Today, I used the length of a song to manage the amount of time I wanted participants to collaborate with a peer. This was our second day of intense PD time, and the music was appreciated by the participants. While there are many tools to utilize songs, I used a YouTube playlist to play the songs. I will continue to utilize this as a task management system.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
8:08 PM
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See how I carried out this concept. Slide 98 starts the choose your own adventure.
Overall, I really liked:
Overall, I really liked:
- Teacher initiative to move forward on their own using the tutorials that I set up prior to the PD session
- The ability to learn from the participants items that they discovered on their own
- The opportunity to help those participants who needed more help
- The fact that participants did not need to wait for another participant who may slightly fall behind during the creation steps
I will continue to develop this concept when it comes to professional development sessions.
7:59 PM
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A LaCrosse School District conceptualized a process, students filming themselves telling a story, and then we determined how the process was going to work.
Eventually, we over thought the process and realized that connecting the iPad to a MacBook with the white chord would be the simplest.
The entire process was a great example of teachers working together!
Eventually, we over thought the process and realized that connecting the iPad to a MacBook with the white chord would be the simplest.
The entire process was a great example of teachers working together!
Monday, August 20, 2012
7:17 PM
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Even though I was presenting today at the 2012 Technology Institute presented by the La Crosse School District and UW-Lacrosse, I was able to attend 3.5 hours worth of Professional Development Planning. The entire presentation was on the premise of "Supporting a World Class Education: Teaching and Learning With The Use of Technology" Kim McMonagle, Educational Technology Director, Douglas County School District, Colorado was our facilitator. All the resources are owned by her.
It was intended for administrators of which I am not, but turned out to be very valuable as I will be providing professional development throughout the year to teachers in our district. Some valuable lessons I learned are that professional development by school districts to support a blended learning educational environment must have a number of items in mind.
- Outcomes
- Begin with the end in mind.
- Align blended learning outcomes to organization's strategic plan
- Need to have leaders of K12, Higher Education, & Private Sector business collaborate
- Measures
- What are our targets?
- Do we focus on some type of standard, ISTE?
- Did the instructional design improve student learning, achievement, and growth?
- Set objectives for 5% increase on skills, attendance, behavior, PLUS the subjective growth as compared to the metrics
- Learning Activities
- Professional Learning Menu provided to teachers from 7-8 PM at night
- BIG TICKET: Provide a video webinar
- Provide collaboration through online conversation
- Archived & Chat is Participatory
- Teacher tells story while technology integration specialist provides support of the tech, helps with the chat among people participating.
The Learning Activity is THE SINGLE item I will implement from today's session. This can all be done through a Google Hangout which all district employees have. I like the fact that it is 7-8 PM and am considering 8-9 PM as this will be better with teachers who have small kids at home. I can use a number of tools for the chatting such as Today's Meet or even the Google Chat feature.
Overall, a great day of learning with multiple resources available.
8:21 AM
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Today, I was blessed to present to many people who are pre-service teachers and experienced teachers who are interested in a blended learning environment. I was very impressed with the energy, enthusiasm, and questions that all teachers displayed and asked. It was a nice change in that I was able to give the philosophy of a blended learning environment and videos examples in a one hour presentation. Tomorrow, I will follow up with a 2.5 hour session of how to create different tools, based on the teacher's/participatory's choice. I like to think of it as a "Choose Your Adventure" opportunity. This is a change, because in the past, I would have to cram all of the philosophy, examples, and how to into a two hour session.
Looking forward to it!
Saturday, August 18, 2012
4:26 AM
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While creating a presentation in Google Presentations, I discovered a helpful linking option. During my 2.5 hour workshop, participants will have the opportunity to choose a tech tool that they want to create. Because of this, I was able to create links to slides with in my presentation. Somewhat like a "choose your own adventure" story book. I hope that participants will find this option to be rewarding. Below is a screen shot of how to incorporate that feature.
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