Agenda

Wednesday, March 22, 2011

 * 1) Challenges of New Schools and 21st Century Skills
 * 2) Examination of the process of successful change
 * 3) Professional development models
 * 4) How do I podcast?

Assignment for April 28 Your Form B ([|2009_2010_PDP_Form_B.doc]) is due to me by April 28. In your Strategies/Activities, you will need to describe one unit in which you employed a Web 2.0 tool. In the Results and Evidence section, you should provide a reflection on the effectiveness of the tool and how the PDP group contributed to your understanding of these new tools in schools. You do not need to make an appointment with your AP.

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

 * 1) Review data from Speak Up Now survey
 * 2) Reviewing Chapter 4
 * 3) How do I keep up?
 * RSS - it's Really Simple
 * Google Reader or Firefox

Assignment for March 24

 * 1) Read Chapters 5 & 6 of "Web 2.0 New Tools, New Schools"
 * 2) Review the link found in "Special Resources" for Chapter 4, New Tech High School.
 * 3) Read the blog from 2 Million Minutes carefully and follow the links, especially the one to the "Global Achievement Gap"
 * 4) Afterwords, click on the Discussion tab on the Special Resources page and write a reflection about the blog and the information you learned while following the links


 * 1) **Just for fun**, take this quiz from the Pew Research Center on [|How Milennial Are You]?
 * 2) While we're on the subject, here's an article about the [|new government technology plan for education] reviewed by eSchool News.

Thursday, Feb 4 2010
​ Inservice presentations.

Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010

 * 1) Read Chapter 3
 * 2) Work on presentation for Feb 4th for 25 min.
 * 3) Breakout groups to explore specific Web 2.0 collaboration tools
 * 4) Last 30 minutes of class, groups will report out what they learned about their new online tool

Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010
If you do the video viewing in school, you will need to get the new filter by-pass code from me or Esperanza. We will meet for only one hour. The purpose of this meeting is to plan what we would like to show and tell the rest of the staff about this PDP group at our February half-day inservice.
 * 1) Prepare for the Feb 4th inservice
 * 2) Finish reading Chapter 2 of our book
 * 3) View the following videos
 * [|When I become a teacher]
 * [|Blogs in Plain English]

Assignment for Jan 27, after reading the article on online learning, please go to the Online Learning page of this wiki, read the page, then click on the discussion tab and post a response, read and reply to one other colleague.

Monday, Nov 23, 2009

 * 1) If you missed the last session, please refer to the folder on the Common drive for the SMART Notebook file for that session and the video.
 * 2) Feedback on Chapter 2
 * 3) The New Bloom's - [|21st century Bloom's]
 * 4) Social Networking - What have we learned and what can we learn.
 * 5) What's a Wiki - see [|Jen Dean's example, >]or Catherine Sauter's example
 * 6) Working with the WLPDPwiki
 * 7) How to get your own wiki and why you would want to

Assignment for Dec. Post onto the wiki the great things you find in the social network you joined, and how others could benefit from this network. From the postings of your colleagues, choose another network that someone else has joined and see what it offers to you in the way of curriculum ideas or projects. We will meet Dec. 16 on line to demonstrate collaboration in online learning.

Wednesday - Oct 28, 2009
1. Sharing our experiences with Diigo and Delicious 2. What the data shows - Speak Up Now data from WL students: Speak Up Now Data 3. What is social networking - Guest Speaker, John Munnell, IBM 4. The New Blooms' 5. What kids want from their schools

Assignment for Oct. 28 Read Chapter Three and the article in your mailbox

Friday - Oct 23, 2009

 * 1) Make sure everyone has completed the accounts spreadsheet
 * 2) Setup Diigo toolbar in Firefox
 * 3) Show how to hide toolbar
 * 4) Show how to use button instead of toolbar
 * 5) Link Diigo back to Delicious
 * 6) Explore the toolbar
 * 7) Time to start tagging!
 * 8) Setup Delicious buttons in the toolbar
 * 9) Install buttons
 * 10) Install the toolbar
 * 11) Model why we like the toolbar
 * 12) Start clouding and sharing

Assignment for Oct. 28 Read Chapter Two

Wednesday - Sept 28, 2009
Agenda for Sept. 28 [|Form A .pdf]

Introduction of Teams

Warm-UP - recording responses to Web 2.0 or Tidal Wave 2.0 in a collaborative environment Why we should care Overview of changes in the Internet Social Bookmarking with Delicious and Diigo

Breakout: teams will examine tools and begin to collect and identify key features and how they are applicable to instruction Friend/fan/follow each other on both sites

Assignment for Oct. 23 complete registration for Delicious and Diigo, complete spreadsheet information.