Day One: Orientation, Introduction, and Standards

Day 1 of GAETI 2016 was all about orientation, introduction of team members and the Mississippi College and Career Readiness standards. I was very excited to walk into a room full of faces that I have never seen before. From the very beginning of class, I have no doubt that this is going to be a very interesting month because of all the different teachers here that teach different curriculum I just know that the collaboration is going to be AWESOME!! The first part of the morning went very well as we were all introduced to each other and given our GAETI bags with goodies.

I was not expecting to have to use any other body parts other than my brain but that very quickly changed when Dr. Bracey explained that we would be going on a tour of the campus by FEET! I wore flip flops this morning and was soooo not expecting to do any extra walking. (Shout out to Dr. Bracey for helping us all get in that extra work out today...lol) After our extensive, hot walk, majority of the team members stopped at the Union to grab a bite to eat for lunch. Chik-Fil-A is my favorite and of course, it was my choice for lunch.

After lunch, Dr. Bracey went over some housekeeping rules for our workshop. We also looked at the mde website and answered questions about how to get to our specific curriculum as well as find other pertinent info we as educators might all need one day. After locating and briefly discussing our content specific standards, we all took a brief look at the International Society for Technology in Education standards.

Our next journey included a walk to the library for a training on using the Magnolia Database as educators. Ms. V gave us a wealth of information on the Magnolia database and she also showed us how we can use the Magnolia database in our classrooms, k-12. Ms. V was very funny and entertaining and also extremely informative.

Last but not least, Dr. B taught us all how to setup and use blogger.com so that we can create a daily reflection everyday at the end of our day.

Tiring day but it was also an AWESOME Day and I'm so happy to have spent it with some wonderful people. I believe that I am going to Love, Love every minute of this workshop!!