Shivar,+Pamela+McDow

To reflect on the tools that I have learned this week I decided to break it down a bit as far as the day of the week. On Tuesday, I enjoyed the Marshmallow Design Challenge even though my team received a score of 0. I would like to take this challenge back to my staff and use it as an opener for our faculty meeting this August. I can honestly say that the Logic Model activity was confusing and I wished we had more time to do that activity. Our team joined the IMPACT V a little late and was not involved in the creating of the document in the beginning.

Through the week, we did multiple activities on the PBI model and I have learned a lot from those and think that they will truly help us in implementing the new Common Core and Essential Standards this year.

Also on Tuesday we learned about iRubric, which I like very much. We also learned about other things like SimilarSites and Information Fluency, Google Forms, Tricder, Livebinder and Symbaloo. These tools we will take back to our teachers for use during our PD times in faculty meetings. I can see how Symbaloo will help our teachers and our students become more organized.

The session I attended on Wednesday afternoon was the administrative one and learned a lot about NCWise and excel and will definitely use that in my job next year. I learned how to do a pivot table and found out how to do an ad hoc report in NCWise. We also learned about prezi.

The rest of the week I enjoyed the Design Studio time. I felt like that truly was the most beneficial use of our time because we will be able to take that back to our school and use it right away.

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