Parents as Partners Episode 40 December 6, 2010 Amanda Henson Parentella
Amanda Henson, community manager at Parentella joined Lorna Costantini to talk about their private network and how it can promote positive working relationships between parents and teachers.
Amanda Henson, community manager at Parentella joined Lorna Costantini to talk about their private network and how it can promote positive working relationships between parents and teachers. Easy communications, quick and easy sign ups for volunteers, polls to survey the school community are some of th many features of the parentella network. Amanda took us through a tour of the network. Please watch the recording to see all the features for yourself. Amanda Henson from Parentella Elluminate recorded show. Special thanks to Kim Caise and Peggy George for their support of this webcast.
6-Dec-2010 9:02:15 PM - PARENTS AS PARTNERS
00:35 - Catherine S.
yes
00:36 - Leshell 1
No
06:36 - Lorna Costantini
Hi Nikki nice to see you tonight!!
08:19 - Leshell 1
My apologies, I have to leave the webinar unexpectedly. I will stay in touch with your efforts online. Have an awesome presentation.
08:25 - nikki
Hello all...familiar names here! :-)
09:08 - Lorna Costantini
no problem with Leshell
11:16 - Lorna Costantini
Hi Peggy
11:29 - Peggy George
Hi! so sorry I'm late-conference call went overtime!
12:04 - Catherine S.
You mentioned PowerSchool. Does this program link with PowerSchool?
12:46 - Peggy George
Hi Martina, nikki and zegna-great to see all of you again
13:18 - Lorna Costantini
Hi Kim
13:50 - kim
hi everyone
14:54 - Eileen
Hello
15:22 - Peggy George
the joys of technology!!
15:28 - Peggy George
we all know about that!
16:11 - Peggy George
http://twitter.com/#!/parentella
16:19 - Peggy George
17:02 - Peggy George
yes Shelly Terrell is an incredible educator!!
18:08 - Peggy George
we can scroll down th page on the blog ourselves but if she changes pages we will follow her there
18:28 - Peggy George
http://blog.parentella.com/2010/the-controversy-surrounding-for-profit-c...
19:15 - Peggy George
http://blog.parentella.com/2010/how-do-we-encourage-charitable-living-in...
19:44 - Peggy George
scroll down that page to see the green tagxedo image-PTCHAT
20:04 - Peggy George
those shapes come with tagxedo
20:11 - Peggy George
can't get them on wordle
20:17 - Peggy George
very effective
20:53 - Eileen
I can't wait to try tagxedo
21:01 - Peggy George
it's a wonderful tool :-)
22:40 - Peggy George
23:15 - Peggy George
this reminds me a lot of some of the features on VolunteerSpot
24:09 - Peggy George
can you show us what your page looks like after something has been submitted?
24:39 - Peggy George
12:00am is a great time :-)
25:02 - Peggy George
chocolate!!!!
25:50 - Peggy George
do you have an address book or do you have to enter emails individually?
25:51 - Catherine S.
does it work like a wiki?
26:04 - Peggy George
nice!!! very helpful
26:21 - Catherine S.
Everyone can edit?
26:23 - Peggy George
having groups for email addresses would be a wonderful feature!
27:29 - Peggy George
that's a great feature!
27:49 - Peggy George
does it confirm for someone?
28:09 - Peggy George
if I sign up will it confirm my volunteer contribution?
28:27 - Peggy George
ok-thanks
28:53 - Peggy George
if someone volunteered to contribute something that you didn't need, how do you manage that?
29:16 - Peggy George
sorry!
29:35 - Peggy George
I'm thinking of potluck suppers when you have too many desserts and no main dishes :-)
29:44 - Peggy George
thanks a lot!
30:31 - Peggy George
very lonely!
31:05 - Peggy George
this has been really helpful to see the tour of the site
31:19 - Martin - InfoMeister
This would be a great extension for invitations to the classrooms. - open communications. Does it have a video / audio (link) component?
32:15 - Peggy George
you may have covered this before I got here, but can parents use this site to organize volunteers for things like Little League baseball activities?
32:21 - Peggy George
Great question Martin!
33:17 - Peggy George
can you embed something like a video?
33:45 - Peggy George
doesn't look like it--just attachments
34:11 - Peggy George
students can't submit homework this way though, right?
34:45 - Martin - InfoMeister
thks - that is a great feature (attachment) - link to a static (or single , central updated document.
34:46 - Peggy George
they can download the assignment but not complete it and return it
35:23 - Martin - InfoMeister
could they us an alternative cloud?
35:54 - Catherine S.
You mentioned PowerSchool before. Can this program link with PowerSchool for merging class lists and such?
35:54 - Peggy George
aha! yes! so once all of the 5 cokes are checked no more are needed
35:56 - Peggy George
great!
36:15 - Peggy George
your brain is moving faster than your mouth :-)
36:26 - zegna
hi peggy .sorry can not see your imformation before because talking with a friend just now
36:37 - Peggy George
Hi zegna!
36:41 - Martin - InfoMeister
this can also help with inventory / assignmnts - for "cleaning/commun ity service."
36:57 - zegna
happy to see you again
37:10 - kim
i love the examples that are prepopulated in the dashboard
37:36 - zegna
37:48 - Peggy George
love that idea Martin!
38:01 - Catherine S.
Will everyone see the results or just the creator of the poll?
38:09 - Peggy George
thanks zegna!!! :-)
38:33 - zegna
you are welcome
38:39 - kim
is there a way for students to log community service hours?
39:06 - kim
yes, looks great with transcripts
39:11 - kim
for college admissions
39:27 - kim
there isn't really a venue for this yet
39:53 - Peggy George
can you see the poll results once you vote?
40:32 - Catherine S.
About polls, is there a way to do an anonymous poll?
40:32 - kim
peggy, click on signups and see the sample content
40:35 - kim
it is cute
40:42 - Peggy George
is there an RSS feed for the site so you can receive some notifications automatically?
40:42 - Martin - InfoMeister
Novel Idea - using 21st centry tools asssting in 21st century needs in the interaction. Is there an app for this? it is quite practical for the road.
40:43 - kim
they need 1 pomeranian and more bookies
41:37 - Peggy George
love that Martin :-) "is there an app for that"
42:34 - Peggy George
how do you teach parents about tagging?
44:23 - kim
is that like edchat?
44:33 - Lorna Costantini
yes it is Kim
44:37 - Lorna Costantini
#PTchat
44:41 - kim
ok ty
45:27 - Peggy George
tweetgrid?
45:29 - Martin - InfoMeister
(bayer)-asperin- becane "genertic" as the app has become - Who started it - we'll use it but forget the origin. Likje Happy Birthday - not "puiblic domain" - but treated as such. Tags - similar and paralel to an index/classification - must be relevant / familiar terminology.
46:04 - Peggy George
good point Martin
46:22 - Peggy George
I'm not telling you how many columns I have :-)
46:33 - Peggy George
I use Tweetdeck but similar view
46:47 - Peggy George
those columns are supposed to help you keep up with them
46:59 - kim
similar to twitterfall.com
47:55 - kim
that is a great way to follow twitter streams online
48:01 - kim
multiple streams that is
48:54 - Peggy George
so it follows a hashtag but not a threaded conversation?
49:36 - Peggy George
that's a nice feature--count down to 140 characters :-)
50:57 - Peggy George
you see a lot more tweets if you just use parentella and not with a hashtag
51:08 - Peggy George
don't use #parentella
51:22 - kim
ok
52:01 - Martin - InfoMeister
this really opes up a global pln - to individual levels. Amazing. I envisioned this as the future as an extension and practical component of the walless - 24/7 classroom.
52:38 - Peggy George
it looks like a wonderfu service Amanda!
52:42 - Martin - InfoMeister
overt a decade ago
52:46 - Amanda@Parentella 1
Thank you Peggy
53:18 - Peggy George
look! there's Kim!
53:34 - Eileen
love it!
54:09 - Peggy George
Amanda do you use learncentral to teach parents/teachers how to use Parentella?
54:10 - Martin - InfoMeister
thisd is great - 21c tools in real time for its intent.
55:03 - Peggy George
bandwidth lag :-)
55:20 - Peggy George
great to learn about Parentella Amanda! Thank you so much!!
55:36 - Amanda@Parentella 1
Thank you all SO much for having me. I'm sorry for the lag!
55:37 - Catherine S.
THank you!
55:38 - Peggy George
Next show--Jan. 17th 2011 :-)
55:40 - Eileen
Thank you for the great information, Amanda.
55:56 - Peggy George
Dr. Debbie Pushor is incredible!!!
56:23 - Amanda@Parentella 1
Thank you again!
56:23 - Peggy George
Going exploring on Parentella now :-)
56:25 - doriedance
night
56:25 - kim
bye all
56:27 - Peggy George
good night all!
56:27 - kim
night
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