Project 1: Develop a single module for new teachers focusing on procedures and expectations for requesting a substitute in planned and emergency absences, as well as covering appropriate lesson plan content suitable to use with substitutes. The module will be self-paced, housed either on the school server or loaded to each teacher computer desktop. Completion would be assessed by a simple quiz or checklist, with the end result being a printout to be submitted to the administration by a certain day in mid September. The module time frame is about four weeks (starting today).
If the project goes well, then additional modules would be added later.
Project 2: I'm in charge of the staff development activities (SDA) for the year for integrating technology in the classroom. The SDAs would occur once a month (totaling approx. 8 sessions) for an hour each. I haven't been given any specific goals or areas to focus on yet, but my initial thoughts (based on informal conversations over the last few years with coworkers) have included the following:
- Edline Basic: Setting up individual class webpages on the school website, inputting data on the calendar, uploading documents. (Edline is the website program the school uses).
- Edline Advanced: Using the Homework Hand In/Dropbox, creating online quizes, using the Discussion/Blog feature.
- Wikis/Blogs/GoogleDocs for group projects and student collaboration
- Podcasting & Videocasting
- Flipped Classroom techniques for greater student engagement
- Clickers for on-the-spot classroom assessment
- Webquests/ Specific Content resources
- Student Use of Web Content & Plagerism
If you have any other ideas for technology in the classroom, please let me know in the comments.
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