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=Team MacEttes


 * **Name** || **Email** || **School** || **Grade Level** ||
 * Jennifer Petty (Team Leader) || jmpetty@episd.org || Zach White Elementary || 2 ||
 * Valarie Perez || vmperez@episd.org || Travis Elementary || K ||
 * Emily Atwood || evatwood@episd.org || Nixon Elementary || K-5 ||
 * Lucia Palomino || lxpalomi@episd.org || Lamar Elementary || 2 ||
 * Lindsey Sattizahn || lcseifer@episd.org || Rivera Elementary || 2 ||
 * Brian Grenier (PLP Fellow) || brgrenie@episd.org || EPISD Instructional Technology || K-12 ||

__Meeting at Mitzi Bond__ Our team will be developing a project focusing on the importance of digital storytelling in the classroom. We will have the students help us list the "Top 10 Reasons" teachers should take the opportunity to 21st centurize their curriculum. Then, each of the teammates (Jennifer, Lucy and Lindsey) will focus on 1 part of the core curriculum: math, science and reading. In the fall, we will each video teachers teaching lessons the 'old fashioned way' or other illustrations of non-digitized curriculum. We will then create podcasts on different elements - how to create a digital book report, teaching the teachers how to get to the new way of teaching. Then, we will each revamp the lesson to digitalize it, incorporating the T3 technology and equipment. A possible title is 'Out of the Dark Ages". iWeb, garage band, iMovie, jing.com (screencasts). We would each create 1 podcast this fall for the project. We will post links to Atomic Learning for the podcasts on how-to do each element (iWeb, iMovie, etc.) instead of creating our own.

__Meeting Date 9/8/10__ We have decided to take a turn with our project. We have decided to help teachers with teaching "how to research". How to Get Back to the Future of Research will be our title. Our objective is to make teaching research skills simpler and more meaningful. It does not have to be this elaborate project. Research can be simple steps. Our first step will be to create a pre-assessment to determine what teachers think are the hardest part of teaching kids how to research. We will each send an email to our teachers at our schools. Once we get that data back we will look at the top 4 to work with. Emily is going to work on a webpage where we can display our findings and project. Our final assessment will be to poll teachers again to see if they would or have used any of our info/suggestions on our website. We will be meeting this month to determine our next step.

__Meeting Date 11/18/10__ Our project website, based through Weebly.com will be posted as soon as it is completed. Our research based project was developed to help teachers teach the concept of researching. We found, through campus surveys, that teachers often struggle with teaching 'researching'. We have developed this website, which includes sample student-driven research projects, to show teachers how to implement research techniques in their classroom - no matter what content area they teach. So, look here again soon- you'll find a link to our website!