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These are essentially raw notes from the Schoology NEXT 2018 day one events and sessions. Before the conference got under way, the conferees networked at a breakfast. The conference opened with a video followed by a speech by Jeremy Friedman, CEO Schoology. He noted that today is his wedding anniversary. "Schoology started nine years ago. Tim, Bill, Ryan, myself. Started by four. The "why" of our story is important. Start with why. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action. Book. Ted talk. What, how, why. What Schoology does, everyone knows. How we do it: what makes us different, what is our differentiated process. Why will be the least well know. Not to make a profit, that is a result. Companies that start with why are the greatest companies. The why of Schoology. Advance what's possible. There are too many barriers to effective teaching and learning. If we can reduce the barriers, the obstacles, free up time, more time for gre...

On Sunday the Schoology NEXT 2018 preconference opened. I joined a session titled Supporting Schoology as a System Administrator  presented by Schoology Product Engagement Team members Mia Reyes and Dwight Vicks. The following are raw notes from that session. These notes will not make sense out of the context of the administrative screens being displayed. The session opened with coverage of the new site design. College has already enabled the new site design and the students at Kosrae campus appeared to have no difficulties with the new design. Linked accounts: you might have different roles in a district. You may be the system admin, you might also, under another account, be a teacher who teaches classes in the district. You might also have children attending schools in the district and thus you have a parents role and a third account. These accounts can be linked. System settings: apply institution wide and cannot be custom set school by school within a district. Tests an...

SC 130 Physical Science proposes to serve two institutional learning outcomes (ILO) through four general education program learning outcomes (GE PLO) addressed by four course level student learning outcomes (CLO). This report assesses learning under the course level learning outcomes which in turn support program and institutional learning outcomes. This report is informed in part by a new stream of information not previously available. The adoption of Schoology Institutional in January 2018 provided access to the learning outcomes mastery screens within Schoology Institutional. Note that this course has a focus on "doing" science, on science as a process, a way of understanding the natural physical world and the mathematics that underlies many physical systems. The course does not focus on memorized facts. The course is centered on science as being that which can be measured, observed, evidenced. The course is intended as a counter to memorized science. Once one shifts ...

Working here on the Kosrae campus has once again been a wonderful experience. Kosrae campus is a small but effective team who work together with students and learning at the center of the campus experience. Organizational size inevitably increases the distance between the top and bottom of an organization, and the college is no exception. The national campus is a physically large and sprawling complex. The campus population is the largest in the system and includes both students who are resident on campus and students who live off campus. The national campus is diverse with students from all four states and the many cultures therein. Kosrae campus is, for all intents and purposes, monocultural. Where one can hear five or six languages being spoken on a walk across the national campus, here one will hear the students speaking only English or Kosraean. On the Kosrae campus the students all know each other personally and know each others' families.  Hiring faculty from abroad ...

A lack of equipment led to shifting the floral litmus solution laboratory to a demonstration. I found I had only Erlenmeyer flasks and test tubes to work with. No beakers, no eye droppers. The lab would require pouring with hot water from Erlenmeyer flasks into test tubes and the direct injection of undiluted test agents. Given the potential for burns or other problems, I opted to run the laboratory as a demonstration. The hot plate was purchased for $19.95 at Ace Hardware. The tea pot was about $17 at Michaela's store. These were both out of pocket expenses, so both will likely go back to the house in Piyuul. To ensure that I could clean out the flasks at the end of the laboratory, I shredded the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis and the Plectranthus scutellarioides (coleus) I used. Both would perform well, but the coleus would perform better overall. Despite the light color of the starter solution, the color changes were more marked and clear for coleus. I started heating the water a...