Home
About the Authors

Technology Integration Workshop I Agenda
  Materials
  Facilitator Preparation
  Facilitators' Agenda
  Partcipants' Agenda
  Training Guides

Day One
  1. The Inquiry Model
  2. Define Technology Integration
  3. Teacher Profile Form
  4. Types of Technologies
  5. Intrepid Video
  6. Mini-Case Study
  7. The PDK Resource
  8. Introduction to Yahoo Group Tool
Day Two
  1. Adult Ed Web Scavenger Hunt
  2. Web Quests
  3. Review Investigating Practice
  4. The Restaurant Problem
  5. Creating Meaningful Groups
  6. Individual Action Plan
  7. Action Plan Presentation
  8. On-Line Collaboration
  9. Institute Evaluation
Technology Integration Workshop II Agenda
  Materials
  Facilitator Preparation
  Facilitators' Agenda
  Partcipants' Agenda
  Training Guides

Day One
  1. Group Overview
  2. Participant Pre-Presentation Reflection
  3. Participant Presentations
  4. Participant Post-Presentation Reflection
  5. State Technology Survey
Day Two
  1. Reviewing the Inquiry Model
  2. Next Steps
  3. Inspiration Software Demo
  4. Tapped-In Software Demo
  5. NCRTEC Tool
  6. Evaluations
   

Creating Meaningful Groups

Objectives:

  • Review the Investigating Practice Model to provide answers about how the process is going to be conducted
  • Allow participants to form questions that are unique to their classroom environment
  • Help participants to form a group for the project if it is desirable or meaningful
  • Provide another quality example of technology integration through video

Activity

  1. Large group discussion - Ask the teachers what would be the most meaningful way for them to form small groups to work on a lesson plan that they can implement together.

    - Would they like to form groups by subject area, building location, skill level or special interest?

    - Do they feel they need to work alone?

  2. Once they have decided help them break into small groups.
Initially we thought that we would have participants that would want to work mostly in groups. Since they were going to be collaborating on-line, they could have done most of the process on-line. Instead we found that people that worked together did group projects, but those that were isolated by location were more comfortable working alone.

Department of Education logoCopyright © 2002 National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), University of Pennsylvania/Graduate School of Education. All rights reserved. This website is based on work funded by the U.S. Department of Education/Office of Vocational and Adult Education under grant number ED-01-R-0023. The content does not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the U.S. Department of Education, nor does mention or visual representation of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the federal government.

Partners in TECH21 include the National Center on Adult Literacy, the Sacramento County Office of Education, the Public Broadcasting Service, and the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium.

Questions about this site? Please contact editor@literacy.upenn.edu