Spreading the Word about Web 2.0

Linda McSweeney

Spaulding High School/Barre Tech Center

lmcswshs@u61.net http://shsbtc.org

what we learned

what we did

what’s next

what we did

Web 2.0 for Teachers: A Summer Institute

5-day, 2 recertification credits

Incentives!

Lots of sandbox time

The opportunity to collaborate

supportadministrationIT staff

what we did

groundwork30 minute thursdayspre-approved recertification

creditsadult learner research

what we did

what we did

adult learners--are digital immigrants (all over the place on the learning curve)

--always try to avoid failure

--want learning to be practical (must know what it will do for them)

--need immediate feedback (corollary: immediate gratification hinders trial and error)

--learn by comparing past experience to new one

vision of k-12 students.mp4

How to mouse.mp4

Put ‘Digital Immigrants’ at ease…with humor

Understand our students

Lebook.flv

How to Use a Mouse

Introducing Le Book

A vision of K-12 students

Marc Prensky readings

what we did

Institute wiki: web204u.pbwiki.com

what we learned

Put technology in teachers’ hands

and...

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they will put it in students’ hands.

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Give them permission to make mistakes

and…

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they will learn how to troubleshoot.

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“Hardware first!”

“Undo is your

friend”

“Operator

error”

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Create opportunities for collaboration.

Assign making passwords as homework.

Walk the tightrope between risk and frustration.

Provide at least as much ‘sandbox time’ as instruction.

Sprinkle in some pedagogy.

Provide choices and extensions.

what’snext

continued support for ‘graduates’

encouragement for ‘reluctant’ teachers

‘workshop in a block’

another teacher institute or graduate course

migrate summer institute to moodle

admin 2.0 (summer 2009)

parting words…

takeachance.mp4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzd0fSv_8