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On Monday, I had a full day of a PLP meeting. We worked on developing our final project product to present at the Culminating Event on Monday, May 14th. I used my Mac Book Pro to and iMovie to create a movie of our problem, plan, details of our professional development, and also research associated with our project. As the team leader, I lead our discussion on what types of multimedia we wanted to include in the project. We also prioritized what we needed to accomplish that day in order to be prepared for the 14th. Each member of our team had a task to complete during the day to move our project foward.

The pre-registration packet for the Dover Tech Camp was sent out to staff last week. I had to make some revisions/addtions/deletions and send out the packet again, highlighting the changes that were made. At this time, teachers are now signing up for the different sessions. I contacted my site advisor, Dr. Sue Kanigsberg, to ask if there are any other tasks I should be performing to perpare for Tech Camp. She commented that at this time, we are just allowing teachers to sign up.

I also worked with our Kindergarten team this week to have them register for our new district website, eChalk. I used the IWB in my classroom to lead them through the steps in signing up for the account. I also gave a brief explanation of how to add resources and also what the expecations are going to be for the teacher pages next year. I also explained when a teacher is editing their page, it looks completely different than how it looks when the parents access the page from the website. I demonstrated how to toggle between the two so that once a teacher makes changes and saves, they can refresh the other window to see what it looks like.

I have started my two classes this week. The first class, 615, will be beneficial to understand more of the behind the scenes of the technology department. This is an aspect of the certification that is much more foreign to me.