This leadership class was all about Professional Development and adult learning.  I enjoyed the Skype lesson, and I thought her examples about both good and bad teaching were very clear.  Teaching adults is a brand of teaching all it's own.  I also really enjoyed reading the articles and thinking about the ways that adults differ in their learning than children.  I especially related to the fact that adults need to feel like they are being trusted with their own learning.  If we treat adults like children, they won't trust us!  
    I also enjoyed exploring the apps and website that were given.  I haven't used any of the tools, but I think they are great resources.  
 
Today began with a Skype presentation by Darren Draper.  I like the discussion that talked about how technology should be "invisible."  I know that a lot of times the kids get so excited just to use a certain tool that they completely miss the whole reason the tool is being used.  
Leadership Qualitites:
I really like the advocacy idea.  I also wrote down empathy, vision, ambition, dedication, responsibility, and humility.  The needed dispositions are: risk-taking, persistence, challenge, service, efficacy, resiliency.  I really like these!  I think I could work on these in all areas of my life.  I also think that I have always viewed myself as not so much of a leader because I am introverted and somewhat shy.  But that's ok!  Being an outgoing extrovert wasn't on that list.  :)

Throughout the rest of the class I enjoyed thinking about the values of my school and how they compare to my own.  I believe that my own leadership desire has a lot of growth yet to do, but hopefully I can get there.  
 
Today is the final presentations.  Here are my notes and thoughts on what people presented.
 Cathy Andelin-  UTIPS.  She was frustrated that they didn't do so well, but it's possible that a lot of the problems came because of the students not being used to the technology.  She did get some good data from the test though, and that is what it's all about!
Stephen Bloom-UTIPS.  Used it for a science pre-test.  Pros were that it was easy for the teacher to set up and there were good questions from the core.  Problems with reading through the whole questions.  
Nancy Brisbay
Bobbette Glassett- Last presentation of the night.  needless to say, my brain is completely gone now.  She did he
Shanon Goodpasture- She used PollDaddy to find out how many of her co-workers knew what it was that she does.  The big snag was with the e-mail that was sent to everyone.  Easy to review the results though.  
Jennifer Griffin
Wendy Hamann-  She did hers using Clickers.  She loves it because of the immediate feedback.  Her kids love it because it feels like a game.   
Jorgen Hollnagel
Jason Hunter-- Loved his little handmade poll everywhere graph.  haha.  The video was great.  I like the idea of using the cell phones when they are in 8th grade.  Definitely a good motivator at that age.  
Silvia Iglesias--  Used UTIPS.  I am very impressed that she was able to do this in 1st grade AND in Spanish.  I didn't even attempt this in Kindergarten.  WOW.  
Jennifer Ipson- She used the same assessment that I did with Kidspiration and GoogleDocs.  I love the checklist thing, and I totally understand about the difficulties she faced 
Molly Kendall-  MyAccess.  I have never even heard of this since it is for secondary.  It sounds like it's a writing tool.  
Cynthia Lloyd-  Arcademics!  Yay for games :)  I think we need more learning games.  She loved that it motivated students so much.  She could also individualize the games so that the kids had to play on their own level.  It is sad that it costs though.  
Chandra Martz- She used a program called Pixie.  This is an alternate form of assessment.  The student is creating a project.  
Libby McShinsky-  GoogleDocs!!  WooHoo!  I love this one just because it was something that I presented on a few weeks back.  She used it a little differently than I did.  She also used Flubaroo to grade her results.  Nice :)
Deborah Owens-- Wow, she is quite the over achiever!  I was impress by all the tools that Debbie used.  I definitely like the clickers.  
Bettina Rasmusson-- Hmmmm...her presentation sounds a lot like mine!  I am doing one on clickers as well.  So I am pretty familiar with the same pros and cons that she listed. 
KatyJo Roberts-  Also another presentation that will mirror my own!  She actually used the Clickers for Kinder as well, so we have very similar presentations.  
David Selin-  Skyward assessments.  I wish I could use this in Kindergarten too.  Oh well.  
Jodee Steffensen--- She talked about using blogging to track her students progress.  Good ideas!
Cassie Steiner- Clickers!  Obviously this is a popular one.  
Shanda Thornell- This is me.  I talked about Clickers.  If you hadn't already guessed. 
LeeAnne Walker- Clickers :)  Gotta love it.  I think that most teachers feel the same way that I do.  They are great for assessment, the kids love them, and technology just sucks sometimes.  
Jared Ward- Polldaddy- he teaches teachers!  yay!  He used this tool to survey his teachers about their opinions on technology.  
Ginny Watts- Yay for more clickers.  I feel bad that so many of her assessments didn't work.  I feel the pain.  The receiver wouldn't even connect with my computer.  
Heather Weiler- MyAccess!  Something new.  That's awesome, cuz I think my brain has turned off now.  I have always wondered how a computer could grade writing though...
Mary Wilde- Skyward.  I can't use this tool.  bummer.  
Lisa Young