EdTechTalk

A conversation about Professional Development best practices based the NYCIST Faculty Professional Development Meeting held on December 6, 2006. Highlights from that meeting can be found on the School Computing Wiki.

EdTechWeekly #11
December 10, 2006

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A conversation about Faculty Professional Development. We were joined by Bill Knauer, Director of Technology at Packer Collegiate School. The conversation began with three recent blog posts:

Arvind's Teachers Need Objectives
Bill Knauer on Packer's Tall Tuesdays
and Richard Kassissieh's on Laptop Computers and Teacher Change

Please check out the School Computing Wiki for notes from the meeting and the NYCIST (New York Independent School Technologists) web site and for the podcast (up soon) with even better thoughts and ideas about faculty professional development.

A conversation about the new projects that we are working on at our schools this year. Inspired by: K12Converge: From the Trenches. We discussed iPods, Video, Podcasting, Tablet PCs, SmartBoards, Faculty Professional Development and many other topics. We also started a new segment: Heard in our Schools. Check out the audio for details...