A Critique of the Proposed National Education Policy Reform
NCAGT Professional Development Superhero
1. ! !
!
Becoming a IT’SBLE
!
IN C R
I
ED
!
Professional IT’S
ONLIN
E!
Development IT’S
Super Hero FREE!
! Brian Housand / Katherine O’Connor / Elizabeth Fogarty
!
East Carolina University
www.ecugifted.com
9. Professional Development:
Teachers can display/archive student work
to document their own best prac5ces
teaching as they move toward Na5onal
Board Cer5fica5on or advanced degrees.
Teachers can link student webpages created
on Weebly documen5ng student work to
their own central site.
10.
11.
12. Webinars & Video
Conferencing
Elastigirl
Powers: Super stretching ability - Be in
two places at once!
Purpose / Use: A multi-way exchange
for distributing information to groups
or individuals in separate locations
Delivery: synchronous access
Platforms: Skype, iChat, Facetime,
DimDim, Ustream, etc.
Ideas for use: conduct workshops
without traveling! Two way video
communication allows groups to see
and hear each other.
13. Skype is an online audio and/
or video program which
allows for videoconferencing
between two computers or
many.
14. Professional Development:
Set up a meeting of your professional
learning community on Skype to discuss
the article that everyone read. Skype
now offers FREE Group Video
Conferencing for PC and Mac!
15. DIMDIM is a web-conferencing program
which allows for audio and video
sharing between up to four users.
DIMDIM also allows users to share
documents and computer screens with
the other users, as well as to
communicate in chat.
16. Professional Development:
Conduct a professional development
session for teachers in another school
while sitting in your classroom,
or bring a guest speaker to your class
via DIMDIM.
17. USTREAM is a platform that allows
users to stream live broadcasts on the
web. Viewers are able to participate via
instant message. FREE to broadcast,
but it is ad supported.
18. Professional Development:
Have a shared professional
development day in which one school in
a collaborative hires an expert to
conduct a training at their school and
other schools tune in via UStream. Later
another school can hire the expert and
others can tune in.
19.
20. !
!
POLLS &
DASH
Power: Speed
Purpose / Use: Quickly collect
information from participants
Delivery: Synchronous
Platforms: google docs,
todaysmeet, poll everywhere
Ideas for use: Embrace the back
channel, gather data on the spot,
quick polls, etc.
22. !
!
Google Docs is a FREE
alternative to Microsoft
Office that lives in
THE CLOUD!
Collaborate on
documents in REAL
TIME with your
participants. Instantly see
what your collaborators
are typing.
23. !
! Professional
Development:
FORM function allows
you to create and
deploy web-based
surveys with results
that are automatically
compiled in a
spreadsheet.
24. !
!
Poll Everywhere is a web based polling
service (class response system) that
allows users to submit votes via the web,
Twitter or text.
25. !
!
Professional Development:
In the classroom, use Poll Everywhere to
increase participation, attentiveness, to
take attendance automatically, or to
gauge students’ comprehension.
29. !
Discussion Forums
!
Violet
Powers: Invisibility and Energy Shield
Purpose / Use: A multi-way information
exchange allowing for all voices to be heard
Delivery: Asynchronous
Platforms: Google Groups and Blogging
services such as WordPress or Blogger
Ideas for Use: Create a forum to allow
the continued exchange of ideas between
Visits.
AFTER!
31. !
!
Professional Development:
Creating a Google Group specifically
for a group of teachers
(i.e., initially-licensed teachers, middle
school math teachers) help teachers
in like-content areas communicate
across a school, a district, or an entire
state.
32. !
!
WordPress allows users to create
professional looking websites or
blogs using a variety of available
widgets , plugins, and themes.
33. !
!
Professional Development:
Teachers can create a WordPress site that
features recent best prac5ce lessons and
ideas. Colleagues or principals can use the
‘Comment’ feature on the site to provide
feedback in order to assemble a digital best
prac5ces porOolio.
34.
35. !
!
Social
“Jack-Jack”
Powers: Possibly a shape shifter
Purpose / Use: Combination of all
other tools. Careful, can be too hot to
handle!
Delivery: synchronous and
asynchronous access
Platforms: Facebook, Edmodo, Ning, etc.
Ideas for use: Create a network for
learning and discussion long after the PD
is over.
36. !
!
Edmodo is a web 2.0 environment
where teachers can safely share ideas,
files and assignments with students
and other teachers in real time.
Edmodo is the fastest growing K-12
social learning network in the world.
37. !
!
Professional Development:
Teachers can find and share meaningful
web resources and materials.
Teachers can collaborate with other
faculty and students.
Edmodo is mobile friendly.
38. !
!
Ning is an online platform where
educators can create their own social
networks.
Professional Development: Teachers
can construct a group or conversation
around an effective instructional strategy
or classroom management strategy.