Showing posts with label ISTE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISTE. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Keeping up with the GAME Plan

As follow up to my GAME Plan post from last week I will give you an update on how I am doing. To guide this post I will use the following three questions:

What resources will you need to carry out your plan (video, reading, experts or colleagues, etc)?

The main resources I will use are Dicovery Educators Network (DEN), ISTE, and my school's Tech Committee. I have signed up for a webinar coming in the following weeks with DEN. The webinar is on all the updates to the DEN and to Discovery Education streaming. I am excited about this because both resources are really cool and they always make lots of updates during the summer. For my professional development plan I am working with my Tech Committee to develop a training on Google Apps. We have a training staff meeting scheduled for Monday, Sept. 27th. At the training I will be teaching how to use GMail as an educator.
What additional information do you need?

The webinar I have signed up for is something I can't really prepare for or need anything for. The Tech Committee training though I need to prepare a lot for. I personally use GMail for my e-mail and know lots of tricks including themes and labs. I will be watching the Google Apps for Education training videos though to learn new tricks. I actually meet the lady this summer that designed these training videos so I know they have lots of good ideas. Then I need to make a plan for my part of the presentation. Does anyone have any tips for GMail or any other Google Apps?
What steps have you been able to take so far?

So far I have been able to sign-up for the webinar and see an brief description of what will be going on during the webinar. For Google Apps I have been using several of them for years so I have lots of background information to build on. This prior knowledge will be great to teach to my fellow teachers so that they can be more effective at their job.