3. 21st CENTURY LEARNERS Alabama Best Practices Center – Third Year Plans F2F- Launch Elluminate NING Chance to hear the overview of year 3 and refresh our memories about Web 2,0 Live meetings where we will meet, listen and then reflect in small groups. NEW VLC where we deepen understanding, network, and share resources. Purpose: Our Year Three will build on the knowledge and lessons learned from our previous work together. This year we will go deeper in developing an understanding of the transformative potential of 21st Century literacies and how these potentials can be realized in Alabama's schools. We'll be emphasizing both the power of professional learning communities and the importance of teacher leadership in accelerating the development of 21st Century Learners.
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7. Your Specific Role 6. Be an active voice in the Team leader community. 7. Take responsibility for your own personal learning throughout the year. Use what we teach you. Be creative! Lead through example. 8. Regularly add resources and content you create that aligns with the project goals to the wiki and delicious acct. 9. The team leader will think about ways to spread information learned through this work beyond the 5-member team.
8. 21 st Century Learners Symposium Oct. 25 http:// http://abpc.wikispaces.com/Symposium+Agenda Refresher/Review of Use of Blogs : as a tool for learning: For those who have not created and/or actively used blogs as a teaching tool Advanced Blogs: This session is for those who are interested in maximizing their use of blogs as a teaching tool. Refresher/Review of Use of Wikis : For those new to wikis Advanced Wiki : For those who want to learn more about wikis Introduction to Ning , Virtual Learning Community (all participants will participate in this session, which is offered 3 times)
9. NING- our VLC A social networking site that provides for blogs, forums, and other content sharing. A place to get folks started using the tools and sharing online. A place you will be helping to lead the conversations and resource sharing. Classroom 2.0 is a great example http://classroom20.ning.com/ Our Ning site will be: http://abpc21.ning.com