Blended Meetings at your School

Michael WeinraubSchool Technology Summit

July 31, 2013

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Who am I? (No, not Jean Valjean) Blending – a short list Activity - Mission Possible Discussion / Q&A Invitation

Let’s get this party started

Director of Innovative Professional Development (iPD) for the City-wide Curriculum PD team (CCPD) in the Office of Achievement Resources (OAR)

Core Curriculum PD Create online modules User forums around Common Core Library

resources Blended learning support to DOE Teams Integration of Social Media - @commoncorelab

Who Am I? Acronym Madness!

A combination of online and face-to-face activities as part of a learning or collaborative experience

How can technology help? Save Time Facilitate collaboration Creates transparency

in social knowledge construction

Encourages Accountability

Blending

Setting: You are a member of a school staff of which I am the principal. I inform you of a time-sensitive request for information that came directly from Central. We need to respond to that request for information at the end of business today. Gasp!

What input does Central require from us? What question must we try to address with honesty, professional knowledge, and skill? See the next slide . . .

Staff Meeting Scenario

What is the best band or individual musical

performer of the last 50 years?

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group)

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group)

Present the Evidence (whole group)

Make a Selection (whole group)

The Blended Process

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group) Use TodaysMeet online chat tool

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group)

Present the Evidence (whole group)

Make a Selection (whole group)

The Blended Process

Generating Ideas

http://todaysmeet.com/techsummit

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group)

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group)

Present the Evidence (whole group)

Make a Selection (whole group)

The Blended Process

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group)

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual) Log in to online platform (see next slide) Read news item and select link to preferred artist (A, B, or C)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group)

Present the Evidence (whole group)

Make a Selection (whole group)

The Blended Process

Log In Page

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Welcome.123guest

Welcome.123

https://ipd.commoncorelab.us

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group)

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group) Add “evidence” to your Google doc A, B, or C (individual)

Present the Evidence (whole group)

Make a Selection (whole group)

The Blended Process

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group)

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group) Add “evidence” to your Google doc A, B, or C (individual) Convene in small groups to select evidence, prepare presentation

(small group)

Present the Evidence (whole group)

Make a Selection (whole group)

The Blended Process

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group)

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group)

Present the Evidence (whole group) Presenters for each Artist group make their case!

Make a Selection (whole group)

The Blended Process

Generate a List of Prospects (whole group)

Narrow it Down (whole group)

Select an Artist (individual)

Compile Evidence (individual, then small group)

Present the Evidence (whole group)

Make a Selection (whole group) Time to choose an Artist of the half-century! Go to our D2L

homepage and click the survey link in the News item.

The Blended Process

Well?

Highlights Wonderings Suggestions Questions Other?

Accessed information and resources through a shared, known online site

Shared ideas publically, then focused our attention on a small number of options

Posted text and digital content to a shared document before meeting to discuss it face-to-face

Used an online voting tool to make a decision

What happened?

Accept my “special invitation” to express interest in receiving support for using blended learning tools at your school by clicking on the Special Invitation link on the D2L homepage CCPD team looking for 5-7 schools or networks

to participate in a pilot utilizing Desire2Learn and other web-based tools

Expand your PLC (professional learning network) by tweeting about this and other sessions today with hashtag #nycsts13

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What Can I Do Now?