Teacher+Orientation+for+Labs+and+Laptops

Teacher Orientation to Labs, Laptops, and Rules

 * Teacher orientation in September
 * Student involvement in the orientation
 * Introduction of the student Tech Squad
 * Create and print rules sheets and signs for labs (before Sept)
 * Steve will send an email to remind staff
 * Instructions for subs in the sub folders

> Breakfast and professional meeting – what do we need to set the stage in the morning > 10-45-12:00 dept mtgs > 12-1 new teachers meeting > First PD of the year 1-3:30 Aug 29th (we're on!)
 * Details**:
 * Shari confirms that Aug 29th (1st day back) from 1:00-3:30 will be whole school PD
 * Suggestion of running sessions with students there
 * How many?
 * Format?
 * Topics? - we want to emphasize fun, usefulness, involvement, don't want to overwhelm
 * We may need to come in a day early to prepare and do as much as we can before end of June
 * First day back schedule:


 * Teacher orientation ideas (old)**:
 * Why don't we offer all 5 of our 'options' as sessions on the day 1 PD day? - we can have 2 'go-to' people running each session PLUS some students for each of them. Format: hear from the students, examine some examples, and then learn hands-on and create something, review 'go-to' people and the tech squad for further support. Then have regular PLC meetings about the topic that they chose throughout the year
 * Which would you like to run? - let's do it in a team
 * Which students will you ask to support you
 * we can run many of them over the course of the first days back--each teacher must sign off and they leave with a sheet with all of the guidelines for how to book, how often they can, responsibilities in the lab for teachers and students, who to call for support, in each area of tech/application, etc.


 * Teacher Orientation Ideas - April 26, 2011 Meeting:**
 * Shari - check if we can replace the 'new staff' orientation' with this -move it up in the schedule in the day and gather info fr new teacher orientation that we can put into the scav. hunt, whether EAs will be here on Aug 29
 * Staff orientation - QR code scavenger hunt? - move around the entire school in teams - perform tasks like:
 * how to book a lab, teacher and student lab responsibilities, cancelling a booking
 * connect the SMART board to a laptop
 * tech help/staffroom wiki - watching a video about laptops
 * fitness centre
 * ESL classroom
 * mechanics
 * multimedia
 * fun facts about staff
 * visit all labs
 * staffroom
 * support staff (?) - who they are, what you go to ea. of them for
 * cbe-mail for students - how students can access
 * tunnels
 * citations
 * copyright
 * learning commons website
 * HWW website, bulletin
 * SAC rm