Creating+Tech+Savvy+21st+Century+Educators

V. Reed & R. Smith

5 day course offered to teachers and administrators at Garnet Valley Day 1- Whiteboard Day 2- iMovie Day 3- Video conferencing, Skype and Webinars Day 4- Internet and Microsoft and copyright, blogs Day 5- Presentations ( how will you utilize what you have learned)

Videos in the classroom Create a tech boot camp PE teacher puts all demonstrations in iMovie

Video Conferencing MAGPI CLIC Digital Flat Stanley (k-2) project through MAGPI Show teachers a webinar- many have not done this Skype and webcams

Student response systems as a part of the professional development

Skype Chinese exchange program

Copyright and Internet

Use a blog to answer repetitive questions.

Student response systems to test teacher knowledge of copyright, generated more interest than ever before.

Will send the turningpoint presentation if requested

Teachers found this staff development useful. Running a tech 2, most people from tech 1 attending.

Award equipment to those teachers who are willing to attend staff development.

Partnered with a university to provide grad credit.

Tech coach an important part. Teachers who love technology volunteer to be coaches in the summer in order to get technology.

CFF is total separate program, had this in place before CFF. Students Skype in to help teachers. DI and UbD lessons on the web

Music teachers got iPods and digital recorders.

Everyone who went through tech 1 had to do peer sharing.

ABG grant paid for most of this training.

Go to vendors and see what kind of a deal we can get.

Start in September to plan the training. 94 teachers k-12 and all specialty areas. $1000 per participant for hardware Partnered with college to offer 3 grad credits (district paid for 26 credits for $25000.00)