Leadership+2.0

Leadership 2.0 PD March 2010 - June 2010
Collaborating and communicating with Web 2.0 tools. Brian Mull from the November Learning team will be speaking to Administrators and School Building Leaders about 21st century skills that can move classrooms toward the 21st Century. Lead Teachers will further develop their leadership role in their school community. From sharing and communication strategies to creating resources for their schools. Objectives:
 * 1) Participating schools will develop sustainable professional connected learning communities that will provide participating school team members with appropriate resources and build an online community for sharing best practices as assessed by completed activities.
 * 2) Participating schools will recruit and prepare a team of student leaders who will serve as digital mentors to the school community as assessed by completed activities.

During this session, teachers will revisit tools that were shared at previous PD sessions. Web 2.0 tools and social collaboration strategies.
 * School Based Leadership Teams**

I. Welcome II. What does Teacher Leadership look like? III. What does Student Leadership look like?
 * Sharing Best Practices
 * What have you been working on since we last met with Alan November?

IV. Communication in your school: Giving your students a voice
 * NING
 * Wiki
 * Blog
 * Twitter
 * del.icio.us

V. Student Leadership in your school using screencasting
 * What would be useful for your class or school?
 * Creating a script - good plans mean good projects
 * Screencasting tools
 * Jing
 * Screenr
 * Screen Jelly
 * Uploading to web
 * Vimeo
 * School Tube
 * Teacher Tube

VI. How to create a plan for Student Tech Teams
 * Using online collaborative tools to communicate

VI. [|Evaluation]

Learn how to use Google Apps to manage information and collaborate with students and colleagues.
 * Google Apps for Productivity**

 I. Welcome and Introductions II. Advanced Google Search Techniques III. Google Custom Search IV.Google Docs V. Mini-Project: Create and Share a Google Document VI. iGoogle and Google Reader VII. Google Calendar VIII. Google Maps IX. Google Sites X. Evaluation
 * Creating a Custom Calendar
 * Creating and adding content to a personalized map.
 * Mini-Project: Creating a Personal Google Map
 * Adding google docs, spreadsheets, forms & presentations to your site
 * Final Project: Google Site

During this session we will be working to build Leadership capacity in school buildings.
 * Bulding Student Leadership**

I. Welcome II. Leadership 2.0 Goals III. Creating Leadership Capacity in Teachers
 * Lead teachers to manage school webspaces
 * Owner (Student Tech Team)


 * Lead teachers to manage school ning
 * Classroom NINGs
 * What is a NING? How can it impact leadership and instruction in my building?)
 * Ning Groups (Content Groups and Web 2.0 Groups should have lead teachers and student experts)


 * Lead teachers to manage student tutorial library (What should be in the library? Link to ICT skills if students are creating)
 * Where will it be hosted?
 * Which students?
 * Lead teachers to manage Student Tech Team
 * What?
 * Where?
 * When?

IV. Creating Leadership Capacity in Students
 * A Library of Student Created Tutorials Using Screen-casting (Remember that Teachers and Students can be leaders in content, tools and/or both)
 * Math
 * Science
 * Technology
 * Organizing an iSquad For Technology Support
 * Hardware issues
 * Connections
 * Internet
 * Printers
 * Software Issues
 * Installing Programs
 * Updating OS
 * Windows
 * Mac
 * Updating Anti-virus Programs

V. Collecting Grant Documentation VI. Evaluation


 * __Resources__**

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