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Can you say "Free Tech PD"?

Can you say "Free Tech PD"?. Kim Thomas Julie Leckman Madison School District. ISTE: NETS-T N ational E ducation T echnology S tandards - T eachers. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

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Can you say "Free Tech PD"?

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  1. Can you say "Free Tech PD"? Kim Thomas Julie Leckman Madison School District

  2. ISTE: NETS-TNationalEducationTechnologyStandards - Teachers • Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity • Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments • Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

  3. Need for alternative PD • Finance • Teacher schedule • New teachers a breed of tech native users • Did I mention finances?

  4. Our Process

  5. The Best Team • Professional Dev Team • Write the curriculum • Write the course • Implement • Kim Thomas Lead and Facilitator • Three passionate teachers and somewhat wacky…

  6. Backwards Design

  7. Drafting the Course • Templates in Google Docs for sharing • Started with the big ideas – sketched out • Jumped around with inspiration • Then back • Details • Critical points • Refinement

  8. Drafting the Course • Allocated items for follow-up • Re-visited and weighed item value • Defined support technology

  9. Important!!! • Dialogue and stretch and dialogue and sketch and laugh and dialogue and laugh – remember you have people who love writing curriculum and are passionate about their content, these are the people you want to be involved. • HAVE FUN!!! ENJOY THE JOURNEY!!!

  10. Selecting Structures and Vehicles • File storage for Participants • Webpage • Blog • E-mail • Web meeting tools • Presentation Tools

  11. Pre-class • Set up shells • Participants – pre-install software and check versions • Oreintation • Hand holding – BIG!!!!!! Build capacity!

  12. Starting the class • Meet once a week online • Management • Acclimate to the net meeting environment • Carefully select talking points.

  13. Final Product • 27 out of 30 finished • Great resource for all • Word of mouth – they wanted another

  14. Madison Interactive Site http://sites.google.com/site/madisoninteractive/

  15. Nothing is Really Free • Curriculum and Instructor the highest cost • Curriculum time about $1,500 – this is now cut in half because of the second class • Instructor $700 • Camera and mic about $100 • DimDim $195 (50 people) good for a year • Snacks and Chocolate for the curriculum team – necessary and priceless

  16. O.k. some things in life are free • Can be DimDim for 20 or less people • Webpage • Blog • Atomic Learning • Teacher Tube • e-mail • Document Sharing – Google docs

  17. Questions???

  18. Thank You For Your Time

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