[CASL-L] PD with your teachers?

[Janice Pellegrino]

Hi Debbie -

I do some PD with my faculty on some professional development days, but it
feels like I blitz them with info, and they're overwhelmed.  Once we became
a Google Apps in Education District and I became Google certified, I
decided to create and share Google Tips each week with our staff. I use a
designated Google Folder to organize the Google tips and send them out via
email.  Since the faculty can access the Folder, they can go back to
consult the tips when they have time and opportunity.

Staff feedback was that the Google info was helpful to them, so I moved
onto Technology Tips as well.  Same process: I have a Google Folder of Tech
Tips, I typically email them on Tuesdays ("Tech Tip Tuesdays") and I try to
present the tech resource/info with specific ideas of how teachers could
use that technology/website/resource in their lessons for students,
stressing how it could benefit them in their teaching/organization and/or
how it would benefit student learning.

Whenever possible, I try to create step-by-step directions, since that's
what I like to use when trying out a new technology.  I don't always have
time, but when I'm creating something that I know will be consulted often
by students and staff (example: how to set up your document in MLA format)
I'll pull screenshots and incorporate those with the step-by-step
directions.

Having "written" tips located in an accessible place seems to have taken
some of the stress away from the PD since the faculty can access what they
need when they need it without the pressure of feeling like they have to
use a resource or tool just because it was demonstrated during an official
Professional Development meeting.

- Janice

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Debbie Abilock <dabilock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi CASL-members,
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> I’m working on a piece about school librarians who are doing PD with your
> own faculty and looking for examples…
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> If you think this is of interest to the list, please reply to everyone
> with a blurb about what you’re doing.  If you’d just like to put out a
> feeler to me, please do!
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> best,
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> debbie
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> Debbie Abilock
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> Abilock, Debbie, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Violet H. Harada, eds. *Growing
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-- 
Janice Pellegrino, M.P., M.L.S.
Librarian
Certified Google Educator
Joseph A. Foran High School
Milford, CT 06460

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