NCAGT Presentation: Professional Development_March 2011

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Becoming a IT’SBLE
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Professional IT’S
ONLIN
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Development IT’S
Super Hero FREE!
! Brian Housand / Katherine O’Connor / Elizabeth Fogarty
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East Carolina University
www.ecugifted.com

6. SlideShare
is
the
EASIEST
way
to
share
presenta5ons
and
documents
without
emailing
or
exchanging
Flash
Drives.
Think
of
it
as
YouTube
for
PowerPoint!

7. Professional
Development:
Teachers
and
presenters
can
create
a
profile
where
past
presenta5ons
are
posted
for
others
to
view
online.
This
is
another
way
to
share
informa5on
and
increase
your
digital
footprint.

8. Weebly
allows
teachers
to
create
adver5sement-­‐free
websites
with
features
like
photo
galleries,
maps,
pictures
and
audio
players.
Weebly
also
allows
teachers
to
password
protect
students’
websites
for
greater
security.

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.

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.

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POLLS & SURVEYS
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.

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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.

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Poll Everywhere is a web based polling
service (class response system) that
allows users to submit votes via the web,
Twitter or text.

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Professional Development:
In the classroom, use Poll Everywhere to
increase participation, attentiveness, to
take attendance automatically, or to
gauge students’ comprehension.

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Discussion Forums
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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!

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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.

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WordPress
allows
users
to
create
professional
looking
websites
or
blogs
using
a
variety
of
available
widgets
,
plugins,
and
themes.

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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.

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Social Networks
“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.

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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.

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Professional Development:
Teachers can find and share meaningful
web resources and materials.
Teachers can collaborate with other
faculty and students.
Edmodo is mobile friendly.

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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.

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