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The objective for this page is for us to collaboratively create an agenda for our first interactive meeting. We need to focus on integrating technology into our 6th Grade Pre-AP Math classes. Please propose agenda items by Thursday December 17, so we can discuss them during our meeting. When proposing activities, please state the purpose of the the activity, the description of the activity, the steps, and the estimated time for each activity.

Facilitator: Amy Houser

Community Members: Seda Dawson, Beth Lynch, Barbara Stephens and Cheryl Wegscheid

Proposed Ideas for Agenda Items:

I. Create a shared vision for how technology can be integrated into the math class.
 * The purpose of this activity is for each of us to come to a consensus about how and what type of integration that we want to see in our 6th grade math classes. We will first list what we see as the important issues with integrating technology into the classroom, we will then share our ideas and come to consensus on what we feel are the important issues as we begin this integration process. I feel that with Christmas break starting on Monday that we will have to set a deadline for this to be Friday, January 8, 2009. Does this sound reasonable to everyone? -Amy

I think that reading up on some research that has already been done on integrating math and technology would be valuable for us to investigate. I thought each of us could find an article about integration of the two areas, share the articles with each other, and then brainstorm how we can apply what the article says into our classrooms. I know that we are all incredibly busy this time of year, so how does Friday January 15 sound for completing this activity? -Beth Share one technology lesson that you have tried in your math class. What were your success and or struggles that you encountered? Brainstorm one or two objectives that you will be teaching during the 4th six weeks where you can integrate technology into our lessons.
 * I think this would be valuable information. I believe that we need an idea of what everyone has already tried in their classroom and where they are in the integration process. For this activity, we just need to share the different activities that we have tried in the classroom and what worked and didn’t work in the activity. I would like to see us put this information into a spreadsheet, where we can keep adding ideas as we think of them. I agree with Amy, that with the Christmas break fast approaching that we should set a deadline of Friday, January 8, 2009. –Seda
 * Since we will have to have our 4th 6 weeks roadmaps completed by Tuesday January 5, I thought it would be a great idea to use that time to look at what are the objectives that we will be teaching in the coming weeks and think of how can integrate technology into those lessons. We could put the ideas into the spreadsheet that I discussed in the previous suggestion. We could actually have this finished by Wednesday morning, January 6th -Seda