BAY2-Orientation

=Becoming America Year 2 Orientation=

Online Research Orientation


 * Orientation Agenda**


 * 1) (15 minutes) Greet/Introduction
 * Take pictures of all teachers
 * Baseline Survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ becomingamerica2010
 * 1) (30 minutes) Project itself
 * 2) Overall Description
 * 3 phases of project Summer Institute, Fall Seminars, Lesson Planning (pp. 1-1 -- 1-3)
 * Think of yourself as a historian rather than a history teacher.
 * Graduate Credit availability through Suffolk University (forms returned to Prof. Reeve at 1st Content seminar in Sept)
 * 1) Standards p. 1-20
 * 2) Teacher Sharing - How this fits into what you teach now?
 * 3) Deliverables Checklist (4-2 -- 4-3)
 * 4) Primary Sources - you may not use everything that you see
 * 5) Lesson
 * 6) Boards
 * 7) implementation
 * 8) Summer Institute
 * 9) How to show up for the bus
 * 10) Where we are going
 * 11) Where we are staying (2-8)
 * 12) Need bring own meal money -- no meals provided; room has micro-fridge
 * 13) (30 minutes) Handout Year 2 book and go over key parts including
 * 14) dates,
 * 15) readings,
 * 16) what teachers should know,
 * 17) sign whatever they need to.
 * 18) (30 minutes) Web 2.0 Technologies (Twitter, Wiki)
 * WIKI - Every one needs a username, log in, join group.
 * For Login - Wikispaces URL - http://www.wikispaces.com/
 * How to edit a page (see Wiki Tutorial in Links section of Navigation)
 * Key pages on the wiki
 * How to create a posting
 * Create a posting - Introduce yourself in 1 paragraph
 * Research Orientation WebQuest
 * Research Orientation launch by June 30
 * Work on it independently
 * Additional site visit preview
 * TWITTER
 * What is it?
 * Where can I find Becoming America?
 * Create an account, access via smartphone, tweet a message
 * 1) (15 minutes) Baseline Survey
 * 2) (2 minutes) Next Meeting and Reminders

Dates:

 * ====**Date**==== || ====**Time**==== || ====**Location**==== ||
 * June 7, 2010 || 3:30-5:30pm || Teacher Learning Center, Medford High School Library, Medford ||
 * June 8, 2010 || 3:30-5:30pm || Braintree High School (in the media center) ||
 * June 8, 2010 || 4:00-6:00pm || Ferryway School, Malden ||
 * June 10, 2010 || 3:00-5:00pm || Everett High School Library (5th floor), Everett ||

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