Transcript Using WWW Technologies for Marine Education and Teacher

The Ins and Outs of
Web-Based Teacher Professional
Development.
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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 McLean, Virginia USA
• Focus: Teacher professional
development, science and the
environment, and technology
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Teacher Professional
Development Experience
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• 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
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People, Partnerships, Process,
Product
• People - background
– Kristina Bishop - MBA and EdD from VA Tech
• Student Assessment - Metro Area School districts 14 years
• Owned computer training company
• Technology Evaluations for NSF, PBS, NWF. DoDEA, GSH,
Thinkquest
• Project Management for Dept Ed and NCES projects.
– Peter Tuddenham - son at VA Tech
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• 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, computer4
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
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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
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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
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People, Partnerships, Process,
Product
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Webconferences
Webcourses
Webseminars
webworkshops
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WWW Technologies
• Web
Conferences
• Educational Web
Sites
• On-Demand Web
Videos,
• Web Videoconferences,
Web Broadcasts
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Web Conferences
• Professional development
workshops for teachers
• Seminars for scientists
• Graduate level courses
• Virtual meetings
• Ongoing collaboration
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Recent Webconference and Web
workshop for Teachers
Department of
Defense Education
Activity
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– 310 educators
participated in internal
webconference about
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
National Geographic
Sustainable Seas
Expedition Online
Workshop
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Project Ocean
STEWARD
– 350 educators and
scientists interacting
online learning about
marine sanctuaries
– October-November 2000
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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
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Educational Web Sites
• Classroom BATS (BBSR
and FIU) Using ocean data
in the classroom
• Coral Cam (BBSR)
Camera on the coral reef
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Water and the Solar System
(NASA-JPL) Web archive
of teacher online workshop;
contains presentations,
lesson plans and activities
for science classrooms
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On-Demand Video
• Keynotes - eg Sylvia
Earle for SSE and HQ
staff for DoDEA
• Capture of lectures for
use later - Ocean Data
• Deep Sea Creatures BBSR
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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
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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
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Benefits (continued)
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• 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
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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
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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
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Future Projects
• Globalheartbeat.org
– Ocean and Human Health
– Educators & Scientists
• HMS Challenger Project
http://www.hmschallenger.org/
• DoDEA Webconference for
Language Arts
• DoDEA Webconference for School
Partnership Programs
• Remote cameras/data
streams/monitoring
• 3D worlds
• Multi-player simulation
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Contact Us
http://www.coexploration.org
[email protected]
UK 01202 478248
USA 001 703 760 9334
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