Face-To-Face Staff Development Adairsville Elementary School Terry T.

Gough

Title: Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers Content Standards

NETS-T 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Adairsville Elementary School

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments a. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. b. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. c. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETSS. a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching

3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. a. b. c. d. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Understandings: That web 2.0 applications can/will enhance the learning of students. Web 2.0 applications increase interest levels of students. Teachers will be able to use the following web 2.0 applications: a. Voki b. Prezi On their own, teachers will be able to create their own web page for their classroom or personal use, using instructions from a screencast. Essential Questions: How can web 2.0 applications be used to enhance student learning? Are some web 2.0 applications more effective than others in enhancing student learning?

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Performance Task(s): Teachers will complete an assessment, created on Google Drive, based on what they have learned in the staff development session.

Other Evidence: Teachers will successfully and independently create a short presentation using one of two web 2.0 applications to explaining how each can be used for instructional purposes. During the staff development session, teachers will orally answer questions about the particular application being presented at the time.

Resources Needed: All teachers will be equipped with their school-board issued Mac-book Airs. Presenter will use an ASUS laptop computer. Overhead projector attached to the presenters computer.

Stage 3: Learning Experiences

The staff development session will open with the introduction of the presenter. The presenter will handout the staff development agenda. Following the introduction, a short Voki will be shown introducing the first lesson on developing a web page. (how to create a Voki will be covered today as well) Following the Voki presentation, the screencast How to develop a web page will be shown to the group. (This is being done because the web host Weebly is blocked by the school systems web filter. Due to this block, the teachers will have to practice creating a web page while logged onto an alternate internet source. The presenter will direct the teachers to move to the URL www.voki.com The presenter will then demonstrate how to create a Voki account. Each teacher will then set up their own account. The presenter will demonstrate to the teachers how to create a Voki. Teachers will be given time to experiment with the application before moving on to the next. The presenter will direct the teachers to move to the URL www.prezi.com Presenter will demonstrate how to create a Prezi and allow the teachers time to experiment with the application. The presenter will take any questions on the two web 2.0 applications that were presented. Teachers will be asked to show a short presentation which they will create using either Voki or Prezi explaining how their choice can be used for instructional purposes. Teachers will be given a URL to a webpage containing screencasts on how to: a. Create a webpage b. Create a Voki c. Create a Prezi d. Create a Voicethread Additionally, the URL will contain web links to other links containing Curation sites and other useful Web 2.0 Tools.