To carry out the parent/text portion, I really just need to write up a handout that explains what I am doing for the students to take home and email back to me. From there it is as simple as adding @verizon.com (each phone provider has a different address) to each phone number and making a group for algebra I, geometry, etc… The toughest part will be the follow up. That is getting the straggling numbers and making sure I even have the right numbers. So far all I have done is talk about this idea; I have not actually gotten my plan farther than this cyber world.
To carry out my collaboration/project a semester plan I first need to get a hold of one of our professional development people. Quite frankly I want to get paid for writing the project, and I want something developed that other teachers buy into so we are all doing something similar. If I write up a proposal, then the school should grant us at least one professional development day, if not two to meet up and design at least one project. I would like to do this in collaboration because I work with smart and creative people, sometimes they have great ideas that never occurred to me. I know together we will figure out a good project. As said earlier, so far all I have done is talk about this idea; I have not actually gotten my plan farther than this cyber world.
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I have used email group lists to communicate with parents but never phone/text lists. Do they work the same?
ReplyDeleteHave you run your plan by your administration? Do they support these kinds of innovative ideas? I often find myself wishing my administrators followed the ISTE Standards for administrators:
http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-administrators/nets-for-administrators-sandards.aspx
It is exciting that your administration would give you time to collaborate with your peers for technology projects. As I have been learning new skills through Walden, I often invite my colleague to combine classes when I am doing a technology projects so they can see it in action. Then hopefully they can continue it on their own. Does anyone else teach the same class at the same time as you?
As a coach I have used text based ways to communitate with my athlests and parents and it actually works very well. You do have those few that dont have the phones so that is a pain. Good luck getting your plan past the cyber world.
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