2018 October

The Google Classroom train keeps moving forward! This month I partnered with the curriculum coordinator to host a workshop to help staff become more confident with the collaborative side of the Google environment. I also adjusted documentation to reflect some procedural changes relating to giving teachers feedback and navigating the file structures within the platform. 

One campus started a teacher book club that may turn into a student book club. We are starting by reading Orphan Train. This sparked a potentially interesting project involving the organizational archives at the University of Rochester. I am working with UR to potentially set up a primary resource workshop for students. 

I continued library lessons and have identified the CRAAP method as the framework for the information literacy lessons. Its crude, but a memorable acronym that represents the tools needed to successfully navigate truth/falsehoods in life. I am truly enjoying developing the set of lessons, and am looking forward to teaching them. 

I also started up another pet project of mine: Resource Management. It is my vision to have all educational resources in a database that can be accessed and shared by all educational staff. I started by inventorying classroom sets. Discussions with Technology are needed to move forward with this project.