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Today, in our Faculty Development Meeting, we announced that the department was funded for only half of the proposed 10 days for Summer Training. The department agreed to work 5 full days during the third week of August and narrow the scope of topics to:

Monday 8/18: Creative applications of DiLL
Tuesday 8/19: Podcasts
Wednesday 8/20: iMovie
Thursday 8/21: Web presence
Friday 8/22 will be a workday to finish projects started during the week.

The original proposal is available here for download.

Our part of the deal:

1. Show up by 9AM and work until 5PM, Monday through Friday
2. Participate in the training activity for the day’s topic
3. Design four tangible projects and turn them in by week’s end

Proposed itinerary for Monday - Thursday:

8:50 - 9:00 Sign in on clipboard
9:00 - 9:30 Directed training/lecture/question & answer on topic for the day
9:30 - 9:45 Discuss possible application in the classroom as a large group
9:45 - 10:00 Discuss with project buddy or buddies what you will accomplish that day
10:00 - 10:15 Snack Break
10:15 - 12:00 Everyone creates a model tech project to show students
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 Directed training/lecture/question & answer on secondary related topics
1:45 - 2:45 Buddies write up lesson plan, instructions for students, and prepare all needed materials, burn to a single CD and/or store on the File Server
2:45 - 3:00 Snack Break
3:00 - 3:30 Share with large group what each small group accomplished
3:30 - 5:00 Project wrap-up, personal housekeeping, help clean up lab, prepare materials needed for next day
5:00 Sign out on clipboard

Friday

8:50 Sign in on clipboard
9:00 Share with large group your personal goals for the day
9:30 Get to work on projects
10:00 Snack Break
12:00 Lunch
3:00 Snack Break
4:00 Make sure there is a copy of everything you did on a CD, so you can access it during the school year. Also, save to the Projects Folder.
5:00 Sign out on clipboard

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WHAT TO DO NOW
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By Friday, June 13th, everyone fills out their wiki page at:

http://worldlanguagelab.wikispaces.com

If you don’t have a wiki login and password yet, please make an appointment with Allison.

I created a sample page here, so you can see what I’m looking for by Friday, June 13th.

http://worldlanguagelab.wikispaces.com/WLL-Allison

Please meet with me if any of this is confusing or if you are looking for project ideas. Here is page of ideas…

http://worldlanguagelab.wikispaces.com/projects

and here is a working list of curricular activities across the grade levels and languages…