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April 9, 2005

Attendance: Eileen Heasley, Carol Isakson, Laura Cummings, Mary Jeanne Franzinger, Sue McFeely, Dyann Smith, Camille Grabb, Barb Grade, Jane Perzyk, Carol Klosowski, Kristin Fontichiaro

Place: St. Clare of Montefalco School, Grosse Pointe Park

Discussions:

The February Let's Talk web page was circulated. Dyann agreed to take pictures for the April meeting. Minutes are now included on the web page.

Jane, our moderator, began the meeting with a discussion of which medium we wanted to use to post our MACUL documents and URL's. The benefits of using Blackboard, wikipedia, or creating a blog site on http://www.visitmyclass.com  were debated. We eventually agreed on using visitmyclass. We established a blog with the username and password "lets-talk" . Jane agreed to put her email address on the registration. Once Jim Wenzloff accepts the registration, members can post the MACUL web pages they found useful and attach documents.


Eileen, Laura & Barb


Jane


Carol I.


Camile & Carol K.


Kristin, Sue and Camile

Speaker: We discussed ideas and themes from MACUL and shared what we learned at outstanding sessions!

At MACUL, Eileen talked with contacts from Troy schools and Ann Arbor schools for possible meeting places for Let's Talk next year.

MACUL topics noted: 

  • Jane talked about LearnPort which offers online professional development through Michigan Virtual University (MVU). 
  • Eileen distributed a list of Power Point tips by Gail Lovely and talked about Karen Bosch's "Top Internet Resources for Elementary Teachers." 
  • Laura distributed a page about Hal Davidson's keynote speech (see it online, address below), free subscriptions to United Streaming (through June) and Brain Pop (through April 15) and royalty free resources through Kitzu. 
  • Carol I. put many useful websites into a brochure (they are also on her web page at http://www.isakson.org). 
  • Mary Jeanne passed out brochures on i-Safe.org, promoting safe Internet practices for children. Many free materials are available from this group. 
  • Barb is interested in a program called Microworlds Pro.

Resources available through the MACUL website.
    Handouts http://www.macul.org/conferences/2005/handouts.html 
    Streaming video of featured speakers http://www.1ici.com/solutions/MACUL2005/ 


Sue at MACUL with a prize!

    
Karl, Navaz, Carol & Bob at MACUL

   
Mary Jeanne & Kristin    

Next Meeting:

Our next meeting will be May 7, at Carol K's school at 5555 Connor in Detroit. The speaker will be announced.

Minutes submitted by: Mary Jeanne Franzinger
April 12, 2005

Credits for this month's page:
Minutes: submitted by: Mary Jeanne Franzinger
Pictures: take and resize: Dyann Smith
Web page: Carol Isakson and Eileen Heasley

Posted on: April 2005