Spreading the Word about Web 2.0 Linda McSweeney Spaulding High School/Barre Tech Center [email_address] http://shsbtc.org

what we learned what we did what’s next

Web 2.0 for Teachers: A Summer Institute 5-day, 2 recertification credits Incentives! Lots of sandbox time The opportunity to collaborate what we did

Web 2.0 for Teachers: A Summer Institute

support administration IT staff what we did

support

administration

IT staff

groundwork 30 minute thursdays pre-approved recertification credits adult learner research what we did

groundwork

30 minute thursdays

pre-approved recertification credits

adult learner research

adult learners --are digital immigrants (all over the place on the learning curve) -- always try to avoid failure --want learning to be practical (must know what it will do for them) --need immediate feedback (corollary: immediate gratification hinders trial and error) --learn by comparing past experience to new one what we did

adult learners

Put ‘Digital Immigrants’ at ease…with humor Understand our students How to Use a Mouse Introducing Le Book A vision of K-12 students Marc Prensky readings

Institute wiki: web204u.pbwiki.com what we did

what we learned

Put technology in teachers’ hands and... what we learned

Put technology in teachers’ hands

they will put it in students’ hands. what we learned

Give them permission to make mistakes and… what we learned

they will learn how to troubleshoot. “ Hardware first!” “ Undo is your friend” “ Operator error” what we learned

Create opportunities for collaboration. Assign making passwords as homework. Walk the tightrope between risk and frustration. Provide at least as much ‘sandbox time’ as instruction. Sprinkle in some pedagogy. Provide choices and extensions. what we learned

Create opportunities for collaboration.

Assign making passwords as homework.

Walk the tightrope between risk and frustration.

Provide at least as much ‘sandbox time’ as instruction.

Sprinkle in some pedagogy.

Provide choices and extensions.

continued support for ‘graduates’ encouragement for ‘reluctant’ teachers ‘ workshop in a block’ another teacher institute or graduate course migrate summer institute to moodle admin 2.0 (summer 2009) what’s next

continued support for ‘graduates’

encouragement for ‘reluctant’ teachers

‘ workshop in a block’

another teacher institute or graduate course

migrate summer institute to moodle

admin 2.0 (summer 2009)

parting words… http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =XFkzd0fSv_8