Sally Norton-Darr, MS CCC-SLP

Christopher R. Bugaj, MS CCC-SLP

Being Your Best on a

Limited Budget: Collaborative Professional

Development

Contact Us! Sally Norton-Darr

◦ snortondarr@yahoo.com

Christopher Bugaj

◦ attipscast@gmail.com

◦ @attipscast via Twitter

◦ www.tinyurl.com/attipscast

◦ www.attipscast.wordpress.com

For More Info: http://iste.org/chewat

Facebook Site: http://bit.ly/atbookfb

Download a PDF of this entire presentation at

http://slideshare.net/attipscast

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Our AT Team…

had three problems.

Too Many Good

Resources!

App-alanche!

Stuff we FOUND

and CREATED

How to share these with educators?

Do we want our website to be dynamic or static?

Some team members want one way,

Other team members want it the other way.

Solution: Social Bookmarking!

www.commoncraft.com/video/social-bookmarking

It’s a

SNAP!

Show Them! Show Them! Show

Them! Show Them! Show Them!

Show Them! Show Them! Show

Them! Show Them! Show Them!

Show Them! Show Them!

Use the

toolbar

Give it a title,

description, &

tags

Save to a

library or

group

Tagging Search for

TAGS

Other Points

Shared Login vs. Individual Logins

Private (Internal) vs. Public (Open)

Library vs. Groups

Highlighter & Sticky Note Tools

Subscribe via RSS

There’s an app!

Delicious.com

is an alternative

Solutions

Now we can search all

shared resources.

Now we can share LISTS

(tags) of resources with

community & educators.

We have both a static and

a dynamic web site.

http://bit.ly/idahocecbookmarks

http://bit.ly/lcpsatdiigogroup

www.diigo.com/user/attipscast

Which is simpler

and more memorable?

This….

http://attipscast.wor

dpress.com/2011/02

/01/episode-68-at-

smackdown-atia-

2011-orlando/

Or this….

http://bit.ly/atsmackdown

Bit.ly

Free

Create memorable URLS

Gather metrics

NOT NECESSARILY SHORTER,

JUST MORE MEMORABLE!

Capitalization Counts!

http://bit.ly/nlsitunes

http://bit.ly/NLSiTunes

This

Works

This Does

NOT Work

Multimodal PD

Videos (PACER example)

◦ AT Minutes-

www.youtube.com/pacercenter

Podcasts: A.T.TIPScast & Edceptional

RSS (How to subscribe in Google Reader)

Duplicate

Yourself!!!

The Theater

23

5 minute faculty meeting tips

Face-to-Face Workshops Customized by school needs

Website (www.lcps.org/at) Handpicked resources FAQs Training Videos

Strategy-A-Day Calendar One strategy a day, rip-off calendar

The Home Theater

24

AT Tonight DVDs

Teachers check out the DVD, watch the videos, answer questions and return to get staff development credit.

Podcasts on CD as PD Workshops

Burn podcasts onto CDs to play in the car! Try it with the A.T.TIPSCAST - 13 Volumes completed - Download the question booklets from the "Free PD Kits" link - Distribute to participants

Three big problems addressed! 1. Time (we all commute) 2. Technology competency 3. No need for Internet at home

Follow-up Activities

Discuss what you’ve learned!

Create a product!

Training by

Community Building

When training on a specific tool that is not

available to general educators (for example, a

specific AAC device)

form communities

of educators who

are working with

students who are

using these devices.

Establish a

Personal Learning Network

PLN – Your own community of individuals you

go to when you need support

Methods-

◦ Facebook (Groups – Open & Private)

◦ Twitter

◦ Moodle (or Blackboard?)

◦ Blog

◦ Google Plus

◦ LinkedIn

◦ Happy Hours

Part of a Larger Community

QIAT LISTSERV - http://bit.ly/joinqiat

http://bit.ly/idahoclearinghouse

Existing social networking groups

◦ Assistive Technnology on Facebook

Raise awareness by presenting at conferences

◦ ATIA, CTG, TechKnowledgy, Idaho CEC, etc.

◦ Many strategies overlap – so they aren’t just for

your students