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Professional Development Plan: PD/In-service

PD will be presented as a Blendspace lesson with a screencast tutorial demonstrating the basics of 3 video tools. The PD will then be shared electronically with the entire high school faculty by email as well as faculty members from other campuses within the district via Edmodo. You can be more creative by changing the font, adding pictures, screenshots, etc. But Please do not replace or move any of the content.

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Professional Development Plan: PD/In-service

PD will be presented as a Blendspace lesson with a screencast tutorial demonstrating the basics of 3 video tools. The PD will then be shared electronically with the entire high school faculty by email as well as faculty members from other campuses within the district via Edmodo. You can be more creative by changing the font, adding pictures, screenshots, etc. But Please do not replace or move any of the content.

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Professional Development Plan

Please submit your PD Plan using the following template. You can be
more creative by changing the font, adding pictures, screenshots, etc.
Please do not replace or move any of the content.

PD/In-service:

(Conduct a PD about TECHNOLOGY. You could present your


technology unit, your results, and implications OR a new and innovative technology
strategy that enhances student learning. This could be to any number of people.
You could present at a staff meeting, department meeting, or committee meeting
where you can get your idea out.) Attach, insert, or link any resources used for your
PD. This can include handouts, PowerPoints, screencasts, Screenshots of
communication sent, or a live video of the PD. You can upload your files to your
Google drive or your IU Box account and hyperlink the file here. Be sure to attach
this to your Weebly page also.

Professional Development Plan Overview:


Technology Topic Presented on
Overview of video tools for the classroom:
ViewPure and SafeShare.tv - websites used to declutter online videos on Youtube
by removing advertisments and recommened videos. These sites allow teachers to
show videos in class or share videos with their students when utilizing the flipped
classroom approach without the concern of inappropriate or distracting
advertisements.
Edpuzzle - allows users to modify Youtube video but adding comments,
assessments, and by changing the length of the video. Modified videos can be
shared with students.
Audience
The audience for this PD will be the high school Social Studies department prior to a
department meeting. This PD lesson was developed as a result of discussions I had
with my colleagues in the Social Studies department. The PD will then be shared
electronically with the entire high school faculty by email as well as faculty
members from other campuses within the district via Edmodo.
Method of Presentation (Staff meeting using powerpoint & handouts, website,
committee meeting doing a live demonstration, Department Meeting with live
demo, Screencast demo sent through E-mail, online presentation, etc.)
The PD will be presented as a Blendspace lesson. Embedded within the lesson is a
screencast tutorial that I created in which I demonstrate the basics of 3 video tools.
Additionally, I created a Symbaloo webmix with links to the tools discussed in the
PD as well as other educational video resources. The link to lesson will be emailed
to faculty members as well as posted on the high school faculty Edmodo page.
Email:

Blendspace Lesson: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/-AG-yUSlEph0Nw/pdlesson-safely-using-videos-in-the-classroom


Edmodo Post:

Adult Learning Theory. Explain how you taught and presented your PD while still
following the concepts of adult learning theory. You will need to research adult
learning theory prior to conduct this PD.
Three aspects of Adult Learning Theory that guided me when creating this PD are:
Adults are Relevancy Oriented, Adults are Practical, Adult Learners like to be
Respected.

Adults are Relevancy Oriented: the inspiration for this Professional Development
lesson came from conversations I had with my department. All teachers in the
Social Studies department regularly use videos in our classrooms. However, due to
school firewall issues and the added scrutiny of teaching in a private Christian
school, showing videos can sometimes be difficult. It is not unusual for a teacher to
forgo showing a valuable video because of unwanted advertisements on the screen
or a small portion of the video not meeting Christian Academy standards. Some
teachers have even been known to go to extraordinarly steps of using websites like
keepvid.com to download videos and then edit them to make them more
appropraite for our school. The tools that I chose to highlight in my PD do not
eliminate all concerns for teachers, however they do ease many of them.
Adults are Practical: Like many teachers, I have participated in many Professional
Development seminars that present great ideas, strategies, and tools. However,
many of the ideas presented in such seminars require additional training or hours of
planning to implement in the classroom. Many times, implementation in the short
run simply isnt practical. Knowing that time is a valuable resource to teachers, I
wanted to focus on tools that could easily be used in the classroom with very little
training or preparation. ViewPure and Safeshare can be used with only a few
keystrokes or clicks of the mouse. Even Edpuzzle, the most involved or the
resources I shared, can be used with minimal training.
Adult Learners like to be Respected: Any time I share a tool with a colleague, I
try to keep in mind that they are, indeed, my colleague and not my student.
Teachers are professionals, many far more accomplished and knowledgeable than I,
so I intend on treating them as such. In creating my PD lesson I tried to respect my
colleagues time by keeping the video short as I could as well as respecting their
intelligence by simply providing an overview of the tools rather than walking them
through every aspect of each resource. I encouraged my audience to investigate
each tool on their own to see how they could best use it in their classroom.

Additional Concepts that should be embedded in the PD


The importance of teaching social, ethical, and legal issues and responsible use of
technology at the school/classroom level. Explain how you did this. (Example: I
always remind my students to properly shutdown the computers & I let them know
that they should only use YouTube for educational purposes while at school because
it uses up the available bandwidth and slows down the connection for others. )
This PD focuses on using the internet for educational purposes. By utilizing these
tools, teachers can be assured that the content presented to students is educational
in nature. By using sites such as Youtube for non-educational purposes it not only
uses valuable bandwidth but also increases the risk of inappropriate material being
made available to students.
Copyright & Digital Citizenship: Information about copyright laws related to use of
images, music, video, and other digital resources in varying formats. Explain how
you informed or reminded your staff of copyright laws or digital citizenship
guidelines. You can simply provide them with resources or tips to ensure that they
understand the concepts.
During the screencast of the PD, I briefly explained the concept of Digital
Citizenship. I also included a link to a website that explains the various elements of
Digital Citizenship, including copyright. I encouraged participants to review website

and examine how they have or can incorporate Digital Citizenship into their lessons.

Evaluating your PD
After giving your PD, how did you gain feedback from your audience? What would
you change to improve your PD in the future? Did your staff have an interest in the
topic you shared? What could you have added or changed to make your
presentation more relevant and practical for your staff?
Within the Blendspace lesson I created I gave the audience the option of
responding to a Google form survey about the PD. At the time of submitting this
assignment, no teacher had chosen to complete the survey.
The feedback I did receive came from my department during a department
meeting. All of my department members said that they appreciate the tools that I
shared. My department chair encouraged me to reach out to our curriculum
director so that I might be asked to present a PD lesson next year at one of our
district wide in-services. In the past, when teachers have had the opportunity to
present PD lessons to the school it has been a result of being asked to do so by
the curriculum department or administration.
The most common feedback that I received from all of my department members
was that they wish the tools that I shared did more. In particular, they wanted to
know if I knew of any tools that did more to remove non-Christian Academy
friendly content from the videos. For all the decluttering and editing that
capabilities presented in the PD there are some issues that remain. For example,
banner advertisements that are embedded within the videos are not removed by
ViewPure. Some Youtube videos are prevented from being played on ViewPure
and SafeShare by the user that posted the videos. Other concerns such as
language are not addressed by these tools.
In the future, I may look for tools that better address these some these concerns.
I may be a good idea to provide the audience with some sort of survey or
questionnaire prior to creating a PD to make sure that I can address as many
issues a possible.

Professional Development (Beyond the School Level):


Include an artifact that demonstrates participation in education technology beyond
the school level. Examples: Post ideas on a technology website, Post ideas to a
technology community such as Google plus, Edmodo communities, a Facebook page
you created, Twitter account, Bundles published in My Big Campus, a Letter to a
congressional representative, ideas shared in Skype for Educators, or ideas shared
in educator groups such as SimpleK12, etc. Explain how you shared a technology
idea beyond the school level. Provide proof by inserting a screenshot or linking
proof.
I shared my PD lesson with a larger audience by posting links to it on Edmodo within
the Computer Technology community ensuring that it would be seen by an audience
far beyond my school district. I also shared the PD lesson via Twitter being sure to
utilize an educational hashtag. Within minutes of posting, my tweet was favorited
by another twitter account that focuses on educational technology.

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