Demo Workshop

We are all here… again… at Mugs.
AI is in session. (though E.Jason is missing due to a forensics emergency – someone must be dead)

We begin with Natalie asking questions for the first session of the morning.

Question #1 – actually Renee’s question… but secretly hidden under Natalie’s protection… “How can we regulate the amount of people in each session at the CSUWP conference?” Natalie actually doesn’t care about the answer… but it is an important discussion…

- We will be inviting pre-service English teachers (at ½ price) to help fill it up. We are aiming for 50 people but we don’t know what that will look like.

- We also will be inviting CSUWP fellows (for free) to help “fill” the sessions for their benefit as much as ours.


Question #2 – Can outside teachers assist in presentations?

- No… we want all presenters to be Fellows.


Question #3 – What will the conference format look like?

- opening session with Administrators and Participants with Cindy et al.
- 2 sessions (5 presentations per at 75 minutes each)
- each fellow will only present once (except E.Jason who will present a beginning and advanced session on blogging)
- 3 Elementary teachers (fellows) are being invited to present


After the first session of questions, we broke up into our inquiry groups to work on demos in general (agendas, format, activities, etc.) and Deadline Drafts. The rest of the meeting was individually focused.

No other formal meeting of AI will be scheduled but it is highly recommended that Inquiry Groups meet sometime during the next two months to help each other get ready for the conference… godspeed.


Deadlines: Please plan on completing your work and sending it by…

Dec. 1st: Abstracts of demo due to Cindy (cindyoa@mail.colostate.edu)

Jan. 7th: Deadline for Final Drafts – Your final draft must be e-mailed to Cindy (cindyoa@mail.colostate.edu) and Natalie (Natalie.barnes@comcast.net)

Text of Abstracts/Drafts must be in the body of the e-mail… NO attachments!

Jan. 26th: the Conference… you should plan on being there


Good Luck Out There...