Embracing collaboration and connection
Sydney Elementary School Team Members: Dave Dowling, Michael Eldridge, Jamie Ewalt, Allison Gregg, Teresa Hughes, Janice Shanno Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 Our Action Research project entails a professional development plan that incorporates the use of Web 2.0 technologies which embrace collaboration and connection. Our plan includes introducing educators to Web 2.0 tools, giving them the time to explore these tools, and providing support needed to successfully navigate the tools. Professional development will occur on a...
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West Clermont Elementary Schools Team Members: Joe Stahl, Lori Van Eman, Jody Davis, and Sarah Sloan Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 This research project increases awareness of technology for our teachers regardless of what technology they have access to. Staff members will have access to a common, interactive resource to increase collaboration and support of new learning for teachers and students alike. Problem, Issue, or Possibility Objectives and Assessment ...
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Innisfail Junior Senior High School Team Members: Dave Dale, Kaitlin Eyestone, Allan Whitehead, Narsh Ramrattan and Rhonda Jessen Community: Canadian Year 1, 2010-2011 The goal of our project was to introduce the idea of professional learning community to the staff at our school as well encourage them to learn web 2.0 tools that they can use in their classrooms. Before we started we had them complete an on-line survey that asked about their knowledge of Digital Literacy and how much they use web 2.0 tools. This gave us an idea of the type of...
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Northern Lights School District Team Members: Jared Nichol, Terry Kaminski, David Ripkens and Barb LeNormand Community: Canadian Year 1, 2010-2011 Every school in our division has teacher webpages on the school websites. Many teachers do not use these webpages because they do not understand how to edit the page and add in content. So, we decided to survey the teachers in 3 schools to determine what features of the webpage tools they understand and what features they no little about. We have then created tutorial videos to help educate the...
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Red Deer Catholic Regional Division Team Members: Donna Leontowicz, Dave Khatib, Micaela Wasylik, Martin Rheaume, Terry Krushelnicki, Adam Sia, Craig Baskerville, Chris Smith, Brad Wolfe, Jonas Marchinko, Brenda MacDonald Community: Canadian Year 1, 2010-2011 Red Deer Catholic launched a modest action researach project and initiative on 21st century learning environments and educator proficiency with 21st century learning. Teachers were encouraged to explore digital technology strategies to increase student engagement, as well as, student...
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Waterloo Region School District Team Members: Rick Budding, Rose Marie Davis, Ann Ford, Shari Nicholas, Rebecca Rouse Community: Canadian Year 1, 2010-2011 The teacher-librarians in WRDSB have been moving towards implementing the new library guideline document Together for Learning. “A Learning Commons [presents] exciting opportunities for collaboration among teachers, teacher-librarians and students. Within a Learning Commons, new relationships are formed between learners, new technologies are realized and utilized, and both students and...
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Archbishop Ryan High School Team Members: Kathy Schafer, Pebbles Kaminski, Mary Laska, Kathi Szymborski, Jim Meredith Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Year 1, 2010-2011 For our culminating project, we will be compiling a page on the intersavvy wiki about digital literacy on the secondary level. As members of a three year team, we found that our interests lie in many different places. We have incorporated Web 2.0 tools into the daily environment of our classrooms, and our interests have lead us all to pursue different passions. When the...
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Bishop McDevitt Catholic High School Team Members: Cara Marino, Glenda Rieffel, Matthew Jurkiewicz, Joe Habich, Cathy Dooley Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Year 1, 2010-2011 Our Project is a 3 point approach to Digital Citizenship: a Student Portal, a Parent Portal, and a Teacher Portal. With a 1 to 1 netbook initiative taking place in our school next year we want to make our students, their parents, and our faculty great Digital Citizens. We think it is important that they learn what it is about and how they can implement the ideas of...
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Ressurection of Our Lord School Team Members: Joan Stulz, Arleen Dubeck, Judy Devlin, Eileen Rowan, Kate Zimmaro, Cathy Brzyski Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Year 1, 2010-2011 Our project aim was to develop a professional development opportunity centered on digital security. Our team members worked very hard to find resources online to support and enhance our “work in progress” presentation. We are looking to implement this professional development seminar sometime in the next school year. The seminar will focus on making...
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St. Bede’s School Team Members: Kathy Mercurio, Regina Fatiga, Kathy Zimmerman, Lorraine Harrison, Loretta Gordish, Barbara Niederriter Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Year 1, 2010-2011 The purpose of this project is to expand our teachers’ and students’ technology skills to be used in various curriculum areas as well as develop our students’ geographic and cultural knowledge using different 21st century technology tools. Problem, Issue, or Possibility Objectives and...
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