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= Welcome to the Professional Development Learning Community Wiki! =

===﻿This is a place where we, as a team, can work on the assignments for our course, Collective Inquiry through Professional Learning Communities. More importantly, we can work on our professional development goals for the school and for us as a group. //AND DO THINGS LIKE SCHEDULE MEETINGS. SEE... HERE.// ===

// The wiki is a way each of us can choose the times we want to work "together". I know we don't want to exclude Nancy, who doesn't have 5th period planning, and we also want to collaborate on this work. // // Additionally, we have other things to discuss and share other than these activities. This might be a good solution until we work out another. I can help anyone having trouble using the technology involved in using a wiki. But on the most basic level, hit "EDIT", and add contributions! //

Here is a decent, if not a bit simple, explanation of how wikis work and why they are valuable. Feel free to post any other helpful "How To's" here as well: media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

==Another word: Wikispaces is free. And you sort of get what you pay for on some speed and delivery issues. Sometimes it will be slow to save your changes. Or it will freeze. You'll notice in "History", however, that past drafts are saved and accessible, so if you have to CNTRL + ALT + DELETE at some point, it's not a huge tragedy.==

Also, this is definitely not done. We have a few activities DUE Friday, Oct 1st that I will post up. And those of us that can are meeting with Julie Williams on Friday as well. And the Protocol Review is next week. And an LTM, in which we will be using the College Board's Springboard system with some teams, Lesson Study with one (and then they will hopefully demonstrate and teach at the next LTM), and FCIS with the rest.

And I'm sending you all the information I get. While I definitely don't mind the preparation for the LTMs, Review, and the research and teamwork necessary ("Collective Inquiry"), I hope this wiki will take some of the task of delegating, explaining, and appointment juggling. My only planning is 5th period, so that's a good time for me to meet. Other than that I'm either eating or teaching. Forget about going to the bathroom...

LISA =﻿**DISCUSSION, FEEDBACK, ETC.**= Yahoo for you Lisa - Great way for us to meet and share information. I checked the trainU again and we do not have access to the mandatory group assignments only you do. Therefore we need you to let us know what to do to help you. Also please remember that we have to complete those assignments to get paid and some of the members are counting on the $$ for summer fun! Thanks Marilynn﻿ // ﻿Thanks Marilyn. Yep. I know. Frankly I think it's awkward that the rest of the team can't access the information and assignments. So on the Activities in Progress and Activities to Start Complete and Turn In pages I am reproducing everything that's up on the course. Let me know if it's not clear what we need to get done currently. For my part, it would be more helpful if people would volunteer to work on different parts of activities or offer ideas for the group sections. I definitely don't want to "assign" things to people and I think the idea is to figure out how to get this done collaboratively. A lot of it is formalizing things we have already done, but it does require some time and thought. // I have fifth planning, and will make myself available whenever I'm needed. Marlyn // Great, thanks Marlyn. I'll add a page right now so that we can more easily meet physically. Where's the PD PLC? // // Suggestion - we could meet during lunch one day and just divvy up the assignments...would this work or do we need one assignment to complete another? Pedek //