United Streaming
The United Streaming Tech School Collaborative Group includes:
- Ron Nason – Amphitheater Middle
- Liesl Scheffel – Coronado K-8 (Elementary)
- Michael Warrick – Coronado K-8 (Middle)
- Barbara Robeson – Donaldson
- Susie Herman – Harelson
- Cris Robson – Ironwood Ridge
- Joanna Myhr Arrison – Nash
- Lourdes Oros – Nash
- Cynthia Rolewski – La Cima
- Mary Damiani – Cooper Creek
October 26th 4 – 5:30 at Harelson room 5 – Susie Herman and Liesl Scheffel facilitating
The group will explore the United Streaming features. We will conclude with discussing what we will want to teach to our staff.
December 11th 4-5:30 at La Cima room 411
January 25th 4-5:30 at Donaldson room D1
March 8th 4-5:30 at Harelson room 5
May 10th 4-:530 at La Cima room 411
mwarrick said
Michael Warrick is joining the United Streaming group.
Coronado (Middle School).
lscheffel said
Unitedstreaming Tech School Collaborative Agenda
October 26, 2006, 4:00-5:30
Harelson Elementary School, Room 5
4:00 – 4:15 Take the sample literacy exam online
4:15 – 4:30 Blog on the following questions
1. How prepared are our students to pass this test?
2. How prepared are our teachers to help our students pass this test?
3. What we need to do to meet the goal of preparing our students to be technologically literate by 8th grade.
4:30 – 4:45 Investigate new unitedstreaming site
4:45 – 5:30 Brainstorm ways to implement unitedstreaming in our schools
1.Share any training you have already done
2.Look at unitedstreaming site for training ideas
3.Generate list of possible training strategies
4.Generate list of ways to differentiate instruction for differing teacher needs
sherman1 said
October 26, 2006
People in attendance:
Ron Nason – Amphitheater Middle
Liesl Scheffel – Coronado K-8 (Elementary)
Michael Warrick – Coronado K-8 (Middle)
Barbara Robeson – Donaldson
Susie Herman – Harelson
Cris Robson – Ironwood Ridge
Joanna Myhr Arrison – Nash
Lourdes Oros – Nash
Cynthia Rolewski – La Cima
Mary Damiani – Cooper Creek
Minutes:
Ideas for implementation:
•Offer incentives (paid by a mini-grant) to teachers who attend
•Timeline:
oMechanics
oExamples
oUse in their own classrooms
oSharing lessons created
•Skills to teach
oShow how to login/register (link in administrator tab to email everyone their logins and passwords)
oHow to search for a video
oHow to download a video
oWhy to download instead of stream a video
oHow to make playlists in My Content
oStill images
oTeacher resources – blackline masters, citations, lesson plans, study guides, scripts, closed captioned
oOther features
Calendar
Writing prompts
Quizzes
Clip art
•Resources
oProfessional development on unitedstreaming site
Handouts and instructions
Interactive training available
oRecipes 4 success (access through ASSET) has snacks on unitedstreaming
•Time to search and download
•Differentiate the groups
oSeparate meetings?
oAllow people to move on while working with those
For future meetings:
•Create mini lessons for teachers
•Explore united streaming and share!
sherman1 said
Agenda for December 7, 2006
La Cima Room 411
(Upstairs to the left)
4:00-4:45
- Explore unitedstreaming site in small groups
4:45-5:30
- Divide into groups to create mini lessons
Liesl Scheffel said
**REVISED AGENDA FOR DECEMBER MEETING**
Our meeting will be Monday, December 11 from 4:00 to 5:30. We will meet at La Cima in room 411.
Agenda:
-Discuss Professional Development Plans and create a generic one to be modified by each site.
-Complete document showing how unitedstreaming fits into the 21st century skills
-Explore unitedstreaming in small groups (if time allows)
-Divide into groups to create mini lessons (if time allows)
Cynthia Rolewski said
Meeting Notes: December 11, 2006
In Attendance:
Ron Nason, Barbara Robeson, Mike Warrick, Leisl Scheffel, Mary Damiani, Cris Robson, Cindy Rolewski, JoAnna Myrh Arrason
Cris shared the technology survey she used with her staff to see what technology they are using in their content area classes.
We developed a shared Professional Development Plan on United Streaming.
Discussed server space and saving issues. Ron mentioned he would be trying to acquire a Western Digital external drive for saving videos; they should be able to be shared on the server.
We worked on United Streaming in the 21st Century document.
Future meeting ideas:
Continue adding to the 21st Century document.
Student home access and rights/limitations
Explore unitedstreaming in small groups (if time allows)
Divide into groups to create mini lessons (if time allows)
Next Meeting is at Donaldson in the Computer Lab. January 25th; 4:00-5:30.
Liesl Scheffel said
Minutes from January 25, 2007 Meeting
In atttendance:
Cris Robson
Barbara Robeson
Mary Damiani
Lourdes Oros
Liesl Scheffel
Joanna Myhr Arrison
We discussed issues we are having in training our staffs. The loss of Kristin at unitedstreaming is felt keenly. Other issues people have are problems with slow computers and connections.
We investigated the possibility of student access to unitedstreaming. Cris has used this in the past, but it is not obvious how to set it up. It appears that it is possible to set up individual assignments and have students acces them one assignment at a time. All help documentation on student access seems to be gone. Cris will look into how she did this before.
We didn’t continue adding to the 21st Century document because we didn’t feel confortable doing this without everyone present.
We explored unitedstreaming in small groups, especially the help section and other documentation.
Liesl Scheffel said
Agenda for March Meeting at Harelson
Complete 21st Century document
Continue discussion of student access
Discuss implemtation issues
Explore unitedstreaming site
Share lesson ideas
Cindy Rolewski said
March 08, 2007
We added to the use of US to enhance 21st Century Skills.
We shared what we have been doing with UnitedStreaming:
Michael has been using US to create multiple choice quizzes. Students can access the quiz (US scores it and the teacher accesses the scores in the My Content folder). He and Liesl have played around with the quiz builder and assignment builder.
Susie has used US mainly for videos but also has had students use images from US as a background for group “news” presentations. All report that many teachers at their sites are accessing US videos.
We have had varying degrees of success with our inservices. We have not felt the webinars were terribly successful due to technical issues (bandwidth, phone issues, etc.) We are all telling our staff to download videos at “off” times rather than stream during school time.
We had hoped to access US today to work on some lesson creation, but we could not access the site during our session.
Our next meeting is May 10 at La Cima.
Agenda:
Student Access
Exploration
Lesson Creation/Sharing
Joanna Myhr-Arrison & Lourdes Oros said
We just wanted to let you know that our Nash “United Streaming Mini-Grant Collaboration” was a great success. We had our last meeting this evening, March 6. The participants each presented the lesson they created for the project. All entered the collaborative with experience levels ranging from zero to very experienced and yet all felt this had been a major benefit to their professional development.
Most participants embedded their video clips into presentations that they prepared using PowerPoint and therefore also learned a lot about the features of that program. Many also used the background information and/or blackline masters that are provided with the videos.
Our principal, Rusty Farley, supported us by providing funds which participants could earn to use for purchasing technology equipment for their classrooms, thereby, making sure the money she had available to spend went to people who had shown that they knew how they would use the equipment. This made a huge difference in participation. Teachers could earn $50 in vouchers for each of the four classes they attended and additional money, $50 each up to $100 more, for additional projects that they did on their own. That way, even experienced users felt it was worth their time to participate and gave them “permission” to spend extended amounts of time on exploring United Streaming and creating their lesson.
We think this was a great way to provide professional development and hope that we do it this way again next year.
Joanna Myhr-Arrison & Lourdes Oros
Nash Elementary