Digital Learning Cadre Orientation

1. Digital Learning Cadre Orientation • Welcome! • Please sign into the chat section – name and district. • We will prompt you to test your speakers. • We will prompt you to test your microphone.

2. Digital Learning CadreeLearning Event October 11, 2012

3. Welcome • Thank you for being here. • Please sign in to the chat window with your name and district/school name. • We will record the meeting for later reference. • The chat room is monitored and the facilitator can see your conversation.

4. The DLC Leadership Team • New Castle • Vicki Green (Red Clay SD) • Alyssa Moore (Christina) • Kent • Lisa Enright (Capital SD) • Sussex • Lori Roe (Cape Henlopen SD)

5. DLC Online Meetings – how they work • There will be two parts: • Meeting • Professional Development (PD) • The intent is that the PD will always have a link to: • Common Core State Standards (CCSS) • Web 2.0 tools (online tools for creating, collaborating, and sharing) • We hope you join us for ALL parts of the meeting, but you determine your educational path. • For today, we will logout of this “room” and login to a different “room” for the PD.

6. Business Topics • Speak Up (Project Tomorrow) • iSafe Internet Safety Curriculum • Digital Learning Day

7. Vendor Request – November Meeting • Schoolology (www.schoology.com) • Compares their product to Blackboard, Moodle, or Edmodo • SaaS (Software as aService), cloud-based, LMS solution incorporates online learning, course management, and social networking in one easy-to-use, easy-to-implement, integrated learning platform. • Schoology’s pricing model allows teachers to use the product for free. The Enterprise-level of the platform is priced as an annual subscription to a school or district-wide site license plus one time implementation cost. The annual subscription is calculated based on a single multiplier, which is student enrollment. This price ranges anywhere from $10-$6 per student, depending on the enrollment volumes. • No districts in Delaware are using the Enterprise version of Schoology. There are more than 10 school districts using the free version of the platform to various capacities.

8. Speak Up (http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/)

9. Speak Up – Basic Details • National Research Project from Project Tomorrow • Suite of online surveys and reports • Used to collect authentic feedback from students, educators and parents on important education issues • Current Surveys

10. Speak Up - Survey • The surveys consist of a series of multiple-choice questions plus one or two open-ended type questions (depending on the survey) at the end where you can write in your response. • The survey should only take you about 20 minutes to complete. • In addition, on the parents and educators surveys they ask several demographic questions that are optional. They use these responses during their data analysis to provide additional context to their national data findings.

11. Speak Up – Survey Results • Survey results are available to you online, free of charge at the end of the survey period. • They summarize and share the national findings with education and policy leaders in Washington DC and your state capitol. • Speak Up 2012 will open now and runs through Mid-December. • Results will be available to participating schools and districts in February, 2013.

12. Speak Up - Promotional Materials

13. Speak Up – Administering the Survey • Visit Survey Site • Select the appropriate survey • Teacher, Librarian or Media Specialist • Administrator • Look up your school • Make a refined survey selection • District Administrator • School Site Administrator • Technology Leaders Survey • Now, the VERY VERYVERY IMPORTANT PART

14. Speak Up – Administering the Survey Delaware’s Secret Word: su_de

15. Speak Up Survey - Details • You will need to set up a District/Charter Speak Up Administrator with Speak Up. An email will follow. • Delaware State Report from 2011 is posted. • District/Charter report will look the same – available in pdf or Excel Spreadsheet. • Data can be accessed by building.

16. Questions about Speak Up?

17. iSAFE Implementation • Each district has an iSAFE administrator. • Upload a STAT • No STAT ≠ No curriculum Access • Add teachers that will teach the curriculum • Provide grade level access to curriculum • Delete teachers (with caution) • Run reports

18. iSAFE Implementation • When designing your curriculum you MUST cover 3 topics: • Safety on the Internet • Appropriate behavior while on online, on social networking Web sites, and in chat rooms; and • Cyberbullying awareness and response.

19. iSAFE Implementation • Videos – • 2012-2013 videos should arrive in two weeks. • Distributed (your choice): • At the November meeting • Picked up at Collette • Shipped via State Mail • You ONLY need the videos IF you are teaching video-based lessons OR webcast lessons. • Videos may be uploaded to your district server if you file a Subscription & Licensing Agreement with iSAFE. Form is on the CD.

20. Questions about iSAFE?

21. Digital Learning Day (http://www.digitallearningday.org/) • Digital Learning Day is a national campaign • Date: February 6, 2013 • Celebrates teachers • Spotlights successful instructional practices and effective use of technology in classrooms across the country. • Participation is free • Delaware participated last year; we will participate this year.

22. Digital Learning Day - How does Delaware want to participate? • Think about this for the November meeting • Events, Activities, Contest? • Consider some possible options: • Highlight the best Digital Learning Activity in the EACH School • Who is that teacher? What is he/she doing? • Educators participate in a blog/wiki/discussion board • Connected Kids projects • DLC hosts an online conference • Come prepared to discuss this at the November Meeting.

23. Questions aboutDigital Learning Day?

24. DLC Leadership Team Update • Group meeting and planning • Year-long schedule; suggestions invited • Consistency in format – meetings in documentation • Still need to elect a leader and determine which members will serve 1 year terms • For assistance, please feel free to call your county leaders

25. October Independent Learning Activity • Read chapter 10 from the book ‘21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn’ (Gifted to members last year & posted online). • Visit web links posted on the blog as additional readings • Share your reflections of these readings by clicking Leave a Commentin relation to your professional role in instructional technology. • Consider these Guiding Questions when leaving your comment: • How does Instructional Technology impact education today? • How do we meet the needs of today’s adult and student learners? • Post your reflections and reply to 2 other posted comments.

26. October Independent Learning Activity

28. October Independent Learning Activity

29. Thank you for attending. • All resources for this meeting can be found at http://www.dcet.k12.de.us/instructional/DLC • Note: If you registered for the independent learning activity, you have been unregistered. Please register when you have FINISHED the activity. • To join the Collaborate Moderator training starting at 11:00 AM, visit the link sent on the agenda or posted to the October DLC webpage.