Project+3.3+-+Professional+Workshop+Tutorial+Overview

This is a lament heard throughout the professional education world.
===This Professional Development Tutorial was designed to address this question. It hopes to present, in a time efficient manner, a tutorial for use by educational professionals to update their toolbox of technological tips for the classroom. If designed for credit hours, modifications would be made. Those modifications are addressed later in this page. === = = =__ //**Who was the target of this tutorial?**// __=

//[|Needs Survey] //
===Follow this [|LINK] to view the survey that I used to gather information regarding the technology usage of my target audience. ===

=To view a Summary of the Survey Results Look Here!!/ =

=//The Workshop!!!!!!!! //= ===This workshop tutorial is divided into three components. One component addresses methods to increase both student and teacher peer collaboration. The second component addresses methods to improve the asynchronous communication with students outside of class and thirdly, to vary the format of student and teacher presentations.===

 3. To provide the teacher with ideas and the basic information necessary to utilize the selected application within a short amount of time.
=So To The Workshop We Go!!!!!!! =

=__//Inside the Creative Process//__ - a compilation of journal entries made throughout the developmental process for this workshop tutorial. =

Summary of the Post-Module Survey
=__//Final Reflections Below! //__=

Summary of the Professional Development Workshop Project
===Before beginning this assignment I thought the hardest part would be the technology itself. Coming up to speed on so many applications at one time, including how to make a wiki myself was challenging but the most difficult was to talk other teachers into taking the time to review it. I will still continue to ask others to review the wikipage so I might collect more data. I am concerned about the validity of data from the post-survey due to the small sample size. As with any first undertaking, the production of this workshop has been an eye-opening experience. If the workshop could be given for PLU credit, and the credit was necessary for re-certification, I believe the response to the workshop would have been very different. It is difficult for teachers to complete all of the required activities that are currently required of them. ===

Changes I would make to the workshop include:
===Have I learned a great deal from the development of this workshop? Definitely yes!!! Do I feel as if I have the experience to now go forward and create other workshops? YES!!!! ===
 * 1) ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Inclusion of each application that I had made for use within my classroom. I think that would help the participants to visualize how they could use the applications and increase their confidence in me as the designer as well. ===
 * 2) ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. If I were designing this for credit, I would set each area (collaboration, communication and presentation) as an independent module. ===
 * 3) ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Within each module, I would set a pre-quiz for the applications within each module. Then, in each module, students would be required to choose an application and complete the introductory tutorial. Next I would have the students complete an application in a format they could use in their classrooms and post their presentation on the wiki site for all members to view. Each member of the class would review and critique one project of another student. The students would then answer a post on the wiki discussing the positives and negatives of the development, and application in their classroom, of their projects. ===
 * 4) ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. The last two items I would add to each module would be a post-quiz over the applications covered and, at the end of the professional development module, a survey regarding their experience with each sub-module. ===