Group+A+Chat+Transcript+from+February+24th

CHAT LOG from our discussion today :-)

from CrysCP to All Participants: hello! from CrysCP to All Participants: I've never used webex before from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Hi Crystal! The number is toll free if you want to call in from John Stringer to All Participants: hey, neither have I... from CrysCP to All Participants: I don't really have access to a phone, exactly, from CrysCP to All Participants: I'm at my hygienist's house in southern ontario from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: oh okay no problem from CrysCP to All Participants: sorry! Next time we meet though I can call in from CrysCP to All Participants: you guys can talk though if you like from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: No worries from John Stringer to All Participants: do i call in to be able to talk? or can that be done directly through the meeting manager? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I set this one up so you have to call ... sorry guys from CrysCP to All Participants: np from CrysCP to All Participants: nice desktop, hehe from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I edited Ashleys draft and posted it up on the wiki from CrysCP to All Participants: I read it, from CrysCP to All Participants: seems awesome from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I am going to add some more references tomorrow. from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: She did a great job kicking it off from CrysCP to All Participants: I feel so badly though! You guys did the work last week (Ashley and John), and again this week (Phil and Ashley), from CrysCP to All Participants: and I just have so much other crap going on that I keep forgetting about the 533 stuff from CrysCP to All Participants: I need a school coach or something, Crystal, DO THIS NOW!! from CrysCP to All Participants: Are you on the phone with him ok John? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: We are talking about how having a slow connection is like a physical disability from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Okay we are off audio now so we can all chat from CrysCP to All Participants: hehehe from John Stringer to All Participants: ok, back to text :-) ... time to practice my typing skills, which I guess could be another disability! from CrysCP to All Participants: lol from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: ha ha ha from CrysCP to All Participants: if you need me to slow down at all just let me know from CrysCP to All Participants: I've been told my typing's ... from CrysCP to All Participants: a bit on the ridiculous side from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I am a two finger typist ... mavis beacon failed me from CrysCP to All Participants: failed me too from CrysCP to All Participants: she said I was typing 64 wpm in grade 2 from CrysCP to All Participants: she had nothing to teach me from CrysCP to All Participants:

from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: LOL from John Stringer to All Participants: haha worked great for me... and most of my students from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I need to revisit it I think from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: All my friends in IT make fun of me from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Anyway ... so have we decided as a group that inclusivity is our rosetta stone? from CrysCP to All Participants: Aye Aye Capitaine from John Stringer to All Participants: Yes, now we need to figure out where we're going to focus.. pretty broad topic from CrysCP to All Participants: I agree from CrysCP to All Participants: do we want to focus on a particular age range? high school vs elementary ? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Cool. You two have done enough so far. Let me finish off the mini assignment and you two can send any corrections by tomorrow afternoon-ish from CrysCP to All Participants: or on particular sorts of disabilities? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Autism is very interesting ... but a narrow focus. from CrysCP to All Participants: maybe like, physical disabilities, or learning disabilities? from CrysCP to All Participants: so like autism, blind, audio, vs ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Seems to me like the younger classes tend to have a broader range of diversity issues. My sister teaches grade 4 and she has autistic students, a blind student and kids from the 3rd world (ESL) from John Stringer to All Participants: My school the main issue is ESL / cultural, but I had a very hard time finding things related to math and science from CrysCP to All Participants: yeah from CrysCP to All Participants: so Phil do you think we should focus on elementary? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: not necessarily ... I was just pointing out that ekementary teachers tend to face a bigger range of issues in terms of dversity from John Stringer to All Participants: are you both elementary teachers? i'm middle high myself, next year will be completely high school from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: A lot of filtration or separation tends to take place there from CrysCP to All Participants: I haven't done any teaching from CrysCP to All Participants: hehe from CrysCP to All Participants: I graduated in June, moved to the US where I can't work, from CrysCP to All Participants: and enrolled in the MET full time from CrysCP to All Participants: I'm currently on courses 4 - 8, and am taking the final two in the summer from John Stringer to All Participants: oh yeah, i remember reading that in your bio! 4 courses right? from CrysCP to All Participants: yup from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I am a technology expert (10 years working in eLearning). I am not a teacher but come from a family of 7 teachers ... so you are it John! from CrysCP to All Participants: so my experience in the classroom stems from my 6 practicums from CrysCP to All Participants: hehehe, indeed, so, John from CrysCP to All Participants: lol from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I have taught adults though from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I actually taught teachers :-) from John Stringer to All Participants: haha well actually i'm only in my 2nd year of teaching so i don't have a whole lot of experience either from CrysCP to All Participants: lovely! from CrysCP to All Participants: hehehe :) from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Well in the land of the blind the one eyed man is King!!! from Phil Chatterton to All Participants:

from CrysCP to All Participants: so we have very different views we're bringing to the table, which I think is a good thing from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Definitely ... and none of us are jaded yet :-) from CrysCP to All Participants: from John Stringer to All Participants: so Phil since you're main focus is webCT do you want to work on access issues for people with disabilities? from CrysCP to All Participants: interesting, my first associate teacher is coming to my wedding ... :) from John Stringer to All Participants: I don't know much about webCT but I do put most of what I teach online in modules so that students can work at their own pace and I act as more of a facilitator from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Actually my main focus is institutional assessment and student learning outcomes. I have spent a lot of tme working with experts in the US on how to improve system level educational processes. Not sure if that applied directly here ... but these issues ar from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: We could create an environment in the newest version of Blackboard and make it as accessible as possible? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I have the keys to the kingdom in terms of Blackboard (which owns webCT) from CrysCP to All Participants: huh, that might be a really neat thing to do from CrysCP to All Participants: ! from CrysCP to All Participants: research on what issues there are with different students, etc, from CrysCP to All Participants: and what issues teachers have with online /technology from CrysCP to All Participants: and try to improve blackboard ? from John Stringer to All Participants: that sounds like a great idea... but wouldn't that require a lot of work on your end? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: We could create math or science course that contains visual aids and captioned video as well as software for students with disabilities ... and then have some sort of an assessment that determines the content they see when they enter? from CrysCP to All Participants: this sounds neat, but I agree john, sounds like a loooot of work from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: No I love doing that stuff. Also I could walk you guys through the latest learning environment and even tell you about what we are building. from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: We could create an experience or a single module as opposed to a whole course from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: The effect would be the same from John Stringer to All Participants: that would be great... although perhaps focus on building one section and then discuss other possibilities and where it could go from there... from CrysCP to All Participants: yeah, I think that would be good, really for just the experience, from CrysCP to All Participants: maybe do sort of a single lesson, take maybe something John has taught? from CrysCP to All Participants: and put it into our new blackboard environment, from John Stringer to All Participants: i'm a technology teacher.... not math :-) from CrysCP to All Participants: so that it can be seen as to how interactive it could be, accessible to different students from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: That is what the MET is all about I think. Using Johns content would rock ... we cold tweak it as needed to make it accesible from CrysCP to All Participants: technology doesn't include science at all? :( from CrysCP to All Participants: then ashley from CrysCP to All Participants: or I'm sure I can dig something up from CrysCP to All Participants: oooh, like teaching um, crap from John Stringer to All Participants: not really... although my wife is a math teacher so i have access to all sorts of things from CrysCP to All Participants: you kno, like 1000 mL in a L, that unit from CrysCP to All Participants: I found it really easy, but when I taught my 6/7 students from CrysCP to All Participants: and tried like 50 different ways, from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: We could even wrap in the Jasper idea but make it accessible from CrysCP to All Participants: it was like banging my head against the desk from John Stringer to All Participants: haha i hear ya! from CrysCP to All Participants: yeah, so focus on the environment, fixing it up based on research and applying it to a lesson like that? from CrysCP to All Participants: wow, now I'm major excited from CrysCP to All Participants: can you tel? from CrysCP to All Participants: my typing increases 10 fold from John Stringer to All Participants: yup, i think the jasper idea would work... or have students make an instructional video for other students to follow from CrysCP to All Participants: yes! from CrysCP to All Participants:
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from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Cool. Okay why don't we throw up a "mini-plan" this week and try to meet this weekend to discuss as a group? Full audio ... the works. I can walk you guys through the environment from CrysCP to All Participants: hm .... I'm sorry to be a party pooper .. I have my dad's 50th birthday party on saturday, and two assignments due on sunday from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I can pass presenter control too so we can each take turns presenting or showing stuff, I will happily teach you webex from CrysCP to All Participants: I was working on the one assignment today, but this weekend would be difficult for me, from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Okay then next week ... no worries! from CrysCP to All Participants: hehe, ok :) next saturday? how's that for you John? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: You gusy let mw know when ... and I will set it up from John Stringer to All Participants: whenever is good for me, but weekends are better because I can come on at 2 or 3 in the morning and not worry about getting up for school. from CrysCP to All Participants: so saturday would be good? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: works for me from John Stringer to All Participants: sure... saturday will either be early in the AM sunday for me or later from CrysCP to All Participants: we can see about ashley, and pick a time, from CrysCP to All Participants: I prefer later rather than early ... I'm a night person, from CrysCP to All Participants: Phil? preference from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I would prefer afternoon if possible from John Stringer to All Participants: your later is good for me.. that will be sunday afternoon for me from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Okay so how about 4 p.m. on Saturday? from CrysCP to All Participants: that's good for me, is that late enough for you John? from CrysCP to All Participants: what would that be, 11am? from CrysCP to All Participants: 7pm my time here from John Stringer to All Participants: yup, sounds good from CrysCP to All Participants: awesome :) from John Stringer to All Participants: 8am here from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Okay cool ... dont like donner from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: done like dinnr I mean from CrysCP to All Participants: hehehe ;) from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: ha ha from John Stringer to All Participants: haha.. so that's march 8 right? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I will send out a webex tomorrow. Yes March 8th from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: I will post a transcipt of this chat for Ashley to laugh at tonight .... from John Stringer to All Participants: perfect. i've always wanted to look at the backend of one of these apps! from CrysCP to All Participants: march 7th for us, 8th for John, from CrysCP to All Participants: haha, me too! from CrysCP to All Participants: ok, thanks Phil, hehehe from John Stringer to All Participants: so Phil if you go through mini-as 1 tonight, I'll go through it again tomorrow during the day and submit it Thursday morning here which is Wednesday evening BC time from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: That sounds good. Okay goodnight you two! Thanks for all of your hard work so far :-) from CrysCP to All Participants: thank you too guys! from John Stringer to All Participants: one great thing about living in China is it feels as though I have an extra day to finish everything... it's pyschological, but it's something! from CrysCP to All Participants: and guys, just yell at me if you want me to do something, from CrysCP to All Participants: I just sort of assume there's lots of time, from CrysCP to All Participants: and then, no, from CrysCP to All Participants: it was due yesterday, from CrysCP to All Participants: but one of you guys did it! so I'm safe, but not really from John Stringer to All Participants: haha i just put everything into ical and it reminds me every day minutes of something that's coming in 5 minutes that i'm not prepared for from CrysCP to All Participants: oh I have it in my google calendar from CrysCP to All Participants: but uh, I tend to forget from CrysCP to All Participants: like for these mini assignments from CrysCP to All Participants: they're coming up so fast from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Yeah I just love mini-assignments ... from CrysCP to All Participants: lol from CrysCP to All Participants: I wanted to take only 3 courses this term, but it would've meant another year to graduate, from CrysCP to All Participants: stupid MET from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: ha ha ha from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: This is number 8 for me ... getting there from CrysCP to All Participants: if you see bits of reddish / blondish hair floating around, from CrysCP to All Participants: please send it back my way from John Stringer to All Participants: haha yeah, i'll be taking some courses this summer and fall that i really have no interest in so that i can finish in december from CrysCP to All Participants: are you taking any in the summer phil? from CrysCP to All Participants: awesome! from CrysCP to All Participants: I'm taking 532 and 590, you in either of them? from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Not this summer. We are expecting our first in June ... so I need some breathing space. 2 courses in the fall and I am done from CrysCP to All Participants: awwww from CrysCP to All Participants: congrats! from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Thanks :-) from CrysCP to All Participants: we might be buying a house in June:) from John Stringer to All Participants: i'm taking two this summer (forget which ones) and two in the fall and i'll be done from CrysCP to All Participants: not a real house, we can't afford one in Cali (1 million +), but a mobile home from CrysCP to All Participants: john, if you're on #8, you only need two more, right? from CrysCP to All Participants: total of 10 from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Where in Cali do you live? I have spent loads of time down there from CrysCP to All Participants: which is why I'm taking 2 in the summer, and then I'm done from CrysCP to All Participants: Mountain View, from CrysCP to All Participants: 15 minutes from San Jose, an hour south of SF from John Stringer to All Participants: i'm only on 5, 6 this semester.. will need 4 more from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Cool. My buddy is moving to Santa Cruz next year ... close to you from CrysCP to All Participants: ahhh ok, nm, sorry! but if you're taking the two with me, maybe we can have fun from CrysCP to All Participants: I love the area, from CrysCP to All Participants: the weather is awesome from CrysCP to All Participants: but the cost of living sucks from CrysCP to All Participants: we pay 1600/month in rent from CrysCP to All Participants: for a small 1 bedroom from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: No kidding. Well in Van the price per square foot where I live is about 650 so a 1000 sqf place is about $600K or so from John Stringer to All Participants: wow... that is expensive. we stay for free in china (included in our package) but the weather sucks... well more the polution sucks, would be quite nice otherwise from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Anyway ... I need to go and cook my wife a late dinner from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: Great chatting with you both from CrysCP to All Participants: for a house where I am, the tiny 500 sq ft (like my apartment) that's very run down, like, bull doze and start again, is 500,000 from CrysCP to All Participants: you too Phil! from John Stringer to All Participants: Yup, and i need to get ready for period 4 from Phil Chatterton to All Participants: bye guys from CrysCP to All Participants: bye! from CrysCP to All Participants: