CSDE_EETT++Grant+Meeting

BUDGET MODS ARE UNDER A NEW ONLINE SYSTEM!!!!!!!

No longer do you send paper to Art!

Now online - cumbersome!!!!!!!!!!

CSDE EETT Meeting 12/2/08

Pasco Spark Demo

Dec 19 ship

60 pre loaded labs There is desktop software works well with sMARTbOARDS Color Screen USB Interfaces Lab is on handheld

Labs in groups.

//Bluetooh support? Bluetooth keyboard or mouse.// //Could the desktop version of the software be connected to a subnotebook laptop? Does it have wireless support? How do I combine data from several groups - display in real time on a whiteboard?//

Put on a pen drive - email to teacher or print those pages.

Teacher can build the lab page to include your own stuff.

A lot of what they have in their Studio software is included in the unit.

Art -

This grant will be available again in Jan to a new group of people. Good news.

Art - online activities?

Just a bit too much on the sales side. Ten units and can come to your school for demos. Spark view is the desktop software. Art - WVA

Alan Morse and Sonja Peck- Glenn Martin and Associates Troy NY

Site visit - 1/2 day Curriculum Dev Team After we have piloted teh AE's

Get a group of them together Get a group of kids together They will send out more info as they get closer.

Degree of implementation Build an understanding at State level by pulling local project information

Three Goals from State of CT Students of PD & Curriculum methods would be developed

7 General Steering questions Increase teacher Students proficiency e Student proficiency in Reading math and LA

Progress Reports - done before JANUARY 15 Return to Art & Glenn Activities to December 31 - report due Jan 15 If teh question does not apply you can mark N/A of leave blank.

Should take some time to fill out, should not be arduous

Sit visits - talk about experiences and outcomes so, far. Who are the appropriate people they should talk to?

Coordinator, curriculum team, teachers, students, - about an hour

After AE's have been piloted. Takes about 1 hour per group.

Jan 1 thru the end of school.

Set dates back at Mansfield - get better dates than the general late May.

Whatever the data is - it has been / will be valuable.

What does an A+ report to Alan look like? What is the research base for the methods we are bringing in? Whatever the truth was - here is a challenge you did not ask about. You asked for this data, and Outstanding datasets from Ashford on the My Access projects.

Perhaps a Zoomerang student survey?

Art -

GIS has been a partner fro a while. Low cost activities for Grades 4, 5, 6 -low cost activities GIS activities keyed to national standards. Cost is $31 for 30 licenses. GIS Level 2 - also available

State of West Virginia - DOE has mandated it for a while Teach 21 web site has activities that are already aligned and up for review and able to be shared. They are there for the taking

There is a CD -

Every child in Grade XXX will do the following - Each kid will have an assured experience.

NECC - low cost peripherals. Add value at low cost. Michael Bednars

Proscope - refurbs at $125. USB powered light microscopes. Assured experiences using science. Myscope - retails at about $200 made of an inexpensive piece capture images and video.

Letters to Supt - Discovery Science to all schools? Through State of CT

Send Art an email on this!!!

Thinkfinity lots of lessons and new stuff

Lessons on CT Curriculum - process of vetting 3000 lessons EASTCONN will revisit this site the money is being given to person to upload all stuff and redo teh existing site.

Art said that there was a template in the CT Curriculum format.