Encouraging%20Change

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Encouraging Change

• Karen Work Richardson
• Chesterfield County Schools
• May 9, 2005

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What Do You Already Know?

• Snapshot of your school Think, Pair, Share
• Percentages/Types of Use
• Requirements
• Barriers
• Effective Encouragements
• How have you approached
• change in the past?

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Leadership and Change

• Its about relationships.
• Its about vision. (Write it down, right now.)
• Its about support. (Thats you!)

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Technology and the Curriculum

• Learning about (technology as curriculum)
• Learning from (technology provides curriculum)
• Learning with (technology supports curriculum)
• Teacher/Administrator Productivity Use
  databases, gradebooks, communication
• Classroom Management/Access Issues

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Remember, this is a system
Administrative and
Access
Vision
Skills
Time
Technical Support
What do your teachers need in order to integrate
technology effectively?
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GMOTT and ASSURE

• http//knowledgeloom.org/media/bpinter/1163/elemen
  ts.html
• Whats the philosophy? Is this always
  appropriate? Which teachers would feel
  comfortable with this?
• http//www.unca.edu/education/edtech/techcourse/as
  sure.htm
• Where is technology in this model? Which
  teachers would feel comfortable with this?

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Bridging the Gap with Webquests

• Animal Adventures
• Ponce De Leon
• What skills does this require? Use a template to
  create a webpage knowledge of curriculum
• What access does this require? Ability to publish
  a webpage
• What kind of time does this take? Several hours
• OR modify someone elses UVA Directory

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Technology Integration

• Making Choices to Meet Needs and Solve Problems
• The Secret Life of Bees

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Promoting Technology Use

• The same but betterTransparent Technologies
• Inspiration
• Digital microscopes
• Word processor
• PortaPortal

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Promoting Technology Use

• New things
• Blogs
• Wikipedia, the IvyRun Wiki
• Del.icio.us

• The Voices of Youth
• International News
• The International Boiling Point of Water

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Professional Development

• Decision Making Model http//www.ivyrun.com
• Webquests for Educators http//www.ivyrun.com
• Resource Mining
• Time to Create
• Classroom Management
• Time to Integrate

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Where Can You Learn More?

• Annenberg CPB Project http//www.learner.org
• Principles of Principals Video Workshop
• United Streaming http//www.unitedstreaming.com
• Hosts the Netfiles Program that features
  technology integration issues and vignettes
• PT3 Now! http//www.pt3now.org/
• Real-life examples of technology integration

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Where Can You Network?

• Virginia Learning http//www.virginialearning.org
  
• Your Own Blog http//schooltechleadershipblog.org
  /
• National Associations
• Secondary http//www.nassp.org/s_nassp/index.asp
• Elementary http//www.naesp.org/