The Professional Learning Academy this week was AWESOME! I am so glad I had the opportunity to collaborate and brainstorm with some really amazing and innovative teachers in my district! I am super excited about some of the ideas we came up with and learned about (which I shall share in more detail very soon). Now, all I have to do is get to work on implementing them for this upcoming school year! Some of the topics and tools we discussed included...
- 21 Century Classroom Design
- Google Apps for Education: IGoogle, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Earth and more!
- Blogger - to be used as a class managment tool and as a living document of student work, projects, etc. throughout the school year
- Introduction Videos for 1st day of school
- Digital Citizenship and Proper care of 1:1 Devices
- Parent Letter for students that will be enrolled in the 21st Century Model Classrooms
