Saturday, October 30, 2010

Training notes

  • Facilitator's Triangle - comprehensible chunks, paraphrase, (summarize or something else . . . ) As facilitator, you are in control, it is a role to facilitate, and this is not just to type but to steer conversational framework in a focused direction.
  • 25 repititions for a task to become habit
  • Tech guy video
  • 126 sheets of paper and 24 minutes to distribute hard copy notes to 7 teams, nine people on each team (two classroom teachers, admin, coach, sped, reading, ell, read right, titel one)

Enhancements 10/30/2010

  • Add a password to be able to open pdfs
  • Student counters for lists of student names
  • HOw can I as a specialists or anyone search action plans w/o opening logs or scanning an entire action plan report (is there even one?)
  • Some kind of useage report for different features so an admin can easily see what is being used & how much it is being used
  • Ability to read agenda note comments from agenda notes page
  • Add emails of guests at collab meetings so that they get the log emailed to them
  • Option to "Send me action plan reminder email" when creating action plans
  • Groups report - print/show "All" teachers/groups (same w data by group)
  • Select more than one but less than all teams an agenda note
  • Look at essential learning topics accross subjects and/or grade levels (some way to view essentials vertically to help with curriculum alignment
  • What should be in the student alert info for a collab log?
  • Intervention drop down and total time provided to group
  • See all groups, click and drag students
  • Be able to give small groups different assessments (w/o having to set up subject, topics, etc) - Like RR gives its own assessment, Reading SPec gives her own, and classroom teachers give their own . . . what does this look like?
  • Decimals in data
  • Action Steps- for who is responsible, ability to add "other" or/and "All" etc . . .
  • Student alerticon when looking at groups
  • Student alerts were not appearing in log for one of my teams