iLead+Institute

=**iLead Institute (Queens) - 2008 - 2009** =

**Developing 21st Century Instructional Technology Skills to Enhance Leading and Learning**
//The following course contains materials developed by the OIT team members from South Brooklyn/Staten Island, the Bronx and Queens. We are grateful for their continuing support in working with our iLead principals to integrate technology through all New York City public schools.//

Overview: Web 2.0 tools -- What is Web 2.0 and how can it be the engine for a 21st century school?
 * 30 minutes: Introduction to Leading and Learning with 21st Century Tools:**

-- Creating an account on a web-based RSS Aggregator: iGoogle -- Moving content and deleting content -- Adding content: from the catalogue, through the search, and by URL -- Finding RSS feeds for blog sites
 * 80 minutes: Aggregators: Create our own RSS homepage to be a portal to news sites, blogs, and other syndicated material**


 * 20 minutes: Break / Individual assistance**

-- Best Practices: Principal blogs, specialist blogs, teacher blogs -- Understanding the importance of knowing your audience, posting with consistency, developing blog writing tone, and wrapping the blog in its purpose -- Creating a blog account for ourselves on Blogger.com -- Writing our first post: audience, tone, purpose -- Types of blog entries: article spotlights, interviews, professional thoughts, opinions, investigative -- Dealing with security: settings, comment moderation, permissions and levels -- Things you should change: blog description, time zone, who can comment -- Email assitance: enabling comment notification, enabling posting via email
 * 80 minutes: Blogs: Create our own weblog to communicate to our learning communities**

Quick Links Best Practices The following are RSS feeds from Online School Newsletters created by past participants of this workshop The Soaring Seagulls of Ralph McKee High School Inside CSI
 * 30 minutes: Evaluation/Ongoing Support**
 * [|NYC Department of Education]
 * [|iLead Home Page]
 * [|Workshop Evaluation Link]
 * [| McKee High School's "Rising Stars"]
 * [| Mr. Pigis' Cisco Students Do A "Jing"]
 * [| McKEE VOLUNTEERS IN TUNNEL TO TOWERS RUN/WALK]
 * [| McKee hosts Blood Drive]
 * [| Get Reel With Your Dreams - Phase 2]
 * [| Juniors Attend Columbia Summer Business Program]
 * [| 08-08-08]
 * [| Lot's To Be Proud Of!]
 * [| Junior Student Lands Internship at Digital Edge!]
 * [| Farewell to our French Students]
 * BCS to Go**
 * [| Amanda R., Candice, Diana, Stacie, Stephen, Vicki - Come Claim or Order Your 10 Classroom Library Books]
 * [| Twilight Lunch is Full!]
 * [| surprise!! Stephen reads the plays before he sees them on stage!!]
 * [| **From Amanda R.**]
 * Public School 174**
 * [| Fwd: KP3 Butterfly Release Pics] [| Our Poetry Celebration!] [| Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! Bigs an...] [| How to Make a Pizza! K students have learned to wr...] [| St. Paddy's Day 2008 Our own bagpiper, Mr. Nic..]

Reference Quide to iGoogle, Blogger and Vokis.
 * Additional Resources**

=**Day One - Tablet Training**= Agenda

**[|iLead Institute - Day1 - Tablet - 111408.doc]**
= = =**Day Two** - iGoogle, Blogs, RSSs and Vokis=

**Resources**
[|iLead Reference Guide.pdf]

[|Directions / tutorials for what we learned in this workshop]
Below are links to video tutorials for topics we learned in this workshop. These are narrated video directions that you can pause, rewind, and replay to help you remember how to work with RSS and blogs.

__**iGoogle**__ [|Moving and deleting content] [|Adding content by catalogue and search] [|Adding content by URL]

__**Blogger**__ [|Access your Blogger account] [|Making a new post] [|Dealing with security] [|Things you should change to make your blog work better] [|Adding Hyperlinks and Images] 

[|Resources]
Definition: Web 2.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.05 Web 2.0 Time Savers for educators: http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604480 Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ Online communities transform teacher development: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryRSS.cfm?ArticleID=7165

Blogger: [|http://www.blogger.com] iGoogle: [|http://www.igoogle.com] Technorati: [|http://www.technorati.com] Delicious: [|http://del.icio.us] Skype: [|http://www.skype.com]

From the Principal: http://waleyt.wordpress.com/ Principal's Blog: http://rvivien.wordpress.com/ Puxi High School Principal Blog: [|http://puxihsprincipal.saschinaonline.org] Pudong Elementary Principal Blog: [|http://pudongesprincipal.saschinaonline.org] Region 4 Blogs: http://blogs.region4.nycenet.edu/communities/default.aspx Region 7 Blogs: http://region7blogs.com/communities/default.aspx Will Richardson: [|http://www.weblogg-ed.com] Learn Me Good: http://learnmegood2.blogspot.com/ Teacher Magazine: Best Blogs: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/blogboard/




=**Day Four - Data Management **=

**Resources:**
ileadexcel.blogspot.com - South Brooklyn/Staten Island - Robert Agoglia oitxinstitutes.wikispaces.com - Bronx - Jacquii Leveine

**9AM - 10:45 AM**
 * ATS Data - Pulling Your School's Data
 * [|Downloading Exam History Reports from ATS Jing Tutorial]
 * [|Opening Downloaded ATS Reports via Email]
 * Sorting Information with Single and Multiple Criteria
 * Filtering Data
 * Advanced Filtering Techniques
 * Using the Database Function to Analyze Data

**10:45 AM - Break**
 * 11AM - 12PM**
 * Using the Logical "IF" Function to Analyze Data
 * Creating Comments

**12 PM - Lunch**

**1PM - 2:45PM**
 * Using Pivot Tables to Analyze Data
 * Using Charts from Pivot Tables to Analyze Data

**2:45 PM - 3PM**

 * Evaluation Survey

**DIGITAL RESOURCES**:

 * [|Downloading Exam History Reports from ATS Jing Tutorial], Courtesy of Robert Agoglia of iLead
 * [|Opening Downloaded ATS Reports via Email], Courtesy of Robert Agoglia of iLead
 * [[image:http://oitxinstitutes.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://oitxinstitutes.wikispaces.com/file/view/MicrosoftExcelData_Tutorial.pdf"]][| MicrosoftExcelData_Tutorial.pdf] - Analyzing Data with Microsoft Excel 2003 Tutorial
 * [|JLEVEINE.REXH_Worksheet.XLS] - Use this spreadsheet to complete the tutorial if you do not have access to ATS
 * [|JLEVEINE.REXH_12_8_08.XLS]- Completed ATS Data Report

=**On-going Support** =