first+day

=Agenda= = = =Introductions and Goals= Jan - has used read naturally and has paras read to students, knows that it will help. Wants to expand the use. Wants to find novels on line or somehow. Andy - librarian, wasn't sure if this would help then Jane convinced her it was relevant, may want to use it herself. Lisa - works at highschool, works with poor readers, wants to help kids get back into academics. Judy - special ed teacher - k5 would like her colleagues to use this software. It can be used for pre-teaching with her, but what if classroom doesn't use it. Kathi - reading and literacy k-3, used to use the mac tools to read to kids. Susan - librarian, would love to have this tool to add to bag of tricks, to help kids become avid readers. Susan wants to know whether it will describe layout. Pat - k-3, has used read naturally and was amazed at how engaged kids. Wants to know about scanning. Cost for software, downloads, equipment. Dave - wants to enhance reading literacy with non-fiction, kids are excited about technology. Marilyn - first grade, internet is not accessible because of the reading level Ruthie - k8 special educator, struggling readers and writers and is looking for tools to help. Kurzweil scanning is complex. Mary - 4th grade, here because Dave said so for fluency, Wants to work on home-school connection. How might kids use at home.
 * Welcome - Sam and Heather (Text to Speech voices) welcome class and introduce Jane and Kate
 * Credit paper work - John Paul from Castleton
 * Introductions and goals
 * The software - installation - Jane
 * Create own page on wiki - Jane
 * How tos on Mac and PC - demo on the big screen - Jane
 * Practice "reading" and exploring tools - Kate
 * Homework - Kate
 * "read" article
 * write response
 * "read" and edit response

John Collins writing programs is being used by highschool and Guilford Middleschool and may be moving down in SE district. So that all teachers are using the same language. One of the features is self reading of written work, and this software can support self reading. (Marilyn's district hates the program.)

=AFTERNOON ASSIGNMENT= [|Time for Kids] [|Earth's Moon-Wikipedia]

Mary - use reader to identify words students don't know Ruth - use reader to identify phonemes (long e sounds) Marilyn - found a fable having to do with the moon, A Stolen Moon at teachervision. David (David/Pat) - Diagram - have the reader read the captions (multiple modes, hear it, hear it while reading, reading it) Susan - Story telling kids writing, having the reader read the child story. Olders bringing youngers around to a display of the olders writing. Kathie - working with websites exploring different sites. Judy - Students don't have a sense of themselves in place school, town, city, state, country, earth. Lisa - 40th anniversary of landing on the moon. Comparison of technology then and now. Biographies. Research for reluctant readers and hearing their own writing. Andy and Jan - research. What do you know a brainstorm list. Listen to the article and find what they know and add to it. Look for online reading sources.

Appleworks - reading Kathie wants us to demonstrate

=HOMEWORK= in more stuff folder - assistive technology