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__Maria to Jackie__: We are not, at present, using any student response system. Someone at school came up with the idea of using Google Docs to put the students' phones to better use than texting during class and that gave me the idea. He has been investigating the possibility for a few weeks now and that reminded me of something that Dell tried to sell us during a training. My proposal will be to get the system in order to have all students involved and to increase teacher/student interaction.

__Maria to Jackie and Leandra__: Module 2 assignment is up and I need some feedback, please. Is it too short? Do you think I need to put in the data from the interviews? If so, do you think that I can put it as an appendix? Thank you, ladies!

I believe you have a great problem statement and back ground information. You need to provide school population information which you should be able to find on your school web page under the school report card. I did not do this in my module one performance plan and was deducted 5 points. I will suggest that you down load the PPII template onto your computer and use it to guide you as you continue your plan. Open up Maria's plan and my plan to view. Use your plan rubric to assist with making sure you have included information that is required.
 * __Leandra__**

Jackie

I viewed your module 2 plan. I briefly read through it. I think that you have done a great job on providing the required information but on the rubric for module 2 I believe that you were suppose to include the mission statement and vision of the organization. I did not see it included in the plan. Did you make sure to include it before submitting it for a grade?
 * __Maria__**

Jackie

Thankfully, yes. My computer is driving me out of my mind and I posted to the wiki without reading the full assignment. After I read it, I finished the mission and vision in a hurry. Thanks.
 * __Jackie:__**

__**Leandra:**__ I like the medium cost solution for your plan. I like the fact that the teachers would be trained in segments then have time to use and implement the strategies into their daily routines. Research has shown that when a new innovation is introduced but people are not given time to use it before requiring it to be implemented the innovation fails and people resort back to what they know and are comfortable with.

__**Maria to Jackie**__

I have a suggestion for your high end. Since the sky is the limit, how about a mobile computer lab? I have seen them rolling about the school on their little trolleys when a teacher requests them from the library. Each trolley carries a projector-ready computer and 30 laptops for the students. __**Maria to Leandra and Jackie**__ I believe I have to do some re reading because my solutions have little resemblance to each other and one is technolgy-free. Do they have to be closely related?

Thank you for your response, The school did have a mobile computer cart that had 26 laptops on it. Classrooms could check out the lab and have it int their room. The COW as we called it worked great for a while. The computers ended up holding so much information that they started becoming disabled, our server started having problems and it took forever for all of the computers to make connections when they were all up and running at the same time, and finally the computers have become old and out dated that they can not even download most websites. The only thimg they are good for is word processing. They put them into a lab instead of letting teachers check out the cart last year and other issues arose. I actuallly asked the principal if I could have the cow for my classroom if no one was going to use them in the lab and I was told no. All I can do is try.
 * //Maria://**

On another note, go back and read your rubric, technology can fall into many areas from a pencil to a computer. I do not believe that the solution makes a difference as long as it solves the problem. M**__aria to Jackie__** You'd think they would just reboot the whole lot and start over. Now that we have so many storage places in the web there is no reason to overburden the computers. On your second point, I never thought to look at the rubric :[ Thanks! I posted my interventions yesterday. What do you think? Sorry I had to post here. It is not saving in comments. I was glad to see that the solution you chose implemented the teacher training and incorporated teachers creating lessons to use while in training. From experience if teachers are not given the opportunity or time to create lessons using the technology it never gets done and the technology devices do not get used.
 * __Jackie to Maria__**

Maria, I looked at your module 4 document. I wanted to get some ideas because I am a little confused about what I am supposed to be writing. I think you did module 5 assignment and not module 4. Module 4 assignment is to explain what your managers role will be, what medium you will use a a manager and other things I am not sure about. Please go back and check your module 4 assignment. At least module 5 assignment is already done. If I am wrong leave me comment. It won't hurt my feelings. LOL
 * __Jackie to Maria__**

I have submitted my final project for this course. I have checked for your final projects but can not find them as of yet. I will check back sometime this week and make comments if they are posted. I have enjoyed working with you both throughout this course. Good luck in the future as you become change agents.
 * __Jackie to Maria and Leandra__**