Memo on Class last night 8/30/04

MN: Structure the analysis around persons in attendance?

Questions
What drew you here?

Purpose
Experience is to become a team
Capture your perception of your own teaching practice.

Trusting, collaborative community, part of the research process. Desire to collect data, Information will be shared. A design and development process.
Scope and Direction, don't know. Discovery, research our process. Insight, motivational, creativity, sharing, collaborative => forms a community.

Overall impression: the teachers will listening quietly.

Laurie's attention seemed to be caught when Brenda mentioned the database-driven webstie.

TN: What is expertise?

Summer Vacation stories

BA: What can we do to make it [work]? About technology. "This is where I am" in how the project's topics match her own professional inquiry.

KS: "down dumbing" we have in schools [about technology?] Looking for intellectual stimulation.

DK: What does it mean to be literate in content areas? Is very enthusiastic.

AR: English is his Second language. He is from Peru. {Why is he here?}

LS: Wants professional dialogue. Learn it, try it, in order to become a better [science] teacher. Hopes to become more knowledgable.

SR: Does not have a strong background in Science. When it comes to technology, he is interested in the Human Interaction. Questions the pedagogical value of technology.

MN: Classroom Experiment of Communication between Teachers.

Goes over Syllabus.

Teachers will act as a Design Team.
Venue for discussion, reflection, contributions to collaboratively dialogue.
Will ask you to do [that] in your classroom.
Improve your practice by experiencing the design process.

SR: Lack of Time - Manage a Process/Teaching. Become a better teacher, management. Not just an addon

LS: Use of digital camera pics.