April 7, 2006
Location:
Jordan Auxiliary Center
9150 South 500 West, Sandy, Utah
Welcome and Introductions - Margo Shirley
Discussion and planning for C-Forum for next year - Margo Shirley
Proposed dates: First Friday of the month
- July 11, 2006 - Cedar City @ Rural Schools Conference
- October 6, 2006 - Heber
- November 3, 2006 - Nebo Learning Center
- December 1, 2006 - Jordan School District
- January 5, 2007 - Utah Education Network
- February 2, 2007- Tooele School District
- April 13 or 20, 2007 - Davis School District
NetTrekker - Vanessa Leggett
- http://school.nettrekker.com/ (Vanessa provide those in the meeting a login.)
- Davis SD has a subscription of this service for their teachers and students and would like to see the state purchase it.
- Content is organized by Elementary, Middle, High tabs
- Keyword search
- Each search result contains icons that explain what content is on the site (e.g. lesson plan, video, student activity)
- The search results also have a "Dictionary" option which makes each word on the site clickable - a window will pop-up with a definition.
- Users who are logged in can save searches.
- Timelines for Music, U.S. History
- Rick Gaisford will work with NetTrekker to get a month long trial next school year.
Library of Congress' American Memory Project web site - Victoria Rasmussen
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Teachers' Area: Use American Memory in the classroom
Feature Presentations and Activities
The Great American Potluck - What can we learn about a nation from its food?
Interviews With Today's Immigrants - What has been the experience of immigrants to the U.S. in recent years?
It's No Laughing Matter - political cartoon activities
What in the World Is That? - learn about amazing innovations and inventions
Historical Detective - search the American Memory collections to solve the riddle
American Memory Timeline - a comprehensive look at America's history, through primary sources
American Memory Collections
Edison Companies ~ Film and Sound Recordings
Handouts and Presentations highlighting the Primary Sources.
Highlights and Discussion - Theresa Wilson
Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
An online exhibition created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq.Over-the-Shoulders were very popular at UCET. Perhaps we can have something like that during C-Forum meetings. Those who are interested in x can meet together and those intersted in y can meet together for 30 minutes or so and share resources and ideas about that specific topic.
UTIPS Updates - Julie Quinn
- 26,479 test yesterday - April 6, 2006
- May 25 & 26 Meeting at the Nebo Learning Center - out together Training & Best Practices Materials
- Train the Trainer proposed dates were discussed
- Curriculum will help fund bringing in teachers to create short answer, essay, performance items for math, science, and language arts. Other curriulum areas also are interested, but Julie wants to develop the process and model first.
- Teachers can submit questions to USOE Assessment to help seed content areas.
- Policy & Procedure Manual draft will be open to User's Group commments on May 19
- Math image re-size is completed, but not yet live.
- There are about 200 questions that need to be fixed.
- Test created after the update will need to be recreated.
- Science will have pretests posted shortly at http://science.utips.org/.
- Teachers that have large lists of student names slow down the whole system. Cody has merged some accounts already. Teachers need students to use the detailed login. (They removed the option to enter a name on the detailed login.)
- Large tests are also an issue. 300 question tests take 4 minutes to load.
- Tutorial on how to take tests from TIPS and transfer into UTIPS is available on TIPS.
- Discussion about putting a UTIPS button on my.uen.
- MyPage caching - when teachers make a change to their MyPage they need to visit it once to cache it before they take a class into the lab.
Web Resources Highlights - UEN Staff
USOE's Financial Literacy and Indian Education Web sites
Active Excel - Fun Projects and Games
UEN's New Professional Development Catalog and Registration
UEN's Free Multimedia Resources for Teachers
Links can be found on UEN's K-12 Educator page, K-12 Student page and in the Curriculum Resources dropdown menu on each of those pages.
The Journey InsideSM: Engaging Technology to Explain Technology
This site provides lesson plans to help educators explain how computers and the Internet actually work.The Six Units cover:
- Introduction to Computers
- Circuits and Switches
- Digital Information
- Microprocessors
- The Internet
- Technology and Society
Each unit includes:
- Interesting facts, videos, and activities
- Hands-on explorations, student handouts, and group activities
NASA Brain Bites: Munchies for your Mind
So you always wanted to ask NASA .... How do you scratch your nose in a spacesuit?
Don't miss the "Additional Educator Resources" pdfs that go with each Brain Bite.
NewsHour Extra: For Teachers and Students
Each NewsHour Extra story comes with a short lesson plan that includes initiating questions, a reading comprehension printout and extension activities. Look for the "how to teach this story" link in the left column.The Futures Channel
This site provides documentary videos connecting the mathematics, science, technology and art that students are learning to exciting real world careers.
USOE Updates
Utah’s Leadership in Technology - http://utahlit.org/
Professional Development for Superintendents and principals around the state.
Next C-Forum Meeting: Before or during the Rural Schools Conference - July 11-14, 2006
For questions or comments contact us.