All Discussions Tagged 'pd' - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T20:34:44Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=pd&feed=yes&xn_auth=noYour SIS, Curriculum, and Digital Content: Less Time, More Effective, More Personalizedtag:www.classroom20.com,2012-08-15:649749:Topic:8625092012-08-15T22:30:40.009Zrebecca levinsonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/rebeccalevinson
<p><strong>Your Name and Title:</strong> Bob Darby and Pat D'Alfonso</p>
<p>School, Library, or Organization Name: Follett Software Company and West Warwick Public Schools</p>
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<p><strong>Area of the World from Which You Will Present:</strong> USA- Rhode Island</p>
<p><strong>Language in Which You Will Present:</strong> English</p>
<p><strong>Target Audience(s):</strong> Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Directors, IT Directors</p>
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<p><strong>Your Name and Title:</strong> Bob Darby and Pat D'Alfonso</p>
<p>School, Library, or Organization Name: Follett Software Company and West Warwick Public Schools</p>
<p>Co-Presenter Name(s): </p>
<p><strong>Area of the World from Which You Will Present:</strong> USA- Rhode Island</p>
<p><strong>Language in Which You Will Present:</strong> English</p>
<p><strong>Target Audience(s):</strong> Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Directors, IT Directors</p>
<p>Short Session Description (one line): A Discussion of Follett Software's Aspen SI and Curriculum and Learning functionality.</p>
<p>Full Session Description (as long as you would like): In this session we'll be talking about Student Information Systems and how they are evolving into time-saving classroom tools that can help teachers and administrators in just about everything they do. While most districts have a SIS these days that includes a gradebook, but most educators use them to track and report data and alignments to standards. However, today's educators use them to track and report data and align assignments to standards. However, today's educators need more from their Student Information Systems and some new programs, like Follett's Aspen, can help them save time and create a better learning experience for students.</p>
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<li>About Aspen: <a href="http://www.follettsoftware.com/aspen">http://www.follettsoftware.com/aspen</a></li>
<li>Central New Jersey School District Culminates Extensive SIS Search By Selecting Follett Software's Aspen- <a href="http://www.follettsoftware.com/press.cfm?vPress=4390" target="_blank">http://www.follettsoftware.com/press.cfm?vPress=4390</a></li>
<li>Archived- Live microblogged Session from Follett Software's Aspen Institute "From Student Information to Student Learning"-<a href="http://storify.com/FollettSoftware/stephen-lyle-s-session-at-nlil12-from-student-info" target="_blank">http://storify.com/FollettSoftware/stephen-lyle-s-session-at-nlil12-from-student-info</a></li>
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<h1 class="content-title"></h1> Anywhere, Anytime Learningtag:www.classroom20.com,2012-03-24:649749:Topic:8202372012-03-24T14:40:36.501ZChad Lehmanhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ChadLehman
<p>Your Name and Title: Chad Lehman, DEN Community Manager</p>
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<p>School, Library, or Organization Name: Discovery Education</p>
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<p>Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Wisconsin</p>
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<p>Language in Which You Will Present: English</p>
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<p>Target Audience(s): All educators</p>
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<p>Short Session Description (one line): Explore the web for free online professional development.</p>
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<p>Your Name and Title: Chad Lehman, DEN Community Manager</p>
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<p>School, Library, or Organization Name: Discovery Education</p>
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<p>Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Wisconsin</p>
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<p>Language in Which You Will Present: English</p>
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<p>Target Audience(s): All educators</p>
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<p>Short Session Description (one line): Explore the web for free online professional development.</p>
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<p>Full Session Description (as long as you would like): Take control of your professional development by finding resources online to meet your learning needs. We will explore a variety of free places online to find professional development opportunities on topics of your choice.</p>
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<p>Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:</p> New free, open peer learning opportunitiestag:www.classroom20.com,2012-02-08:649749:Topic:8052542012-02-08T20:53:04.722ZKaren Fasimpaurhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/kfasimpaur
<p>At the <a href="http://p2pu.org/school-of-ed" target="_blank">P2PU School of Ed</a>, we are starting a new round of free, open peer learning groups for teachers.</p>
<p>These courses will start on March 5 and are available for sign-up now:</p>
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<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/student-grant-writing/" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg?width=146" width="146"></img></a></p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/student-grant-writing/">Student Grant Writing</a> – A group for high school teachers and students interested…</p>
<p>At the <a href="http://p2pu.org/school-of-ed" target="_blank">P2PU School of Ed</a>, we are starting a new round of free, open peer learning groups for teachers.</p>
<p>These courses will start on March 5 and are available for sign-up now:</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/student-grant-writing/"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg?width=146" width="146"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/student-grant-writing/">Student Grant Writing</a> – A group for high school teachers and students interested in writing a grant to fund a local school project</p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/personal-learning/"><img title="logo" src="http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/logo1.jpg" alt="logo" height="90" width="146"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/personal-learning/">Empower Your Personal Learning</a> — Taking control of your personal learning is an important 21st century skill — for students and for educators. In this group, we’ll explore new ways to empower your own professional learning and how to get started.</p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-and-inquiry-in-the-digital-age/"><img title="logo" src="http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/logo2.jpg" alt="logo" height="90" width="146"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-and-inquiry-in-the-digital-age/">Writing and Inquiry in the Digital Age</a> — Join a National Writing Project study group seminar as we explore these questions together and share our work and inquiries with the <a href="http://digitalis.nwp.org/">NWP Digital Is community</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/multimedia-and-graphics-to-facilitate-deeper-learning-2/"><img title="logo-multimedia+graphics" src="http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/logo-multimedia+graphics.jpg" alt="logo-multimedia+graphics" height="90" width="146"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/multimedia-and-graphics-to-facilitate-deeper-learning-2/">Effective Use of Multimedia and Graphics</a> — Participants will explore and apply techniques and strategies to foster deeper learning using multimedia and graphics.</p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/elem-classroom-collaborations/"><img title="logo-elem" src="http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/logo-elem.jpg" alt="logo-elem" height="90" width="146"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/elem-classroom-collaborations/">Global Classroom Collaborations – Elementary</a> — Elementary teachers from around the world will discuss, design, and establish collaborations between their classrooms.</p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/secon-classroom-collaborations/"><img title="logo-secon" src="http://www.k12opened.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/logo-secon.jpg" alt="logo-secon" height="90" width="146"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/en/groups/secon-classroom-collaborations/">Global Classroom Collaborations – Secondary</a> — Secondary teachers from around the world will discuss, design, and establish collaborations between their classrooms.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.p2pu.org/school-of-ed" target="_blank">P2PU School of Ed</a> brings the model of open, community-based peer learning to professional learning for K-12 teachers. All P2PU courses are free and open licensed.<br/><br/>It's about hands-on learning driven by each educator's particular needs and classroom situations. It's about connecting, collaborating, and creating, not just reading or studying.</p> Educating Educators (and Administrators) on Twitter Usetag:www.classroom20.com,2010-04-28:649749:Topic:4671372010-04-28T13:11:44.955ZJon Freerhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JonFreer
I am looking to put together a presentation/PD experience for my administration and teachers on how Twitter can be used to enhance their learning and to create their own professional network. Being somewhat new to this myself, I am looking for ways others have gone about explaining and demonstrating the use.<br></br><br></br>When I was first shown the power of twitter it was by someone who had THOUSANDS of followers. He could say "say hello to ___" and the tweets would roll in. I don't have that and…
I am looking to put together a presentation/PD experience for my administration and teachers on how Twitter can be used to enhance their learning and to create their own professional network. Being somewhat new to this myself, I am looking for ways others have gone about explaining and demonstrating the use.<br/><br/>When I was first shown the power of twitter it was by someone who had THOUSANDS of followers. He could say "say hello to ___" and the tweets would roll in. I don't have that and want to find a way to demonstrate the connections that can be made in Twitter.<br/><br/>Any ideas on how to accomplish this?<br/><br/>Thanks.<br/> HELP! Need Teacher Training/Prof. Development for Inquiry-based and Project-based learning!tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-07-30:649749:Topic:3690082009-07-30T22:21:21.491ZEric Crabtreehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/EricCrabtree
Thanks to all of you who sent me resources and suggestions. This summer I have collected over 200 web-based articles, videos, podcasts, book recommendations, project libraries, lesson ideas, tools/applications, blogs, forums, and sites related to IBL and PBL. Please feel free to visit:<br />
<<<a href="http://delicious.com/ericcrabtree%3E%3E">http://delicious.com/ericcrabtree>></a>; to access this collection of resources. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!<br />
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<b>Now, I am in search…</b>
Thanks to all of you who sent me resources and suggestions. This summer I have collected over 200 web-based articles, videos, podcasts, book recommendations, project libraries, lesson ideas, tools/applications, blogs, forums, and sites related to IBL and PBL. Please feel free to visit:<br />
<<<a href="http://delicious.com/ericcrabtree>>">http://delicious.com/ericcrabtree>></a>; to access this collection of resources. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!<br />
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<b>Now, I am in search of resources that administrators use to train teachers to use PBL and IBL. Does your school use these pedagogies? If so, how were your teachers trained? What professional development options are most effective? Please send me any and all information and I will add that to the above resource library for posterity!</b><br />
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Many thanks!<br />
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Eric High School Faculty/Staff Ningtag:www.classroom20.com,2009-07-20:649749:Topic:3659392009-07-20T18:04:21.531ZGene Carbonihttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeneCarboni
This year we started a <b>faculty/staff wiki</b> for PD and communication purposes. I have been assigned to switch the school from the wiki site to a <b>Ning</b>. Any tips and/or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your responses.
This year we started a <b>faculty/staff wiki</b> for PD and communication purposes. I have been assigned to switch the school from the wiki site to a <b>Ning</b>. Any tips and/or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your responses. SL usage for Professional Development in the corporate worldtag:www.classroom20.com,2009-07-15:649749:Topic:3640972009-07-15T13:18:31.553ZBill Smilliehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/BillSmillie
Has anyone been involved in using SL for developing "soft" skills such as leadership and project management? (Please see this for my opinions on its potential: <a href="http://www.tamarac-consulting.com/">http://www.tamarac-consulting.com/</a>)
Has anyone been involved in using SL for developing "soft" skills such as leadership and project management? (Please see this for my opinions on its potential: <a href="http://www.tamarac-consulting.com/">http://www.tamarac-consulting.com/</a>) Smart Training Model suggestionstag:www.classroom20.com,2009-06-15:649749:Topic:3532092009-06-15T15:34:06.336ZStuhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Stu
Hi all,<br />
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Our district has put forth a great initiative where if a teacher signs up for training this summer and continues to participate in group work/share outs through out the year, they receive a Smartboard for their classroom. Great, right? We had a mass response, 114 teachers. Now, it is our job to provide this training. We will be doing 2 seperate sessions, one K-5, the other 7-12. We have an even 57 people per group. <b>We will have them for 2 days, 10 hours total.</b> We don't want this…
Hi all,<br />
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Our district has put forth a great initiative where if a teacher signs up for training this summer and continues to participate in group work/share outs through out the year, they receive a Smartboard for their classroom. Great, right? We had a mass response, 114 teachers. Now, it is our job to provide this training. We will be doing 2 seperate sessions, one K-5, the other 7-12. We have an even 57 people per group. <b>We will have them for 2 days, 10 hours total.</b> We don't want this to be a "tool" lesson, rather a bigger technology initiative. We are basing it on lesson planning with technology more than "smart" training. The smartboard is merely the delivery method. There are 4 of us doing the initial planning and will have other experienced smartboard users available for break out sessions throughout the 2 days.<br />
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I'm looking for suggestions from this great group of educators as to what you would be sure teachers knew walking into the first day of school with this equipment mounted in the room. We already have a list, but I'm curious to see how it matches up with what you all suggest here. Looking more for techniques, rather than how to orient, what each tool in Notebook Software does etc...Let me have it!<br />
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Thanks! Ning as PD follow-uptag:www.classroom20.com,2009-05-06:649749:Topic:3389422009-05-06T03:06:24.145ZMatt Townsleyhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MattTownsley
I am in the midst of helping my building move forward through the use of personal learning networks (mostly RSS feeds for now). I have pitched this <a href="http://mctownsley.blogspot.com/2009/04/pln-as-differentiated-professional.html">idea</a> to my principal as a quasi-PD opportunity and he thinks its great.<br />
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I feel like "getting" information (via RSS) is only the first step towards making a lasting change. A logical second step is providing an avenue for educators to discuss/share what…
I am in the midst of helping my building move forward through the use of personal learning networks (mostly RSS feeds for now). I have pitched this <a href="http://mctownsley.blogspot.com/2009/04/pln-as-differentiated-professional.html">idea</a> to my principal as a quasi-PD opportunity and he thinks its great.<br />
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I feel like "getting" information (via RSS) is only the first step towards making a lasting change. A logical second step is providing an avenue for educators to discuss/share what they're reading. This is where Ning comes in to play. I have setup a Ning for the staff to use to share resources, discuss ideas, etc. With this "setup" in mind, I have a few questions for the Classroom 2.0 community:<br />
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1) Has anyone else tried this sort of approach? If so, how has it been going so far? We're off to a slow start as far as "sharing" goes...I'm guessing this is pretty typical.<br />
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2) What do you see as the pros/cons of using Ning as a collaboration tool? (We had tried wikispaces previously, but it was not very user-friendly for the discussions we were looking to take place). What type of <i>changes</i> would you make to Ning if you were able to do so? In other words, what features seem to be missing from Ning that you wish you had...or that discouraged you from using it in the first place? Successful use of Gabcast and Voicethread in PD workshoptag:www.classroom20.com,2009-02-20:649749:Topic:2949282009-02-20T03:52:48.924ZWesley Fryerhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/wfryer
This past week I presented a workshop twice in Portland, Oregon, on <a href="http://handouts.wesfryer.com/cellphones">"Cell Phone Digital Storytelling."</a>. In the past I have shown workshop participants how to use the websites Gabcast as well as VoiceThread, but these workshops were the first ones where I've focused almost exclusively on those tools. I created <a href="http://voicethread.com/share/352546/">a VoiceThread of reflections</a> on the conference in a whole-class format, after…
This past week I presented a workshop twice in Portland, Oregon, on <a href="http://handouts.wesfryer.com/cellphones">"Cell Phone Digital Storytelling."</a>. In the past I have shown workshop participants how to use the websites Gabcast as well as VoiceThread, but these workshops were the first ones where I've focused almost exclusively on those tools. I created <a href="http://voicethread.com/share/352546/">a VoiceThread of reflections</a> on the conference in a whole-class format, after teacher-participants used their cell phones during the workshop to record their reflections to the website Gabcast.<br />
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I'm interested to know if other teachers have used Gabcast successfully for digital storytelling projects, including VoiceThread? We've had one digital story in our "Celebrate Oklahoma Voices" digital storytelling project use Gabcast for an interview with a grandparent (<a href="http://lc.celebrateoklahoma.us/video/the-dirty-thirties">"The Dirty Thirties"</a>) and another which used GCast (<a href="http://celebrateoklahoma.ning.com/video/video/show?id=688012%3AVideo%3A672">"The Story of Richard Ivie"</a>). I'd really like to know about more examples of these types of cell-phone powered digital storytelling projects, as well as about the experiences others have had.<br />
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In creating this VoiceThread, I first added the photos. I then downloaded all the participant comments from Gabcast. In all during both workshops, we had 28 different recorded audio reflections. Only one of these was a repeat, as far as I know. The reflections were uploaded on slides one and three of the VoiceThread. The first time I uploaded them, for some reason I was not presented with the VoiceThread trash can icon to delete individual uploads. I deleted the entire slide and started it over again, and the second time the trash can was present as it should have been. That seemed to be a strange bug.<br />
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I encouraged teachers to not break the cell phone use policies at their schools: If their schools banned cell phone use at school, they could use this as a homework assignment for students. I think this process of using Gabcast takes quite a few "clicks" for teachers who are brand new to digital storytelling or consider themselves not to be very technology literate, but overall I think the process is relatively straightforward.