Technology Values
Schools convey values by the tools they provide to administrators, staff, teachers and students.
Our technology values include:
- Open Source over commercial products.
- Blended Web 2.0 Learning, favoring empowered student participation over classroom-bound instruction.
- Drupal, a powerful web system from which anything can be built fast.
Ask us about technology planning help and collaboration tools.
Our Offerings
The Empowered Teacher provides online professional development and project management with an integrated web environment for team planning and blended learning.
Our collaborative intranet supports online project management for teacher teams and school-hosted web 2.0 tools (e.g. blogs, wikis) to bring home and classroom together.
We empower teachers with the tools and support they need to succeed with blended learning.
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Workplan Values
Open source communities are like schools: loosely-coupled and non-commercial. Both are fed by people intrinsically motivated to contribute and collaborate.
We believe schools should strive to be learning organizations, not bureaucracies, replacing top-down planning with the self-organization of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
We organize Online PLCS that marry teacher professional development and technology planning to support blended, Web 2.0 learning.
Please pardon any unfamiliar (or familiar!) jargon and read about our model.
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Envisioning School 2.0
We bring tools, practices and people together in new ways to help schools become learning communities. Here's one idea: The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) is funding Learning Teams to connect students looking for meaningful contexts and opportunities with people outside school buildings - whether they be retired teachers, skilled professionals, or other community volunteers. NCTAF recognizes that every community is rich with people who can contribute to its schools. However, most school buildings discourage visitors, and teachers and volunteers can have a difficult time planning activities for the unpredictability of school days. Using web 2.0 activities and online planning tools, NCTAF's vision is within reach. |
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