Abe Tbc Recap Nov 2010

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November 2010, Follow-up Online Meetings and Updates for Participants in OTANs ABE Technology Boot Camp 2010 page 1

OTAN ABE Technology Boot Camp, May 13-14, 2010, Sacramento County Office of Education

http://timac.wikispaces.com/ABEbootCampMay2010

ContentsIntroduction .........................................................................................................................................................1

Online Meeting on November 5, 2010 ................................................................................................................2

Linda Trame .....................................................................................................................................................2Victoria Jones ...................................................................................................................................................2

Amber Land-Denoyer ......................................................................................................................................3

Madelyn Jones .................................................................................................................................................3

Ashley Ruiz .......................................................................................................................................................4

Online Meeting on Friday, November 19 ............................................................................................................5

Amy Echols Starkey ..........................................................................................................................................5

Victoria Banuelos .............................................................................................................................................5

Christine Paynton ............................................................................................................................................6

Francisco Lopez................................................................................................................................................6

Tom Smith ........................................................................................................................................................6Christine Toston ...............................................................................................................................................7

Lupine Seran ....................................................................................................................................................7

Updates by e-mail ................................................................................................................................................8

Elizabeth Niemeyer ..........................................................................................................................................8

Doug Lagen ......................................................................................................................................................8

Debbie Roberts ................................................................................................................................................8

Introduction

On May 13 & 14, 2010 a group of 25 adult educators from throughout California met in person and

shared and learned about new ways to integrate technology in teaching and learning. Some

created a Web site, others created a Moodle course. When they applied they also committed to

meet again, but the next time online, as a way to follow up and reflect on the face-to-face

professional development event.

In November 2010, 12 educators from the original group joined online meetings to talk about

technology integration since May 2010. We heard from those who continued on building from the

training in May, but also about the changes and new directions these individual educators and their

programs have taken in the new school year. Also covered were the resources by OTAN and otherleadership projects offerings. This was a great opportunity to experience online professional

development and networking.

Three more educators from the original group gave updates by e-mail.

These notes, as well as links to projects by participants, are posted athttp://timac.wikispaces.com/ABEbootCampMay2010
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Online Meeting on November 5, 2010

attended

Ashley Ruiz, Paramount Adult School

Amber Land-Denoyer, Manteca Adult School

Linda Trame , Hayward Adult School

Madelyn Jones, Madera Adult School

Victoria Jones, Simi Valley Adult School

Linda Trame

Linda showed her Weebly site to another teacher who teaches both atHayward and San Leandro, and this teacher has created her own Web sitesince then. Lindas efforts this school year have been aimed at supportingthe new GED teacher to learn the ropes, and not technology related.

Bay Area CCAE section is getting ready for CCAE/COABE joint conferencein San Francisco, April 16-21, 2011.http://www.ccaecoabe2011.com/

Hayward is using Odysseyware for HS and GED students and maybe with Pre-GED inthe future. It can be used for distance learning, but schools are using is mostly on site, inthe labs.

Victoria Jones

Victoria is not in ABE this year, because she took on a full time ESL position.

While she was the resource teacher for the ABE, students were usingLearning 100 and Read On in the computer lab. Lower level students wereworking in Learning 100 and teachers like it. This was a combined ABE andintermediate ESL group. There in no tech support for learning 100, and for awhile they did not have internet available in the room being used for the lab.

Several ABE teachers did study circle training, and currently there's a flux in ABE teachingstaff. Recently they got re-furbished computers in the language lab and students are doingEL Civics lessons on the computers and using the interactive whiteboards.

SVAS will be starting a blended learning program. DVDs are currently being duplicated.

There will be a class on Wednesdays for a combined group of students of those from theprograms current face-to-face classes and the waiting list. For 2-3 hours in the class, theywill watch videos and talk about them, receiving their packet, with teachers going over thematerials, and then students will take them home and do extension activities.

This class is being advertised to the students on the waiting list. The whole school will haveregular classes on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Friday is for open Lab and onWednesdays, the blended class will take place. Some curriculum being used: Putting
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English to Work, Moodle wrap-around for USA Learns, Madison Heights, Crossroads Caf,and would like to have a computer program or online based exercises for GED.

Amber Land-Denoyer

Amber has not developed the Web site she created in May any more but has

been giving away the link to students. She is not teaching ESL/GED/ABEcombination any more. This year it is ESL in the morning and GED distancelearning in the afternoon.

Amber made the Web site generic - so that learners in most programs can useit. She will take two OTAN Webinars about Online Learning. Currently the the

technology in the DL GED is the DVD player for GED Connection Packets. They are testingall students with eCASAS. And GED testing is going computerized in 2021. Theadministration is committed to distance learning and the program is trying to go paperless.Currently they are using books by KET that go along with the videos. They also usepackets by Video Partners, and in Ambers experience learners go through them quickly.

She needed to supplement topics on exponents by going to Khan Academy. Shes alsofound mistakes in the packets.

For ESL Distance Learning they are using Crossroads Cafe, Putting English to Work1,2,&3, and English for All.

Branka talked about GED Connection Online Videos available for free to California AdultEducation and Amber asked for an account.

Madelyn Jones

Madelyn used the Web site she created in May within the few weeks of schoolremaining last years with beginning ABE students. She shared it with the otherABE teacher and he was using it too.

This year she is teaching 3 sections of ABE. The budget was uncertain, allteachers received pink slips, but district brought back ESL, ABE/GED.Classes are smaller but Madelyn is as busy as ever. Fewer students are

getting more intense one-one-one. The school switched to quarter system for enrollment,and smaller classes shorter in duration. Students are paying a $20 fee for the quarter.

After her participation in ABE Boot Camp, the administrators decide to spend around $ 20

000 for textbooks and Madelyn designed a curriculum framework for ABE.

In the computer lab they have been using the links and resources that Madelyn learnedabout during the ABE BTC.

They are also using Lexia software program and Madelyn attended Lexia user groupmeeting in the fall. The issue they came across is that in Lexia pre-test - students end up


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on level one even though it's too easy for them. Then the teacher has to manualy movethem up a couple of levels.

HSD classes are using online courses - possibly Novanet.

Ashley RuizAshley is still teaching ABE - every morning. On Monday and Tuesdayevenings she teaches combination ABE/ESL. She encourages Ss to use DLmaterials, DVDs and packets, likes Madison Heights and Lifelines. She put upresources on the Web site she created in May. They also use PLATO andATC - Reading Horizons. She is trying to write a grant for new textbooks andsome technology. Ashley is on the team for re-doing for the Adult School'sWeb site.

In June 2010, she attended CALPRO's training-of-trainers event about ContextualizingWorkforce skills in ESL/ABE. The core concepts are that our adult learners are replacing

the baby boomers, but do not have the soft and communications skills necessary. Whenapplying strategies and techniques from this training, teachers don't have to have a newcurriculum, but come up with strategies to emphasize the skills adult learners already haveand help students identify them. Ashley is assigning tasks (room monitor, cell phone/noisecontrol monitor, file monitor) in the classroom and reinforcing the soft skills that way. Thelearners are responsible for the assigned task for a week and the following week they trainthe new students. One of the strategies for the learners is to at the end of class summarizethe skills practiced during that session.

The upcoming face to face and webinar trainings on this topic can be found on CALPROscalendar

http://calpro-online.org/rrc/RRC/calendar.asp?rrc=RRC&page=calendar#4125

Photos from May 2010 training

Moodle training was facilitated by Penny Pearson Web sites with Weebly training was facilitated by Susan Coulter
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Online Meeting on Friday, November 19

Attended:

Amy Echols Starkey, Poway Adult School

Christine Paynton, Loma Vista Adult School, Mt. Diablo Adult Education

Christine Toston, Wilson-Lincoln Community Adult School, LAUSD DACE

Francisco Lopez, Chaffey Adult School

Lupine Seran, Jewish Vocational Services

Thomas Smith, Kennedy-SanFernando Community Adult School, LAUSD DACEVictoria Banuelos, Tri-Community Adult School, Pioneer Center

Amy Echols Starkey

During ABE TBC, Amy put together a Web site with English, Math and Job-

search related links. She presented the web site to administrations and gottheir approval to put it up for Ss to use. Now there is a link to it on everyterminal, 30 computers in the learning center, which is serving GED, HS, ISand M-F face-to-face HSD. Ss like math and English resource. Particularlyuseful for those just starting GED classes. School will be closed all next week(Thanksgiving holiday) and Ss can access learning resources from home.

Amy's site is at http://paslearningcenter.weebly.com/

Poway just moved into a new site with interactive whiteboards and projectors. Training iscoming up on the equipment. They are currently using PLATO for credit recovery.

Victoria Banuelos

Web site has become the supplement to her class. School having lots offurlough days, plus Ss busy lives. Victorias site is athttp://victoriabanuelos.weebly.com/

She was working with a counselor one on one, sharing resources from theTBC.

Victoria keeps bringing the Web site up in class and referring Ss to the resources available

and they seem to appreciate it. Ss ask for more resources and new additions to the Website. Vocabulary exercises. It has to be focused for Ss bc it's easy to get lost in thenumerous links and exercise and pages. She also created a card with the Web site addressand e-mail.

The school is currently buying some DVD players.
http://paslearningcenter.weebly.com/http://paslearningcenter.weebly.com/http://victoriabanuelos.weebly.com/http://victoriabanuelos.weebly.com/http://victoriabanuelos.weebly.com/http://paslearningcenter.weebly.com/


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Christine Paynton

Christine site is athttp://christinesabeged.weebly.com/, but she already had aWeb site developed and continues to use it athttp://www.GED-ABE-ASE-CVP.us. She is currently teaching a transitions ESL class, along with ABEand GED. Christine keeps on updating her Web site, trying to simplify,

because it tends to get a little complicated for learners, because of the manyclasses she teachers.Most Ss have access to computers and the Internet at home.

The 7 computers in her room are slow at streaming YouTube videos and some of the othersites. B/c she created the Web site on a Mac platform, it sometimes does not display wellon PCs. She as a projector in the classroom and also a document camera. The school justpurchased student response system by quizdom.http://www.qwizdom.com/

Francisco Lopez

Francisco is teaching GED this year, not ABE. He has an interactivewhiteboard and a document camera, but computers need to be updated. Hewants to write a grant for refurbishing them. Francisco is also participating inan ePortfolio pilot by OTAN.

The school is trying out a new GED renewal class for graduating from HSbased on the units available.

In June 2010 Francisco attended training-of-trainers and now facilitates f2f workshops onContextualized Workforce Skills for ABE/ESL by CALPRO.

Francisco renamed his original Web site tohttp://casresources.weebly.com

Chaffey is using Odysseyware for ABE/GED students. It's a purchased licensed program. Itcontains all subjects that students can receive credits if enrolled. Yet my students don't getcredit but is great practice. Separately adult ss working on GED and/or HS Diploma.

Tom Smith

Tom tried to develop a Moodle class on introductory algebra with his owncontent. It was too much to research and do from scratch. He came across theUCCP Introductory Algebra free course

[http://www.ucopenaccess.org/course/view.php?id=66] that he can bring intohis Moodle shell. As he tried to secure online space he learned that LAUSDhas a complex process of approving hosting for Moodle courses, but once heclarified to his administrators that he was not doing a purely online course, but

creating some supplemental materials for his face-to-face classes, he was given a spaceon LAUSDs Moodle server. He had 3 courses set-up on LAUSD site: Algebra 1a and 1b,and an adult ed shell athttps://ol.lausd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=2306
http://christinesabeged.weebly.com/http://christinesabeged.weebly.com/http://christinesabeged.weebly.com/http://www.ged-abe-ase-cvp.us/http://www.ged-abe-ase-cvp.us/http://www.ged-abe-ase-cvp.us/http://www.ged-abe-ase-cvp.us/http://www.qwizdom.com/http://www.qwizdom.com/http://www.qwizdom.com/http://casresources.weebly.com/http://casresources.weebly.com/http://casresources.weebly.com/http://www.ucopenaccess.org/course/view.php?id=66http://www.ucopenaccess.org/course/view.php?id=66http://www.ucopenaccess.org/course/view.php?id=66https://ol.lausd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=2306https://ol.lausd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=2306https://ol.lausd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=2306https://ol.lausd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=2306http://www.ucopenaccess.org/course/view.php?id=66http://casresources.weebly.com/http://www.qwizdom.com/http://www.ged-abe-ase-cvp.us/http://www.ged-abe-ase-cvp.us/http://christinesabeged.weebly.com/


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LASUD is also using a commercial content course that requires funding and that was notan option for the adult program at the moment because of the lack of funding. The problemwith LAUSD Moodle is that in order to use courses you have to have LAUSD e-mail andadult Ss don't have them. So its a sort of a catch 22.

Tom searched farther and was able to secure Moodle hosting for adult class thoroughCalaxy, a hosting service by k-12 High Speed Network,http://www.k12hsn.org/calaxy/,http://moodle.k12hsn.org/course/view.php?id=1216

He is currently building more activities and content on the Calaxy Moodle. This is meant forconcurrent ss for credit recovery through adult school,

Kennedy/San Fernando CAS is in the process of creating a School Web site, and Tom mayput up links to his Moodle courses on it.

Christine TostonAfter ABE Boot Camp, Christine was so excited about technology integrationthat she bought a projector and a laptop with a Web cam. Unfortunately, herABE class ended up closing. She was moved from Lincoln to Wilson and herstudent population changed from adult to concurrent. Since May 2010 shehas also faced more personal challenges, and death in family. What shesseen in her classes this year is that students in east LA dont' have theresources that other schools have. Her class consists of 35 concurrent

students from diverse backgrounds. They need help with ABE. Christine teaches in abungalow classroom with one computer for the daytime teacher. She does not have accessto it.

Lupine Seran

After she created her Moodle course in May, Lupine gave a demo to hercolleagues, but it has not gone any further because there's a huge investmentof time for the courses to be built. The colleagues are excited about the tool,thinking about the ways to use it creatively

Jewish Vocational Services is a non-profit agency with limited resources.There are two computer labs with 20 stations each, where students engage

in work with productivity applications (MS word), accessibility, basic high school credit

recovery, job search skills, and resume writing. The agency applied for grants forinteractive whiteboards.

The group also talked about options for GED Prep curriculum and Branka remindedeveryone about GED Connection Online Videos and Workbooks by Video Partners aservice available to California Adult Education for free. Tom, Francisco, Victoria andChristine P. asked for accounts.
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Updates by e-mail

Doug Lagen

Debbie Roberts

Elizabeth Niemeyer

Elizabeth Niemeyer

Hi Branka,You're right, we weren't sure if there would be any classes at all. But right now I amteaching 5 hrs/week of ABE Reading, and 10 of ESL. In the ESL classes, we have justcompleted a unit about the Internet. In both classes, I use my Smartboard, but mostly as aprojector. We do love looking thinks up, though. For example, we just read about mapletrees, and we got a lot of good images off the Internet. (My ABE students are mostlyAdvanced ESL students.) I have not had them open Weebly. I couldn't get the glitches outof mine, and didn't feel qualified to get them to do it!

Eventually, I think there will be an additional ESL teacher, and I'll have more ABE hours.But who knows!Beth

Doug Lagen

Hi,Good to hear from you.Our secretary in charge of TopsPro reporting retired and I have been assigned theresponsibilty for getting this done. It has been a large learning curve, as we have neverbeen set up to transfer files from ASAP to TopsPro. We now can do this very well, but has

left me no time to work on the fun stuff. Our neighboring school district shut down its AdultEd, so we have had a huge influx of students. My hours have not been increased tocompensate for the added work. Unfortunately, I will not be signing in to the conferencecall. I still have plans to Moodle our curriculum, but it will have to wait until after I getetesting up and running for our TopsPro reporting.

Debbie Roberts

I am working with COABE and CCAE on the April Conference. We have a meeting at thesame time Friday. The same thing happened with the last meeting. Is there any way togain the information that is shared so that I can share it with my former partners atTorrance?Thanks, Debbie

___________________________________________________________This summary was compiled by Branka Marceta, OTAN,[email protected]
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