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Nechako Lakes’Teacher Tech Group
November 21, 2008
Why are we here?&
Introductions
Did you Know 3.0November 7, 2008
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXx1_6T09jM
Agenda• “Learning to Change. Changing to Learn.” Video/Discussion• Introduction of Tekchako Lakes website
•Tekwiki•Tekchako Lakes Radio
• What does a Professional Learning Community look like?• Personal professional development
•iTunes•Google Reader•Classroom 2.0•LearnNowBC•K12onlineconference.org•TeacherTube
District Professional Development Opportunities
Agenda• Sharing Tools in Nechako Lakes
•F2F meetings•Video conferencing•Elluminate•FirstClass conferencing•Tekchako Lakes Website
•Your websites, applications, strategies and tips•Top 3 FirstClass email tips
•Special Projects•iPods in classroom•Fort St. James Historic Park live tour•Challenge Program•Other ideas
•Jay? – submitting tech requests and standards•Computer User Educators PSA•Next steps
Using Technology toLearn and Teach
"Teachers must become comfortable as co-learners with their students andwith colleagues around the world. Today it is less about staying ahead and moreabout moving ahead as members of dynamic learning communities. The digital-ageteaching professional must demonstrate a vision of technology infusion anddevelop the technology skills of others. These are the hallmarks of the neweducation leader."—Don Knezek, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) CEO, 2008
Learning to Change.Changing to Learn.
Using Technology toLearn and Teach
•Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity •Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessment •Model Digital-Age Work and Learning •Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility •Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
International Society for Technology in Education
Using Technology toLearn and Teach
Discussion•Students as rich content developers and big communicators•Classroom system and a community system•Starting with teachers. Give teachers connecting tools.•A place for teachers to swap authentic ingredients of great learning•Artistic abilities, synthesis, context, teams, multidisciplinary•21st century literacies: finding, evaluating, synthesizing, validating, leveraging, collaborating, communicating, problem solving
Learning to Change.Changing to Learn.
What does a Professional LearningCommunity Look Like?
Passion and Persistence
ProfessionalLearning Communities
“An analysis of research conducted over a 35 year period demonstrates that schools that are highly effective produce results that almost entirely overcome the effects of student backgrounds.”Robert Marzano - 2003
…If we know this, how do we act on it?”
“There is compelling evidence that a school in which teachers are organized into collaborative teams is better prepared to help students learn than a school in which teachers work in isolation.”
Dufour, Dufour & Eaker
…If we know this, how do we act on it?”
“Improving schools require collaborative cultures…Without collaborative skills and relationships, it is not possible to learn and to continue to learn as much as you need to improve.”Michael Fullan (1993)
“A collaborative culture is a process in which we work together, interdependently, to analyze and impact professional practice in order to improve our individual and collective results.”Dufour, Dufour & Eaker (2002)
…If we know this, how do we act on it?”
The importance of cultural change…
“If change is introduced that is not aligned with the current culture, you must alter the existing culture to support the new initiative or accept that the change may not be sustainable in the long term.”
Ken Blanchard-2007
“It is impossible for a school or district to develop the capacity to function as a professional learning community without undergoing profound cultural shifts.”
Rick Dufour-2007
What does Our Professional LearningCommunity Look Like?
Discussion
Tekchako LakesWebsite Tour
www.sd91.bc.ca/ebus/tekchakolakes/
ProfessionalDevelopment
•Personal professional development•iTunes•Google Reader•Classroom 2.0•LearnNowBC•K12onlineconference.org•TeacherTube
Personal Professional Development Opportunities
Personal ProfessionalDevelopment
oTekchako Lakes WebsiteoSpecific training on equipment or applicationsoWorkshops: “hands on” resources/strategies for curriculum integrationoCustomized Plans: Tailored workshops for specific staff/schoolsoPeer Coaching: Mentoring opportunitiesoCritical/Supportive Friends: Our Teacher Tech GroupoTune Ups: Short, one time demosoJust-in-time videos: Jing, Techno Tuesday recordingsoProD Online: Elluminate, Podcasts, Video conferencing Us!oTechnoLunch: Lunch focused on a tech teaching tipoTechno Tuesdays: LearnNowBC, Tech Group Member VclassesoWikis, Blogs, Webpages, Podcasting: “How to” tips and FAQoDigital Citzenship: Online security, ethics, copyright and etiquette
District Professional Development Opportunities
Sharing ToolsIn Nechako Lakes
oFace to FaceoFirstClass Conferencing oElluminate (Vclass) - LearnNowBC
oVideo ConferencingoTekwikioTekchako Lakes WebsiteoTeacher Blogs?oTeacher Websites?
Introducing The Book
Websites, ApplicationsStrategies and Tips
Andy’s Top 3 Email Tips
edit>preferences – is where you can set your default emailfont size, add an email signature, set up your spell checker and change the fields that show up when you start a new message
view>toolbars>customize toolbars – lets you add many different short cuts like filters to your email toolbar
Clicking the “+” sign - groups and ungroups your emailmessages. Ctrl clicking a column groups messages in that columns.
Special Projects
• Challenge Program: Destination Imagination, Tekchako Radio,Elluminate Live, VoiceThread, Wiki
• iPods in the Classroom: Using iPods in the elementary classroomto listen to stories and practice reading
•Live Virtual Tour of Fort St. James National Park: Preliminarytesting was done two years ago with good results.
•Other ideas or projects going on?
Special Projects
• Scratch: Snap together programming to create stories, games andanimations and share them with friends anywhere in the world
•Photostory 3: Create an animated narrated story with your own photosor with images found on the web
•Microsoft Learning Essentials: Templates and tutorials for MicrosoftOffice applications for students and teachers.
•Riverdeep: High quality online reading and math programs with the ability to create tailored activities and tests to specific students or for yourentire class.
•Audacity: Simple and powerful audio file editing software for podcasts
New Software Available
Nuts & Boltsof District Tech
•What is a tech request?
•Who can submit a tech request?
•How to submit a tech request
•What are the current tech standards the district strives for?
•Questions for Jay!
Jay Bangs- District Tech Supervisor
OrganizingOurselves
•Computer User Educators of British Columbia•Benefits•Drawbacks
•Where do we go from here?•Another meeting?•Meet online?•Elluminate Volunteer Presenters?•Teacher Tech Group FirstClass Conference
Discussion
Thanks forComing!
[email protected] ext. 2230
This slideshow is posted on theTekchako Lakes Wiki heretekchakolakes.pbwiki.com
