Staff Development Resources
Technology Integration and Staff Development Methods
THE BASICS FOR EVERYONE
How to Motivate The Teacher MUST READ it starts here.
BEGINNERS START HERE
IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCED PLEASE PUT THE BEGINNER ON THIS PAGE.
WHAT IS THE INTERNET - A little History
How to Build a Website for Free
How To Learn to Use Search Engines
NEXT LEVEL -- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SECURITY Everyone should know about basic computer security issues. Educators also need to understand the basics for k12 education.
Computer Security Resource Center
Public Law 100-235 titled, "The Computer Security Act of 1987," mandated NIST and OPM to create guidance on computer security Awareness and Training based on functional organizational roles. Guidance was produced in the form of a NIST Special Publication 800-16 titled, "Information Technology Security Training Requirements: A Role- and Performance-Based Model." The learning continuum modeled in this guidance, provides the relationship between awareness, training, and education. April 1998 Broken down into 3 parts:
Part 1 - document: Adobe Reader file (911,907 bytes)
Part 2 - Appendix A-D: Adobe Reader file (127,322 bytes)
Part 3 - Appendix E: Adobe Reader file (386,746 bytes)
21st Century Teacher's Network- How this Became A Porn Site. http://www.21ct.org/
The goal of 21CT is to help professional educators integrate technology into their teaching and to provide them with a simple means of collaboration and professional development.
Technology, Schools, and Teachers
Evaluation, Assessment, Security, Administrators, Achievement, Satellite, Streaming, Town Meetings, Educational Tech, Ham Radio,CoSN, Databse Integration, Leadership,Technology Plan, Laws, video production, COPPA, R*TEC, Keyboarding
EASY - HOW TO INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY INTO THE CLASSROOM - survival kit :-)
Middle - School Classrooms & Technology
DISCUSSIONS & ARTICLES ON BUILDING WEB SITES
The Texas Center for Educational Technology
has developed resource materials to help teachers use technology in the classroom. One of the resources is a web site with links to hundreds of web and print resources.
Network of Regional Technology in Education Consotia
The Regional Technology in Education Consortia (R*TEC) program is established to help states, local educational agencies, teachers, school library and media personnel, administrators, and other education entities successfully integrate technologies into kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) classrooms, library media centers, and other educational settings, including adult literacy centers.
High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium helps educators, administrators, and technology coordinators power students' learning with technology. TrackStar lets you enter a collection of URLs, and TrackStar will organize them into an interactive, online presentation, or sort through the many lessons- organized by grade level and subject.
CEO Forum
A membership of top executives from high technology businesses who volunteer to provide assistance to colleges of education at colleges and universities that agree to permit this organization to assist them. Amongst the services provided is help from these industry participants in integrating technology training into the existing education curriculum studied by student education majors at participating colleges.
(STaR) Chart
Teacher Preparation School Technology and Readiness a self-evaluation tool for institutions that train teachers. Nearly 250 of the nation's 1,500 schools and colleges of education have committed to using the chart to evaluate their ability to give teachers technology skills.
Satellite Streaming Video Broadcasts from Dept. of Ed.
Satellite Town Meetings 1-800-USA-LEARN
Apple Streams these meetings
Revising The 1996 National Educational Technology Plan
"Guidebook for Developing an Effective Instructional Technology Plan"
an excellent example of how to develop a technology task force Version 2.0 by the National Center for Technology Planning (NCTP), June 11, 1996. It is available for downloading as an Adobe Acrobat . A copy of this guide should be a must read for every school technology team leader, an excellent reference tool.
Acceptable Use Policies - AUPs used by schools across the country for K-12
Classroom Resources
Technology Assessment Evaluation - Here are some lesson acitvities for integrating word processors, spreadsheets, presentation and publishing software into the elementary curriculum.
Guidelines for Planning Student Internet Experience Here is a great site for planning staff development related to Internet integration. Links to pages about one computer management, instructional usage, interactive projects.
Primary and Secondary School Internet User Questions and answers for schools newly introduced to Internet Teaching. This document is useful for the presenter, as a guide for potential questions asked by the faculy. 1994