March+Work+Session

March 12, 2010 I. Welcome, Review of Outcomes for the Day
 * Digital Citizenship Project Planning** **Day**

II. Share Classroom Successes with 21st Century Learning

III. Prioritize the Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship and Determine Primary Audience(s) We voted on our priorities - Digital Literacy, Rights and Responsibilities and Etiquette were the top vote getters.

IV. Review of Action Research/Team Plan a. Step 1: Define the Problem b. Step 2: Plan of Action/Proposal & Timeline c. Step 3: Data Collection d. Step 4: Analysis of Data/Evaluation e. Step 5: Plan for the Future/Documentation **Brainstorming on Plan of Action:**
 * Expectations and support are both important.
 * How do we build a vision for this work? How we get staff excited about the importance of 21st Century skills and this topic? How do we help staff understand these skills are critical for our students?
 * Idea: Brainstorming with colleagues ideas for "greening" up lessons
 * Investigate use of Waiver and Inservice days
 * Look at use of time - quick ideas and resources they can share
 * Blogging - highlighting outstanding projects going on in the district.
 * How can Edline help with this? How about Moodle?
 * Sharing subs - so that teachers can observe others integrating technology
 * Need to communicate that it's okay to take risks and have failures when you first try things; Need to model this for our colleagues - discussions, blogs....
 * How do we deal with change and get comfortable with this concept?

V. Determine our Purpose and Challenges through Outcome-Directed Thinking Initial Outcome-Directed Thinking Map on the problem of time that led to our project purpose statement. [|PLP Topic - TIme.pdf] Second Outcome-Directed Thinking Map on our Project Focus: Digital Rights and Responsibilities & Etiquette [|Rights and ResponsibilitiesEtiquette.pdf] Last brainstorming activity on NETS Teacher Standards that support the project as well as possible strategies to deploy to accomplish our purpose. [|Digital Citizenship project.pdf]

VI. Address Challenges and Strategies to Overcome Them


 * Lunch ** with Nettrekker, Presentation by Dan Richardson

VII. Set Project Timelines, Share Digital Citizenship Resources

VIII. Next Steps 1. Trial NetTrekker as a tool for supporting research and the development of information and media literacy skills. 2. Continue to record on the Digital Citizenship in Action wiki page your 21st Century project work. 3. Be prepared to share our focus and direction on April 6th - our final ICC work session. 4. Watch the Milford Group area in our Ning for announcements and assignments. 5. Add your thoughts in the Ning as to when we can pull together another face-to-face meeting. **Plus-Delta**
 * Assignments:**
 * Staff Involvement** - Invite colleagues into the project.
 * Results:**
 * +'s**: Clarity on direction; working together; lunch onsite; positive tone; narrowing the topic; participation; treats - thanks April; sharing same concerns
 * Delta's**: Come with contributions to share next time; Bring chocolate :)