This Message Center is organized and operated by David Vitale Watertown teachers have a chance to learn about and work with Web based tools that support classroom teaching and learning.

Learning has changed and new tools are changing the Web from a distribution network (one-way street) to a multi-modal communications and collaboration platform. 

The WUSD's Curriculum and Instruction and Instructional Technology areas are developing a platform to help our teachers learn about and work with Web 2.0 technologies that support instruction.  Weblogs, digital storytelling, roundtable discussions, podcasts, video, and a scaffold for organizing problems, projects, and questions are among the many features that will help us deliver content and curriculum while advancing our professional skills in an ever changing educational landscape. 

With the assistance of Bob Logan and Dave Vitale participants in this hands-on experience will:

• Upload and monitor classroom assignments
• Learn about and build instructional units that are based on problems, projects, and inquiries
• Develop and monitor an online, asynchronous learning environment and its related components
• Demonstrate accountability for teacher’s professional growth and practice
• Use new instructional tools and pedagogies that build student skills in problem solving and critical thinking   
• Provide feedback on how the tools can be improved to best serve teachers and students

Other information:

Students will be those already enrolled in your face-to-face class and will continue to attend on a daily basis.  This is not a pure on-line experience, but a chance to work tools in preparation for alternative programming options in the future.
  
Target audience:  Grades 5-12

Credits:  3 - through Viterbo University

Cost:       $240 (participants may apply Title IIa allocation).  Audits are okay. 

Dates:     October - May (initial meeting October 2).  Most meetings and support will be done in small groups or on an individual basis.  We will also try to meet during the school day as often as possible in an effort to provide support directly within the context of the daily work of teachers. There will be 2 or 3 large group meetings that will be discussed on October 2. 

Contact Dave Vitale or Bob Logan for more details or contact Lynn Linskens (262-1460) to sign up.

posted August 31, 2007 « back to Message Center home

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