The document is a request from Dana Hill for additional technology professional development for teachers at Desert View Elementary. It summarizes the previous year's limited schedule of technology coaching and requests 4 hours per teacher per year to work with the technology coach, Joe, during the school day to learn new concepts and tools to engage students. These may include Microsoft programs, video/music, grading programs, web tools, and more. It cites research showing that teacher-driven learning and collaboration with colleagues is most effective for technology integration professional development.

1. Technology Professional
Development Request
Based on Desert View Elementary Needs
By Dana Hill
November 2008

2. Previous Years’ Schedule
• 3 half day subs for seven months
(excluding Aug, Dec, March, and June)
• Teachers got 1 hour of Tech Coach time every
other month
• Teachers out of classroom for 4 hours a year

3. Technology Integration Soared!
• Topics varied by curriculum and classroom projects:
Microsoft Calendars, Word, and Excel Fittness Gram
Transfering of music and video Promethean flipcharts /how to’s
Grade Programs Storing data
Video Streaming Collecting grade level websites
Web 2.0 integration tools/projects Digital Camera Use
Document Camera use gps projects
Projector use integrating curriculum Photo cropping and printing
Instant Messaging Mastery in Motion
Power School Web Site Updating How To’s
Classroom Yearbooks Laptop use
Software help
Kidspiration, Writer’s Companion, Art and Music

4. Sure, it might be easier to just lecture
some days . . . .

5. But we want to be part of our students’ world and
teach them to collaborate, research, create,
present and network!
Technology increases
exponentially all around
us each day!

6. Office 2007 Poll Everywhere Flickr SlideRoll
Bubbl.us
Utilities PicLens Photo Sharing
MindMeister
Media Convert Every Stock Photo
Collaboration
Kidcast
PodOmatic Podcasting ChatMaker
Glogster
Gabcast
Presentation Tools
Classroom 2.0 Diigo Web 2.0 Voice Thread Letterpop
Social Networking
You Tube
Twitter Del.icio.us
Video Sharing UStream
Foto Flexer Pixlr
Teacher Tube
Online Applications
Zoho Creator Peepel bloglines
Promethean Document Cameras
Software RSS & Projectors
NewsGator
Aggregators

7. We need time to learn how things
work, experience using it, and time
to plan and prepare for integration.

8. Improving teaching is the most
effective way to improve student
learning.
Rodriguez, G. (2000). Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use.
Retrieved November 9, 2008, from
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te1000.htm

9. “Teachers cited independent” driven
“learning most frequently as
preparing them for technology use,
followed by professional development
activities with their colleagues.”
Teachers’ Tools for the 21st Century: A Report on Teachers’ Use of Technology (2000,
September). Retrieved November 9, 2008, from
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/publications/2000102/index.asp?sectionid=6

10. Team with us!
Allow us 4 hours a year per teacher to
meet with Joe during school to learn new
concepts and engage students.