St.+Albert+the+Great


 * Team Members: St. Albert the Great: ** Roseanne Welte - Technology Teacher - 4th and 5th Grade Honors Math. Pat Basgil - Physical Education Teacher  Tina McLaughlin - 7th and 8th Grade Math Teacher  Cathy Tacchino - Network Admin and Mistress of all trades



**Team Name: Saint Albert the Great Edugators**

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**Team members: Roseanne Welte, Catherine Tacchino, Pat Basgil, Tina McLaughlin** =====

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**School: St. Albert the Great** =====

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**Abstract** =====

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//Our project is a School wide Wiki that we will use as a communication and collaboration tool. This Wiki will be used to communicate with parents, faculty members and eventually between students. We will use this as a collaboration tool whereby students will work together on projects, editing and revising in real time. Projects will be uploaded to the Wiki for viewing by parents, teachers and other students.// =====

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**Problem, Issue, or Possibility** =====
 * =====At present students are unable to share computer work that they have done in school with their parents at home. =====
 * Students are unable to work collaboratively on a project outside of school without physically meeting at someone's house.
 * Presently, our faculty uses a teacher shared folder on our network to communicate with each other. Unfortunately, this cannot be accessed from home or edited by more than one person at a time.

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**Objectives and Assessment ** =====

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Our ultimate goal is for every teacher at St. Albert the Great to have their own classroom Wiki with their students as members. The Wiki would be used to communicate with parents and students and for students to work collaboratively on projects. =====

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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">At this point, we have started a Faculty Wiki in which faculty members have created their own page. They have added documents, pictures, videos etc. ===== === <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">When each teacher has created his/her own classroom Wiki and used it to communicate and collaborate with his/her students we will know our project has been successful. === === **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Implementation Plan ** ===
 * =====<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">November 2010 - Faculty is surveyed to determine need. =====
 * =====<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">January 2011 - Committee meets to decide project based on the survey. =====
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">February 2011 - St. Albert the Great School Wiki is created.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Early March 2011 - Faculty is introduced to Wiki.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Late March 2011 - Committee meets to plan an "Out by Four" meeting and discuss goals for project
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">April 2011 - "Out by Four" meeting held with Faculty to facilitate the formation of their Wiki page.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">April 2011 - Teachers add to their Wiki page.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">May 2011 - Project presented at PLP culminating event.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">August 2011 - Faculty meeting to instruct and support teachers in the creation of their own classroom Wiki.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">August through November 2011 - Teachers will use their classroom Wiki to begin communicating with parents and students.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">December 2011 - Teachers will make students members of the classroom Wiki.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">December 2011 through June 2012 - Students will use the classroom Wiki to upload their work and collaborate on school projects.

===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Evaluation and Results** ===

**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Teachers have learned: **

 * ======<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">what a Wiki is ======
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">posting videos, documents, pictures, etc. to the Wiki
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">How to use the wiki to upload student projects and share with parents through the class web page.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">We were pleasantly surprised at how enthusiastic our faculty was to implement this project.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Hopefully it will encourage more exploration of other Web 2.0 tools that can be used to communicate and collaborate with families and students.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Right now our project is a work in progress. Most of our faculty have added a page to the Wiki and edited it. By the end of the year it is our hope that the entire faculty will be familiar with how to use a Wiki for communication and collaboration.

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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Artifacts and Documentation** ===== = **St. Albert the Great Faculty Wiki** = = = = ﻿ =