Thursday, May 13, 2010

I need to update more often

Even if nobody else reads it - I find it helpful to keep a record of what is happening with the project and my reflections on it.

We had a great workshop last month with Vivienne and we did clarify expectations and made some headway with conceptualising how the project could go forward. We agreed on a common vision for the long-term desired outcomes and some short term actions we could all take to work towards that. Everybody agreed to coming up with 3 specific actions to achieve prior to the end of June, and to sending me the details of those within a week - most have done that.

We had another iConnect meeting Friday before last which went very well despite some technical issues (mainly difficulty with logging in) and so on. We used the break out rooms for a Think Pair Share activity. Our main focus was reflecting on the classroom management and non violent communication we had learned about at the workshop; and clarifying our action plans.

I have drafted an implementation plan and discussed it with Judy and Cathie. Have now sent it to Peter for comment. When I hear back from him I will send it to the group to get input from them.

Our next iConnect meeting is tomorrow. I'm going to run this one from home, mainly because of logistical problems with the car but it will give me the chance to try the video function which should be fun. The main focus will be Simon showing us how we can use Yammer to share information and documents. I also want to look at our action plans progress. I would prefer to do that mainly out of session to save time but of course it's a challenge when everyone's so busy...