MTP: Key Elements of Successful Professional Development

• teachers teaching teachers (!) for instant credibility and value
• having time to collaborate, reflect, and experiment in a supportive, nurturing environment
• time to ask questions and talk about real classroom applications -- context
• space to address / acknowledge pitfalls (and to learn from others' mistakes)
• effective pacing : adequate time to explore and apply but not so much that participants get naughty
• clear enough presentation or modeling session : getting guided through first before being dropped into solo explanation
• exercises that are small and focused and that have an explicit rationale and purpose
• acknowledgement of each participant (in some shape or form) : recognizing participants as thinking professionals
• workshops that inspire attendance rather than mandated sessions
• appropriate hands-on experience
• an appropriate amount of take-away materials : less is more, but something in hand
• presenter's helper : support for computers / technology / task in addition to presenter 

Diane has created a document listing advice from RWP sources and from her own experience that compiles adult-learner needs.  To access that GooDoc, follow the link or check your GooDocs Home.

MTP: Timelines and Protocols

• Spring Conference : Specific Protocols
  Proposal Call out Now!
• TL-Initiated Public Event : Site Protocols
• TL-Initiated School- or District-Site Event :

MTP: Coaching

• Group Size : 
• Group Composition : 
• Coaching Timing : 
• Debriefing Timing : 
• Attending Each Others' Workshops :

MTP: Alternatives (and Venues)

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MTP: Venues

• Spring Conference : Saturday, 02.04.12
  
• School-Site Sessions
• Invitational Summer Institute
• TechMatters Summer Series?
• Platform-Specific Workshop Series (like our spring Blogger series in March)
• HCOE Monday-Afternoon Sessions
• BTSA-Session Workshop
• School-Site Administrators
  

Our Modest Tech Project (MTP) Dreams

• DOC and Diane (VoiceThread)
  Planting the Seeds of Expression: DigiStories across the Ages
• August and Kaycee and the Power of the Classroom Website  (Google Sites)
  On the Web for the Web: A Website about Making Google Sites
• Kara (BlackBoard Collaborate)
  Web-Based Tech Training for Distance Learning: Glogster, GooDocs, Blogger, PodCasting, etc.
• Kendra (GooDocs)
  Workshop about Writing Collaboratively
• Shannon (Archived MultiMedia: MyCR + Moodle)
  (Revised Research Project) Alternative Public Genre: Pamphlet, Collage, PodCast, etc.
• Anne and Mo (EdLine to Blogger)
  Tackling Our District Need for Student Protection/Monitoring to Enable Online Communication through Response to Literature and/or History Research
• Mary Ann (Google Site)
  Hub for Project Trio: Vocabulary Word Banking, Editing and Revising Skills, and Evaluating Online Resources
• Cherie (Blogger)
  eCircles: Using Blogs to Excite Students about Reading by Prompting Writing about Reading
• Nancy (Blogger)
  Managing the Paper Load: Blogging about Teaching Asynchronously with Judicious Feedback, CR/NC Assignments, and Portfolio Assessment
  
  

Tech Project Work Groups

Prompts

Classroom Considerations: VoiceThread

Would you consider using VoiceThread?  How?  For which projects?  Why?  What other platform might achieve the same purpose?

Classroom Considerations: Wikis

Would you consider using a wiki?  How?  Why?  What other platform might achieve this same purpose?  

Classroom Considerations: Jing

Would you consider using Jing in your classroom? How? For which projects? Why? (Just to make Tracy happy, make a quick list of how-to documents that could benefit from Jinging.  Thank you.  Now back to our regularly scheduled prompts.)  What other platform might achieve the same purpose?

Classroom Considerations: Google Docs

What types of collaborative writing do you currently use? what types of written responses (reading responses)? How do you currently pull off this feat?  How might you use Google Docs for collaborative writing and/or response? How might you frame/introduce this platform?

Locations

Here is a site you might want to check out if you are interested in exploring WikiSpaces:
http://comm426spring2011.wikispaces.com/Adolescent+Communication

Directions

• VoiceThread
• WikiSpaces
• Google Stuff
• Jing
  

Workshops

• VoiceThread
• WikiSpaces
• Jing
• Google
• m o r e

Resources

• Laptop (Wireless) Registration at HSU:
  http://www.humboldt.edu/its/wireless-simplified
•  CommonCraft's ". . . in Plain English" series on YouTube
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