2009-03-18

=**LITT Meeting - March 18, 2009**=

RBUSD Lead Instructional Technology Teachers Meeting March 18, 2009 8:00AM to 3:30PM

**Short Agenda**
Data Collection with //Survey Monkey// Social Bookmarking for Professional Development with //Delicious// RSS for Professional Development with //Google Reader// (Time Permitting) LUNCH Teacher Leadership Discussion Online Learning Communities with //Ning// Streaming Video in Education with //Ustream// (Time Permitting)

Welcome Activity

 * Today's Welcome Activity
 * [|Welcome Activities] (A Blog Post)

Overview: Data Collection for Data Driven Decision Making using [|Survey Monkey]

 * Demonstration: The Evaluation for This Session
 * Walk-Through: Design, Collect, and Analyze
 * [|Survey Monkey Help]
 * [|Professional Development Evaluations] (A Blog Post)

Activity: Create A Proof-of-Concept Survey (For Use in Your Roll as a Teacher or as a LITT)

 * Create a survey you might actually use with your students, your staff, or with parents.
 * Post a link to your survey below to share with your fellow LITTs (who will be test-participants for you):
 * Take Cindy's survey: []
 * Take Diane's survey: []
 * Take Susi's Survey []
 * Take Eileen's Survey []
 * Take Jirika's Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=U7TH68szzSW4izxiklwrWg_3d_3d
 * Take Julie's Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=prOppmrClIFwQer0RR3qcQ_3d_3d
 * Take Bonnie's Survey: []
 * Take Nadine's Survey: []
 * Take Julie's Survey: []
 * Take a staff survey: []
 * Take Tim's survey: []
 * Take Amanda's survery: []
 * Take Christina's survey: []
 * Take Susi's homeworkd survey []


 * If you'd like to... create a copy of your survey to use with real participants.

Overview: Social Bookmarking for Professional Development using Delicious

 * See the [|Social Bookmarking in Plain English] video from the Common Craft Show
 * See also the wikipedia article on [|Social Bookmarking]
 * [|Join Now]
 * Install [|Bookmarklets] for your Browser (See [|Bookmarking Tools] for more tools)

Activity 2: Grow Your Personal Learning Network on Delicious

 * Network - Add People
 * Subscriptions - Subscribe to Tags (Keywords)
 * [|Del.icio.us for Teachers] - A wiki with lots of teachers' user names! Find others - and add yourself!
 * [|Add your delicious account to this form]! (And [|view the results here].)

Review: RSS for Professional Development using Google Reader (Time Permitting)
 
 * See our previous RSS page.
 * See the [|Google Reader in Plain English] video from the Common Craft Show
 * Review of Subscribing with [|Google Reader]
 * Overview of Share and Share with Notes (and Tags)
 * Adding "Friends"

Activity: Subscribe, Read, and Share with Notes (Time Permitting)

 * Post a link to your shared items page below:
 * Your shared items page here!

LUNCH - 11:30 to 12:30

Discussion: Teacher Leadership & The Roll of The LITTs

 * [|Shared Google Doc for Note Taking]

Overview: Online Learning Communities using Ning

 * See the [|Social Networking in Plain English] video from the Common Craft show.
 * Walk-Through of [|Classroom 2.0]
 * More Examples:
 * For Professional Development
 * Classroom 2.0:[| http://www.classroom20.org]
 * The CUE Community: [|http://community.cue.org]
 * The League Learning Network (CLMS/CLHS): [|http://leaguelearn.ning.com]
 * For Students:
 * AP World History at West Hills: [|http://apworldhistory.ning. com/]
 * Students (and Educators) Making a Difference: [|http:// workingtogether2makeadifferenc e.ning.com/]
 * Student Videos about Changing Education: [|http://netgened. grownupdigital.com/]
 * Collaborative Site for Creation of Global Music Video: []
 * And Many More:
 * Ning in Education: []
 * Social Networks in Education: http://socialnetworksined. wikispaces.com/
 * Walk-Through of Creating a New Online Learning Community (for LITTs)

Activity A: Create a Proof-of-Concept Community for Your Class

 * Create an Online Learning Community you might use with your students. Include elements you think might be helpful and give some thought to how the layout and design might best support student learning. (If you actually use this, it will almost certainly evolve.)
 * Post a link to your new Online Learning Community below:
 * []
 * Check out Amanda's Alta Vista social network. I am planning on using it with my fourth grade team to help us facilitate the sharing of documents and resources we've created. I'd like to have other 4th grade teachers in the district join too! []
 * Here is Cindy's Spanish Amigo's page--not much yet! http://amigosderedondo.ning.com/
 * Here's Diane's 6th grade social studies-please join []
 * Here is Susi's Jefferson Social Network []
 * Here is Tim's first steps toward a network for AP Calculus AB []

Activity B: Contribute to a LITT Community

 * Note: This can essentially replace our Google Group.
 * Join the LITT community created during the walk-through.
 * Make contributions, such as any of the following:
 * A Blog Post
 * A Forum Topic or Question
 * An Instructional Video or Images
 * A Subgroup
 * Respond to others contributions.

Demonstration: Streaming Video in Education using Ustream (Time Permitting)

 * See We All Scream for Ustream for Examples and An Outline
 * **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NEW: ** Ustream now has an application that allows you to stream from your (jailbroken) iPhone! - []

Reflection Activity

 * Today's Reflection Activity
 * [|Reflection Activies] (Another Blog Post - But Slightly Less Refined)

[|Online Evaluation] [|Take this evaluation in Spanish]!

[|Evaluation Results]

This wiki was originally developed by: [|Mark Wagner, Ph.D.] President, Educational Technology and Life Corporation