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Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 9:51 AM: Welcome, everyone!  We will begin at 10:00.  If you are having any tech issues, please chat to Karla Vien for assistance.
Brad Hasskamp (to All - Entire Audience): 9:51 AM: Welcome, everyone! We will get started in about 10 minutes.
Shane Mueller (to All - Entire Audience): 9:55 AM: Good morning to all of our amazing MDE folks! Stay warm and dry today!!
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 9:56 AM: Good morning, Shane!  Good to "see" you!  Hope to see you in person again soon!
Vicki Disrud (to All - Entire Audience): 9:56 AM: Good morning!!
Brad Hasskamp (to All - Entire Audience): 9:56 AM: Good morning and happy Friday!
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 9:56 AM: Hi Vicki!
Brad Hasskamp (to All - Entire Audience): 10:01 AM: We are starting now. If you cannot hear us, please chat or connect with Karla Vien if you need technical assistance.
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 10:02 AM: Hi Brad
Brad Hasskamp (to All - Entire Audience): 10:05 AM: Hi, Scott! 
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 10:12 AM: so not good at holding questions, but it can wait till question time
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 10:13 AM: for new class designation, are we to label them how
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 10:13 AM: online and the delivery method ex please
Jodi Versaw (to All - Entire Audience): 10:13 AM: We'll get to that in a bit, Scott!
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 10:16 AM: These resources can be found in the materials section of your control panel.
Traci Pederson (to All - Entire Audience): 10:18 AM: Thanks Todd!
Shane Mueller (to All - Entire Audience): 10:18 AM: Thank you, Todd!
Jason Sellars (to All - Entire Audience): 10:18 AM: Thanks Todd!
Tom Cytron-Hysom (to All - Entire Audience): 10:18 AM: Are the privacy issues/requirements different for adult learners than for K12?
Pam Dane (to All - Entire Audience): 10:21 AM: A teacher friend wants to know how to sign up for the emails for these webinars.
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 10:22 AM: Pam - an ABE teacher?  If  so, she should contact Cherie Eichinger to get on our email list. 
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 10:23 AM: how did people assess that students did not have access to that or is it just assumed by staff
Pam Dane (to All - Entire Audience): 10:23 AM: thank you  I'm the friend
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 10:24 AM: For all: If you are not getting emails from our office, please contact cherie.eichinger@state.mn.us
Marisa Geisler (to All - Entire Audience): 10:24 AM: These webinars are also posted on the PD Calendar on the ATLAS website: https://atlasabe.org/events/
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 10:25 AM: Sadly Schoology for Basic Users is down again this morning. :-(
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 10:26 AM: I expect they'll have it back up again by afternoon.
Tom Cytron-Hysom (to All - Entire Audience): 10:26 AM: It was down yesterday morning, too.
Emily Watts (to All - Entire Audience): 10:27 AM: QUESTION FOR LATER:  For those people doing worksheets/packets, how are you getting those to students?  Mail, electronically, pick up?  Thank you!
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 10:27 AM: I think Schoology just can't handle the load of millions of new users all online at the same time.
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 10:29 AM: The ELA group was awesome! Great to have the solidarity.
Penny Jahnke (to All - Entire Audience): 10:29 AM: Regarding Schoology I think it is important to not get to frustrated as ABE staff.  As many of us have children in the K-12 system, imagine their frustration when they cannot get in to read their assignments and do their homework.  Be patient, Be Kind:)
Jodi Versaw (to All - Entire Audience): 10:30 AM: Yes, very good point, Penny
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 10:30 AM: Penny - absolutely! It's a hard time for a lot of folks. Patience and kindness will get us through!
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 10:31 AM: Schoology is now posting that they've identified updates they will be making to hopefully ease the 400% increase in usage they've been experience. Patience and kindness! Yes!
Julie Dincau (to All - Entire Audience): 10:31 AM: Regarding student privacy, the Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) https://tech.ed.gov/privacy/ has k12 and postsecondary best practices.
Marisa Geisler (to All - Entire Audience): 10:32 AM: Sign up for the newsletter here! https://atlasabe.org/newsletter/
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 10:33 AM: good
Penny Jahnke (to All - Entire Audience): 10:34 AM: Another thing to keep in mind with Schoologly is many K-12 students are supposed to be logged in at certain times.  Our district is 12:30-2:30.  I am guessing many districts are in the morning.  We might want to keep that in when we are accessing it.  We maybe can be more flexible with the times we are on. 
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 10:34 AM: Thank you all for going beyond to make our lives and those of our students a little easier
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 10:34 AM: Please note that Quill is Quill.org not Quill.com. The .com is an office supply company! the .org is for teaching writing!
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 10:36 AM: Good suggestion, Penny!
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 10:38 AM: There's one of the Ed Tech webinars right after this one at 12:00
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 10:38 AM: The webinars are archived on their website as well.
Margo Hernandez Rainwater (to All - Entire Audience): 10:39 AM: can you please post the free internet access link again
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 10:39 AM: Thanks
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 10:40 AM: Free and low-cost internet plans: https://www.digitalinclusion.org/free-low-cost-internet-plans/ 
Penny Jahnke (to All - Entire Audience): 10:50 AM: Verizon has added extra data and hot spot capability at not cost to people who did not have unlimited data.  It is automatically added to peoples phones.  
Sue Telander (to All - Entire Audience): 10:50 AM: How are contact hours calculated in asynchronous interactions?
Traci Pederson (to All - Entire Audience): 10:51 AM: That would be wonderful
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 10:51 AM: Sue - it depends on if you are talking about using an approved DL platform or if they are doing other work (packets, course on an LMS, etc.)
Sue Telander (to All - Entire Audience): 10:51 AM: Other work.
Brad Hasskamp (to All - Entire Audience): 10:52 AM: Sue, We will address that question later in the session. IF you have additional questions, please ask during the Q & A
Traci Pederson (to All - Entire Audience): 10:52 AM: Please life the restriction!
Patricia Fleege (to All - Entire Audience): 10:52 AM: Well... that lift would be pretty darn helpful!
Terrisa Fisher (to All - Entire Audience): 10:52 AM: Perhaps OCTAE could temporarily allow other forms of skills assessment - from D.L. platforms...
Brad Hasskamp (to All - Entire Audience): 10:54 AM: Terrisa, we are not sure what OCTAE is thinking but they are developing guidance on assessments to be released sometime soon. Again, we do not know what that guidance will be yet.
Cathy Grady (to All - Entire Audience): 10:58 AM: Re: internet access. PCs for People is out of hotspots and they say it's going to be while before they can get more. Sounds like even on the open market, it's almost impossible to find hotspots now. I'm going to do some research on this...also, I would love to know if anybody has had any success using the Comcast St. Paul hotspots. I know for some communities, like MPLS, there is citywide access but not in St. Paul.
Linda Jacobs-Buse (to All - Entire Audience): 10:58 AM: So is Schoology a DL platform or a synchronous time
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 10:59 AM: Hours in Schoology cannot currently be counted.  
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 10:59 AM: many rural areas now have hot spots students can access by sitting in the parking lots
Linda Jacobs-Buse (to All - Entire Audience): 11:00 AM: I thought Schoology was just approved
Abby Roza (to All - Entire Audience): 11:01 AM: Is it accurate to say asynchronous work is currently *never* allowable for contact hours (regardless of platform)? (IE students writing in to respond to an assignment or messaging back and forth?)
Vicki Disrud (to All - Entire Audience): 11:01 AM: Our rural public libraries left their wifi on so people can sit in the parking lot or outside by the building to use it. 
Pamela Moriarity (to All - Entire Audience): 11:01 AM: Lifting the block would be helpful for us to be able to track hours for diploma students
Tom Cytron-Hysom (to All - Entire Audience): 11:02 AM: Schoology is not in itself a DLplatform.
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 11:02 AM: Always keep track of all student hours, whether in SID or Excel, 
Elizabeth Bennett (to All - Entire Audience): 11:02 AM: Linda and Abby, I've been confused about that, too.  I think the only exception for asynchronous methods is certain approved DL platforms that get proxy hours by "unit completion."
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 11:03 AM: Elizabeth - correct.  Asychronous can only be counted as proxy hours for approved DL platforms.
Amy Van Steenwyk (to All - Entire Audience): 11:04 AM: What about other non-approved ways that do track time? (thinking of EduPuzzle) Should we submit an approval form when we think something might make sense to be approved. Also are we taking steps toward a teacher verification model for MN?
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:05 AM: RE: questions about Schoology, etc. The issue is that current DL policy only has provisions for established curricula. There is no provision in current policy for content created by teachers. That's what we're working on developing.
Elizabeth Bennett (to All - Entire Audience): 11:05 AM: Yay!  Lots of people will be very happy when that is developed...
Alison Wilcox (to All - Entire Audience): 11:06 AM: Census.gov has put together a fun, interactive map to track the daily progress of response rates in every state and U.S. territory.
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:07 AM: Elizabeth - definitely. Those of us on the DL Team want it to work, too!
Alison Wilcox (to All - Entire Audience): 11:07 AM: This is the Census Map https://2020census.gov/en/response-rates.html
Emily Watts (to All - Entire Audience): 11:07 AM: We have some awesome student made videos to support students in taking the census - search for Osseo Abe on facebook and scroll down to see the students in action!
Astrid Liden (to All - Entire Audience): 11:07 AM: Thanks, Emily!
Shane Mueller (to All - Entire Audience): 11:08 AM: CareerForce
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 11:08 AM: ReadTheory does provide an initial assessment for placement in the program.
Pamela Moriarity (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: WRAT establishes a reading and math
Alison Wilcox (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: Julie, maybe a practice test at TABE 11/12? 
Brad Hasskamp (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: I wonder if GED Ready could be used?
Elizabeth Bennett (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: old TABE 9/10?
Pamela Moriarity (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: CMJTS uses the WRAT
Terrisa Fisher (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: Maybe they could use Bader passages then ask the comprehension questions.
Cathy Grady (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: We at Hubbs are working on developing some guidance on how Read Theory corresponds with TABE/CASAS scores. We will share when it's more developed.
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: Thanks, Hubbs!
Tom Cytron-Hysom (to All - Entire Audience): 11:09 AM: RE the Census - WorldEd has some great materials about training Student Census Ambassadors - and they can even get a small stipend for their work...
Patricia Fleege (to All - Entire Audience): 11:10 AM: I agree TABE 9/10
Karen Wolters (to All - Entire Audience): 11:10 AM: One of our GED teachers is using the pre and post tests in the TABE Success Series books.  I think she has TABE 9/10 TABE Success Series
Alison Wilcox (to All - Entire Audience): 11:11 AM: CareeForce would have access to the online practice tests for TABE. 
Karen Wolters (to All - Entire Audience): 11:11 AM: Julie you could reach out to msolbe1@isd77.k12.mn.us about the TABE Success Series.
Kristen Jacobs-Andresen (to All - Entire Audience): 11:11 AM:  I am sending out try work at their levels, but rereading and then correcting the material during our Zoom classrooms!
Sara Sundberg (to All - Entire Audience): 11:11 AM: I am concerned about the 5-Year Narrative that is due this year. I am not concerned about getting it done by June 1. That is not the issue. I am concerned about the data and how it reflects on our programs. This year's data/information will not give a true picture of our programs. This worries me. Can the due date be moved to next year so the information is a fair picture of our programs?
Sue Telander (to All - Entire Audience): 11:12 AM: What planning is being done for an eventual safe return to the classroom, providing we return in some way before a vaccine is available?
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 11:12 AM: Any current updates on what to tell our GED students about testing? 
Terrisa Fisher (to All - Entire Audience): 11:13 AM: Can we count synchronous hours that volunteers might collect working one-to-one remotely? say on the phone or a conferencing app...
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:14 AM: Terrisa - yes, if the volunteers have gone through the 12-preservice so they can generate contact hours.
Kellie McGowan (to All - Entire Audience): 11:14 AM: ISD 271-Bloomington BPS has been very clear with us about using only district approved platforms
Susan Ault (to All - Entire Audience): 11:15 AM: But can voluneers have access to students during this time?
Elizabeth Bennett (to All - Entire Audience): 11:15 AM: Any ideas on when Literacy MN will be able to offer 12-hour preservice training for volunteers?
Cathy Grady (to All - Entire Audience): 11:15 AM: We are sending them through mail.
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:15 AM: Elizabeth - not until after the mandatory closures are over, unfortunately.
Nadine Holthaus (to All - Entire Audience): 11:15 AM: we are mailing materials
Kathleen Moriarty (to All - Entire Audience): 11:15 AM: Staff have been mailing envelopes via snail mail to stdts, emailing some, and posting materials for stdts via google classroom.
Amy Fish (to All - Entire Audience): 11:16 AM: mail, email, AND drop off locations...
Nadine Holthaus (to All - Entire Audience): 11:16 AM: we are also using google classroom
Sarah Huhnerkoch (to All - Entire Audience): 11:17 AM: Stillwater is snail mailing choice boards to English learners (activity grids)
Meagan Hymes (to All - Entire Audience): 11:17 AM: I am scanning and emailing work to Hennepin County Jail to be printed and distributed to students who then turn it in to be scanned and emailed back to me.  I am then responding via email and that is being printed and given to students.
Sara Sundberg (to All - Entire Audience): 11:17 AM: I understand that, Jodi. Can we make some sort of statement about the impacts of COVID-19?
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:17 AM: Jodi, could we also include data reports that reflect a different period of time (like the A1 report)?
Tom Cytron-Hysom (to All - Entire Audience): 11:18 AM: Sara, We plan to - it is a major challenge, so we are dealing with it in that section...,
Shawnn Martin (to All - Entire Audience): 11:18 AM: Teacher at county jail is dropping off and picking up materials to grade.  No direct contact at the moment.  Looking for options to get a two-way video conference solution set-up in the jail to have teacher virtual lessons and interaction with incarcerated students.
Patricia Fleege (to All - Entire Audience): 11:18 AM: We are both mailing as well as pick-up.  We have established a 24 hour wait period from when a teacher creates to the time that a student picks up in an stand alone rack iin which the packet is identified by first name last initial. 
Julie Fietek (to All - Entire Audience): 11:19 AM: Where does the Program Improvement Timeline stand, for those programs continuing to work on PI through this time?
Emily Watts (to All - Entire Audience): 11:19 AM: Thank you for everyone's feedback in packet creation and distribution.
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:20 AM: Thanks Jodi!
Joyce Eissinger (to All - Entire Audience): 11:21 AM: If we have been saving some funds for a spring project, would it be possible to carry over funds into the new Year?
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 11:23 AM: That is the shift we have been working on.   
Todd  Wagner (to All - Entire Audience): 11:23 AM: Joyce, programs may spend up to 20% of current year state funds in the first quarter of next year.
Laura Malott (to All - Entire Audience): 11:24 AM: We have been telling them the same info.  Keep working on their studies. 
Kellie McGowan (to All - Entire Audience): 11:24 AM: What if we haven't spent down regional funds?
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 11:25 AM: uo to 20 percent as a consortium so make sure individual programs work together
Todd  Wagner (to All - Entire Audience): 11:25 AM: Kelly regional funds are federal $$ and cannot be carried over.
Vicki Disrud (to All - Entire Audience): 11:26 AM: Yes, chromebooks for students would be helpful and motivating for students. But can chromebooks handle Zoom etc.?
Brad Hasskamp (to Organizer(s) Only): 11:26 AM: DId we address Julie Fietek's q on Program improvement?
Julie Fietek (to All - Entire Audience): 11:26 AM: Where does the Program Improvement Timeline stand, for those programs continuing to work on PI through this time?
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:27 AM: Chromebooks should be able to handle anything that runs in the Chrome browser.
Sarah Pradt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:27 AM: Zoom claims that it works fine on Chrome OS.
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 11:28 AM: todd can you re state what you said about the coming back to in person and my question is just 
Cathy Grady (to All - Entire Audience): 11:29 AM: Dr. Fauci on "The Daily" (NYTimes) said he would be surprised if everything is still closed (like schools) in the fall. That definitely made me breathe a sigh of relief. 
Vicki Disrud (to All - Entire Audience): 11:29 AM: Thanks, I haven't used Chromebooks yet so I don't know much about them. 
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 11:30 AM: that even if k-12 is closed to the end of the year, there comes a certain point where it doesnt make sense to come back 3 weeks left in year even if person to person would make sense that would not apply to abe and just that we will be looking at that differently is I guess my ?
JennaRose Dahl (to All - Entire Audience): 11:31 AM: Zoom does work on Chromebooks-- you just have to click "run in browser" instead of download. It's kind of hard to see, so students will likely need some coaching on it.
Sue Telander (to All - Entire Audience): 11:32 AM: Could we do individual/small group tech trainings with students to maintain social distancing guidelines?
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 11:32 AM: work world and business and partners exactly
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:33 AM: Sue - presumably not while the stay at home order is in place. But maybe after? It's worth thinking about.
Vicki Disrud (to All - Entire Audience): 11:33 AM: It would be nice if forms, sign ins etc. could possibly be scanned, uploaded, signed electronically? 
scott helland (to All - Entire Audience): 11:33 AM: thank you 
Sue Telander (to All - Entire Audience): 11:33 AM: I meant after.
Carly  Voshell (to All - Entire Audience): 11:33 AM: Limits of 10 people or less in a room, with 6 feet between, could be doable in ABE where it wouldn't be possible in K-12
Sara Sundberg (to All - Entire Audience): 11:34 AM: I entered distance learning hours for March on March 31. This means half the month's proxy hours will be missing. Can I go back and edit this?
Elizabeth Bennett (to All - Entire Audience): 11:34 AM: Vicki, my org is considering Docusign for that.  Another platform I know of is Formswift.
Christian Preston (to All - Entire Audience): 11:34 AM: thank you all, very helpful and supportive!
Emily Watts (to All - Entire Audience): 11:34 AM: Thank you all!
Susan Wetenkamp-Brandt (to All - Entire Audience): 11:35 AM: Maybe run two DL reports - one for pre-closure and one for post-closure?
Sara Sundberg (to All - Entire Audience): 11:35 AM: Yes
Chelsea Rtiland (to All - Entire Audience): 11:35 AM: Thanks everyone!
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 11:37 AM: And Lindsey and I will be working on how to create "power" packets!
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 11:37 AM: Newsletter article to come!
Vicki Disrud (to All - Entire Audience): 11:37 AM: Thank you!
Margo Hernandez Rainwater (to All - Entire Audience): 11:37 AM: the newly approved Reading Horizons does have print materials as supplemental support.  I do not believe the supplemental material were approved for DL, correct?
Elizabeth Bennett (to All - Entire Audience): 11:37 AM: Looking forward to it, Kristine! :)
Deb Hall (to All - Entire Audience): 11:37 AM: Thank you!  Lots of great info!
Dianne Lapka (to All - Entire Audience): 11:38 AM: Thanks Everyone 
Margo Hernandez Rainwater (to All - Entire Audience): 11:38 AM: Great thanks!
Linda Keller (to All - Entire Audience): 11:38 AM: Thanks, everyone, for all your hard work & sharing the work already done!
Abby Roza (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thank you. 
Margo Hernandez Rainwater (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: thanks all, be safe and healthy!
Sara Sundberg (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thank you!
Meagan Hymes (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thank you!
Christian Preston (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thanks!
Thu Le (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thank you everyone.
Nancy Eldomiatti (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Wonderful!Take care and thank you
Tammy Schatz (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thanks!
Terrisa Fisher (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thank you.
Terri Ferris (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thank you!
Vicki Disrud (to All - Entire Audience): 11:39 AM: Thank you!
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 11:40 AM: Nice work MDE, LAN and DL team!!!
Kristine Kelly (to All - Entire Audience): 11:40 AM: Take care!
Shelley Mattson (to All - Entire Audience): 11:44 AM: Thanks to much!