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Advanced Technology Institute 2010
For all
Teacher-Consultants, kindergarten
through college, who have participated in a Summer Invitational
Institute and who want to explore technology-supported instruction.
Co-sponsored by the Redwood Writing Project, the National Writing Project,
and Humboldt State University.
2010 Dates:
June 25-26, July 9-10,
and August
6-7, 9:00-4:00, plus support sessions throughout the school year
Stipend: $500
Professional Development Units:
2.5 fall 2010 units of
University credit are available for an additional $200. 0.5
spring 2011 units of University credit are subsequently available for an
additional $40.
Location:
Humboldt State University Campus, Forestry Building, Room 204A
(look for section D7 on the
campus map)
Advancing Technology is
a series of summer workshops and school-year support sessions for techcurious TCs
who have completed an Invitational
Summer Institute and who are eager to revel in the
technological with other technophiles: to
share tech knowledge, develop and reflect on technology-supported instructional
practices, and develop workshops for sharing those best tech practices with
other teachers. During the summer, we gather in a computer lab to sample a
veritable smorgasbord of tech treats--we blog and we wiki, we "talk" to each
other using Google Docs, and we explore online photo repositories, for example--and
we develop new or perfect existing tech-enhanced projects. During the
school year as we implement our modest tech projects, we respond online to
writing prompts, we chart our progress, and we encourage each other. At
the end of the process, we coach each other so that we can go forth and share
our projects with each other. Mostly, we have fun.
For more information and to inquire about openings for ATI2010, please contact Tracy Duckart, Technology
Programs Director, at
tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu or 707.826.5958 for
information--and please do so as soon as possible as our limited seats fill
quickly. Please also explore our ATI blogs for a taste of activities and outcomes.
ATI2009 Links
Advancing Technology Blog
ATI2008 Links
Advancing
Technology Blog
ATI2007 Links
Advancing
Technology Blog
ATI Participant Contract
In
addition to extrinsic rewards like the welcome gifts (jump drive, travel
tumbler) and intrinsic rewards (knowledge, fun, support, resources,
camaraderie), ATI2010 participation also comes with a $500 stipend: $200 at the
end of the summer, $200 at the end of the 2010-2011 school year, and $100 at the
end of your workshop (or approved project). (Please note that the payment plan
may change—resulting, most probably, in faster payouts—depending
upon RWP budget needs.)
In order to
reap these extrinsic and intrinsic benefits, you really must:
- Bring morning
munchies one day during the summer session.
- Attend both
days of all three summer sessions.
- Attempt
everything on the agenda. You don’t have to fall in love
with everything we do, and after you’ve tried everything, you can vow never
to use/do it again, but we do ask that you try on everything.
Otherwise, how will you know how well it fits?
- Undertake a
modest technology project of your choosing to launch with your students
during the 2010-2011 school year—and please do pick something in which
you are interested, not just something pressed on you from
above, below, or next to you. This is your
time.
- Develop and
deliver a workshop based on your tech project. If you
don’t want to or can’t give a workshop, you must negotiate an alternative
project with the RWP Tech Team.
- Arrange and
attend a coaching session if you give a workshop; participate in someone
else’s coaching session if you do not give a workshop.
- Participate in
regular, school-year support sessions by the posted deadlines.
- Contribute by
lending moral support to your colleagues.
- Notify Tracy
if you want to cloak any of your material once we go
public in spring 2011. (We will keep our work private during the 2010-2011 school year, but we would like to
“publish” our work and activities at the end of that period.
We will respect your privacy, of course; we just need to know what
you want kept out of the limelight.)
We acknowledge that the money
isn’t great, but we
can
promise that ATI2010 will deliver that for which the Writing Project is
rightfully famous: sanctioned time and support to do the things in our
classrooms that we already want to do.
Updated:
08.24.10
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