Ch, Ch, Ch, Changes Coming to Trantwood

Posted on August 17th, 2008 in Uncategorized by SheilaT

(Delight)My Trantwood Technology 2.0 session is quickly approaching.  I’m both excited and worried.  If I try to show too much, I will lose them.  If I don’t do enough, I will not make the impact I’m hoping for.  There is a very fine line! 

 My Presentation Goals:

1.          What is 21st Century Learning/Teaching?

2.          What is the urgency of creating a digital classroom with “Higher Order Technology Integration”?

3.          New ISTE goals, New VBCPS Proficiencies, and our New Trantwood 2.0 Plan

4.          I want our staff to agree upon a common technology vision and determine which needs are most urgent to reach our technology goals.

5.          (Discoveries) Model some of the new Web2.0 tools we will utilize this year-

a.      Edublogs

b.     21Classes

c.     Wikispace or Wetpaint Wiki

d.     Voice Thread

e.      Epals

f.       JingProject

g.     Pageflakes

h.     Twiddla

i.        Sharepoint

j.        Windows Messenger

k.     Video Conferencing

I’ll be highlighting some of these tools and will provide a link to my wiki for further investigating.  I’ll be shifting the rest of my support documents to this wiki real soon.  http://elementarycrs-vbcps.wikispaces.com/  Currently, you will find the handouts I used in my Scratch presentation at our summer conference and handouts for my Edublog and Podcasting PDP course for Virginia Beach teachers.  I have lots more to move over to this “PD Parking Lot”.
(Discovery)I believe we all have a responsibility to learn on our own and to share what we know.  I’m hoping Jing will allow some of my students and teachers to create and share helpful tutorials.  Have you used Jing? http://www.jingproject.com/ . 
Here is one I created:
How to Load Scratch http://www.screencast.com/t/vxODDNnk7

(Disaster)I copied and pasted the post above from Microsoft Word.  Yikes!  It looks terrible. The text has different styles/fonts and the bulleted list looks atrocious. What you see is not what you get.  I won’t be pasting directly from Word anymore.