Wired+Administrators+Engage+Teachers


 * Wired Administrators Engage Teachers

Presenters:** Troy Todd, Principal. Eric Soskil, Technology Resource Teacher, Running Brook Elementary, Columbia, MD

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Use clickers in Faculty meetings for quick surveys among teachers.

Random name picker. Once a week they select a name for a parking spot or a free lunch. Puts results in his weekly newsletter.

Weekly newsletter - pictures of staff. He created in Comic Life. Announcements, things to remember, births, weddings, etc. Very colorful and lots of staff pictures. Showing teachers using technology. MODEL for them. Take a mundane format (weekly newsletter) and jazzed it up into a format that interests and engages staff and students.

Instead of going out and buying a bunch of flip cams, just take your digital cameras and put them in movie mode. You can get quick videos with the same quality as flip cam.

Other ideas (uses of wiki):
 * Book clubs
 * Long term/short term planning
 * Instructional best practices
 * Curriculum planning