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We are in the final crunch and countdown. We were testing our streaming signal today and things are working well. We have 700+ who will be in attendance at your AM session. We will be streaming out your live message to 8 other locations around the board for employees to share in. We are hoping to hook your computer to the LCD projector and then run a an audio feed from the LCD projector to the streaming feed so that it is not just being picked up via the cameras, which could end up causing a delay. Can you tell me what computer you will be using. We are running a dry run again on Friday and we are wanting to simulate everything as closely as possible to the way things will be on Monday morning.

I am also attaching a picture of the auditorium you will be speaking in. The seats all come out of the back wall to seat 750 people. (quite amazing actually) but they are not out in this picture. I am wondering where you will want to speak from. On stage or down on the floor in front of the stage. It makes a difference to the length of wires we get. The screen is dead centre in the stage area and comes down just behind the curtains. (which will be open of course) Your help here would be appreciated as well.

Thanks for this and I am looking forward to seeing you again. Take care and safe travel. Kerry

Kerry Withrow BWDSB - Program Department - Chesley Phone 1-800-661-7509 Ext. 282 Fax 1-519-363-3715

7:00 PM dinner on Sunday with the administrative staff

Teacher Presentation

Here are Comments from Administrators from the August work at Blue Mountain.

the tiny url is http://tinyurl.com/gq6sr

Evening with the Parents

The want big picture
The shooting, the man had a blog with pictures of himself with guns and visit
News media was asking about security in schools. Both access to kids throught the internet and kids access to inappropriate
What tips can parent use to help their children make safe use of the technology.
Protection of personal information --
The want the "did you knows" (the only
digital natives and digital imigrants
Parents shoudl not be afraid
How understand do parents even have of how their children are using the technology. I need to help them share. They may not know what a blog is, what a social network is, what YouTube is.

The Entire School Board

at Owen Sound coleegia and vocational institute
The day one that I did with the administrators.
be mindful of the shooting.
Teachers, custodians, office professionals, ed assistants, vice principals
About the context
is it ok for kids to be sitting in front of a
There must be a balance.

The Afternoon

for any staff members, but may not be as large as
be provocative... delve into their belief syustem
unlikely that they will bring laptops

Evening Parent Presentation

Planning for the Student Forum on September 26, 2006.
Rough notes taken on August 23, 2006, during lunch meeting with David Warlick (at Blue Mountain symposium).
Overall:
  1. David will present to teachers and Bluewater staff on September 25, 2006. At that meeting David will indicate that he will present to “at risk” students the following day at the CAW Center in Port Elgin, ON.
  2. Teams of students will enter into a facilitated dialogue on Sept 26th with a view to further develop the concept of the New Century Schoolhouse. (a project David began some years ago).
  3. Students will create a student WIKI page and post comments.
  4. Teachers will be able to access this page, comment etc.
  5. Students will be empowered to have their voice heard, as the intent will be to publish a LULU book. The book could be purchased for trustees, etc. and will be available through the internet publisher.
Who Attends:
  1. At risk students (3 per secondary school), Student Trustees (1 per school) Student Success Contact Teachers, and the SPARC committee.
  2. Total numbers of 60 to 70 participants.
  3. Need to ensure that at least one student in each group will be comfortable with writing, and one should be computer savvy.
  4. Students will work at tables with at least one laptop, teacher and max of 4 students.
  5. The Student Trustee will be observing and will have the opportunity to further comment, and de-brief at the end of the day.
Format of the Student Forum (Sept 26th)

notes: Student wiki page passwords -- student49
Teacher page will be -- teach87
links for comments is
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  • 9:30 Opening remarks.
  • Morning until 1 pm, working session, with a working lunch served at approx. 12 pm.

Here's the hard part!

  1. Some sort of introduction -- perhaps the workplace of the future.
  2. Now what should you be learning today to be ready for an unpredictable future
  3. What have you learned?
    1. What was the last truly useful thing that you learned?
    2. How did you learn it?
    3. Will you remember it and why?
  • Some Ideas from Early in the Morning. From these questions each group must come to consensus on three one word or phrase answers. No complete sentences allowed.
    1. In one word or phrase, How do your teachers teach?
    2. Think of your favorite teacher and finish this statement. My teacher teaches _______, but he/she should have been a ___________.
    3. Think of your least favorite teacher and finish this statement. My teacher teaches _________, but he/she should have been a ___________.
    4. What do you need on your desk that you do not already have that would help you to learn better? Each table needs three answers.
    5. What does your teacher need on his/her desk that is not already there that would help them teach better? (Three answers per table).
  • These answers go into the wiki:
    1. There is going to be a provincial video game tournament, but only teachers will be playing. Your teacher has never played a video game. How would you prepare your teacher to win the tournament?
    2. Choose a subject area from the following (Science, Math, Literature, Social Studies, Health). There will be a provincial competition between classes throughout the province to see which class has best learned in that subject area. What should that competition look like? How would the classes compete? How would they be judged and who would judge them? What should they win?
  • 1 pm. Student groups report back to larger group. (and post to wiki, blog etc)
  • 1:30 pm “At Risk” Students and SSCT teachers depart for home.
  • SPARC committee and student trustees debrief the day.

Jean will send me a copy of the SPARC

Prepared by: Jean Stephenson

Notes from Sept 14 call:

  • They now want to align this thing with the SPARC report -- can we sustain 11 high schools in a wide geographic area. One recommendaion is to have school zones with focus programs at other schools.
  • now two grade 8 student, two high school students, one at risk student, and student trustee, and student success contact teacher.
  • The 26th is is also the principal will be meeting there and they want ...
  • Also, student trustees will get cameras for recording for future DVD and/or podcast
  • Work on ideas for one computer per table and two computers per table.

Will have lunch in the lunchroom instead of a working lunch

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