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WELCOME!!

Welcome to Week Seven's discussion and knowledge building re: Teachers and telecommunication. This week's Moderation Group is comprised of Jo-Ann, Kelly, Gary and Paul.

We have each specialized in an area (teacher and student projects, collegial exchange, professional development, and collaborative teaching) and encourage you to participate in all. Please make every effort to complete the readings/activities that are listed, share comments, opinions and ask questions.

We hope you will enjoy our presentations.


Overview

Educational CMC can be used by the teachers for their own development, and this session explores some of those uses. The TERC paper describes and gives examples of many of these, including teacher and student projects, collegial exchange, professional development, and collaborative teaching.

References

Buchanan, P. (1995). Teachers and Internet: Charting a Course for Success. Inet `95 Proceedings.
http://info.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/038/html/paper.html

Queensland Consortium for Professional Development in Education (1999) ON DISK, ON LINE: PD AND IT A Report of the Queensland Consortium for Professional Development in Education. (This is an extensive report, which has much to say about using the Internet for professional development. It is the sort of resource that you might want to dip into, rather than read through.)
http://www.btr.qld.edu.au/consortium/pdonline/online.html

Serim, F. (1996) Building Virtual Communities for Professional Development In The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/serim.html

Spitzer,B., Wedding, K. & DiMauro,V. (1995) Fostering Reflective Dialogues for Teacher Professional Development TERC: LabNet.
http://www.terc.edu/papers/labnet/Guide/Fostering_Refl_Dialogues.html

Teacher lesson plans and classroom management from TeacherVision.com (This is a link to a service, not an academic paper. The site offers a range of supports for teachers, such as lesson plans. I have not explored the site, but it might be fun to have a look at it and discuss whether this is a good way of sharing teaching ideas.)
http://www.teachervision.com/

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