[Sagamore Online] About this STEM Group

[Dave Allen Barker Jr]

Hello, John, this is Dave Barker, parent of a Sagamore Hills Elementary
School second grader, and responsible for this Sagamore STEM Group
<https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sagamorehillspta.org/d/forum/stem>
from which you've received unwanted activity.  Your request is a great
opportunity for me to clarify how I think these new Sagamore Groups
<http://sagamorehillspta.org/groups> should be used.  I'll be addressing
"you" in this message, but please understand I'm speaking to anyone with
concerns similar to yours, so I'm including the STEM Group and others in
on this message, and I invite anyone to respond.

You can stop receiving messages from this Group by following the
directions at the end of these Group messages.  Alternatively, you can
change how often the Group emails you
<https://support.google.com/groups/answer/1047839> (if you have a Google
Account associated with your email address).

If you'd like lower-traffic, "top down", one-way STEM communication, you
can visit the school website
<http://sagamorehillses.dekalb.k12.ga.us/>'s STEM Weekly Update
<http://sagamorehillses.dekalb.k12.ga.us/protected/ArticleView.aspx?iid=4P220&dasi=3Y20>,
or subscribe to the PTA's weekly newsletter
<http://sagamorehillspta.org/newsletter> (Wildcat Update).

I think though, this Group should be chatty—a place where teachers,
parents, and others from the community interested in STEM at Sagamore,
can freely and easily share experiences, ideas, and enthusiasm.

After your request that the STEM Group not 'reply all', the Group missed
out on multiple replies to the MaKey MaKey discussion
<https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sagamorehillspta.org/d/topic/stem/kiW535wI_oA>
because they were addressed only to me instead; replies about
experiences with related apps, questions about how more students might
get involved, and general expressions of support.  Those are just the
kind messages I think should be shared in this Group.

John, please don't feel attacked; you've been the catalyst for a
necessary discussion about this new avenue of communication for the
Sagamore Hills Elementary School community.

If you, or anyone, have something to add, please 'reply all'! ☺


On 12/11/2014 02:43 PM, John Miller wrote:
>
> Sorry to ask but I wondered if y'all may please 'reply' rather than
> 'reply all.' Thank you.
>
> John H Miller II, PE
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>     On Dec 11, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Dave Allen Barker Jr <dave at 1.0ne.org
>     <mailto:dave at 1.0ne.org>> wrote:
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>>     Last week my wife, Jeanie, introduced Ms. Quinn's second grade
>>     instructional class to Interaction Design, an element of her
>>     profession field.  She brought along 4 "MaKey MaKey"s (make
>>     anything into a (keyboard) key), a variety of materials, handouts
>>     and worksheets, and had the students apply the STEM Design
>>     Process to creating a game controller for kindergarteners.
>>
>>     I saw excitement from both students and staff, and I think the
>>     school may be getting their own MaKey MaKeys.
>>
>>       * MaKey MaKey <http://makeymakey.com/>
>>
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