avoca_ning

  Avoca School District NING 1. **The problem or question.** What is the problem (or opportunity) you wish to address with your project? Describe what you wish to change, for example, aspects of content (e.g. test scores), process (e.g. ability to collaborate), climate (e.g. morale), or tech use (e.g. embedded use of technology in instruction). Be as specific as possible in describing what you want to change.  cmb: creation of NING for district would provide collaboration for teachers to increase connection between grade levels and buildings, expert voices could provide not only technological assistance but expert assistance in other areas(mentoring, reading, etc)  ddp: The question that I have about this is that it pretty much overlaps what we already do with email.

  2. **Objectives and Assessment** Develop objectives and authentic assessments for determining what you want learners (adults or students) to be able to know and do after the project and how you will determine they have indeed mastered the objectives your project laid out.     cmb: teachers should become comfortable finding answers to district issues and engaging in constructive, professional conversation about district issues.   3. **Networked Design** Then think about how you will design your project so participants can share, connect, collaborate, or move to some type of collective action.  

cmb: collaboration can be done f2f or using this wiki to share and expand on ideas. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">

4. **Set the Context** What have others done (at your institution or elsewhere) to address this problem? Do some research as a team to see what others have done. Get ideas. Divi up different research roles to individual team members. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">cmb: we have not really had a tool like this to help build a connection between district groups - other schools have started to use this for technology but possibly not for other topics. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">5. **Proposal** How will you plan to solve the problem or answer the question? Describe what you will do to address the problem/opportunity described earlier. Are you doing anything differently than others have attempted? Why or why not? Why do you propose that your approach will succeed better than prior attempts or will work better with your students or faculty? <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> cmb: distributed support is important here and possibly this is where collaborative tech environment would help - involving classroom teachers from this committee as expert voices will be important. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> 6. **Evaluation** How will you determine the success and effectiveness of your solution and the impact of your project? Do you plan to determine pre and post results? How will you know that the behavior of your students/faculty has changed/improved? Note: You may not be able to obtain your results by the end of your year. However, you should have a plan in place to evaluate your project and report on the results. The idea is to develop a solid plan to share with others. If you implement this year or next is entirely up to you. When possible make this an action research project. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">cmb: statistics are built into NING(amount of posts, successful conclusions) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">

7. **Timeline** How will your project progress? Indicate the dates of project initiation and completion for each step of your design, implementation, and evaluation. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> cmb: focus in technology grade level meetings for initial instruction throughout the Fall, followup as needed, support from avoca expert voices. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">

8. **Documentation** How will you document your progress along the way? Will you share in your team group room in NING? Will you create a collaborative blog? A wiki? A Google Doc? Choose one and then everyone will use the document to make the process transparent. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> cmb: this wiki or the actual NING as it is constructed. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 198);">SW: I am a fan of creating a NING or some other form of social network for 37, I think it would be a great reference and discussion spot. Teaching can be a very secluded profession, and it would be nice to share with other grades, teams, etc ... I also think that those that are less than comfortable with tech would be able to gain confidence by using it and it wouldn't be one more thing that the teachers 'have' to do, but something they might enjoying being a part of.