ETA July 8

Mentors: Edie Fabiyi, Sharon Townsend, Bill Geraci & Hasheem Selph (Lab Assistant)
Location: Wadsworth Elementary School, Room 209
Session: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Welcome to ETA!

1. ETA Homerooms Procedures
2. Introductions
3. Break
4. Presurey
5. Finding ETA
6. Our first module Computer Basics
7. Introduction to Using the Web in the Classroom
8. Wrap-up

1. Procedures

Wadsworth Elementary School

• principal is Velma Cooksey
• meet in Room 209 at 1:00
• phone calls- it is preferred that you do not make or receive phone calls while in class but in case of emergency you may be reached at 535-0634 (NO long distance calls should be made using the class phone!)

Lab Rules

• no food or open containers, drinks must have a screw top
• lights and air conditioning off at the end of the day
• leave computers on, turn off monitors
• there are no dumb questions, ask away!

Attendance

• class begins at 1:00 p.m. after the morning session has exited
• expectation is that you're present and working everyday on time
• Absence policy:
  • CPDUs are awarded based on the number of hours you actually attend WIT. The maximum is 80 hours (16 CEUs). You will lose 1 CPDU for each hour you are absent.
  • If you miss more than 2 days (8 hours) of WIT, you are no longer eligible for CPS Lane Promotion Credit.
  • If you miss more than 2 days (8 hours) of WIT, your stipend (if any, offered by the Chicago Public Schools to full-time certified teachers) will be cut. If you miss 6 or more days (24 hours or more) of WIT, you will no longer be eligible for the stipend.
  • Lateness to sessions will not be tolerated. You are allowed 2 tardies without penalty. After the first 2, any additional tardies of more than 30 minutes will count as ½ day missed (2 hours absence). In addition, you may not leave early. If you leave more than 30 minutes early on any day during WIT, you will be penalized ½ day missed (2 hours absence).
  • A portion of the stipend will depend upon your implementation of your WIT Webquest or curriculum web. More details will be given at orientation

Paperwork

• some required forms must be completed and submitted
• sign the P.M. sign in sheet every day
• keep up with your folder, bring to school every day
• turn in results of the COSA if you have not done so

Additional

• we will use versions of Netscape 7 to create web pages and WSFTP to publish them to the Internet (see mentor to get these free for your home computer)
• mentors have a standard meeting every Thursday at 12:30
• plenary every Friday at BSLC to have lunch and hear a guest speaker
• a bus will take us to the campus and return us to complete the day in our homeroom
• each participant will find an interesting web site to share with the class (be sure to give the name and URL of the site to a mentor and select a date to give a two minute presentation for the Site of the Day)

2. Introductions

• mentors

  Goals for the ETA Homeroom. Since we are going to be with each other this summer and throughout the year (via the mail list and other meetings), Sharon and I will work with you, and encourage all of you to work together so that you will:

  • feel more comfortable with technology and how to use it in your school
  • know how to search for, evaluate, adapt and use educational materials and information on the Internet
  • feel comfortable using email and participating in a listserve environment
  • feel comfortable using various web-based tools
  • be able to upload your files onto the server so that they may be seen on the Internet
  • create a brief web page and webquest
  • create a plan for implementing the use of your web resources
  • understand that this is not about adding additional tasks to your workload, it's about using technology to make your tasks easier and greatly enhance learning
    
• participants

Please tell us your name, what your do and what you hope to get out of these 4 weeks.

3. Break

4. Presurvey

5. Finding ETA

For those who have finished the surveys early, do some exploring.

Netscape opens to its "Home" page, which in this case is set to this url:

http://webinstituteforteachers.org/index.php

* On this page, click on Homerooms.
* On the Homerooms page, click on ETA. This is our homeroom's main page.
You may bookmark the page if you like, but visit some of the other homerooms and have a look around the rest of the WIT site.

6. Our first module is Computer Basics.

For some of you this will be a review, but it is full of details that you might find helpful. For those of you who use Mac computers, please take some time to view this Mac to PC/PC to Mac module.

7. Introduction to Using the Web in the Classroom

8. Wrap up

• questions
• please give mentor your date and URL for Site of the Day
• bring folder and book that you were given at the orientation to class everyday