1. Swimming without
Drowning:
Early Career Teachers and
Web 2.0 Technologies
Live Blog for Session at
http://tinyurl.com/da9for

3. Early Career Teachers’
Advantages
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A pass from other teachers
and administrators because
they’re the “new kids”

4. Early Career Teachers’
Challenges
See Previous Slide 

5. So how does one
swim in the sea
of technology
without
drowning?

6. How to Swim
• Work with the End in Mind
• Create a Window Into Your Classroom
• Cultivate Support:
In Your School and Beyond
• Don’t Be Afraid of the Epic Fail

7. Work With
The End In Mind
Ask “What is the problem for
which this is the solution?”
Hat Tip to Jim Burke (http://www.jimburke.typepad.com/)

8. Problem: Students lose paper
reader’s journals and cannot
comment on each others’
journals w/o taking them home
or using class time
Solution: Wiki for reader’s
journals

9. Wiki for Reader’s Journals

10. Problem: Need way for
students to access class notes if
they’ve been absent or missed
something in class
Solution: Shared OneNote
notebooks
Other options: http://circusponies.com,
http://evernote.com, Google Docs

11. OneNote Notebooks

12. Problem: Wanted students to
actively evaluate candidates’
messages in 2008 election
rather than being passive
viewers
Solution: VoiceThread, Wiki,
and The Living Room Candidate

13. Campaign Ads Wiki

14. Problem: Need an authentic,
engaging way for students to
analyze characters in a text
Solution: Glogster

15. Glogster

16. Create A Window
Into Your Classroom

17. Class Blog

18. Cultivate Support
and Inspiration:
At Your School
and Beyond

19. At Your School
teachers Students
Veteran
effectively
who are
novatively
and in
hnology
using tec
ructional
Inst
chnology
te
staff
Professional
Developmen
t/
Trainings

20. Beyond Your School
Twitter
Nings
Diigo for Educators

21. Twitter

22. Nings

23. Diigo in Education

24. Don’t Be Afraid
of the Epic Fail

25. It may turn out to be a learning
experience or good training in
frustration tolerance

26. Campaign Ads Wiki

27. Have a Backup Plan
• What will you do if your lesson plan
doesn’t work?
• What should students do if homework
requires technology, and it isn’t
working?

28. Support for Early
Career Teachers

29. How to Be a Life Preserver

30. Encourage Early Career
Teachers’ Efforts
• Hook them up with teachers in their discipline who
are technological innovators
• Be available during their classes, especially if they’re
starting something new
• Model technology in your interactions with them
• Be persistent

31. Be Available
Email
In-person
(Crazy, I k
now )

32. Contact Info and Links
Meredith Stewart
Cary Academy
http://la6stewart.wordpress.com
meredith_stewart@caryacademy.org
Twitter: msstewart