Dell Training Conclusion

Dell Training has been a success thanks to each and every one of you! You are greatly appreciated and recognized as talented, creative, and professional teachers. Working with you this summer has been quite a pleasure. What a team! Thank you.

Congratulations on another successful week of Dell Training! In my opinion, the best comment received on a training evaluation form to date simply said "Great Digital Leaders!" I couldn't agree more. Enjoy your weekend and please read the information in the post below if you are a trainer next week. We are moving back to Central Office.

Moving back to Central Office

The final Dell Training Sessions of the summer will be held next week at Central Office. Information about parking and more for each session has been published in a tab at the top of this blog, so please check that before you arrive on Monday morning and breathe a sigh of relief. It is getting so much easier with all of the experience and expertise you have developed!

Many thanks to our trainers so far!

Dell Training is in full swing and it is half way over too. It's time to recognize those who have  trained successfully! Thank you for doing such a great job with this. You are all amazing!

Trainer spot filled: July 19th-20th, PM

We have found a trainer for the session on July 19th-20th. Thanks Sue!

Training: July 13-14

We have moved to Brooks. Participants have been told they need to pickup their laptops prior to the training session and some may be straggling in. The first goal is to make them feel comfortable and let them know they have not missed anything.

New Digital Leaders and I will greet the participants at the door and point them to the lists with room numbers. We can also help them access the Dell Training Day 1 Agenda and then help them get going on the Atomic Learning Assessment. I have created illustrated  step-by-step directions for getting started with the Atomic Learning Assessment. These are linked to the agenda and named Atomic Learning Help. These directions will help the trainers too.

I will be at Brooks by 8:00 tomorrow. Feel free to arrive early for last minute questions and brainstorming. You may want to dress in layers. It has been a bit cold at Brooks this week.

The training sessions have been going well and the teams for tomorrow look really good. I will be in the building working with new Digital Leaders the entire time and can lend you a hand if you need it.

Training Session 1: (AM)
Trainers: Phyllis and Allison
A126

Training Session 2: (AM)
Trainers: Debbie and Gloria
B102

Training Session 3: (PM)
Trainers: Allison and Susan D.
A126

Training Session 4: (PM)
Trainers: Phyllis and John
B102

We're Moving - Week of July 12th

All Dell Training Sessions and Digital Leader Work Sessions will be held at Brooks next week. If you are scheduled to train, please let me know you are aware of this change by submitting a quick comment below.
Please stay tuned for details.

Update: July 6th

Good news! The first Dell Training Sessions went very well today. Many thanks to Cat Clarke and Jordan Kripton for doing such a wonderful job and being so resourceful.

Update on pay:
Each of you should have a time sheet. Please record the following:

• 2 hours of paid planning time, if you attended the meeting on June 30th.
• 6 hours of paid training time, each time you facilitate a training session.
• 1 additional hour of paid planning time. Use it to 
• read through the training documents prior to the start of your first teaching session
• check out the resources linked to the training documents
• follow up with notes on the training document after you teach a session
• Finally, If you put in work this weekend fine-tuning notes from the group work, please include the time spent on your time sheet. 

 Need some in-person work time?

• I'll be holding open lab sessions for Digital Leaders in the 1st floor conference room on several days throughout July. Sign up and stop by. The Summer Lab Schedule can be found in a tab at the top of the Digital Leaders blog.  This should work well.

Question? You know where to find me. Email will be slow for me until Thursday. Your patience is appreciated.

Training Resources

Dell Training: Day 1 Agenda and Notes

Update: 7/5/10

Atomic Learning Assessment
Harla will be sending you an email with the atomic learning assessment. All teachers will be completing this survey and this is the first agenda item for the our training.

Training Resources 
I am working on putting together the training on a Google Doc. It can be found linked through the tab above, Agenda. This is work in progress, and it will be cleaned up before use.

2 Hours of Paid Planning
If you were unable to attend the work session and would like to put in your two hours of paid planning, please check the blog throughout the weekend for a list of contributions, then sign up to let me know you are taking this on. If not, that's okay too. Enjoy your weekend and get ready for Dell Training next week!

If you are working on one of the prep work tasks, please comment to let me and anyone else working on this know.

Training Planning Session: Wed. 1-3

The 1st floor conference room has been reserved from 1:00-3:00 for the purposes of planning the training sessions we will be facilitating. If you would like to participate, please bring your Dell. The room is a bit small, but we will divide the work into groups based on the agenda below. Each group will focus on one of the clearly defined goals. Please think about how you can best contribute to the overall success of the Dell Training. Do you have an area of expertise or enthusiasm for one of the topics below, or do you have a skill that would be useful to any group? Sorry to be predictable, but I will formally collect this information in a form as a startup task prior to our work tomorrow.

A tab at the top of this page has been created for viewing the agenda and linked documents from our work session.

News: June 29th

Notes
Did you take notes yesterday? I've started a google doc for us to share for our notes. Feel free to copy and paste your valuable notes into this one document. You can find it in your list of Google Docs, labeled New. It will get messy, that is expected.

Sign in
I setup a sign in form for our use yesterday. Please sign in for both dates attended using the form in the sidebar of the blog.

Training Schedule
There are some dates available, but some are pending enrollment. If you would like to pickup another session, please email me with the dates.

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