Janurary+2009+Meeting+Notes

More information and resources are at the Professional Development Page.

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 * Discussion Points**
 * Tech Department made Professional Development. Educon 2.1 - [|Tech in 20 example]. Setting up a tech help wiki, or website ([|Riverdale example])
 * Matt Lipstein - I'll discuss our "Tech Time" program at [|Brooklyn Heights Montessori School] where our Technology Coordinator meets weekly with each member of our Elementary and Middle School faculty.
 * Success Stories discussion
 * Online Professional Development from companies, or external websites.
 * http://Thinkfinity.org
 * [|http://www.oculture.com/2007/ 07/freeonlinecourses.html]
 * [|http://www.pbs.org/ teacherline/]
 *  http://[|www.mindleaders.com]
 * http://www.screensteps.com/
 * http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/home
 * Social Networks
 *  http://www.plpnetwork.com - Formalizing the social web technologies by first having face to face conference and then continue the conversation (isn't this really what NYCIST does?)
 * http://www.ning.com/
 * http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/
 * Tech Assessment of faculty - [|NETS for teachers]
 * How do you get faculty to share materials
 * Making time for professional development
 * [|Open Spaces] at your school?
 * Articles**
 * Chris Lehmann - [|Notes on Professional Development]
 * Sylvia Martinez -
 * [|Counting what matters in PD]
 * [|What is Professional Development]
 * Challanging Assumptions about Professional Development and http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=183
 * Steve Hargadon - [|Open and Fast Professional Development]
 * Steve Hargadon - [|Open and Fast Professional Development]
 * Resources**
 * Professional Development Page
 * Meeting Notes**
 * Meeting Notes**
 * Meeting Notes**

THEMES THAT EMERGED:
 * Time (lack of it)
 * Building Relationships with Faculty – importance of approach (top-down mandates v bottom-up buy in, building incentives and capacity)
 * Incentives (release time for training, laptop, free trip to NECC, stipends to attend training, SmartBoards)
 * Setting expectations
 * Starting small (exceptional uses and smart uses that are relevant to curriculum based and collaborative)
 * Coordination with curriculum

DIFFERENT MODELS THAT WERE SHARED (I know I missed some so please edit!): Brklyn Friends "Tech Faculty Group" meeting time embedded in weekly schedule + "tech byte" meetings throughout the year with each month
 * “study hall session” or graduate seminar type set up for faulty
 * positive atmos of learning session
 * less of “dive by” time sucking questions
 * Develops peer to peer connections

Bklyn Heights Montessori School “Tech Time”
 * techs talk to each division at start of the year yto choose if: a) meet as a division b) meet 1:1 with tech coord
 * framed as “we are offering this to you, when are you going to sign up”, rather than a requirment
 * tell us what you are working on in your classes o we will answer any tech questions (including personal tech questions)

"Flex Time" Strategy to win over faculty
 * speak with faculty to determine how a faculty member spends his/her time
 * then calculate how much time faculty could "save" if they adopt x, y, z technology

The School @ Columbia
 * Specialists take classes while all entire grade team of classroom teachers had specific training (ex.Scratch )
 * One example of how to manoeuver things around

Peer-to Peer Learning
 * Tech for Teachers Educators TTEE
 * SAVE THE DATE: Friday May 1st @ Packer Collegiate
 * Please ask great teachers to develop a short tech workshop that they could present on day

IDEAS THAT EMERGED:
 * Open Space Professional Development Day
 * Overarching Learning Management System framework of which tech is one piece of curriculum
 * Landscape of knowledge is changing - who owns what?

Best Practices!!!! Gina Marcel