Jeri Hodges Presenter

8:31 Begins presentation

Advocate, not antagonize

Role of Liaison

Collaborate

Defend

Encourage

Foster

Guide

Help

Join

Know

Link

Mentors

Liaisons are not monitors

All presentations are online by the end of the week

Assistance provided by Liaisons:

Amendments help

Budget help

Vendor relations (can help when they hear trends)

Professional development

Reports can help with reminders and

Listen to complaints

(Therapy)

List of Liaisons

Sharon Henley

Nancy Little

Randi Hinds

Jeri Hodges

Terry Wyatt

Jane Nauman

Tammy Brite

Kathy Ferguson

Kate Loughery

Discussion points:

Introductions

What have we already done?

What do we need to do next?

What can your liaison do to help?

Kate Loughery  (Lockery)

in TEA

Gives some background of herself

EPISD Liaison

She has not read the applications yet

Region 11 Collaborative:

Introduce all of the members of the Region 11 Collaborative

report on what EPISD has done

report on what Irving has done

       Irving is 1:1

        Develop courses that already they were doing

        Listed several programs that they were already creating

        Seems to have a pretty good grip on projects they have            

            created.

Report on Region 11: 6 school districts in grant

List of courses that they want to provide

Collaborative workers are discussion their projects

In a well developed online course a team approach is better according to research

Online works for many types of kids.

Discussion on “blended Courses”

blended course is a course in which all the instructional and laboratory sessions are completed at a distance with a variety of technologies i.e., on-line, video, audio etc. Students are not required to attend any sessions on campus. Students may have to go to a specific location for testing.

Discussion on setting up some collaborative uses since all of the districts involved are struggling with same topics: Policy, methodology,

KL says she will check on the feasibility of using the collaborative tools of the net.

Skype?
Need list of contact info

What learning management systems are being considered? Moodle? Desire to Learn? Blackboard?

Some discussion on standardizing on one CMS