ISTE 2010 Presentation

2. Backchannel Rules Be Nice Be Clear Be Open

3. 21 Things About 21 Things: Lessons Learned fromStaff Development Presented by: Karen Streeter, Dr. A. Ruth Okoye, and Nancy Butler Portsmouth Public Schools Portsmouth, Virginia http://iste2010pps.pbworks.com/

4. Session Goal: Upon completion of this session, the educator will recognize that a “21 Things” initiative provides flexible, cost effective, high quality, self-paced staff development for a range of stakeholders.

5. Portsmouth Public Schools Southeast Virginia Urban Setting 14,000 students 1100 educators 2 pre-school centers, 14 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 3 high schools Every building unique

6. Challenged with introducing 21st Century Skills and Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom?

7. The Original 23 Things Helene Blowers http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/

8. Inspired by: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_2_10/ai_n16133338/?tag=content;col1

9. Cost Effective, Powerful, Alternate Form of Delivery , Do-able, Customizable

10. Basic Premiseof 21 Things Web 2.0 Experiment & learn about web 2.0 technologies with bite-sized, web-based activities.

11. 23 Things for Librarians Introduce to web 2.0 Continue to develop skills asmedia specialists vs. librarians Reflect on classroom applications Reflect on professional development practices

12. 21 Things for TRTs Begin building a PLN - Use Web 2.0 in the classroom

13. 21 Things for Teachers Introduce Web 2.0 Reflect on classroom application Reflect on personal productivity and professional development

14. 21 Things Design Implementation Evaluation

15. Design

16. 1. Meets Multiple Needs Customizable Online learning Cost effective High quality Pajama compatible Self-paced Flexible Do-able

17. 2. Apply Instructional Design Start with the end in mind: Plan, Design, Develop. ID target groups, focus, nature of training, end products. What will have changed in terms of the participants skills, knowledge and attitudes?

18. 3. Chunk It Chunks- Quick & Easy. Quantity and Quality built-in.

19. 4. Mix It Up Freebies: web 2.0 apps Paid resources/subscriptions

20. 5. Keep It Simple NING WIKI

21. 6. Customize for Stakeholders Role Grade or content

22. 7. Track Progress Postings - visible to all. Digital vs. hard copy

23. Track with posts to NING (example)

24. 8. Form a Community of Learners

25. Community of Learners

26. 9. Unblock Sites Test under separate profiles Recheck after web filtering updates

27. Implementation

28. 10. Garner Support Administrators Teachers TRTs Information Technology

31. 13. Provide Classroom Support Using tools learned In classroom

32. 14. Remind them to… Have fun!

33. Evaluation (Lessons Learned)

34. 15. Technologies that Worked Support curricula Enhance learning

35. Wordle http://www.wordle.net/

36. Animoto Plant products: http://animoto.com/play/ScOUMqeiLh3F6GQXxPdqyw?utm_source=&utm_medium=player&utm_campaign=player

37. Blabberize Please Don’t Litter: http://blabberize.com/view?id=235395

38. Fodey Newspaper clip generator http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

39. Big Huge Labs

40. DE Streaming Writing Prompt

41. 16. Technologies that Didn’t Work Blogs Podcasts

42. 17. Basic Skills We found that there was a basic skill set necessary to complete the initiative independently. Forums Time to complete items

43. 18. Reap Rewards Immediate Delayed

44. 19. On “Company Time”?

45. 20. Timing for Rollout

46. 21. Use of reflections to “own” the process.

49. Attribution All photos used were found using http://compfight.com/ to search Flickr for creative commons photos.