Comments on: Activity – Technology boot camp for administrators

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

What a great idea! I confess that I’d like to steal and adapt this idea here in Ohio. Do you have plans for how long you will spend on each topic, or will that be dictated by the needs of the group? Please continue to post updates on your progress!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Chris, after we’re done today, I’ll post in this comment area approximately how long we spent on each topic. Yes, do this! Goodness knows administrators need it!

By: Scott Friedman

Scott Friedman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Great to hear what is happening! I too would like to borrow thoughts and content regarding the topics and adapt for our administrative team and possibly our state association in Washington. Thanks for all you do!

By: Lin Jenkins

Lin Jenkins — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Chris–
I’m interested too (for my admins) and I live in Dayton. Let me know if you get this up & running– maybe in connection with eTech Ohio?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

As promised, here are the approximate time allocations for what we did during our 1.5 days with a group of 30 Iowa administrators:

SESSION 1 (3 hours)
Intros / getting connected to wireless / creating climate of safety – 15 min
Setting up Google account – 15 min
Creating Blogger blog and posting 1st post – 25 min
BREAK (10 min)
Playing around with Blogger – 35 min
Getting started with Google Reader – 20 min
BREAK (10 min)
Continuing with Google Reader, RSS feeds, Technorati – 50 min
Completing end-of-session online evaluation form – 5 min

SESSION 2 (3 hours)
Blogger review – 15 min
Google Reader review – 5 min
Getting started with Google Docs – 35 min
BREAK (10 min)
Playing around with Google Docs – 30 min
Quick intro of iGoogle, Google Calendar – 5 min
Getting started with Twitter – 20 min
BREAK (10 min)
Playing around with Twitter, Twibes, Twitlet – 55 min

SESSION 3 (3 hours)
Apologizing for doing a terrible job with our Twitter stuff and confusing everyone – 5 min (gotta rethink how we did that!)
Playing around with bit.ly – 20 min
Playing around with Skype – 30 min
BREAK (10 min)
Playing around with Skype – 10 min
Uploading a picture from digital camera into Blogger post – 25 min
Introducing Flickr – 20 min
BREAK (10 min)
Demonstrating Animoto – 15 min
Playing around with Jing – 15 min
Demonstrating YouTube upload, QuickCapture – 15 min
Wrap-up – 5 min
Completing end-of-session online evaluation form – 5 min

That’s as far as we got. It went well. Percent of participants that would like to return for a follow-up session to learn even more stuff = 100%. We learned some lessons for next time and I’ll likely blog about those. Hope this helps!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

What a fantastic idea! Would love to know how it turned out. I too am going to take your idea and suggest that we do this with our admin team in VA. What better way to advance your technology program by educating those that actually do the decision making.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Scott – I missed the opportunity (filled quicker than I expected) but have heard good comments from colleagues. Sounds like you have some interest around the state. Hope you don’t wait too long before setting up another bootcamp with SAI. Good Luck.

By: Jeff Schumacher

Jeff Schumacher — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Need to construct safe space for our teachers to sandbox these tools – and provide co dituons within which they can construct learning experiences for srudents to use in a d out of the classroom.

By: Jeff Schumacher

Jeff Schumacher — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Forgive my spelling above as I am learning how to accurately use my smartphone (iPhone) for communicating;)! Fingers to large, patience a bit short.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

I wish we would do something like this at our school. What a great idea! Many times teachers are stonewalled when they propose new ideas in our district because the administrators do not understand the technology. They are afraid of it, so they quash creativity instead of fostering it.