Nancy

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See what I've done with Math 8

Journal Hours for PDP- Key for Journal- Black Font---Time with PDP colleagues (12 hours total) Blue Font- Time on my own and implementation with students (10 hours) Red Font-Time on wiki on-line with others (3.5 hours) 2/12/09 - Our 1st PDP meeting. We decided that to best meet everyone's needs, the PDP would be split into two groups to accommodate those that were willing to meet after 4:30 and those that wished to meet at other times. Kathy helped the group decide on dates that would best work for everyone. Mr. Mirich visited with the group to make a revision on the PDP's goals.

2/16/09- The group accomplished three main items: 1. Onenote 2. Logging into the district server 3. Idea sharing

2/23/09- The group met at the MS lab and learned about Smartboards

3/1/09- This Sunday, we met for over 3 hours throught lots of different sites. Renee and I took pictures from the school's digital camera and after several attempts, were finally able to upload it onto our wiki site.

3/11/09 - I have spent the last two hours being totally FRUSTRATED with this Wiki stuff!!! I am glad that we will meet again so that I can get my questions answered. I did post my frustration and found Brett, Renee, and Cheryl responded! That's what makes this neat. I am such a visual/tactile learner, but just a SLOW processor of information! (2.0) 3/16/09- The group met again, and I am getting kinda worried that I might not get in all these hours. I have three hours on-line with the group to complete, along with 10 hours implementation!!!! I am wondering about whether or not to bail! Renee and I worked together to include our names of the wiki PDP site. We also figured out (with Cheryl's help) how to get some pictures off of Renee's camera's memory stick onto her wiki page. Brett also gave a presentation on Power Point. I took a day long workshop several years ago, so some of the concepts were a refresher for me. I do have to do a presentation at the District Day, and thought about using Power Point. The issue of time, is my biggest obstacle. We explored (with Renee's help) the delicious site, which to me, is more of a personal site.

3/20/09 - This was our last time meeting, and for me, I just like to watch people demonstrate, rather than try things on my own. I tend to get intimidated easily. I can now easily navigate between my personal Wiki space and our PDP space. We also decided that all of our hours would be due April 20th. As explored nettrekker and thinkfinity.com. Renee did a presntation on what she has done. Rochelle did some sharing that she is doing with her yearbook group. Steve showed us his lab notebook. Marcia presented for a review, the visual thesaurus. I also made a link between the PDP and my wiki space.

3/24/09- OMO (On My Own!) I am excited! I can't believe that for the last 2.5 hours on this canceled school day, I have been on-line learning about different algebra stuff for my one 8th grade student. I decided to blend a little bit of Renee and Kathy and come up with my plan. On our 2nd meeting, Renee came with a ton of post-a-notes with various sites she was going to explore from, what I term fondly (the blue tech bible). I also remembered something Kathy said in class. If you take away one good idea from a conference and implement it....." So, I decided I would only note things I think I will use for the remainder of the school year. Secondly, I would prioritize that. Now that I had a planned direction, I was off! Note the different font. Black is for what we do when we meet. Blue is what I do on my own! I also tried to access nettrekker, but was unsuccessful. I need to visit with Cheryl. (total time 4.5 hours)

3/25/09 - For the first time, I implemented what I had learned with a student. I worked with JR on navigating on an Algebra IA site. We both were really excited, as when she comes to me for Study Hall, she can work on this site (a FREE tutorial!!!) in preparation for her placement in Algebra IA next fall. (time spent .5) Total time 5.0 hours

3/26/09 - Today, because of the late start, I spent some time exploring more math sites for my eighth grade math students. On site was Mega Math. There was a coloring section and a connecting dots section which help the student make sense of math. I see it more as an enrichment. The coloring section has 4 templates, where the student colors them, and they are not to have the same color touch. The connecting dots is more like a puzzle.

I then spent a great deal of the time exploring GoggleEarth-Math site. I thought this would be well suited for my 8th grade student who does not have a pool of knowledge. She doesn't have a wide range of experiences. It is school and her family. I thought it would be kinda cool to have her locate my wiki space (implementation) and then get on the GoogleEarh -Math site and explore "Measuring Distances in either Metric or Standard Units. She could then actually see how far a specificied measurement actually is. I think it would be good for her to just type in directions to and from location in Sheridan, and then measure the distance. 1.0 hour (Total time spent 6.0 hours)

3/28/09 - I have spent .5 hours just trying to navigate and reorganize my notes and wiki space stuff. With all the students I have for PAWS, class, and IEP testing, my goal tonight is to give a student my wiki space, have her access it, and explore with GoogleEarth- Math during part of her math time. .5 hours (Total time spent 6.5 hours)

3/30/09- Today in Math class, I modeled two websites for a 8th grade struggling student. We first went on the Mega Math site and she explored that site. I then showed her GoogleEarth. I discovered she does not know directions. I had her locate her house, and compare it to the nearby school. She kept navigating to the east (probably because that it was the way her parent drives). (Total time spent 7.5 hours)

4/2/09- Google Earth Math with A.S. 1. hour (8.5 total hours) The neat thing that came out of this time spent was that he was actively engaged in what the two of us were doing together. Unlike the 8th grade student, he had an awareness of where he lived, what has changed in the last 5 years (Google pictures). and whee things were in relationship to his house. Secondly, it was a great time to build a stronger relationship with him, as it was 1:1 instead of the usual 1:3 or 1:4 that I have him.

4/6/2009- I have been trying to access this page for the last 7 minutes. Had an apostrophe in my user name, and I couldn't access it. I just about gave up. I have 3 goal: 1. I want to be able to transfer this page to our pdp wiki space 2. There is a cool math video that I got in an e-mail, & I would like to get in on my wiki space under my Math page. 3. I want to explore some of the grammar sites in preparation for next fall's Language Arts classes. I thought of editing, but the more time I take thinking maybe it should be decoding/vocabulary with my new 7th graders on Wiki. OMO (1.5 hours) (Total Time 10.0 hours)  4/8/2009 -Tonight I also posted some e-mails on wiki to one of my students! It took me several minutes to navigate to the correct place, but I am slowly getting there. I now have the 10 hours needed for working outside the PDP class setting, butI now need 3 hours on-line time, of which half will be accomplished this Wednesday, thus meeting my 3 goals listed above. (1 hour of the 3 hours for On-Line Wiki of the 15 hours classwork )

Spent 30 minutes looking at everyone's site on our PDP. I spent most of the time looking at two things on K. Stutheit's wiki. I enjoyed reading the responses to questions she posed. I also liked the way in which she set up the site for her students. I can see use with my soon to be 7th grade Language Arts students using a wiki space to do quick writes, paragraph editing, and narrative story writing. I also could see vocabulary with our reading students. I still need to navigate to JT's site!! (1 1/2 hour- Total on-line time)

4/12/09- My goal is only to look at the stuff that JT has posted on our pdp wiki. The remaining time will be to look at grammar stuff for easy implementation with my next year's 7th graders, as they will be getting laptops and I can see some frustration with 3 of my 4 students! More practice on this in my class may diminish this frustration! On to JT's site.

Another OMG! My plan was to spend about a "few minutes on JT's site" WRONG!!!! I have spent the last hour just exploring one of her sites, and it is definitely a site that is synonymous with my academic weakness, which is Science ( Sorry, Brett and Steve) I got on the [|www.ScienceDiscovery] site. I watched the 3 videos on hoaxes, then read all about the following top tens: 1. Top 10 Hoaxes 2. Top 10 Inventions 3. Top 10 Weird Food (actuallyweird ingredients in foods) 4. Top 10 Useless body parts- I even went further and read some of the blogs/discussions people had posted about these.

The longer I was on this site, the more I could see taking time with my 8th grade students JR & BM. One student, just doesn't have any background knowledge, mentioned that science was her favorite subject last year, (so I thought this might get her fired back up). Would give her an alternative site to explore during study hall. She usually explores Johnny Depp stuff. I then thought, we could go further and look at Skypes with her. Knowing this student, she could be gullible when it comes to the internet. Four years ago, I would've thought this with the other student, but she has gained so much more knowledge than before and is not so concrete!!! (Total time on-line wiki today- 1 hour. Grand total 2.5 hours)

4/12/09- I decided to finish up this last half hour, and once again, exceeded my time by another half hour. I have spent the last hour creating another page on my wiki called http://msgarbrecht.wikispaces.com/Reading+Blurbs" After reading some of the stuff on that Science site, I thought it would be cool to have two of my reading groups read some of the Top 10. I was able to link JT's website, pose a question, and see what happens. Taking a risk.....Yep!!!! we'll see what happens (Time: 1 hour-online Wiki- Total time spent 3.5 hours!)

4/13/09 Worked with 8th grade student for reading on Wiki. We read Scientific Hoaxes, watched Scientic videos, and Top 10 Useless body parts. (Time-1 hour implementation with student- 11 hours total)