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=Welcome to Your New Wiki!=

Try out your new wiki! 1. Make sure that you follow the instructions on the email that you will receive in order to get signed up. 2. Add something to the Questions or Tips Page. 3. Maybe add a picture of your classroom setup to the Picture Gallery Page

Here's a video to watch to remind you about how to edit a wiki http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdT_XzkmPss You can google questions about wikispaces or use the help button at the very top right hand corner of the webpage beside Sign Out.

=**Warning!**= Occasionally, if you are editing a page, and someone else is also editing, a pop-up box will appear letting you know that someone else is on. It's possible at this time to overwrite the work of another....doesn't happen too often, but try to save frequently so that we don't lose anything. If this happens it will prompt to load the previous draft...which is what you want to do so that someone's work isn't lost. =Important Dates:= || =Lesson Plan Template:=
 * Date || Location || Time || Topics ||
 * Sept 17 || Elora Raceway || 4:30 - 7:30 pm || Intro to Tech Coaching, Wikis, Receiving your laptop ||
 * Sept 24 || Elora Raceway || 5:00 - 7:30 pm || Software: Notebook 10 and Smartboards, Comic Life, Smart Ideas ||
 * Oct. 1 || Elora Raceway || 12:30 - 4:00 pm || Lesson Study, Creating Groups, Guides to Effective Instruction
 * Nov 5 || Elora Raceway || 12:30 - 3:30 pm || Debrief the first lesson and plan for second lessons ||
 * Mar 29 || Elora Raceway || 12:30 - 3:30 pm || Sharing our experiences of doing our second lessons - sharing what we've been doing with our technology in our classes ||

This is an overview of Madeline Hunter's Lesson Design.

=Video Taping Paperwork= =CHALLENGE:= Our work on the wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License. Can anyone find what that means??? © After a quick web search I have discovered that the Creative Commons license was created to allow people to collaborate and share with some flexibility around copyright. Wikipedia calls it the “copyleft” movement where some rights are reserved rather than “all rights reserved” (ie. only //some// rights are left... which means they left some rights... and those conducting the rites are left to write, reserving the right to write on the left or right, and our rights are left for other writers, right?). The individuals who are sharing information indicate the “rights” of the work in a way that would benefit others. (Right.) ©

An excellent wikispaces collection of copy-friendly ("copyleft") images and sounds: http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/

=REFLECTIONS = Things we liked:
 * hearing about what people are doing in lessons with their technology
 * visit other teacher's classrooms to see what they are doing
 * tech coach conference has been a good support for new tech coaches
 * used the smartboard much more than we would have
 * having our own laptops was great - used tech way more
 * Lesson study was great especially for teachers who don't have the chance to reteach lessons very often
 * networking was really good (having the chance to talk to talk)

Next time:
 * more required use of the wiki
 * sharing of Smartboard lessons
 * Smartboards don't fit well with every teaching setting
 * more explicit time with the Smartboard tools
 * some time with video editing - for the Flip video cameras
 * don't schedule the first tech coach sessions around meet the teacher
 * sharing Smartboard lessons on First Class instead of the wiki
 * Lesson Study - some people might want to reteach the lesson to the same class, depending on what they had chosen.

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