These slides accompany Larry Edelman's session on using "Using Digital Technology for Professional Development and Technical Assistance" at the 7th Annual National Training Instituteon Effective Practices: Supporting Young Children's Social Emotional Development on March 19, 2010. The session is designed to stimulate our thinking about how we might use digital technology to enhance professional development activities and provide technical assistance. The session will illustrate a number of tried-and-true and emerging applications that can help us build relationships, create content, and disseminate recommended practices. The session will offer guidance for determining when to use technology (and when not to) and considerations regarding specific applications.

1. 1 The Technological Palette: Painting Outside the LinesPresented by Larry Edelman7th Annual National Training Instituteon Effective Practices: Supporting YoungChildren's Social Emotional DevelopmentMarch 17-20, 2010Sheraton Sand Key Resort,Clearwater Beach, Florida

2. Purpose of Our Time Together Stimulate our thinking and explore how we might continue to adopt, adapt, combine, repurpose, and use technology to provide more effective TA, PD, and dissemination 2

3. Look for yourself during this session Reflect on your role as a non-digital native in a digital world

4. Questions are eternal, answers are for the day. And when you find a way of genuinely rephrasing the question, you allow far more thought. The way you conceptualize the question already determines the range of answers you can conceive.Edwin Friedman

5. What has been my question? Are the current technological capabilities simply the next steps in the continual evolution of technology or more like a radical departure? 5

6. Resources To visit Larry’s blog of free applications: http://exploringtech.wordpress.com/ To view these PPT slides as a prezi presentation: http://prezi.com/81868/ To view these PPT slides at slideshare: Search for Larry Edelman Presentation at NTI 3-19-10 6

7. 7 Why use technology?

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9. 9 Why use technologyto do this?

10. 10 Why use more technology?

11. Transformation of Learning Teaching Technical Assistance Dissemination

12. Learning 12 Read an article photocopied from a journal Read an online article with hyperlinked video clips Listen to a presentation on a CD Listen to a podcast while riding a bike Search journals on a library shelf Conduct a WOS and ERIC search Attend a conference lecture Multi-task during a web cast Watch a purchased DVD Watch a video on the web Read notes from a meeting Listen to archived audio meeting proceedings

13. Teaching 13 Teach a F2F classroom based course Teach an online course Co-present at a conference Skype in a co-presenter Develop a TTT guide Develop online learning modules

14. Technical Assistance 14 Deliver F2F TA Deliver webinar Deliver TA by telephone Deliver TA using video or web conferencing Conduct print surveys Conduct online surveys Facilitate a F2F meeting Facilitate by video conference Produce a guidance document Produce an interactive knowledge base

15. Dissemination 15 Distribute a three-ring binder of print materials Distribute a flash drive, post on the web Distribute a DVD Post video on the web Email a link to a podcast or vidcast Email a memo Distribute a printed user’s guide Post an online flash-based set of instructional modules

16. These experiences are,in a word… ordinary.

17. Why Can We Do It? 17

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19. 19 Focus on function first

20. For which of these purposesMIGHT technology assist us? 20

21. 21 Then focus on technology

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23. 23 For me, all of thischanges everything

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25. Modularity is Key Hardware Connecting a scanner to a computer Applications Conducting a video conference using Skype, recording it with Callburner, and editing it with Audacity Learning Objects Embedding learning objects in webcasts, PPT, etc.

26. 26 Let’s explore!