Tend Your Professional Development Garden


Making Connections

NUA Strategies
http://staff.wayzata.k12.mn.us/moodle/course/view.php?id=76&topic=11

Common and Formative Assessments
http://staff.wayzata.k12.mn.us/moodle/course/view.php?id=86

Our Jobs

Technology Integration Specialists
· Responsible for most technology integration professional development in the district
· Work directly with teachers on strategies for integrating technology
· Work with curriculum resource teachers to integrate technology into curriculum
· We define technology to include hardware, software, and web-based tools, PLUS digital literacy and 21st century skills


21st Century Skills

Digital Literacy

Constructivism

It's a Multimedia World

Technology facilitates all of these ideas!



NUA Strategies

Data And Assessment

High Stakes Testing

New Language Arts and Math Curricula

Individualizing Instruction

Learning Teams
Where Do The Resources Go?


Before or After School
One day in August, one in November, one in January - shared by all C&I Groups
Summer
Academy of Wayzata Educators - 12 hours of class time
Online Options


You are more likely to behave yourself into new ways of thinking than thinking yourself into new ways of behaving.   -Michael Fullan
Dave Zukor and Belinda Hartzler
Technology Integration Specialists
Wayzata Public Schools
david.zukor@wayzata.k12.mn.us
belinda.hartzler@wayzata.k12.mn.us
http://wayspace.wayzata.k12.mn.us/blogs/digitaleyes
http://wayspace.wayzata.k12.mn.us/blogs/web20










Atomic Learning Assessment - http://atomiclearning.com
Skyward
Performance Matters
Student Response Systems















What Has Happened?
1. Technology Integration is modeled for teachers AND administrators far more than ever before.
2. Technology is becoming the tool that facilitates learning rather than the cool add on it once was.
3. Teachers are seeing connections between technology and learning.

1. We are exploring ILP modules in MOODLE
2. Expanding our online presence
3. Sharing, sharing, sharing
4. Social Networking-Wayspace
5. Exploration of Virtual 
Environments

1. ADKAR    
* Awareness of the need to change    
*Desire to participate and support the change   
*Knowledge of how to change (and what the change looks like)    
*Ability to implement the change on a day-to-day basis    *Reinforcement to keep the change in place

2. Managing from the Middle
Strategic Sneezing

3. Service Oriented Leadership

4. Patience, patience, patience

5. Hold their hand while you push them over the edge :)

6. Build bridges, not silos
Flexible, Self-Paced Professional Development
Blogs - http://wayspace.wayzata.k12.mn.us/blogs/digitaleyes/
Curriculum Website - http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/curriculum/index.php
Atomic Learning - http://atomiclearning.com/
Smart Recorder - http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/wps/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1627%3Atechnology-in-action-21st-century-classroom&catid=157%3Atechnology&Itemid=1092&limitstart=1
Google Docs - http://docs.google.com/a/isd284.com/#all
MOODLE - http://staff.wayzata.k12.mn.us/moodle/
Video
Keep Certified - http://keepcertified.ties.k12.mn.us/
Social Bookmarking - http://www.delicious.com/belhartz
Social Networking - http://www.twitter.com
RSS - http://www.netvibes.com
Data and Assessment Summit - The Technology Strand - http://staff.wayzata.k12.mn.us/moodle/course/view.php?id=72
2008 - http://staff.wayzata.k12.mn.us/moodle/course/view.php?id=23
2009 - http://staff.wayzata.k12.mn.us/moodle/course/view.php?id=76
Summer Tech Institute
Internet - http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html
Podcasting - http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/oakwood/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21&Itemid=498
SmartBoards - http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/curriculum/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=85
Digital Storytelling
CCC - http://ccc.wayzata.k12.mn.us
The Plot We Tend
The Acres Around Us
Staff Development Options
Delivering Professional Development in New Ways Through Technology
Data and Evaluation
Personal Learning Networks
Using Multimedia to Engage Student
 What's Next?
How to Get Started?
Blogging
http://wayspace.wayzata.k12.mn.us/blogs/
Curriculum Review
http://reviewcommittee.wikispaces.com/
Using Web 2.0 Tools as Meeting or Learning Enhancers
http://docs.google.com/a/isd284.com/#all
http://prezi.com/qqumuhlulece/
http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/curriculum/
Language Arts/Math Curriculum
http://staff.wayzata.k12.mn.us/moodle/
Digging
Tilling
Fertilizing
Planting the Seeds
Mulching
Watering
Pruning
Pruning
Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.  -Kobi Yamada
You are more likely to behave yourself into new ways of thinking than thinking yourself into new ways of behaving.   -Michael Fullan
http://wayzata.ed.voicethread.com/#u15523