used as a result of attending TIE:**