Supporting Teachers with New Technology

If you want to be an effective alternative educator, you must develop 21st Century Skills in order to create unique, yet beneficial ways to reach your learners and your peers!

In my former workplace, we had a Smartboard but no formal training past the basics. Even though we explored the NoteBook software, we did not know its full potential for our lesson planning.

As result, I ended up taking a 1.5 hour workshop on the Tips and Tricks of Smartboard via a workshop at an ASEC conference.

Being an educator who believes in supporting teachers with new technology, I asked my Team Leader for some time with the other instructors. Even though I only had four hours with 10 instructors, their smiles and thanks were enough for me.

In the summer of 2012, I took a course called, Introduction to Instructional Design. Our main goal was to develop a course following ADDIE like models.

My course was called Smartbook Tools and Features.

The difference with my assignment versus the real life training was that I altered it to include:

• Audience: New Instructors
• 5 days of training
• 3 hours per day; 1.5 hours for hands-on practice & 1.5 hours for theory
• 3 hours per day is spent with a classroom instructor/ mentor
• Variety of Online Learning Resources
• Assessment features, such as multiple choice, fill-in the blanks, peer/self/teacher evaluations

View my PDF Unit Plan: Part I and II-- Don't forget to credit me!!







If you are interested in other tips or information about technology for educators, scan this QR Code to visit my first blog (or click on the blog title, Welcome to My Learning Curve, for those who do not have Smartphones yet!)

QR Code for my blog, welcometomylearningcurve.blogspot.ca


When you visit my blog, you will notice that I have divided it into six sections:

• Creating My Blog--Purpose for creating the blog;
• Digital Storytelling--Blog series of my final assignment for Mobile Learning course;
• E-Tools--Discussion of my experience using digital tools;
• PLEs (Personal Learning Environments)--Exploration of my PLE;
• Reflections--My thoughts on topics covered in Emerging Technology for Learning Certificate; and
• Reviews--My interpretation of articles covered in my courses thus far.

Again, I encourage you to learn more about 21st Century Skills in my blog, then continue on your own learning adventure!