2/12 METC day 2

Facilitated sessions:

• Appy Hour
• Leveraging district networks to increase collaboration

Here's the storify of the day:

2/11 METC day 1

Presented:
Last year called, they want their lesson plan back
PD like Burger King: Have it your way


Tweets from the day:

2/10 WGHS, Avery

Spent the day at WGHS working on sessions for METC:

• Appy Hour
• Last year called, they want their lesson plan back
• Leveraging district networks to increase collaboration
• PD like Burger King: Have it your way

Answered and responded to emails.  Worked on scheduling Hixson Arcade.

Headed over to Avery to share the Science and Social Studies Update

2/6 WGHS

Worked at organizing items on computer (a little housekeeping).
Drafted 1/3 of the MS science curriculum.
responded to email
Wrote this post on map making: http://wgsdsciss.blogspot.com/2014/02/7-map-making-tools.html
Headed over to Edgar Road to pick up boxes.

7 Map Making Tools

Best Sites for Making a map?  I know you're thinking "There's nothing like paper and pencils!!!!" but what if you want to make this map ONLINE. Cue the dramatic music...

Here are some of my favorites, add yours in the comments!

1.  https://www.zeemaps.com/

2.  http://www.google.com/mapmaker (Because everything Google does is awesome)

3.  https://www.mapbox.com

4.  http://www.click2map.com/

5. http://www.scribblemaps.com/ (There's an app for that)

6. National Geographic! http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/interactive-map/?ar_a=1

7. http://batchgeo.com/ One of my favorites, if we already have the data.

2/4 Steger, Computer School

Spent the day with students and teachers at Steger Computer school.

2/3 Hixson, WGHS

Started the day at Hixson with the Harmony team talking about 20% time

Afterwords headed over to WGHS to:

• Work on 5th grade Social Studies
• Worked on 5th grade science (still pending)
• Set up for future meetings
• Met with Bonfyre to discuss social media in a school https://www.bonfyreapp.com/
• Created presentation for SS Vertical Team: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/presentation/d/1nEwFYpfZivIWNWgSTsMgsKbiCrLWvCi8BEMfFqGSXMw/edit#slide=id.g2abae46be_015
• Created minutes for SS vertical Team

Headed over to PDC (iDEA) and watched:

Agenda: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/document/d/1zwzzyANa8D_gzjYYOb3FAKFc5FFw8AEx1_Se7AJIyYE/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1