Problem+Stated

= Problem Stated = = = = Problems: =
 * 1) Some teachers are still afraid to use technology
 * 2) Some teachers don’t have time ﻿ to use technology Need to know how to effectively use their time to use technology
 * 3) Some teachers don’t know where to start to use technology
 * 4) The school needs to be more adapt and innovative at using technology
 * 5) The school needs to find ways to make technology easier for teachers
 * 6) The teachers need to want to use it—i.e. make it more “fun” for them

Survey: Use survey monkey to survey teachers

Evaluations:

Timeline:

Documentation: [] Personal Learning Networks for teachers

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Next: PLN video idea that we can use to create our own to show the teachers: media type="youtube" key="6eYuLknx1aU?fs=1" height="385" width="480" Possible Solutions: Teaching teachers to create a PLN including:
 * 1) Set up a series of Symbaloo for teachers. These would include early childhood, k-2, 3-5, and individual subjects in middle school.
 * 2) Symbaloo is an innovative and fun tool for teachers. It is not complicated to use and has an easy learning curve. Symbaloo allows us to set one up for the teachers and they can choose to use it as is or update their own.
 * 3) Symbaloo will allow the teachers to have the tools available when they want/need technology instead of/in conjunction with what they are currently doing.
 * 4) Symbaloo can initially be taught quickly during an in-service, then gradually updated over time.
 * 5) After the teachers learn how to use Symbaloo, we will teach them to use some of the basic tools that we will link: Google, Google docs, wikispaces, Glogster are at the top of the list.
 * 6) Symbaloo can be a teacher’s home page so that it’s always accessible.
 * 7) Our group is made up of teachers from different areas: early childhood, 1st grade, middle school, technology teachers, and administration. We believe that with the advice and cooperation of other teachers in our school we can create Symbaloos that will make it easier and friendlier and a more intuitive way for teacher to embrace technology.

Here are some thoughts... From Elaine: Focus for project is PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, purpose to develop an Independence PLN, way to do it- set up a symbaloo with tabs: Communicate Publish Share Follow Find Answers - add 2-3 links for each tab Keep in mind: SIMPLE directly relates to classroom use doesn't require students to JOIN

Also, should we develop an Independence NING- use to share info, links, helps to bring more cohesion to staff

Building a PLN: [] media type="youtube" key="PxV_F63ksMg?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

[] 5 things you can do to begin developing a PLN

[] Creating an online personal learning network (presentation)

[] The Educator's PLN

[] The Art & Technique of cultivating your PLN-David Warlick

[] Fischbowl presentations

This looks great. I added some things in pink that just need some clarification. If you all want I can clean it up and As I see it, here is an outline for our "project".....I am feeling very disorganized about it and being a visual person, I need to "see" an outline for what it is, how to go about, etc.. Perhaps, we need to discuss one more time, come to agreement and document some initial steps and then assign parts to team members or pairs. This way it will require much less of our time and we will be more focused on our end product.
 * From Elaine 1/10/11:**

**A. Documenting Your Project ** **- Use this Wikispace to document our project ** (need to be able to share with the community!) or somewhere else??? NING- did we come to an agreement on this **B. Steps ** 1. **The problem or question.** What is the problem (or opportunity) you wish to address with your project? Describe what you wish to change, for example, aspects of content (e.g. test scores), process (e.g. ability to collaborate), climate (e.g. __morale), or tech use (e __.g. embedded use of technology in instruction). Be as specific as possible in describing what you want to change. As our school looks towards redefining itself, we want to help teacher﻿s learn to share and collaborate within our own community, learn to reach beyond our school community, and integrate technology.

We want our teachers to develop and share personal learning networks as a resource to help us become life-long learners in all aspects of teaching. We also want to help our staff develop connections within our school and strengthen the communication and collegiality. 2. **Objectives and Assessment** Develop objectives and authentic assessments for determining what you want learners (adults or students) to be able to know and do after the project and how you will determine they have indeed mastered the objectives your project laid out. **- what are our objectives, how will we assess, did we finalize this? **

**Objectives** **We want our teachers to become 21st century teachers ([])**

Are you a 21st Century Teacher? Find out! 1. You require your students to use a variety of sources for their research projects...and they cite blogs, podcasts, and interviews they've conducted via Skype. 2. Your students work on collaborative projects...with students in Australia. 3. You give weekly class updates to parents...via your blog.

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4. Your students participate in class...by tweeting their questions and comments. 5. You ask your students to study and create reports on a controversial topic...and you grade their video submissions. 6. You prepare substitutes with detailed directions...via Podcasts. 7. You ask your students to do a character/historical person study...and they create mock social media profiles of their character. 8. Your students create a study guide...working together on a group wiki. 9. You share lesson plans with your teacher friends...from around the globe. 10. Your classroom budget is tight...but it doesn't matter because there are so many free resources on the web you can use. 11. You realize the importance of professional development...and you read blogs, join online communities, and tweet for self development. 12. You take your students on a field trip to the Great Wall of China...and never leave your classroom. 13. Your students share stories of their summer vacation...through an online photo repository. 14. You visit the Louvre with your students...and don't spend a dime. 15. You teach your students not to be bullies...or cyberbullies. 16. You make your students turn in their cell phones before class starts...because you plan on using them in class. 17. You require your students to summarize a recent chapter...and submit it to you via a text message. 18. You showcase your students' original work...to the world. 19. You have your morning coffee...while checking your RSS feed. 20. You are reading this. 21. You tweet this page, blog about it, "like" it, or email it to someone else... We want teachers to use Symbaloo as a platform to organize their links and websites. We want the teachers to appreciate the need for developing a PLN. We want the teachers to develop a PLN within our school using and Independence NING and be active particpants. We want teachers to expand their PLN beyond the school community using other social networking tools such as Twitter.

Assessment Pre-survey Who has Symbaloo, NING, and Twitter accounts currently and what they are using these accounts for? Attitudes about using social networks. Do we want to know current attitudes or are we asking to change the current attitude? Assess frequency of use on the Independence NING.

Post survey (as above) to see change and growth.

3. **Networked Design** Then think about how you will design your project so participants can share, connect, collaborate, or move to some type of collective action. You also want to be constructivist in your collaborative learning through the project. Co-construction of meaning is critical to this experience-- NOT 5 individuals doing something in the silos of their own understanding.

Our NING naturally sets up a networked design which encourages all faculty and staff to participate. ﻿Are we going to offer training sessions to set up the teachers in the ning?

4. **Set the Context** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What have others done (at your institution or elsewhere) to address this problem? Do some research as a team to see what others have done. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Get ideas. Divide up different research roles to individual team members. Gather data, do a needs survey, ask your PLN ect.

** Some teachers have developed Wikipages to share information. ** ** Some teachers have their own PLNs outside of the school community. ** ** Most teachers work collaborativly together in a face to face manner (team meetings, departments, divisions.) ** ** We also use email as a way to communicate but it is not an effective way to share most information. **

** Gather info (on above) on survey **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">5. **Proposal** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">How will your plan solve the problem or answer the question or address the possibility? Describe what you will do to address the problem/opportunity described earlier. Are you doing anything differently than others have attempted? Why or why not? Why do you propose that your approach will succeed better than prior attempts or will work better with your students or faculty? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** - what exactly are we going to do? And Why? State the proposal. ** ﻿Is this what we want teachers to collaborate about or is these the ways we want to help them create the collaboration. NING groups forum for new accounting system (questions/advice) division sections/announcements ( I did not know what we meant here) team/department collaborations curriculum areas (ie new reading series) technology (whiteboards, digital storytelling, cool websites) sharing from conferences or seminars Seminar scheduling

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">6. **Evaluation** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">How will you determine the success and effectiveness of your solution and the impact of your project? Do you plan to determine pre and post results? How will you know that the behavior of your students/faculty has changed/improved? Note: You may not be able to obtain your results by the end of your year. However, you should have a plan in place to evaluate your project and report on the results. The idea is to develop a solid plan to share with others. If you implement this year or next is entirely up to you. When possible make this an action research project. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** - How do we evaluate our project? pre and post results? How will we assess this? ** ﻿Can't we see how many teachers actually use the tools and are sharing information? Is our goal to make everyone use this or pick a percentage.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">7. **Timeline** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">How will your project progress? Indicate the dates of project initiation and completion for each step of your design, implementation, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">and evaluation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">** - what is our timeline? Lets determine this and assign parts of this project to each other. ** By the end of the school year, we would like to have the NING set up and running and have staff members join. 2011-2012 school year- Continued use and expansion of the Indy NING

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">8. **Documentation** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">How will you document your progress along the way? Will you share in your team group room in NING? Will you create a collaborative blog? A wiki? A Google Doc? Choose one and then everyone will use the document to make the process transparent. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** - what is the best way for us to communicate? We need to be able to edit, revise and see what each other is doing? Should we continue in the wiki for our school team or do in the the NING (Tiscohort1) and or use google docs for a working document and then publish it in wiki or ning???? **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** Develop survey ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** ... work in progress from Elaine & Bree ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** ﻿ ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** research the NING ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** discuss with admin about the financing of it ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** choose best PLN videos (1 or 2) for presentation﻿ **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** Jobs ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** skit- Sue, Christy, Chrissy ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** board- Sheila ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">** written info/survey results- Elaine, Bree **