ISTE: NETS-TNationalEducationTechnologyStandards - Teachers
• Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
• Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Need for alternative PD
• Finance• Teacher schedule
• New teachers a breed of tech native users
• Did I mention finances?
The Best Team
• Professional Dev Team–Write the curriculum–Write the course – Implement
• Kim Thomas Lead and Facilitator– Three passionate teachers and somewhat wacky…
Drafting the Course
• Templates in Google Docs for sharing• Started with the big ideas – sketched
out• Jumped around with inspiration• Then back – Details– Critical points – Refinement
Drafting the Course
• Allocated items for follow-up• Re-visited and weighed item value• Defined support technology
Important!!!
• Dialogue and stretch and dialogue and sketch and laugh and dialogue and laugh – remember you have people who love writing curriculum and are passionate about their content, these are the people you want to be involved.
• HAVE FUN!!! ENJOY THE JOURNEY!!!
Selecting Structures and Vehicles• File storage for Participants• Webpage• Blog• E-mail• Web meeting tools• Presentation Tools
Pre-class
• Set up shells• Participants – pre-install software and
check versions• Oreintation• Hand holding – BIG!!!!!! Build
capacity!
Starting the class
• Meet once a week online• Management• Acclimate to the net meeting
environment• Carefully select talking points.
Madison Interactive Site
http://sites.google.com/site/madisoninteractive/
Nothing is Really Free
• Curriculum and Instructor the highest cost– Curriculum time about $1,500 – this is
now cut in half because of the second class
– Instructor $700– Camera and mic about $100 – DimDim $195 (50 people) good for a
year– Snacks and Chocolate for the curriculum
team – necessary and priceless
O.k. some things in life are free• Can be DimDim for 20 or less people• Webpage• Blog• Atomic Learning• Teacher Tube• e-mail• Document Sharing – Google docs