The Ins and Outs of Web-Based Teacher Professional Development. PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 PHI DELTA KAPPA Northern Virginia Center Falls Church. VA Presented by the College of Exploration October 26, 2000
The College of Exploration • Established in 1991 as a charitable, notfor-profit educational organization • http: //www. coexploration. org • Based in Mc. Lean, Virginia USA • Focus: Teacher professional development, science and the environment, and technology PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 2
Teacher Professional Development Experience PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 • Designed, developed, delivered, and evaluated 16 TCOE Web based teacher prof. development programs since 1995 • Additionally 4 others TCOE combination of onsite and online • Range from 3 semester hours graduate courses for 30 teachers to 1 semester hour workshops for 300. • Evaluated numerous other web based programs and workshops 3
People, Partnerships, Process, Product • People - background – Kristina Bishop - MBA and Ed. D from VA Tech • Student Assessment - Metro Area School districts 14 years • Owned computer training company • Technology Evaluations for NSF, PBS, NWF. Do. DEA, GSH, Thinkquest • Project Management for Dept Ed and NCES projects. – Peter Tuddenham - son at VA Tech PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 • Military training (receiving and giving) • Corporate training and Fortune 500 Strategic Management (Coors, US West, Arizona Public Service) • Executive development research and delivery (5 year project US Army) • President of IRIS online Teacher community 1990 -1992 – Support Staff - teachers, administrators, computer 4 specialists
People, Partnerships, Process, Product • Emphasis on CO- part of coexploration • Work with others - collaborative process to produce end product • Partners: NASA, NOAA, National Geographic’s PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 Sustainable Seas Expedition, Miami-Dade Schools, Dept. of Defense Dependents Schools, Kalamazoo, MI Schools, University of Maryland University College, Florida International University, University of Southern California Sea Grant Program, JASON Project, Bermuda: Bermuda Biological Station for Research. United Nations: International Oceanographic Commission 5
People, Partnerships, Process, Product • Sensitive and aware of time constraints for busy teachers • Social process - Learning Community • Conversational pedagogy • Easy access to experts, help present complex material in relevant manner PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 6
People, Partnerships, Process, Product • • PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 Webconferences Webcourses Webseminars webworkshops 7
WWW Technologies • Web Conferences • Educational Web Sites • On-Demand Web Videos, • Web Videoconferences, Web Broadcasts PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 8
Web Conferences • Professional development workshops for teachers • Seminars for scientists • Graduate level courses • Virtual meetings • Ongoing collaboration PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 9
Recent Webconference and Web workshop for Teachers Department of Defense National Geographic Education Activity Sustainable Seas – 310 educators Expedition Online participated in internal Workshop webconference about PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 technology curriculum and standards – collaborative learning and working opportunity on the web, prior to the face to face meetings later in the school year. – September 2000 – Project Ocean STEWARD – 350 educators and scientists interacting online learning about marine sanctuaries – October-November 2000 10
Workshop Features • Teacher Professional Development Workshop Features • Learn from the experts • Using the Internet you can participate from your own home or school at a time convenient to you. • Develop lessons and activities for your classroom during the workshop • Get to know other educators from around the country • Teacher resource room - bring your best lessons and activities to share with other educators • Café area to informally chat with other participants • Breakout sessions - to support varying grade levels and needs • All materials presented will be archived on the Web PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 11
Educational Web Sites • Classroom BATS (BBSR and FIU) Using ocean data in the classroom • Coral Cam (BBSR) Camera on the coral reef • PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 Water and the Solar System (NASA-JPL) Web archive of teacher online workshop; contains presentations, lesson plans and activities for science classrooms 12
On-Demand Video • Keynotes - eg Sylvia Earle for SSE and HQ staff for Do. DEA • Capture of lectures for use later - Ocean Data • Deep Sea Creatures BBSR PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 13
Web Broadcasts and Web Videoconferencing • Lectures and presentations from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research • Briefing on Ocean and Human Health from US Senate • Web videoconference--from Bermuda to Southampton as part of Year of the Ocean activities PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 14
Evaluation Results highlight the benefits: What Teachers Say: • Convenient method for discussion and networking with colleagues • Opportunity to interact with experts • Gathers together web-based resources, knowledge management • Helps develop teachers’ web and multimedia technology skills PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 15
Benefits (continued) PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 • Being able to read and digest materials at their convenience, any time of the day • Share ideas, problems and successes with peers • Dispels the sense of isolation some feel within their field of teaching • Unique opportunity to grow professionally 16
Ongoing Improvements to the Process: • Finding the right balance : to have enough dialogue without overwhelming or burdening either the presenters or the participants • Refining the model to find the best format, number of participants, duration, and scope of workshop or course PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 17
Challenges that invite more research in the future • Making the online workshop a good learning experience for all learning styles, preferences, and temperaments – Need for research to understand how to make the online environment address these preferences – Need to look at what makes a good online learner PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 18
Future Projects • Globalheartbeat. org – Ocean and Human Health – Educators & Scientists • HMS Challenger Project http: //www. hmschallenger. org/ • Do. DEA Webconference for Language Arts • Do. DEA Webconference for School Partnership Programs • Remote cameras/data streams/monitoring • 3 D worlds • Multi-player simulation PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 19
Contact Us http: //www. coexploration. org peter@coexploration. net UK 01202 478248 USA 001 703 760 9334 PHI DELTA KAPPA Meeting October 2000 20
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