TEAC/NCATE Accreditation Workshop, April 11-12

Hope College is partnering with MDE, TEAC, NCATE, and CAEP to bring an accreditation workshop yo Michigan. The workshop will take place starting Wednesday April 11th and will conclude on April 12th. The next day will be the last DARTEP/MACTE meeting of the year.

A survey has been created to understand institutions' needs and willingness to participate in this workshop. You can take this survey here. For more information, please contact either Madeline Kukla or Thomn Bell.

Next Meeting ... April 13, 2012, Hope College, Holland

• Hope College Haworth Conference Center (address)
• Agenda
• Minutes from February meeting
• Treasurer's Report
• PPD Update
• MACTE afternoon agenda

Teleconferencing information:

For those of you who are unable to physically attend the DARTEP meeting this Friday, you can use a web application called WIMBA, use of which is graciously donated by Dave Myton of Lake Superior State University. You should plan to connect at least 15 minutes ahead of schedule, so that a WIMBA software wizard can make sure that your computer has what is needed to make the connection.

During job-alike sessions, the connection will be taken to the Certification Officers meeting. During lunch, WIMBA will be active but not monitored, The connection will be with the MACTE meeting in the afternoon.

To participate, go to http://67.202.210.200, click participant login and enter your name as it will show to the other participants. Run the Wizard if necessary and then you will enter the Lobby. From the list of all sessions select "DARTEP Meeting". A tutorial showing how to use the WIMBA tools is available here: http://www.lssu.edu/podcast/audiofiles/education/chem104/Dartep-participant.mp4.

Dave prepared two .SWF tutorial files one for the presenter controls, and another for the participant. They are both posted to:
http://lssu.edu/podcast/chem104.php - the filenames are self-explanatory, each file is less than 5 minutes (mp4) but about 14MB. It is worth watching and tells you how to "talk" or send a written comment as you participate in the meeting.

Once we activate the presenter login (which we will do at about 9:00 am) you can make a web connection. That will give us time to trouble shoot connections if necessary.

Using Twitter to ask questions or send a message:

If you need help, send a tweet to @dartep1 for on-site assistance. To send a tweet, first you will need a free account on Twitter, then you can refer to this image: step 1 is to click on the quill button to send a message; step 2 is to put @dartep1 at the beginning of your message or question, then type ((140 characters max), then hit the tweet button. It may take a minute or two, but your message will show up on the website feed. We will then ask your question or convey your message.

Hopefully, these instructions are clear and we look forward to "seeing" and "hearing" from you on Friday.