My school district hosted a day of professional development for the teachers that are new to the district this week. I expected it to be the usual series of "welcome to our school district" presentations by each of the service areas, kicked off by the superintendent, but about halfway through his presentation something else transpired. He usually selects a video that is motivational or humorous (from which he always draws some point to drive home), but this time….he used the "Are You Paying Attention" video created by the Jordan School District. Now, I had been planning on offering workshops on different aspects of Web 2.0 throughout the year, but wow….by using that video he really set the stage for my workshops.
I have started putting my list of workshops together already and here it is:
1. Welcome to Web 2.0 (General overview, heavy in globalization)
2. Researching the Net (Website credibility, Backlinking, The Wayback Machine)
3. Sharing/Finding Information (RSS, Search Engines, Social Bookmarking, Technorati)
4. Virtual Learning Environments (Moodle)
5. Wikis (Wikipedia, Pbwiki, Wikispaces, Google Docs, Moodle Wikis)
6. Blogging (Wordpress, Blogspot,Typepad, Moodle Forums, Bloglines, Google Reader)
7. Podcasting (Audacity, PodSafe Audio)
8. Video Streaming (YouTube, TeacherTube, Google Video, Windows Movie Maker, Final Cut Express)
9. Connecting Beyond the Classroom (Skype, Twitter)
What other resources should I cover? Other Web 2.0 tools that you think are invaluable that I have left off? I'm sure I've left something off...
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Sorry. Mr. Ignorance here. Do any of the sessions focus on website design for teachers and their classes?
I have one and it's great, though I use a very simplistic, easy-to-use program called Contribute.
We will mostly focus on Moodle courses instead of public web pages. Our teachers do have access to TeacherWeb and that training is handled on a campus level (since each campus uses TeacherWeb differently).
We were just introduced to Moodle this last year, so we chose a few tech-savvy teachers to try it first and teach the rest of us throughout this school year.
Is Moodle successful within your school?
We are following the same model. I am encouraging its use whenever I get a chance though. For example, we are introducing a Computer Science AP course this year and I suggested the teacher post the assignments within Moodle instead of trying to use network folders for the students.
We are utilizing it from 4th through 12th grade. What grades are you using it for?
Right now we only four classes at the high school using it as a trial run. Next week is the first day back, so we may be expanding it. I'll find out then.
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