Internship Timeline

Date

Action

Description
Principal Martin was new to my
school. What I accomplished:

7-27-2015

Meet Principal Martin

7-30-2015/
7-31-2015

E-Mail Planning/
Accepting Synergy POC
role

8-11-2015

Meet Principal Martin

8-14-2015

Attend HCPSS Synergy

POC training session

8-15-2015

E-Mail to Principal Martin

8-16-2015

Creation of Instructional
Materials

8-17-2015/
8-18-2015

E-Mail Planning with

Principal Martin

8-18-2015

Create Online Training

Site

1. Established a working
relationship
2. Informed him about my
internship
3. Proposed my initial idea for an
internship based on Web 2.0,
designed around a technology
needs assessment
Principal Martin asked me to be the
Synergy POC to fulfill my internship. I
accepted.
1. Delivered internship proposal
to be synergy POC
2. Principal Martin signed the
Internship Approval Form
Received information and some
training materials from the county
trainer. I realized the HCPSS training
materials were deficient to properly
train the staff.
I explained what was covered at POC
training and outlined my plan for
professional development
HCPSS had no training PowerPoint or
videos set up for Synergy like they
had for Canvas. I created:
1. Instructional Synergy
PowerPoint
2. Printed Packets of the
PowerPoint
3. An instructional screencast
video
4. Online survey assessing the
training
I sent Principal Martin the resources I
had created and an overview of my
presentation. He gave me some
feedback on the order of content and
activities. I revised the materials and
got the OK to move forward.
HCPSS didnt have a central site with
training resources for synergy. I

8-19-2015

8-19-2015

8-19-2015

8-19-2015
through
9-1-2015

9-1-2015

9-1-2015

created a tab on my educational

technology site so teachers could
access content and seek solutions to
problems.
I sent out an E-Mail to the staff
containing the final versions of the
Pre-training E-Mail to the
training documents, along with a link
staff
to watch the screencast training
video.
9-10:00 am- grades 3, 4, and 5
receive training in the cafeteria.
2:30-3:30 pm- grades K, 1, and 2
receive training in the cafeteria.
Training Session #1
1. HCPSS Synergy News
2. General Navigation
3. Seating Charts
4. Taking Attendance
5. Running Reports
E-Mail the online training survey.
E-Mail out Online
Announce and explain the raffle to
Training Survey
win 30 minutes for the completion of
the survey.
During training, many teachers
logged in to a different page than the
Synergy TeacherVue startup. It took
me dozens of calls and E-Mails to the
HCPSS and Edupoint technical
Calls/E-Mails to HCPSS
support lines to finally get an answer
technology helpdesk
on how to resolve it. Some teachers
and Edupoint Synergy
were given dual-access to
Technical Specialist
TearcherVue and SynergySIS. No
training was given on the SynergySIS
feature, so I had to seek out more
information and create a tutorial for
the staff
I created a screencast and sent it out
Create and send out
with directions through the staff Etutorial to fix dual login Mail on how to resolve dual-login
problems
problems and the URL for my
Synergy resource webpage
I created a page specifically for
common problems people were
facing. It is designed to allow
Create a tech solutions
teachers to diagnose and solve
webpage and upload
issues they were having on their
dual-login solution
own. It was designed to cut down the
amount of E-Mails I was receiving
from teachers with problems.

9-11-2015

Meeting with HCPSS PE

Supervisor Mike Senisi

9-11-2015
through
9-16-2015

Many E-Mails with

HCPSS Tech Support

9-15-2015

Survey Winner E-Mail

9-16-2015

Receive Synergy POC

training

9-16-2015
through
9-22-2015

Create Synergy report

card tab training
resources

9-21-2015

Send Training
Announcement out to
HCPSS Elementary PE
Teachers

9-22-2015

Staff Training #2 E-Mail

9-24-2015
4:05 pm

After-school Training
Session

9-25-2015
9:00 am

Before-School Training
Session

Mr. Senisi asked if I could offer

training for all HCPSS PE teachers on
Synergy and the use of the report
card tab. I accepted.
Many E-Mails were required between
Mr. Senisi, HCPSS tech support, and
myself to set up POC Synergy report
card tab training. Ultimately, training
was arranged to happen after school
on 9-16-2015.
I E-Mailed Kimberlee Reed to
announce that she is the winner and
to set up a time to take her class for
the 30 minute prize
Brenda Finkle came to my school and
gave me training on how to use the
Synergy report card tab.
I built a training page on my
technology site with uploaded county
training resources, a screencast
training video, and a technical
support forum. Staff could post
questions on the forum and I could
answer them there. That way the
answer to questions is visible for any
visiting the forum and was designed
to cut down on individual E-mails to
me.
Mr. Senisi sent out an announcement
through the HCPSS page and county
E-Mail alerting all HCPSS PE teachers
to the training date and time
I sent out an E-Mail to staff
containing:
1. URL to training Page
2. Dates and times for optional
face-to-face training sessions
3. Directions for setting up private
training sessions
Only two teachers signed up for this
training session. Only Pam Jones
showed. I unplugged from the
projector and gave her individualized
training from 4:05 pm until 4:45 pm.
The teacher that couldnt attend the
after-school training swung by my
office and I gave her an
individualized face-to-face training
before school.

9-25-2015

Follow-up E-Mail to Staff

9-28-2015
4:30 pm

Training Session for

HCPSS Elementary PE
Teachers

10-212015

Planning Meeting with

Principal Martin

10-212015
through
10-282015

Create Session #3
Training Materials

10-292015

Training Session #3

11-2-2015

Mass Assign Comments

E-Mail Fix

11-2-2015

Update Training Site

4-4-2016

Received E-Mail on
Comment Changes

4-4-2016

Create Training
Resources

I talked to a couple staff members

that asked questions about synergy
that should have been answered in
the training. I sent out a reminder EMail with the training URL and put a
stack of training packed in the mail
room.
One HCPSS PE teacher, Kathy Eckley,
showed up for training. As with the
after-school training for Waterloo
staff, I unplugged from the projector
and gave her individualized training.
Principal Martin and I met to plan out
the 10-29-2015 training session. This
session is a review of past sessions, a
correction of common problems, and
an introduction to Synergys
conference section.
1. Screencast video on setting up
conferences
2. Quick reference training cards
3. Update Training Page with
conference section
I led a training session with the
school secretary, Cindy Wren,
reviewing common problems, giving
solutions, reviewing best Synergy
practices for use, and explaining use
of Synergy conferences
A few teachers E-Mailed me problems
they were having when using mass
assign comments. I sent out an EMail explaining this feature in more
detail, complete with screenshots.
I uploaded screenshots for mass
assign comments, with directions to
avoid problems.
Our school secretary sent an email
out with a new training document
from HCPSS outlining new procedures
for entering comments. As POC, I had
not received any heads up about
these changes before this E-Mail.
I recorded a screencast explaining
how to add comments on synergy
with the new guidelines and features.

4-4-2016

Staff E-Mail

4-5-2016

E-Mails with Karen

Kalivoda

4-7-2016
9:00 am

Private Training Session

I created a training page on the

website and uploaded the
screencast.
I sent out an E-Mail summarizing the
changes to synergy, giving a link to
the training site, and giving a link to
the screencast video on YouTube.
Karen requested a private training
session to go over the new synergy
changes. We scheduled it for 4-72016
I trained Karen Kalivoda on:
1. Synergy navigation
2. Report card matrix
3. Comment bank
4. Mass assign comments