Advanced Technology Institute 2011
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.
 

Dates:

  • Monday, August 8, 09:00 to 03:00

  • Tuesday, August 9, 09:00 to 03:00

  • Monday, August 15, 09:00 to 03:00

  • Tuesday, August 16, 09:00 to 03:00

  • Saturday, September 17, 09:00 to 03:00

  • Saturday, October 15, 09:00 to 03:00

  • TBD: Workshop or Project Delivery

Stipend: $500

 

Location: A Computer Lab on the HSU Campus--Details TBA


 Advancing Technology is a series of summer workshops and school-year F2F and eSessions for techcurious TCs who have completed an Invitational 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 or projects 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 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 gather twice more to continue work on those projects in the company of our supportive and knowledgeable colleagues.  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. 

 

If you would like to nominate yourself and/or a colleague for this year's techFest, please contact Tracy Duckart, Technology Programs Director, at tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu or 707.826.5958--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.

 

 

ATI2010 Links
 Advancing Technology Blog

 

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, passbook, treasured RWP merchandise) and intrinsic rewards (knowledge, fun, support, resources, camaraderie), ATI2011 participation also comes with a $500 stipend: $200 at the end of the summer, $200 at the end of the 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 once during our run.
  • Attend all 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 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 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 may negotiate an alternative project with the RWP TechTeam.
  • 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 school-year support sessions as scheduled.
  • 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 2012. (We will keep our work private during the 2011-2012 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 ATI2011 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: 03.17.11