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I do not know how well the Wiki virtual meeting is working so I will email and post to Wiki. I had an exciting phone call with Carla Needham/Development Study Center in regard to a new writing program that will become available in August. I have not spoken with Becky Haseltine at MRI about this, but Carla indicates that Becky is very supportive of the Being a Writer program and MRI. Anyway, she is sending me some materials and then I will send out to you if you will send me your home address.

This is the website with some general information. http://www.devstu.org/literacy.html

She also indicated that she is in Springfield on August 9 and 10 and would be happy to meet with some of us at dinner if we like what we see. I'm tied up with new teacher during the day, but told her if we could meet about dinner time we could ask more specific questions after looking at the materials.

If you have any leads on good writing/grammar/computer/technology resources, please forward to me and I will forward to the group. Send me your home mailing address and I will send you the materials as soon as I receive them. Thanks and hope you are having a great start to your summer!

Susan

Textbook Committee-- With everything going on here at the end of school and administrators wanting textbooks taken care of for beginning of next school year, I feel our best method of communication will be via this virtual meeting. Last year the textbook proposal committee surveyed the faculty and compiled data, received input from area COC schools regarding textbook rotation and monies, and then put a rotation schedule and proposal for monies together with input from all the buildings. The first year of the rotation is Communication Arts--writing and grammar and computer/technology.

I would like input from the teachers on textbooks that will support writing, grammar, and computer/technology. Since the district will be doing MRI next year, I will contact Becky Haseltine so see if she has some research based textbooks that will support our GLEs and MRI. If you have textbooks that you are using that would be useful for the entire district, please make a comment so that the entire committee can research the suggestion.

This way of meeting is new for me also, but I like the concept that we can contribute and do our work at any time and any place. I will contact Becky Haseltine next week and let the committee know of any of her suggestions. Susan

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=Textbook Committee=

Susan has asked me to create a virtual meeting space for our Textbook Committee. I’ve created this wiki called textbk. This is basically an editable web page that you can access from any station connected to the Internet. Below are some basics to get you started. I’m sure you will get more directions from Susan soon. If you need any further assistance with the wiki please let me know. -Janetta


 * 1) Bookmark this webpage for future reference.
 * 2) Before you start, click the Refresh button on your browser to be sure you are viewing the latest page.
 * 3) To enter your comments, click the Edit this Page button. You can copy and paste content using a right click and the popup menu, or type directly on the screen.
 * 4) You can use the Add a Link button (globe with a chain link) to insert hyperlinks.
 * 5) Click the Images and Files button (tree) to upload files or images.
 * 6) There is also a button for Insert Table.
 * 7) Click the Save button to save your changes to the wiki.
 * 8) If you want to see who has done what, click the history button for a list of revisions.