Meeting+Log

August 26, 2009 Katie, Andy and Greg met to discuss the birthday project.

September 4, 2009 Katie worked with Greg to tweak the requirements for the birthday project, as well as the rubrics and any handouts that the students would receive.

September 4, 2009 Used team meeting time to discuss the birthday project with participants. The team discussed requirements, grading procedures and responsibilities. The team also worked on their supervision and evaluation form.

September 10, 2009 Katie worked with Greg to set up a PowerPoint that would explain the project to the students.

September 11, 2009 Katie, Greg and Megan co-taught the social studies classes for team d to teach the students how to use the required resources, cite their sources and organize themselves for thier birthday project.

September 11, 2009 The team discussed the questions that would be on the pre-assessment.

September 12, 2009 Katie, Greg and Megan worked with the social studies classes for team D to help them research the events that happened on their birthday.

September 15, 2009 Katie, Andy and Megan co-taught the English classes for team d to teach the students how to use the Noodle Tools database to help the students cite their sources.

September 16, 2009 Katie, Andy and Megan co-taught the English classes for team d to teach the students how to set up their wiki pages and accounts.

September 18, 2009 Katie worked with Greg to teach him how to use the wiki page to make comments to the students.

October 2, 2009 Katie held a work session for students not in Andy and Megan's English classes.

October 9, 2009 Katie, Megan, and Andy co-taught the English classes to give support, administer pre-assessments, and reenforce wiki requirements.

October 13, 2009 Andy and Megan's English classes allowed time for editing and revising wikispaces.

October 16, 2009 Andy and Katie looked at the wiki pages and sent messages to the students to improve their pages.

October 23, 2009 Greg, Megan, Katie and Teresa helped the students put the finishing touches on their wiki pages.

October 26, 2009 Katie, Greg, Andy and Megan locked all the wiki pages so that students could no longer work on their wikis.

Oct. 13-26, 2009 Megan used support time to help student with editing wikipages and citing pictures/videos.

October 26, 2009 Greg and Katie discussed the possibilty of collaborating with Andy and Megan on a project to research the Bill of Rights. The students would discuss the first ammendment in class. Then the students would be placed in groups and would work to research the rest of the ammendments and present their findings in history class to the rest of the groups. During the presentation the students would have to recommend the ammendment that they would eliminate and the most important ammendment. Andy would grade the presentations and Greg would grade the content.

October 26-31, 2009 Greg, Andy Katie and Megan graded the wiki pages.

Nov. 5, 2009 Katie, Greg and Andy met to discuss and reflect on the birthday project and what needs to happen for next year's project.

Jan. 6, 2010 Greg and Andy met to discuss historical fiction book review and what needs adjusted from last year. Greg will retype the front page/requirements to reflect both classes. Discussed how Amy could use wartime percentages in her class.

Jan. 8, 2010 Grag and Andy discussed using current events to teach summarizing in Greg's classes that would be organized in Andy's classes.

Jan. 14, 2010 Amy, Andy, Greg, and Megan discussed Amy's children's book project. Students will research the history of a math concept and explain it through a children's story. The books will be edited/revised in English class and support class. The project will be assigned during the third term.

Jan. 22, 2010 Greg and Amy discussed using the Louisiana Territory Purchase in Amy's Algebra classes to determine the actual price. Amy will do the reasearch required for the problem.

February 9, 2010 Greg, Andy, Megan and Katie met to discuss the historical fiction book report project.

February 17, 2010 Greg brought his students to the library to go over the project details and for the students to select a book to read for thier project. Andy came down during some of his free periods to discuss the project requirements for English. Megan assisted the learning support students in helping to find a book that would be suitable for their needs, and Katie helped Greg to discuss the requirements, as well as helped students locate books according to their interests.

March 4, 2010 Katie met with Andy and his student teacher, Edward Lawerance, to discuss the upcoming lesson on Plagiarism that their students would apply to the Shakespeare project.

March 9, 2010 Katie met with Edward to discuss the Shakespeare project for the general English students.

March 15, 16, 19 and 25 Andy's general English students researched their topics for the Elizabethan Shakespeare project.

March 15, Greg and Beth Stahl met to discuss Beth's project for music history. Beth and Greg came up with several different important people throughout history and then Beth paired those individuals with songs that went along with the time period. Students then picked a person they were interested in, researched that person, as well as the music of the time period. In class Beth had the students present information about that person and played a song from that time period.

March 22, 2010 Greg, Andy, Katie and Megan met to discuss the Civil War project.

March 31 Andy's honor's English class came to the library for a presentation on plagiarism that the students will incorporate into their Shakespeare projects.

March 31 and April 5 Beth Stahl's music class came to the library to research thier person and music from the time period.

April 7-9 Beth's students presented their influential person to the rest of the class.

April 6, 2010 Greg's classes came to the library to research a Civil War battle to write their letters home.

April 7, 2010 Andy, Megan, and Amy discussed Algebra classes' mathematician research essays.

April 9, 2010 The student's letters are due to Greg and Andy.

April 6-10 Andy's honors English students researched thier Shakespeare topics and started thier Wiki pages.

April 12 Andy, Megan, and Amy worked on a peer editing rubric for students to use with the Algebra classes' mathematician research essays.

April 12-15 Andy's CP English classes researched their Shakespeare topics.

April 22, 2010 Team D came to the library to hear Rich Alloway speak.

April 26, 2010 Katie, Amy, Andy, Greg and Megan met to discuss the end of the year evaluation of the project.