– Finding a time to meet that would work for everyone in our group.
– Trying to narrow down a question for our action research – we had a bunch of ideas but we had a really difficult time coming up with a question that would encompass everything we wanted to do.
– Fluffy criteria for action research project.
– Trying to find a way to encourage other people/ reluctant people in our building to try to be more open minded in using web 2.0 tools without being perscriptive.
With our project we want to build a learning network the includes, but also extends beyond the people in our building. We want to encourage our staff to develop their own PLNs and to start using Web 2.0 tools to increase student engagement. At the start of our project we asked staff to complete an on-line Digital Literacy survey that asked about their knowledge of Digital Literacy and how much they use web 2.0 tools. In order to assess the success of our project we will measure the use of the Edmodo site, and resurvey the staff to see what tools they are using with their classes or personally and determine the amount of change from the first survey in February.
– February 28 – Staff survey on technology/digital literacy.
– Thursday’s (4-5) – Group meetings to discuss ideas/concerns/progress for our action research project.
– April 26 & 27 – Small group introductions to Edmodo and jig-saw groups (twitter, google docs, effective internet search, wikis, and glogster)
– Beginning of May – Staff survey on their use of Edmodo or tools learnt in our group sessions.
– Middle of September – Re-survey the staff.
Our project is one that will continue to develop further after our culminating session but we have been able to attain some short term results.
In the future we will follow up with our long term results which we are hoping to gain in September of next school year.
Innisfail Junior Senior High School