Professional+Development+Ideas

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Summer Sessions: Basic Framework

 * Small group settings - presentations without hands-on piece
 * Small tutorial groups - intro and practice of skills, on-line sources
 * Auditorium - Do we want to have guest speakers? The Shaker Historical Society and the Shaker Public Library have teamed together in the past to present history of our community and resources (on-line and off) available for research. I think this is getting too broad for our purposes
 * Might be nice to have an initial gathering in the auditorium for an overview; to give people an arrival time; to get everyone organized; to pass out handouts, etc.
 * ClevNet has a large eMedia collection, scanned and on-line resources, perhaps someone from there might want to talk about this as a really good resource for Secondary. As a teaser take a look at some of on-line historical documents/books at @http://cpl.org/?q=node/12271 . It was really interesting looking at the 1906 Glenville High School Year Book.
 * Overview of subscription database resources & INFOhio -- could be presented by librarian(s)

Location

 * When we did this in the past, we chose the Middle School as it had the following advantages:
 * 1) Large parking lot
 * 2) Ample room for the presentations and attendees
 * 3) Easily navigable floor plan
 * What also needs to be considered is the number of rooms with presentation systems and SMARTboards.
 * Presence of computer labs for hands-on tutoring
 * How disruptive the convention might be on teachers attempting to set up classrooms prior to the 2010-2011 School year opening.
 * It would be good to have the presenting rooms close to each other so people can bop from one thing to the next

Date

 * August 16-21 - week before school --suggest Aug 10-12 rather than immediately before the start of school (KF)
 * Number of days 3 will allow time for Turning Point, Smart Boards, Moodle advanced,as well as some topics presented (KF)
 * 1) Should be more than one to allow for individual schedules
 * 2) Is 3 too many? 2 too few? I think no more than two. CMcC
 * 3) First part of the week or last? First part

Presenters

 * Lee Sattelmeyer
 * Claudia McCord
 * Tina McCauley
 * Mary Strouse

Topics (ideas)

 * Windows Movie Maker
 * Photo Story
 * Jing (screen capture and sharing) ; [|www.aviary.com] for FireFox and Chrome (supposed to be coming to IE)
 * Time saving shortcuts (Word/Excel)
 * Animoto
 * Turning Point
 * Smart Notebook - 1 hr. intro; 1 hr. intermediate use
 * Discovery Education - saving searches/sharing with building team; download videos/video clips use in presentations; non-video resources
 * SuccessMaker reports
 * Atomic Learning - identifying learning modules that are already up on AL that pertain to resources teachers have access through Shaker
 * Shaker online resources (subscriptions)
 * Progress Book
 * Overview of Web 2.0 tools
 * View classroom Moodle models
 * Using digital cameras to capture still and motion pictures; what can do with either
 * iTunesU and other online sources of instructional materials
 * Accelerated Reader
 * Internet Safety
 * NoodleTools for research papers -- beyond bibliographies