Webinar+Ideas

=**Webinar Ideas**=

__Closed/Open - Fellows Only__
 * Wiki, "Wonderful World of Wikis", Webinar open to School/District
 * Google Apps : Instructional Strategies - Research, Collaboration, Classroom Management
 * RSS - Powering Up your PLN
 * Follow-up Webinar with Lodge - Process of Classroom Integration - Metacognition
 * A STEMulating Discovery - Overview of DE Suite.
 * Danny Forster -
 * First Robotics - Dean Kamen(founder)
 * Dr. Pat Galloway - Civil Engineering
 * How to create a STEM club
 * Grant writing
 * Top Ten STEM competitions
 * More specifics about the other Siemens programs (maybe with coaches/teachers who have been through programs)
 * Round table sharing (accountability) Check in Quarterly
 * How to USE Webex (a handout... obviously NOT via Webex)
 * How to network with Industry/Govt Sources
 * Repeat Thursday's Sessions so that we can "get" what we missed
 * Collaborative Project Updates
 * Other Teachers' Projects with Success to Share with Administrators to Demonstrate power of Activity
 * How STEM Fellows are Impacting Education within Educational Community
 * Teacher Prep Program Creation
 * Fellows Presentations to Other Educators on Classroom Tools or Other Ideas as Opportunity for Educators within Fellows Districts
 * Bring Back Policy Makers NAS, NASA, EPA, DOE for Webinar to refresh thoughts on teacher needs
 * Student Sharing from interactions with Team Projects
 * Overview for - Set Up Blog, Google Tools, RSS Aggregator, Wiki Follow-up
 * "How to" be an ambassador?
 * How to navigate and utilize the Discovery Education Website

Notes from Q & A
 * Way to continue the conversation: Alumni section on website
 * Publicity package
 * Collaboration with camps and organizations that are already doing good STEM work
 * "One Stop Shopping" list of resources on website
 * Add a "links" list to the website (or maybe a link to a Diigo/Delicious group so that all can share links?)
 * Connecting Fellows to local contacts at organizations and universities
 * Contact information (who do they contact at Discovery/Siemens when they have an idea or a need support)
 * Utilizing Alumni to review applications, draft agenda, draft application for next years applicants
 * Bring in Students to discuss how the participation of their teachers have affected them
 * Create a "STEM-tor" program
 * What are the possibilities for "Part 2"?
 * Create an Op-Ed from feedback to be shared back in local community
 * Add the "How to be an ambassador" piece to agenda next year
 * Presentation packages for school boards and conferences
 * "Branded" sign to put up in the classroom (like a website badge) that identifies them as a fellow
 * How can the alumni assist Siemens with the policy makers? (testify at discussions etc...)
 * A letter tailored to the Superintendents or Board of Ed that expressed what the teacher has accomplished (if sent to the Board, it will be read at the meeting as "correspondence"
 * How much would it cost to have someone from the team come and do PD in our district? With whom do we set that up?