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Cyber CAFE

Welcome to the. Cyber CAFE. Welcome: Today’s Panel. Collier County Public Schools Instructional Technology Department Martha Green, Instructional Technology Specialist Project Manager, EETT Cyber Café Grant Golden Gate Elementary School Marilou Andrews, Principal

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Cyber CAFE

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  1. Welcome to the Cyber CAFE

  2. Welcome: Today’s Panel • Collier County Public Schools Instructional Technology Department • Martha Green, Instructional Technology SpecialistProject Manager, EETT Cyber Café Grant • Golden Gate Elementary School • Marilou Andrews, Principal • Sean Brosig, 5th Grade Teacher • Golden Terrace Elementary School • David Glennon, Principal • Cathy Honiball, 5th Grade Teacher • Jennifer Knutowski, 5th Grade Teacher • Golden Gate Middle School • Geronimo Mulholland, Assistant Principal for Curriculum • Priscilla McGuire, Science Teacher • Mary West, Reading and Language Arts Teacher

  3. Golden Gate Elementary 850 students 79% from non-English Speaking homes 90% Qualify for Free/Reduced Lunch 66% Hispanic 14% Creole 11% Black 7% White 2% Other

  4. Golden Terrace Elementary 890 students 72% non-English Speaking Homes 93% Free/Reduced Lunch 66% Hispanic 10% Creole 11% White 9% Black 4% Other

  5. Golden Gate Middle School 891 students 69% non-English Speaking Homes 82% Free/Reduced Lunch 58% Hispanic 17% Black 12% White 10% Creole 3% Other

  6. What is Cyber Café? • EETT (Enhancing Education Through Technology) Grant • Our process for transforming classrooms to include 21st century tools and skills • Collaborative effort between the district, schools, and students

  7. Who is involved? • Targeted 5th , 6th and ELL students (grades 3 -8) within one feeder system in Collier County • Targeted teachers involved in intense training and coaching • School Administrators and district personnel including subject area and ELL coordinators

  8. Our Goals • Teachers will exhibit competency in creating instructional environment that authentically embeds Web 2.0 technologies through project based learning opportunities • Increase academic performance in the target population in science and language arts

  9. How are we doing it • Teachers participated in Florida Digital Educator Training Summer 2008 • Teachers participate in every other week after school training in Web 2.0 tools, technology integration and project based learning • Provision of one-to-one laptops for all students in targeted teachers classes

  10. Our Timeline • May 2008 Teacher participants identified • June 2008 Teachers attend Florida Digital Educator • July –August 2008 Prepared laptop, software, peripheral orders • August 2008 – September 2009 Teacher Training/Curriculum Writing/Action Research • September 2008 Placed laptop orders • November 2009 Placed laptops in classrooms (finally) • Throughout – monitor progress

  11. Menu of Choices- Trainings include but are not limited to • Angel • Wikis • Podcasting • Voki • Photobucket • Blogging • Social bookmarking • Discovery Science • Probeware • Laptop Care and Maintenance • Classroom Procedures • Shared Best Practices • Lesson Planning/Writing • Marzano and Project-based learning strategies

  12. Discovery Education and Virtual Labs

  13. Using Angel in the 1:1 classroom

  14. Exploration vs. Just Giving the Answer

  15. Using Probeware

  16. Using Web 2.0 to Build Skills

  17. Student Web 2.o files http://angel.collier.k12.fl.us

  18. Classroom Changes are Evident

  19. Teachers are key to changing classrooms

  20. Action Research • Provides vehicle for teachers to evaluate changes in classroom practice • Monitored by Mentors • Teachers address REAL issues in their own classrooms

  21. Challenges • Time • Funding • Time • Funding • You get the idea!!!

  22. Changes witnessed • Increase in collaborative work by and with students • Increase in time on task • Decrease in student behavior issues

  23. Questions?????? This presentation can be reviewed at: http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/technology/instructional/videos/CyberCafeFETC/2009%20FETC%20Cyber%20Cafe%20Presentation.pps

  24. Contact us Martha Green Instructional Technology Specialist Collier County Public Schools greenma@collier.k12.fl.us 239 377-0431

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