Tuesday is in the books for the New Tech meeting here in Indy. Today we worked on our Entry Documents and fleshed out a project based on a town festival. You can see a distinct difference between those that get it and those who don't. It's an interesting way that the facilitators run their sessions, some times we're expected to approach the information as a teacher and other times were supposed to approach it as students. June and I are doing well on our projects, she did a great job on a Entry Document for Sylvan Learning center for our Organelles project. I made up a Entry Document for our Microbes project, it was designed as a letter from the head management at a Chili's restaurant. This means we already have Entry Documents for 2 of the 6 projects we are working on, as well as the State Standards and the Driving Questions.

Speaking of restaurants, dinner tonight was at TGIF. It was a nice time for my fellow teachers to relax, enjoy one anothers company, and vent a bit. They even played a trick on Mrs. Karen Lee, but she didn't seem to mind, nor did her husband. :)

The ECHO web based program that we'll be using took some steps forward today, we were able to access some areas that weren't working on Monday. One of the perks of that was the ability to access the project library, an area where you can see projects that other teachers have put together. You can copy their ideas, or maybe just use it to brainstorm for yourself.

Lingo of the day:

Bench Mark
Rubric
Insight
Task Elevator Pitch
Google Docs (this is old, but I threw it in anyway)