Jr+High+Collaboration

The Wind Living Roof group's 4th collaborative meeting took place asynchronously using Google Docs. The contents of that document have been included below and can also be viewed and added to on the document itself found here.

__Agenda/Instructions__

 * 1) Welcome:

Thank-you for taking part in this asynchronous collaboration opportunity. Your willingness to support the involvement of the Sunnyville Junior High Students is very much appreciated. When this collaboration closes on Dec 3rd at 12:00 PM MST I will move the contents of this document to our wiki.


 * 1) Identification:

Please note the color your name is written in below. Please use this color text to indicate where you have contributed and type your contributions in black ink. (Feel free to change your color to one that hasn’t been assigned to another member :) ) Greg L Greg W Laura Margo Kaylea Jackie Deborah Josh


 * 1) Your Contribution:

You will notice that that sections of the document below that specifically pertain to your role have been highlighted in your identification color. Please also feel free to contribute to any other sections of the document as indicated by the <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yellow highlighting.


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Question Section:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have created a section at the top designated for questions or comments. You can leave questions for any member of our wind living roof project team in this section and I will moderate this section and alert others of questions directed to them via email. You can also comment on a specific contribution within the document by using the “insert comment” tool.


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Any other business:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have also created an any other business section that I encourage you to see as an open invitation for your to contribute new topics/headings for the group to contribute to.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Questions/Comments:
<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please use this section as a place to leave questions or comments. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> As the facilitator of this meeting I will be sure to address them or direct them to the appropriate team member via email.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Purpose/Goals for this Collaboration:
<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please consider contributing any other points to the purpose/goal section for this collaboration:


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brainstorm the involvement of the students of Sunnyville Jr. High School - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Josh
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explore the use of Google Docs as a platform for collaboration for this project. The students at Sunnyville Jr. High have access to Google Apps for Education so it could be a good place for future collaboration. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Josh
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Consider how and with which tools future collaboration will take place between Jr. High students and other stakeholders in this project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Josh

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Task Brainstorm
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The instructional design that I employ in my classroom is inspired by work on inquiry based learning and authentic instruction. My primary teaching goal is to create learning experiences where students have the opportunity to construct knowledge by applying skills and knowledge to complex, contextualized problems. This kind of authentic intellectual accomplishment requires that construction of knowledge be guided by disciplined inquiry. Larry Rosenstock, CEO from High Tech High Charter Schools captures the sentiment of my instructional design: “I want kids behaving like an actress, scientist, documentary filmmaker, like a journalist. Not just studying it but being like it.” <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please help me to brainstorm ways in which you can see my students being involved in authentic work within this project.I would also appreciate any comments regarding concerns you might have for student involvement in this work.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students could work in small groups along with High School Students (collaboratively on Google Apps/Model/skype) and with input from Elementary Students (ftof/skype/vc) to create landscape design plans using criteria developed by “EverGreen” professionals and with support from Evergreen specialist (via blog/twitter), college students (f2f or Skype, VC, YouTube videos, slideshare) and Greg W (face to face/skype). The designs could be evaluated by a panel of experts (Greg L, EverGreen representative, Margo, Greg W, administrators from 4 schools) and the winning design could contribute to the design used for the roof. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Josh

<span style="background-color: #efefef; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Greg L - I recently was on a webinar for work with other town planners with the Ministry and they used a tool called SpiderScribe where we all we able to type on a common screen and brainstorm ideas. It was really neat and we were able to build off each other’s ideas very rapidly. I’m no educator but if town planners could figure it out I’m sure the Jr High and High school kids could do amazing work with it. Just my 2 cents.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Community Involvement Brainstorm
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaboration, shared leadership, support of those who will implement the projects, and meaningful involvement of the school community are essential elements for school initiatives. Effective school initiatives result when principals, teachers, school councils, parents and other community members work as a team to establish priorities, set goals, implement strategies to achieve those goals and evaluate progress. In our second meeting some great ideas were generated regarding how we could involve the College students could support the involvement of the Sunnyville Community. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please consider in the section below contributing ideas for how the Jr. High School Community (stakeholders) can be involved and/or facilitate community involvement.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jr. High School could potentially host a face to face town hall meeting to solicit the ideas and feedback of community members, business leaders, stakeholders etc. and Jr. High Students could facilitate this conversation. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Josh
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, or this meeting could be held for their parents which may be a little less intimidating than for the whole community- Laura
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Could the students go out and interview various community groups to solicit input - maybe visit seniors to share the project with them and engage them in the project? - Laura

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaboration Possibilities/tools-
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A key strategy to support Jr. High students to engage in authentic work is to partner with experts or professionals in the discipline with which we are working. Please contribute to the table below to consider how you/your students might be willing to work with the Jr. High students in this way and what collaboration tools/media you think might be appropriate for said collaboration:


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Expert || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Type of Collaboration || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tool/Media ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Example || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Present on needs of plants

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provide feedback on research paper

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demo Planting

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Respond to small group questions regarding soil || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Face to face

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Docs

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Skype

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Email ||
 * <span style="background-color: #efefef; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Greg L || <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If another class was found that did something similar we could setup a virtual meeting a council chambers

<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe the students could write updates that we could not only tweet out but also post on the Town’s digital signage at the main intersection in town. Helps reach the segment of our population that are not using Twitter.

<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students could create “stories” about the project and we could put them in our State of the Town e-newsletter that gets emailed out quarterly and reaches about 72% of our population || <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Videoconferencing / Telepresence

<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital signage

<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Email mostly but the stories could have <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">links to websites / blogs related to the project, Twitter “follow me” tags embedded, links to streaming video of the progress, a QR code to our Raise the Roof Foundation website ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Greg W - Garden Centre Specialist || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Since we are dealing primarily with students in town and it is a pretty quiet time of year for me, I have quite a bit of time to come into classrooms to collaborate. Once it starts getting closer to spring, I won’t have quite the same time to spend.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackie’s Kindergarten students could come plant some seeds and we’ll keep them growing in our greenhouse. They can check on their progress daily, either by us emailing photos, skype or possibly a livecam set up (would need help with this!).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Josh - jr. high students could come to learn about caring for plants and to look at a number of species to be considered for the living roof. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Face - to - face

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once I get busy, more likely to collaborate asynchronously (email or similar).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students (all levels) are welcome to come to the garden centre for hands-on experience and instruction. || <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Industry Specialist || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Note that EverGreen’s involvement spans from now to the completion of the construction phase only**
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Margo || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m happy to fund any additional insurance that would allow students access to and/or involvement with the roof during the construction phase. || <span style="background-color: #efefef; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks Margo! ||
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kaylea, EverGreen Roofing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EverGreen already does for public involvement in each project:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet progress of construction

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blog on progress of construction

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As part of our agreement to support student involvement at the Jr. High Level:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Specialist to respond to comments/questions on blog/twitter

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stream video of construction process for educational purposes only

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Release of EverGreen Living Roof Safety learning modules to all Jr. High students and faculty || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogger

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogger/Twitter

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">EverGreen video recording hardware over secure IP

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DVD ||
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laura || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">co-ordinate presentations from College hort. students to junior high students

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assist in supervision for site visits

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comment on student blog posts || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">co-ordinate using a shared Google calendar, e-mail, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__doodle__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for live presentations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">f2f or Skype, Video Conference, YouTube videos, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__slideshare__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">co-ordination using shared calendar such as Google calendar

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogging tool used by Jr.High - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__WP__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Blogger__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, etc || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Join our Diigo groups and contribute to the research and articles with annotations and comments that link the content to the living roof project. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">blogger <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Diigo ||
 * <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Deborah ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ff9900; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jackie || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">participate in elementary school blogs by answering questions and asking further questions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Feedback on Google Docs:
<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please consider sharing your thoughts regarding using Google Docs as a collaboration tool:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our grade 6 students have been using Google docs to work collaboratively on writing assignments. They often take their notes from Evernote and transfer them to Google docs to make them more accessible. I wonder if we could work on some kind of collaborative assignment - maybe a peer evaluation of some type using Google Docs? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jackie
 * <span style="background-color: #efefef; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Greg L - hey Josh I like this shared document. Is there a Spreadsheet version too? If so, I could really use that with my colleagues on large road and construction projects to track costings between the construction foreman, purchasing and myself.
 * <span style="background-color: #efefef; color: #00ffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google docs is a great tool both in education and industry. We have been using it at EverGreen and it has been really effective.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After I went wireless at the garden centre, I have been using Google Docs to keep track of inventory and other things. I love how it allows more than one of us to be using it at the same time. I can also access the documents from home or elsewhere, if I need to look anything up.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have used google docs for many collaborations. I do find it is more suitable for individuals who know that google is more than a search engine. Some users are intimidated without an orientation to the tool.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I would like to get notifications when the google doc has been updated. No feature that I see that allows that. Only appear to be able to get notifications related to comments.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Any other business:
<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I encourage you to contribute new topics/headings for the group to contribute to.