Iowa Department of Education

Goals

The English Language Learners (ELL) Team seeks to build the capacity of teacher educators and teacher candidates in educating Iowa's English language Learners (ELLs) by doing the following:

• Providing opportunities for teacher educators and teacher candidates to improve teaching of culturally and linguistically diverse students.
• Establishing a partnership among teams from Iowa's Institutions for Higher Education and the members of the Iowa Administrators' Second Language (L2) group.
• The Administrators' L2 group seeks to increase their knowledge of second language acquisition, improve and increase capacity of ELL programs in their districts, and advise state leaders and other districts on best practices for ELLs.

Year Two activity will include the following:

• Involving teacher educators and teacher candidates in the following professional development opportunities:
  
  • Iowa Culture and Language Conference (ICLC), February 12-14, 2007, Polk County Convention Center,, Des Moines, Iowa
  • Our Kids Summer Seminars for Educators of English Language Learners, July 31-August 2, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa

• Ongoing evaluation of the effect of participation in the ICLC and Our Kids seminars on teaching and learning
• Expansion of the Administrators' L2 group to include teacher educators. Opportunities with this group include participation in a cultural immersion experience in Mexico in the spring and fall of 2007.
• Technology resource--Twenty institutions will be selected to participate in a technology activity. Polycom IP Video Conferencing Units will be available for teacher educators' use at Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to observe the delivery of instruction to ELLs. Teacher educators and teacher candidates will have the opportunity to interact with classrooms and classroom teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Contact
Bill Griffin
515-242-7783
william.griffin@dmps.k12.ia.us 

Team Members

Bill Griffin (Chair), Des Moines Public School District
Colleen Anderson  Department of Education
Jeanne Angel, Waterloo Community School District
Dawn Behan, Mount Mercy College
Katie Bruna, Iowa State University
Kelly Geist , Des Moines Public School District
Helene Grossman, Department of Education
Sharon Jensen, Simpson College
Stephaney Jones-Vo Heartland AEA 11
Jobi Lawrence (Polycom-Coordinator), William Penn University
Janiece Ochoa , Des Moines Public School District
Roberta Vann, Iowa State University

University of Iowa Center for Evaluation & Assessment
Melissa Chapman 
Donald Yarbrough 

Meetings

Meeting dates:

• February 12, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Downtown Marriott, Des Moines
• March 9, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Des Moines (exact location TBA)
• May 9, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Des Moines (exact location TBA)

Contact person: Karen Nichols
ELL Coordinator

Reports

 

Year 2 Reports 

 TQELL Report 07-08
 TQELL Grant Year 2 Evaluation

Year 1 Reports 

The following report was presented at the TQE All-Teams Meeting on June 8, 2007
 ELL Team Report 6-8-07
 TQELL Year 1 Report - No appendix
 TQELL Year 1 Report with appendix

Polycom Reports
In order to prepare pre-service teachers to successfully educate the growing number of English language learners, the TQE Grant awarded Polycom video conferencing units to four-year colleges/universities, community colleges, and local districts.

Resources

 
A list of web links to research, articles, organizations or other web sites that would be appropriate and useful on the TQE site:

 TQELL Program Flyer

 English Language Learner Technology Resource Grant Application

Iowa Culture and Language Conference (ICLC)

 Our Kids Summer Seminar for Educators of ELLs

Iowa Association of Colleges of Teacher Education

Iowa Educators and Administrators Immersion Experience - pdf slide show - Villachato, Mexico, May 2007

Grants

 

Spring 2007

 

Polycom

Program Support                                   Technical Support
John Scott, ELL Consultant                  Sue Swartz, TQE Technology Coordinator
john.scott@iowa.gov                            sue.swartz@iowa.gov
515.281.3805                                            515.281.6719

Jobi Lawrence, TQEL Coordinator      Dennis Yoshimura, Technology Consultant
LAWRENCEJ@wmpenn.edu              dennis.yoshimura@iowa.gov
641.673.2125                                           515.480.4651   

Technical Information

For your convenience, information for the original Program Contact and Tech Support was entered into the Video Conferencing Directory at http://207.28.94.183/Polycom/default.htm a statewide database of Polycom users (Original Polycom Awardees ). The database allows educators to connect with over 350 sites throughout the state. Please review/update your information at this site and enter LOCATION, IP ADDRESS, and CAMERA STATUS. Username and password: aea  

The Polycom unit will support one-to-one video conferencing sessions. However, you can schedule multi-point sessions, at no cost, through the Codian gateways available at the Codian Video Conference Gateway Database (Choose a 2-digit PIN) http://207.28.94.183/Codian/default.htm

Western: 207.28.96.160

Middle: 129.186.1.33

Eastern: 198.147.162.248

Online Polycom Training

Permission granted by Scott Fosseen to use the AEA 8 Polycom online training at http://www.nwia-e2t2.k12.ia.us/moodle

Select How to Use the Polycom and click the "Login as a guest" button.

Follow VSX information strand

Polycom Settings

·          Firewall:  The following ports should be opened: TCP ports 1720 and 3230-3253; UDP ports 3230-3253.

·          Enable Fixed Ports in settings.  Disable "H.460 Firewall" and disable "NAT is H.323 Compatible".

·          Polycom is set to manual IP with a static IP and associated DNS, Gateway, and Subnet mask. Set Auto LAN speed and Auto Duplex.

·          Codian MCU 4205.  See datasheet.

Additional Notes

1.        Connect LAN to Visual Concert to provide internet connection for multiple computers-Polycom must be powered on.

2.        Streaming capacity is designed for a LAN.

3.        Users need to install Polycom software (webcam included) to access a Polycom (point-to-point) session.

4.        A Codian session must be established for multicast Polycom sessions or streaming to no more than 60 computers.

7000sTechSpecs

Codian

Visual Concert

VSX Admin Guide

VSX Getting Started