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June PD at St. Albans City School

Here are the activities we started with at St. Albans City School PD for Grades 7 & 8 Teachers in June 2009
Read it backwards since the first day activities are listed first (at the bottom) and we kept adding to those activities.
 
Also.. here are Marcies, notes from those sessions:
 
 
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Collaborative planning for PD

posted ‎‎Jun 16, 2009 7:39 PM‎‎ by Lucie deLaBruere

1.  Check out the following Google Moderator Sessioin we set up to help you get the most out of our time together.
 
2.  Add your topics.  Vote on others.
 
 

Evaluating Google Apps as a Student Tool

posted ‎‎Jun 16, 2009 7:18 PM‎‎ by Lucie deLaBruere   [ updated ‎‎Jun 17, 2009 3:26 AM‎‎ ]

1.  Examine the Survey Results  from this year's 8th graders regarding their use of Google Apps.
 
 
3.   Compare  Google Apps  for Education vs. a regular Google Account
 
4.  Create a form:  Do we want Google Apps as a optional experience for our students or part of "what every student will experience".
 
 
6.   CoAuthor practices or procedures we want to establish for how we use Google Apps as a community.

Becoming a community using Google Tools

posted ‎‎Jun 16, 2009 6:26 PM‎‎ by Lucie deLaBruere   [ updated ‎‎Jun 17, 2009 2:59 AM‎‎ ]

 

"The most dramatic innovation introduced with the rollout of our species is not the prowess of individual minds, but the ability to harness that power across many individuals."

 
 
1.  Create a Google Account
2.  Login to your Google
3.  Watch Lucie share our StacsPD Google Site with you.  Go back and finish the Shining Eyes Tasks (commenting, and add blog post)
4.  Review text and video intros to Google Apps being used in 21st century business
5.  Discuss:  Where does collaboration fit into the list of 21st century skills for us as a community? Has the importance of developing collaboration skills in our students changed from the 20th century to the 21st century?  
        Enrichment Resources:
        Friedman:  World is Flat -  (one hour lecture)
6.  Enter your Schedule on the following WorkSheet
7.  Create a slideshow with your team that has a "very brief" bio of your team leaders and their roles
    Share the document with each other so that you can all edit it.
    Make the document public so ANYONE can view it.
    Create a Tiny Url   with that document address,  and write it on the board when complete.
    Add/ Embed the Presentation into  the 7th and 8th grade Google Site: http://sites.google.com/site/sacsgr78/
under the page "Meet Our Leaderning Communities"
 
   
 
 

Sharing our Passion

posted ‎‎Jun 16, 2009 6:08 PM‎‎ by Lucie deLaBruere

1.  Watch Ben Zander's Ted Talk
2.  Leave a comment about what parts of the video spoke to you and why. 
3.  Create a blog post that briefly tells us about one of your passions.  If you could spend a day teaching any group of interested learners about something that you are passionate about (anything!!)  what would it be.   
4.  Insert a video related to your passion that you found on You Tube or Google Video  and insert the Video in your blog post.
 
 

Ben Zanders Ted Talk

 
 
 


 

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