The document outlines a summer institute focused on Web 2.0 for teachers, highlighting the importance of practical learning and immediate feedback for digital immigrant adult learners. It emphasizes creating collaborative opportunities and confidence in using technology, while offering continued support for teachers after the institute. Future plans include migrating the summer institute to an online platform and exploring further teacher development workshops.

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

2. what we learned what we did what’s next

3. 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

4. support administration IT staff what we did

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

6. 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

7. 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

17. Institute wiki: web204u.pbwiki.com what we did

18. what we learned

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

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

21. Give them permission to make mistakes and… what we learned

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

23. 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

24. 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

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