21st Century Learning #24: Faculty Professional Development

A conversation about Faculty Professional Development. We were joined by Bill Knauer, Director of Technology at Packer Collegiate School. The conversation began with three recent blog posts:

Arvind's Teachers Need Objectives [6]
Bill Knauer on Packer's Tall Tuesdays [7]
and Richard Kassissieh's on Laptop Computers and Teacher Change
[8]

Please check out the School Computing Wiki [9] for notes from the meeting and the NYCIST [10](New York Independent School Technologists) web site and for the podcast (up soon) with even better thoughts and ideas about faculty professional development.

Welcome
[arvind grover] hey jeff
[arvind grover] article 1 from Richard Kassissieh: http://www.kassblog.com/index.php?itemid=354 [12]
[Alex Ragone] http://www.21apples.org/articles/2006/11/28/teachers-need-objectives [13]
[Alex Ragone] http://www.kassblog.com/?itemid=354 [14]
[arvind grover] http://learningmix.org/2006/11/30/tall-tuesday-20/ [7]
[Alex Ragone] Hi Larry.
[arvind grover] Alex's post on faculty technology assessment: http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/11/17/faculty-technology-assessment/ [15]
[arvind grover] hi bill
[arvind grover] glad you made it
[bknauer] hi arvind
[bknauer] hi alex
[bknauer] i'm still losing the audio, though
[bknauer] weird
[arvind grover] uh oh
[arvind grover] we will bring you in to the skype call
[arvind grover] bills post: http://learningmix.org/2006/11/30/tall-tuesday-20/ [7]
[arvind grover] summercore: http://www.summercore.com [16]
[matt bhms] hi all...just able to join now
[Alex Ragone] Hi Matt.
[Alex Ragone] cool
[arvind grover] oh man, glad you made t
[arvind grover] slow chat room?
[Alex Ragone] you can skype me at alex.ragone
[matt bhms] have you already discussed the frontier program from chapin?
[Alex Ragone] began -- but would love to discuss some more.
[arvind grover] epic 2015: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic [17]
[Alex Ragone] Google Tools (Pack): http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us [18]
[matt bhms] how would you guage a teachers minimum tech abilities?
[DS] I think it depends on teaching style
[DS] the guide on the side already has an advantage
[matt bhms] right
[DS] in terms of technology integration
[DS] the learners will be like the faculty who figured out Google Apps
[DS] if they are challenged to "do their best"
[matt bhms] time for a mac arvind
[arvind grover] ha ha, sometimes i use my mac
[arvind grover] but my skype crashes there too
[DS] the wonders of skype
[DS] great anecdote re technology as language
[Alex Ragone] yep. go Bill.
[DS] frame of reference makes a big difference
[matt bhms] have to run all...enjoy!
[arvind grover] thanks for coming matt
[Alex Ragone] that's matt!
[DS] that's the key--technology has to be seen as a solution
[DS] the "aha" indeed--very cool
[bknauer] http://packerpedia.wikispaces.com [19]
[DS] great space
[arvind grover] Alex's workshop. Send your teachers! http://www.nysais.org/page.cfm?p=4&verbose=199&month=1&start=01/01/07 [20]
[bknauer] http://technology.wiki.packer.edu/web_20 [21]
[Alex Ragone] http://intranet2.collegiateschool.org/pd [22]
[DS] another worldbridges webcastathon, Alex?
[Alex Ragone] http://www.nycist.net/d/node/38 [23]
[Alex Ragone] yep, doug...
[DS] love the fact that I can be a "fly on the wall" and take in all the good stuff that's taking place in NYC -- thanks
[bknauer] thanks, ds
[larryk] Thanks, I enjoyed this.
[Alex Ragone] http://coverpage.pcs.k12.mi.us/geeked/ [24]
[DS] too funny
[Alex Ragone] yep...
[arvind grover] NPR article on Facebook cleanup: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6462504 [25]