We've had a busy week at Rome City Schools this week.  While some of you have been enjoying the last of your summer vacation others of us have been back at work.  The administrators are are all "powered up", ready for the new year after a "powerful" 2 days of the administrative institute.  Can you guess what the theme was?  LOL

We welcomed the new teachers to Rome City Schools for 2013-2014.  They have been attending the new teacher orientation workshop for the last three days.

This week was also the Discovery Education Network Summer Institute (DENSI).  Unfortunately, it was in Vermont and most of us couldn't attend.  Fortunately, they offered it also as a free online webinar as they live-streamed much of the event.  But unfortunately, many of us were tied up so that we couldn't even attend the webinar.

So, fortunately, one of the main goals of the Discovery Educators Network is to SHARE and COLLABORATE.  So I've placed a link below to a recap page with links to notes shared by those who attended.  Not only are they sharing, they are also modeling "how" to share.  Some are links to blogs.  Many are links to Google Docs that have been shared with us.  You can do the same.  If you don't like the hassle of a webpage, you can still post information in shared documents in your Google Docs.  However, to make it fully functional, you really need at least 1 webpage with a list of your Google Docs (although …. I guess you could have 1 main document that served as an index, with links to your other documents.  There are lots of ways to do this). I still maintain that every classroom should have a webpage.  If you need help with that, let me know.

Check out some of the neat ideas shared from other teachers at:

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2013/07/18/densi-2013-daily-recap-day-5