Some highlights of this upcoming week:
Monday - eSports Tournament (TowerFall Ascension), meeting with FAC
Tuesday - helping LLR install Linux on some netbooks, drone-related meeting at BFH, LT holiday celebration
Wednesday - LT staff meeting, PD committee meeting, student forum planning meeting, ATA PD meeting
Thursday - ATLE Convergence Conference meeting, drone filming
Friday - school closure day
And around those, of course, all of the "to do list" stuff :)
Monday, January 25, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Week of January 18 - 22, 2016
Another week of getting things done :)
- Career Test Drive meeting this morning
- LTPF Committee meeting tonight
- Scratch and Robotics resource development session on Thursday
- Computing Science Teachers Symposium on Friday
- setting up Raspberry Pi computers at BWD
- following up on Moodle Language Lab server issues
- restarting the Chromebook management migration process
- robotics at SWH and MHV
- live drama stage view camera for backstage at VJS (using automobile backup camera)
- designing and shooting drone videography examples (and storyboards)
- finalizing next Monday's esports tournament
- exploring afterschool Skype- (or Hangout-) based help and information sessions
- finish PIA documents
And of course in my copious spare time at home I'm reading and writing related to my M. Ed. capping project :)
Monday, January 11, 2016
Week of January 11 - 15, 2016
This week I'm intending to:
- continue planning eSports tournaments
- plan a Scratch (and possibly robotics) resource development half-day
- finalize the LTPF Committee meeting agenda, and arrange venue and catering
- arrange some "digital safety" presentations
- (hopefully) finally finish the first couple Privacy Impact Assessment documents
- set up more Google Apps lunch hour tutorial sessions
- continue developing CTS computation thinking (etc.) modules
- help with the computer/device inventory process
- buy a small, very inexpensive drone for indoor flight practice
and of course whatever else comes up.
Monday, January 4, 2016
Week of January 4 - 8, 2016
At the start of this new calendar year I've decided to start writing at the beginning of the week about some of my likely activities for the week. Hopefully this will help organize my thoughts, and some of my colleagues may find it interesting. The style will be a little choppy, but hopefully that'll make for a quicker read.
One of the pressing projects is a system for administration of secure exams on Chromebooks using Google Docs. Greg and I have hammered out the basics of it, but it still needs a little polish and documentation, and of course some classroom testing.
Speaking of provincial testing, as soon as we get five year historical results from Alberta Education, I'll be uploading those to Intellimedia's Dossier system for administrators (and/or designated staff) to use for results analysis.
Another project in the works is the creation of some flexible learning modules for CTS courses that are not commonly taught in our high schools. This mostly includes Computing Science and Networking/Hardware courses. I'll be borrowing heavily on materials created by Jen Deyenberg as well as the expertise of teachers such as Gerald Chung. These will likely start as a web page or document, rather than building them in on a specific platform.
On a related note, we need to find a new home for our Moodle server(s) before the end of the month. This will involve setting up a new Moodle 3.0 instance (including OWLL), migrating the data from the old one(s), hopefully automating user (and perhaps course) provisioning. I'm also hopeful that we can collapse everything down to one Moodle instance for all of EIPS, but of course Next Step will always be the primary and heaviest users.
Privacy Impact Assessments for a few online services need to be completed. Hopefully Dennis and I will have some time to work on those.
On the fun side, I'll be flying our new drones to get some example shots, and writing up what is required for schools to borrow a drone.
Something else that is near and dear to my heart is esports and video game clubs. I'll be supporting schools such as Lakeland Ridge that want to set up lunch-hour clubs and/or gaming flex blocks, and planning more competitions, probably something like:
One of the pressing projects is a system for administration of secure exams on Chromebooks using Google Docs. Greg and I have hammered out the basics of it, but it still needs a little polish and documentation, and of course some classroom testing.
Speaking of provincial testing, as soon as we get five year historical results from Alberta Education, I'll be uploading those to Intellimedia's Dossier system for administrators (and/or designated staff) to use for results analysis.
Another project in the works is the creation of some flexible learning modules for CTS courses that are not commonly taught in our high schools. This mostly includes Computing Science and Networking/Hardware courses. I'll be borrowing heavily on materials created by Jen Deyenberg as well as the expertise of teachers such as Gerald Chung. These will likely start as a web page or document, rather than building them in on a specific platform.
On a related note, we need to find a new home for our Moodle server(s) before the end of the month. This will involve setting up a new Moodle 3.0 instance (including OWLL), migrating the data from the old one(s), hopefully automating user (and perhaps course) provisioning. I'm also hopeful that we can collapse everything down to one Moodle instance for all of EIPS, but of course Next Step will always be the primary and heaviest users.
Privacy Impact Assessments for a few online services need to be completed. Hopefully Dennis and I will have some time to work on those.
On the fun side, I'll be flying our new drones to get some example shots, and writing up what is required for schools to borrow a drone.
Something else that is near and dear to my heart is esports and video game clubs. I'll be supporting schools such as Lakeland Ridge that want to set up lunch-hour clubs and/or gaming flex blocks, and planning more competitions, probably something like:
- January: Smash Bros (elementary)
- February: Halo (high school)
- March: Rocket League
- April: League of Legends finals
- May: Multathlon (a word I just made up for a multi-game competition, similar to Omegathon)
In addition to all of this, I'm hoping to continue empowering the HelpDesk staff to take over a lot of the management that I'm involved in, such as Google Apps, iOS, and Moodle.
As always if you have questions, comments, or concerns feel free to get in touch.
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