Be sure to use your Instructor's
Checklist before the Institute. On Day One, email Lynn Dee the names, emails
and districts for the first day attendees.
When you introduce BackFlip,
consider setting up an account for your institute and name it ILAST followed
by the number of your institute. For example, the Encinitas group's BackFlip
is named ilast03 and the password is password. If you have an extra computer,
put that backflip button on it and encourage participants to add truly
outstanding Web sites that they want to share with others. Ask them to
use a descriptive title and write a few sentences telling about the site
so others can decide whether they want to open it. As the week goes on,
you may want to set up folders, modeling how they can use their own BackFlip
accounts. After the Institute, they can continue to share sites with this
joint account.
Use large index cards folded as tents for name cards
that sit on top of computer screen.
Use the Critical Information Sheet
in the Appendix each time teachers need to record passwords etc. Be sure
they record their Filamentality url, name and password.
If you take photos of teachers in small groups holding
their name cards it will help you in the fall remember who everyone is.
Give short Home Connection assignments. (See suggested
list.) Some teachers don't realize they can access the same sites on their
home computer until they try it. If you have them send you an email from
home on day two, you can just add them to your email address book
with entering one by one.
If you use a database, open it on a computer in the
room and on Day 4 and Day 5 and ask teachers to take a few minutes to enter
their own information.
Have teachers register & even begin one
online course through Butte County.
The PBL participants often have some specific ideas
for projects in mind when they attend. Be sure to meet daily with PBLs
and discuss what they are working on. The discussions benefit the entire
group. Some may have very high technical skills but need help developing
a standards-based project. Others may be veteran teachers who need help
acquiring the technical skills for their project. Although in most
cases, we want to follow the template, there are exceptions when it does
not fit the project. In such cases, be sure to check with a lead instructor.
ILAST
STRANDS for Foundation
Hotmail
Day 2: Set up Account (Hotmail only) and record
on Critical Information Sheet (appendix) Send an email to one colleague
in room. Add sender address to address book. Practice sending email. Set
up Individual Address Book. Send an email and insert address from book.
Day 3: Set up Group email (can be team or
nearby teachers). Send an email to group.
Day 4: Attach file. Practice sending something
they created this week to themselves and to another in the room. Check
that it is received and can open.
Day 5: Forward an email. Have everyone email
the person to their right. Then have everyone take the email they received
from the person to their left and forward it on to the person to their
right.
ILAST Projects
Day 1: Ask participants to be thinking about
curriculum topics and standards they want to use as they integrate technology.
They should bookmark resources for creating technology projects during
Intro to Internet and Web Clinic activities.
Day 2: Ask participants to bookmark Internet
lessons they might want to use in their classroom: Blue-Web'n, CyberGuides,
Webquests, etc. When they share application techniques or you demonstrate
a program, ask participants to think how students could use the program
for a classroom project.
Day 3: Ask participants to create their Filamentality
Hotlist for a topic they can use in their classroom.
Day 4: As they plan their action plan, ask
participants to think about what areas they need to develop more as they
plan projects. They should choose Butte County courses based on their needs
in developing classroom projects.
Day 5: Present one project or lesson you
have created this week to use in your classroom.
Basics: A Variety of Ways
to Cut & Paste (PC)
Day 1: Highlight line or URL to be copied.
Right click to get drop down menu & choose copy. Click on the spot
you want to paste to. Right click and choose paste.
Day 2: Control C to copy and Control V to
paste.
Day 3: Use the edit menu.
Day 4: Use icons on tool bar.
Threaded Discussions
Day 2: Help teachers sign on to CTAP Online and
have them record name and password on Critical Information Sheet in appendix
of handouts. Note detailed handout explaining how to use CTAP Online. Next
have them respond to a strand you composed which asks teachers to post
an article title from "From Now On (Day 1), author and summary of main
points.
Day 3: Begin a strand that asks teachers
to post the results of their Web Site Evaluation. Ask them to include the
name of the Web Site, the URL and the paragraph evaluation they wrote (all
this information is on the Kathy Shrock Web Site Evaluation Form them filled
out on Day 2).
Day 4: Begin a strand that asks teachers
to post the name of their Filamentality unit, the url, the grade level(s),
and a brief description.
Day 5: Begin a strand for sharing ideas on
classroom management when only a few computers are available. Or you may
have another topic of interest to your group. Final Evaluation of
Institute is in CTAP Online.
Tapped In
Day 3: See Activity
Tapped In can be a very foreign environment for some
teachers. Our purpose today is to get everyone registered and let them
have a short, positive introduction to Tapped In.
Day 4 See Activity
During the second visit to Tapped In we want participants
to become more comfortable navigating and also to become aware of some
of the resources and online events.
Day 5: See Activity
Today you will project a Web site (see detailed directions
on Day 5) and then send participants to empty rooms to meet in teams and
share the most useful Web site they have discovered so far. After they
have projected their sites to their teams, have them return to the main
SDCOE room. Lead a follow-up discussion where they can share what they
found and discuss how Tapped In might be used. Set a time for a Tapped
In meeting after the Institute.
Best Practices & Research
Findings
Day 1: Select a research article from From
Now On. Read and post summary in CTAP Online Day 2: Evaluate
a Web Site using Kathy Schrock's form. Post a summary in CTAP Online
Day 3: From the Schrock site, click on Interactive
Site Map, then under Subject Areas, choose News and Magazines. Click on
Magazines and E-zines and search for an article to read.
Day 4: Work on evaluation guide (rubric).
Day 5: Continue to work on rubric.
Action Plan Development:
Each day point them to the Resources for 80 hours on main ILAST page
Day 1: Overview of ways the additional 80
hours will be used. Videoconferencing, Online courses, Development of lessons,
Meeting with teams and instructor, reading professional literature, searching
for resources and lessons, attending workshops/conferences, creating ILAST
portfolio.
Day 2: Refer to Action Plan components as
you introduce: Email, CTAP Online
Day 3: Refer to Action Plan components as
you introduce: Workshop ideas and Conferences (CUE, SDCUE). Show calendar Day 4: Refer to Action Plan components as
you introduce: Online courses Tapped In. Draft Action Plan and discuss
best use to individualize professional development. Documentation to instructor
Day 5: Final Action Plan and fill out the first
month of estimated time and documentation to instructor.
The
Home Connection
Adding follow-up activities teachers can do at home
gives them the opportunity to try things on their own computers. Some teachers
do not have computers at home but for those who do, optional follow-up
activities can be helpful.
Day 1: Bookmark ILAST page. (Identify their
type of browser or ISP).
Day 2: Email instructors from home computer
(add them to your address book).
Day 3: Sign on to CTAP Online at home and
post a comment on a strand the Instructor sets up for a specific purpose
related to something they learned that day.
Day 4: Bookmark two search engines, add team
members to your address book as a group.
Extra Activities-optional
Create a website-Filamentality: Scrapbook, Hunt, Sampler
or Webquest
Mini-workshop-ClarisWorks Slide Show
Mini-Lessons (Throughout the Institute)
Intro to PowerPoint-Hands On (Review how to set up a
presentation using basic PP tools) Create a 3 slide presentation
X Drive site " how to access
Each account receives 25 mgs of memory " increases the
more they use the site
Each student establishes their own X Drive account to
store their PP presentations
Go to http:// www.xdrive.com
Follow directions to set up your own account.
Save the above PP presentation to your new xdrive account.
ILAST
Survey Overview:
Day One: CTAP Survey self assessment of CTAP skills
(CTAP Web Site)
Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four: Paper (or electronic)
survey to assess each day. Turn in paper forms to Lynn Dee after Institute.
Submit electronic forms as instructed.
Day Five: CTAP Survey update self assessment of CTAP
skills (CTAP Web Site)
Day Five: Anonymous Survey in CTAP Online: assess effectiveness
of Institute.
Post Survey for Participants ( CTAP Online and/or Email):
Assess progress for 80 hours and assess ILAST support system for assisting
with Action Plans.
Post Survey for Instructors: Instructor version of the
above survey to assess their perceptions of participant progress.