Administrator 2.0
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by Tammy Stephens, CEO of The Stephens Group
Last week the Stephens Group finished baseline reports
for five EETT grants involving 25 school districts, 315 teachers,
52 library media specialists, 77 teachers and 12,708 students.
One of the things I have been busy doing the last couple of
months is traveling around and working with administrators to help us gather
data by conducting walk-throughs in their buildings.
The Stephens Group approaches evaluation and
both a formative and summative process. "The role of local
engagement, collaboration, and feedback is paramount. Teachers and
administrators at the local site should be participants in, rather than
recipients of the evaluation" (Means et.al., 2003, p. 6). Evaluation research that is responsive to
local concerns, constraints, and priorities can be structured and synthesized
to produce knowledge about effective uses of educational technology that has
high face validity within local communities and still informs wider research as
well as practitioner and policy audiences" (Means et.al.,p. 6). Read the whole article
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Using Laptops as a Student Response System
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Alan Degener, a middle school technology
teacher at Floyd Dryden Middle School in Juneau, Alaska, sent us this article on a system he developed to use laptops in his classroom as a student response system.
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CEPTA
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Tammy Stephens is Speaking at the CETPA (California Educational Technology Professionals Association) on Wednesday, November 18th from 11:00am-12:15pm.
Session Title: How Media is Changing The Way We Learn
Descripition: Access to
technology has allowed us to engage in a range of new media activities
including; social networking, blogging, gaming, instant messaging,
podcasting, creating videos and sharing them on the web. These new
forms of media allow us to communicate and collaborate in new ways. We
will look at what the research says in terms of how people learn
differently with the use of these new forms of media.
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Online Tool of the Month
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Awesome Highlighter
by Tammy Lind, Director of Face-to-Face Professional DevelopmentMany times our
students struggle to pick out important information when using the internet for
research on a specific topic. Using a tool called Awesome Highlighter,
students and teachers can work together to highlight the most important
information on a web site and then save the link so that the student can return
to the site while working independently. The highlighted areas show up
and can be copied to the clipboard or into a word processor.
To learn more about Awesome Highlighter and other web-based tools to help our
struggling and gifted students, register to attend the Differentiation In the
21st Century Workshops on February 6th. Check out The Stephens Group Professional Development Page for more information.
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