As we implement Mercy 2.0 we are moving forward with innovative professional development plans which I wish to document through this blog.
In April we "unboxed" our iPads and participated in two days of PD with Lucy Gray. After listening to our colleagues' conversations with Lucy, we decided to offer some workshops after school on specific productivity apps. The first one on Tuesday was attended by about forty staff members. This was truly inspirational. Here is our program, called Super Tuesdays:
May 1 - Dropbox
May 8 - iAnnotate
May 10 - Noteshelf
May 15 - Evernote for Beginners
May 22 - Explain Everything
May 24 - Intermediate Evernote
In addition we are assigning a bit of homework to each staff member. iPad app and Google app exploration will be organized by our academic departments. By August 23, we will all report our findings to each other on Google Groups. Besides the obvious benefits of sharing important information, I hope
that this exercise will implicitly encourage all of us to use this
Google group format to ask questions and share Mercy 2.0 discoveries.
It is exciting to be involved in a collaborative venture that holds such promise for serving our students. But what is more, I think we are piloting some really interesting approaches to professional development.
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