Welcome to the

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Cyber CAFE

• Welcome to the

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Welcome Todays Panel

• Collier County Public Schools Instructional
  Technology Department
• Martha Green, Instructional Technology
  SpecialistProject Manager, EETT Cyber Café Grant
• Golden Gate Elementary School
• Marilou Andrews, Principal
• Sean Brosig, 5th Grade Teacher
• Golden Terrace Elementary School
• David Glennon, Principal
• Cathy Honiball, 5th Grade Teacher
• Jennifer Knutowski, 5th Grade Teacher
• Golden Gate Middle School
• Geronimo Mulholland, Assistant Principal for
  Curriculum
• Priscilla McGuire, Science Teacher
• Mary West, Reading and Language Arts Teacher

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Golden Gate Elementary
850 students 79 from non-English Speaking
homes 90 Qualify for Free/Reduced Lunch
66 Hispanic 14 Creole 11 Black 7 White
2 Other
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Golden Terrace Elementary
890 students 72 non-English Speaking Homes 93
Free/Reduced Lunch
66 Hispanic 10 Creole 11 White 9 Black 4
Other
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Golden Gate Middle School
891 students 69 non-English Speaking Homes 82
Free/Reduced Lunch
58 Hispanic 17 Black 12 White 10 Creole 3
Other
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What is Cyber Café?

• EETT (Enhancing Education Through Technology)
  Grant
• Our process for transforming classrooms to
  include 21st century tools and skills
• Collaborative effort between the district,
  schools, and students

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Who is involved?

• Targeted 5th , 6th and ELL students (grades 3 -8)
  within one feeder system in Collier County
• Targeted teachers involved in intense training
  and coaching
• School Administrators and district personnel
  including subject area and ELL coordinators

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Our Goals

• Teachers will exhibit competency in creating
  instructional environment that authentically
  embeds Web 2.0 technologies through project based
  learning opportunities
• Increase academic performance in the target
  population in science and language arts

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How are we doing it

• Teachers participated in Florida Digital Educator
  Training Summer 2008
• Teachers participate in every other week after
  school training in Web 2.0 tools, technology
  integration and project based learning
• Provision of one-to-one laptops for all students
  in targeted teachers classes

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Our Timeline

• May 2008 Teacher participants identified
• June 2008 Teachers attend Florida Digital
  Educator
• July August 2008 Prepared laptop, software,
  peripheral orders
• August 2008 September 2009 Teacher
  Training/Curriculum Writing/Action Research
• September 2008 Placed laptop orders
• November 2009 Placed laptops in classrooms
  (finally)
• Throughout monitor progress

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Menu of Choices-

• Trainings include but are not limited to

• Angel
• Wikis
• Podcasting
• Voki
• Photobucket
• Blogging
• Social bookmarking

• Discovery Science
• Probeware
• Laptop Care and Maintenance
• Classroom Procedures
• Shared Best Practices
• Lesson Planning/Writing
• Marzano and Project-based learning strategies

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Discovery Education and Virtual Labs
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Using Angel in the 11 classroom
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Exploration vs. Just Giving the Answer
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Using Probeware
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Using Web 2.0 to Build Skills
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Student Web 2.o files

• http//angel.collier.k12.fl.us

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Classroom Changes are Evident
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Teachers are key to changing classrooms
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Action Research

• Provides vehicle for teachers to evaluate changes
  in classroom practice
• Monitored by Mentors
• Teachers address REAL issues in their own
  classrooms

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Challenges

• Time
• Funding
• Time
• Funding
• You get the idea!!!

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Changes witnessed

• Increase in collaborative work by and with
  students
• Increase in time on task
• Decrease in student behavior issues

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Questions??????

• This presentation can be reviewed at
• http//www.collier.k12.fl.us/technology/instructio
  nal/videos/CyberCafeFETC/200920FETC20Cyber20Caf
  e20Presentation.pps

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Contact us

• Martha Green
• Instructional Technology Specialist
• Collier County Public Schools
• greenma_at_collier.k12.fl.us
• 239 377-0431

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