Merton+Community+School+District

== = = =We are the Mighty Merton Mustangs: Tina Heizman, Chris Reuter, John Rheineck, Karen Taylor, and Cathy McMahon=

__Our Team Expectations:__


 * We will make our project work for all grades levels K-8
 * We will meet in between our on-line dates if need be
 * Identify 21st century global literacy skills
 * Learn how to develop experiences that use 21st century global learning techniques
 * Change the mindset of the district regarding tech
 * We will be able to "pass on" the project to our district
 * Improve day to day 21st century skills as educators
 * Form collaborative relationships to use as resources
 * Get lots of help from my team members
 * Develop the Merton E-Learning site as a team
 * We will meet together as a group often, sometimes virtually
 * The team will help each other out throughout the plan/program
 * Use a variety of web 2.0 tools and develop experiences
 * Meet virtually beyond our formal times
 * Everyone shares in the work
 * Learn skills and gain experience to develop and teach on an e-site

Notes from f2f meeting

PLP Action Research Plan Increase collaboration using social networking between faculty members. We want the level of collaboration to increase through using 21 Century collaboration tools to utilizing Moodle including blogs, wikis, & forum. Objectives To learn about collaboration tools 2.0 Increase using the tools Increase professional interaction /collaboration Mastering/Assessment: Pre-survey and a post-survey When to use & introduce: Use some of the vertical team meetings to introduce collaboration social networks. Then give staff possible times when to use SN: before school, after school, during team meetings, & at lunch. Moodle What have others done? In collaboration and social networking for faculty Giving staff structured time to develop professional collaboration practices as well as collaboration time to assist with instruction. Time will be given in face to face coffees, professional development classes, team meetings, inservice dates, vertical team meetings, summer curriculum developemnt, and working informally one-on-one with staff. We will give out a post survey to get comparative data. We are looking to see if staff increased their frequency of collaboration tools. Also if they begin using new types of tools.
 * 1. The problem or question **
 * 2. Objectives and assessment **
 * 3. Networked Design **
 * 4. Set Content **
 * 5. Proposal **
 * 6. Evaluation**
 * 7. Time Line**
 * Professional classes were started in January (Twitter, PhotoStory, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Voicethread, Book Study (Teaching for Tomorrow))
 * Face to face chats with staff on a bi-monthly meeting schedule about collaboration skills
 * We will be giving out the pre-survey in April.
 * We will create a social network for staff to use for collaboration by the end of May 2010.
 * We will do the post survey April of 2011.
 * After the post survey we will analyze the data and redevelop strategies to meet the needs of staff and their collaboration skills.
 * We will provide different professional classes based on the data gathered.
 * We will encourage and expand learning opportunities to staff beyond our district boundaries.
 * We will provide opportunities for staff to model and learn global collaboration.


 * 8. Documentation**

Teaser to our PLP Project @http://www.screencast.com/t/OWFlNjNiOD Survey Monkey [] Staff Pre-Survey about collaboration

About our Project []