There are a range of activities/workshops here:
http://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/Professional+Development
I'd recommend iPad Exploration, Apps Taskonomy & WIKId Wide Walls to start with.
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12 Mistakes Schools Make When Introducing The Next Big Thing - 5 views
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Summer Rejuvenation Guide: Ten Teacher Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Your Summer | E... - 45 views
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Need renewal this summer? Here are ten great tips from Edutopia. Reflect while you relax!
Learning Forward - Professional Learning for Student Results - 33 views
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Learning Forward has established standards for teacher and administrative leadership and publishes resources for the implementation of various initiatives, including professional development for developing professional leaders in many educational capacities. A good resource to check out!
TPaCK WebQuest - BalancEdTech - 4 views
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At several of our previous meetings we have used a "Prensky Scale" to examine lessons/projects. It's time to kick that up a notch with the TPaCK framework which helps educators label the knowledge a teacher needs to teach. Though the three knowledge bases of Technological Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowledge, and Content Knowledge are easy for teachers to grasp, the interplay of them is often subtle and distinctions can be hard to see at first. This WebQuest is designed to first familiarize you with the TPaCK framework, then to examine and discuss examples that combine the three bases to different degrees and success, and finally to help you define the areas of interplay in your own words.
180 Technology Tips - HOME PAGE - 6 views
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180TechTips.com offers 15 hours of free computer training in 180 easy to follow 5 minute lessons. This isn't a boring 15 hour lecture. We aren't going to lock you in a computer lab for 2 days of ineffective staff development training that leaves you more confused than you were when you started. This is the kind of relevant and uncomplicated computer training everyone needs.
The Widget Effect - 3 views
Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can ... - 4 views
iPad - Affordances & Constraints - BalancEdTech - 19 views
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The details of this chart are less important than the process of creating it. After playing with the iPad, reading/watching how others use it in the classroom, and trying it out with your own students, get together with a few other educators and fill out your own chart. Here's a blank chart we give out as a part of a Think-Pair-Share. You might want to divide it into sections and consider the affordances and constraints by user (teacher/student/special needs student/administrator), use (reading/word processing/movie making/note taking/etc.), subject, or taxonomy (Bloom/SAMR/etc.). Hopefully you'll revise the chart as you use the tool in a wider variety of ways. This can definitely be combined with ideas of balancing technology, content and pedagogy. (Check out this podcast on TPaCK and SAMR.)
Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree.org - 88 views
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Practical tips and tools for students
What's Fuzzy, Thin, and Bendable? « Co-Creating Solutions: A Blog by CTL - 37 views
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Read Ashley Perkins' thoughts on embedding the arts into instruction to help students create meaning.
BalancEdTech - iPad Exploration - 189 views
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Engage to learn! Teachers, students and/or other users work individually, in small groups and as a whole group to explore the iPads interface, apps, books, pdfs, and audio/video content.
Social Media and the Professional Learning Community - Networks, Collaboration & Commun... - 2 views
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The research has been clear and consistent for over 30 years-collaborative cultures in which teachers focus on improving their teaching practice, learn from each other, and are well led and supported by school principals result in better learning for students. Fullan, M. (n.d.). Learning is the Work. Retrieved from http://www.michaelfullan.ca/
BalancEdTech - Blogging Workshop - 48 views
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Professional development designed to be completed by small or large groups in a day, two half days, or several before/after school sessions.
WIKId Wide Walls - Wiki Professional Development Workshop - 47 views
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Professional development designed to be completed by small or large groups in a day, two half days, or several before/after school sessions.
BalancEdTech - Apps Taskonomy - 77 views
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The iPad (or iPod touch or iPhone) with its apps opens many new opportunities for learning. At the same time, it offers a slightly different wrapper for older learning opportunities. Both can be worthwhile, but it would be a shame if teachers missed the former for the latter. And, if past experience and research is any indication, educators are much more likely to co-opt the new technology to accomplish the status quo. This activity is designed to help teachers think through both opportunities and to categorize those apps that lend themselves to either or both. Teachers will start by exploring a variety of apps, some that lend themselves to learning content such as math facts or spelling words and others that can be used in open ended content creation such as storytelling or photography. Then, teachers will examine a set of lessons that use these apps. Finally, teachers will use a "taxonomy" such as Bloom's Taxonomy, SAMR, LoTi, ETaP, Prensky, etc. and attempt to classify/categorize where the apps fall. Most likely teachers will need to contextualize the app to a particular use/activity. Ideally, teachers will realize that in most cases it is not the app itself, but the use that detrmines where it falls and that the apps belong in multiple places.
