After yesterdays meeting, I owe apologies to friends. Seems I'm doing that a lot these days and it’s only a slam on my own behaviors. You see, that's really what this is all about. I'm wrestling with my own behaviors and beliefs. My ability or inability to create culture change, the stress of many, many wonderful things that are HAPPENING in our district! The stresses of a few things that are mandated like KIDS and PowerSchool and some that aren’t…pedagogies.
As we try to move our classrooms into the new learning landscape, it's critical we learn how to unlearn.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Making sense of P.D.
The following message was typed in my e-mail program and intended to be sent via that form of communication, but I need to change my mode of communication. Not for everything, but for some things...
Dear Tech Team,
See you tonight. I'll have salsa and chips!! Arrive anytime for chatting! We do need to focus our discussion from 4 - 5 p.m. on Sunday night's event.
Would everyone take a look at Moodle sometime during the day today? Please explore our content from last year. We know it can't necessarily look the same, knowing what all we've learned over the past 15 months. Or can it?
I would like you to think about the many tools we have used, still use, want to use more of, want to use what's yet to be invented, and on and on. Tools come and go and we have some good ones on the shelf still; Moodle, iWeb, Wikispaces.com, Blogger.com, Classroom 2.0.
What I would really like to do with staff this year is take them in to Classroom 2.0. This is not a new idea, nor is it original but I've been thinking about it ever since I joined back in April. There was valuable learning there for me, my January 2007 Kal-Tech team, and for you guys too? :-) Originally conflicted about Classroom 2.0, only because I thought it might be a stopping point instead of a starting point. It's about learning to unlearn as Will Richardson and many others have said.
Nevertheless, this year it may be a great starting place for teachers who need to understand the "power" of networks. Right now, our staffs, in my opinion, do not understand the "power of networks", and only understand the peripheral version of working in the "wisdom of crowds", aka. Teams. It is assiduous work.
I still believe we need to create a mini Kal-Tech. The book studies, the small group discussions, the intensive learning. http://kaltech-team155.wikispaces.com/Agendas
And...we also want teachers to experience the creative side of content creation. This "side" has been the meat of our Sunday Laptop Initiative program from it's inception thanks to the power of teams. You know who you are. [smile] If we empower teachers in "knowing" how to create content ... in their personal lives, their professional learning, and with their students ... all the while, showing them prime examples of infusion with technology, we will have done well.
What tools are of must worth? For our district, here's my focused list; Blogs, Wikis, iWeb, Moodle. What is our audiences focused list? I'm sure this list must seem blah and life-less in the whole big picture of our teaming experience and our own individualized knowledge.
What's the temperature out there? Are we focused enough? Do we have a shared vision? What external factors do WE see as a negative force field?
Dear Tech Team,
See you tonight. I'll have salsa and chips!! Arrive anytime for chatting! We do need to focus our discussion from 4 - 5 p.m. on Sunday night's event.
Would everyone take a look at Moodle sometime during the day today? Please explore our content from last year. We know it can't necessarily look the same, knowing what all we've learned over the past 15 months. Or can it?
I would like you to think about the many tools we have used, still use, want to use more of, want to use what's yet to be invented, and on and on. Tools come and go and we have some good ones on the shelf still; Moodle, iWeb, Wikispaces.com, Blogger.com, Classroom 2.0.
What I would really like to do with staff this year is take them in to Classroom 2.0. This is not a new idea, nor is it original but I've been thinking about it ever since I joined back in April. There was valuable learning there for me, my January 2007 Kal-Tech team, and for you guys too? :-) Originally conflicted about Classroom 2.0, only because I thought it might be a stopping point instead of a starting point. It's about learning to unlearn as Will Richardson and many others have said.
Nevertheless, this year it may be a great starting place for teachers who need to understand the "power" of networks. Right now, our staffs, in my opinion, do not understand the "power of networks", and only understand the peripheral version of working in the "wisdom of crowds", aka. Teams. It is assiduous work.
I still believe we need to create a mini Kal-Tech. The book studies, the small group discussions, the intensive learning. http://kaltech-team155.wikispaces.com/Agendas
And...we also want teachers to experience the creative side of content creation. This "side" has been the meat of our Sunday Laptop Initiative program from it's inception thanks to the power of teams. You know who you are. [smile] If we empower teachers in "knowing" how to create content ... in their personal lives, their professional learning, and with their students ... all the while, showing them prime examples of infusion with technology, we will have done well.
What tools are of must worth? For our district, here's my focused list; Blogs, Wikis, iWeb, Moodle. What is our audiences focused list? I'm sure this list must seem blah and life-less in the whole big picture of our teaming experience and our own individualized knowledge.
What's the temperature out there? Are we focused enough? Do we have a shared vision? What external factors do WE see as a negative force field?
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