Goals+for+2010-11

Here are our individual and group goals for next year:

 * Nadia Arancibia:** Implement wikispaces to SS curriculm and use the different Web 2.0 tools such as slideshare in classroom instruction.


 * George Kraus:** Begin using wikispaces early in the year and throughout. Also implement Google docs for review at the end of each unit.


 * James Bishop:** I would like to use wikispaces throughout the year so the students can receive homework and projects and hand them in on the website (help reduce paper waste). This can allow them to do a lot of the work on their own time at home. I would also like to implement more PBL into other units during the year.


 * Ekaterine Petrakos:** Next year, I am planning on utilizing a classroom wiki throughout the year as a sort of “Blackboard” website for middle school students. I also want to use imovie and google docs in my instruction. I want to learn more about how to use my own laptop as a resource and how I can teach my students to do the same.


 * Jean Kim:** Develop more Interdisciplinary Connections, integrating language arts and math, and team teaching with my colleagues; Also, I want to develop a year-long project to make a student-created virtual museum. I want to bring students to museums and other field trips to connect what they are learning in class with real world connections


 * Tom Hayden:** Using wiki as an everyday home school connection
 * Daily PowerPoints
 * Homework
 * Aim
 * Student’s can respond from home
 * Wiki can become a student portfolio of best


 * Rick Brewer:** Encourage students to use more original work (text, graphics, etc) and to cite sources when they do use internet sources


 * Vinny Nappo:** To learn new Web 2.0 applications

Goals for all:

 * To improve networking with other teachers; using technology to network

Goals for our students:

 * Encourage students to use own work instead of copying and pasting work from the internet.
 * Encourage students to do work at home on their own time.
 * Encourage more team responsibility.
 * Take responsibility for their learning.

Program Goals:

 * Start earlier in the year.
 * Have more visitations, earlier in the program and even during the training.
 * More Mac Applications
 * Less time on planning and more time on working with programs
 * Different grouping where teachers from the same school work together, and more teachers working on the same subject attend the training.
 * Forming continuation workshops for next year so that teachers that attended this year can continue learning and sharing.