TiLT First Meeting

I met with the Technology Leadership Team for the first time on Friday, January 18th.  I asked one teacher from High School, Gwen Gilbert, and one teacher from Elementary School, Natalie Stewart, to join the team.  In this way all grade levels are included since I teach in the Middle School.  Kindergarten through 12th grade is represented on my campus and therefore I wanted a teacher from every level.  Gilbert has shown her expertise with technology and currently serves as the campus resource person for our electronic grading system.  Stewart is a quick learner and eager to promote the use of technology in the lower grades.

We decided to name the group TiLT.  We discussed offering mini-lessons to staff members after school to cover a wide-range of technology related topics teachers can use in their classrooms.  The list we came up with is as follows:

•  Refresher training, but also beginning courses on topics for new staff.
•  Promethean Board, Promethan Slates, ActivVoters
•  Twitter
•  Edmodo
•  Moodle - Gwen
•  Gaggle 
•  Gaggle YouTube videos
•  TeacherTube
•  Helpful Educational Website
•  Worksheets
•  Educational Games
• Wiki with Helpful Educational Website *1st one - Freaky Friday
• Blogging

While there are many more topics available, these are the ones we are choosing to start with.  Our first mini-lesson will be over Helpful Educational Websites such as Khan Academy, and TeacherTube.  We will be using a Wiki at http://tilted.wikispaces.com/ to easily organize and share the information with teachers.

We will determine a date for the first training at a later time.  It was a successful meeting and I am looking forward to working with a great team!