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?Welcome girls! I hope I have this set up correctly and everyone can access and edit!

ML: LOOKS LIKE YOU DID GOOD!

?So sorry it took me so long to get on. . . My husband has been in the hospital with pneumonia. I feel like I have lost a week of my life!!

?I was thinking about our parent involvement project. What if we use some of the same ideas from our literacy fair that we did last fall?

JM: I like that idea...we might as well use some of the ideas we have already come up with!

RV: I agree. That is a great idea for the parent project. What about the survery? Any Ideas there?

?What about doing a survey on homework: Is homework important? Is practicing spelling words at home important? Is reading at home with your child important? Something along those lines.

JM: Homework is a big debate at our school...should it be given? If so, how much? How often? As long as everyone is in agreement I think this is a good idea!

RV- I think this is a great idea for a survey. Lets do it!

?OK. I will start some questions and submit them. Then you ladies can add, edit, etc. I will try to have some posted later this week.

ML- HEY GIRLS! FINALLY BACK FROM VACATION. I LIKE BOTH IDEAS ABOUT PARENT INVOLVEMENT AND THE SURVEY ABOUT HOMEWORK. GOOD THINKING!

LH: HEY GIRLS! I finally figured out how to get back on to this wiki thing!! That literacy fair you did last year was great!!!! It would be an outstanding project. How would we present it? I still have the pictures somewhere on a jump drive if that would help. If it is too much work, I had thought of setting up a facebook page for parents ( like in the 'advanced' tech class Rebecca!) It worked out really well and kept the parents inolved in the class. LJ: Either way is fine with me. Most of the question marks above are mine. . . .I thought the initials automatically came up (Can you see the L on my forehead?). The facebook page sounds like fun. The literacy fair would be fine. I will try to get the survey together and get it posted for your input. Ideas are floating in my head, but they have not made it to paper. .

Lynn: Check this out. I can post it to Facebook and see what kind of responses we get. Please let me know asap what kind of corrections/additions you would like to make. 

ML: Lynn this looks great. One thing I would consider changing though is adding upper elementary to the middle and high school question because that is an issue in our upper elementary I know. Also, I wonder how parents feel about the rewards/consequences for doing or not doing the homework. I also wonder how much responsibility the parents take for their children not doing their homework?

ML: The facebook page is a great idea. I noticed that we have to present it in the form of a brochure though. Which would be better to make a brochure on, facebook or reading round-up? Let me know and I could begin the process.

JM: I thought the survey looked good as well. Thanks for taking care of that for us! Marlo, if we are going to do brochure for Reading Round Up, we have one already created. Now, it was only over high interest materials, but maybe part of it could be used with some of what you have. I will e-mail it to you and we can decide. Lets try to get these finished up because I am ready to be done!!! ML: I agree!!! I will check my email now and get right back to you.

JM: One other thought. Do we need to invite Dr. Swanson to our Wiki Space in order for her to see our module question and discussions? ML: Yes I was thinking about this yesterday. I didn't know if we had invited her or not.

ML: I invited Dr. Swanson today LOL (a minor detail) so we could get credit for all of this. Also, Jenny and I have been collaborating on a brochure for parent involvement. I am getting ready to email it to everyone. Make any changes you would like and send it back to me, and then we will submit it. We are almost finished!!!

LH: I have been so busy reading and doing modules and the wiki ?'s I haven't been checking this page. I have been worrying about the survey and parent project. What do I need to do to help??? Will we need to take a hard copy of the survey and brochure on the 22nd or do we still get to just post it to Bb? PLEASE let me know what I can do to help. . . I feel like a slacker!

LH: I agree that survey looks good. Thanks for working so hard on that!

RV: Lisa I second that! I have been worrying about all the other stuff for this and forgot about the survey. Thanks for doing that Lynn. Also Marlo are you going to email the brochure to her or post it on BB? I will help with that in anyway you need. Just let me know.

RV: Lynn- do you have the results of the survey yet? I saw somewhere that we will need to each do an individual write-up over the results so we need to get it sent out and tallied up soon. Thanks again for getting that put together.

LH: RV, you are on the ball. I didn't see that about each doing a write-up over the survey. Someone let me know what I can do to help. Thanks ML for em-mailing me back yesterday (SUN), I was worried about getting all these modules done and scored.

LH: This is off the subject, but. . . do you all graduate at the end of this summer? I am going to get my transcript/OSAT scores/ect and drive to OKC to get my new teaching certificate. I want to be sure I have it to begin this school year so I can get the huge pay increase. If anyone would like to ride down with me just let me know. I haven't made plans on exactly what day to go, but I guess it will have to be after grades are posted cause I think we need a copy of the transcript.

RV: Lisa- our distict said that they would go ahead and raise our pay with a transcript then we could give them the new liscense when it gets mailed to us. I would check with them before you drove all the way there. Lisa: I have checked, we have to turn EVERYTHING in to the school board office by the first monday in september. They are kind of picky. I did not get my stipend for having 18 hours last year becuase NSU put a hold on my account, didn't release the transcipt and it was too late. I don't want to go another year, so I think I will go ahead and drive to OKC. Someone told me that if you go there in person it takes about 30-60 minutes, but 6 weeks in the mail.

Lynn: sorry, girls. I have let you down. I posted the survey to Facebook tonight and hope to get several responses. . .. My daughter is getting married on Saturday, and I am sorry to say that this class has taken a back seat. I will get some info to you as soon as possible. our account on survey monkey is username: lynnjohnsonmiami and password is psycho.

RV: Lynn I think we all feel this way now that our portfolio and capstone are finished. I think they both took the last of our brain power with them. :)

Lisa: I agree, I feel like I have really slacked especially on helping with this class. I would be glad to go on survey monkey tomorrow, get the results and e-mail them to everyone. I don't facebook, but I'm sure I can get all the infor from surveymonkey.

Lisa: It's 7:30 Wed evening. I just e-mailed a copy of the survey summary to all of you. Let me know if you want me to add, delete,correct, change. I will post it later this evening before I go to bed so we can be done one day ahead of deadline! Now for the portfolio presentation and we are 'masters'!!