Professional Development

Since I have never attended any professional development workshops, it has been a little bit difficult to figure out how and what to present to teachers for this week's assignment. I've heard lots of complaints about PD, so hopefully, the presentation I prepare will be interesting and useful to teachers. I work in a K-3 school and maybe I'm not ambitious enough yet to try, but I feel that many of these Web 2.0 tools that we have looked at would be a little bit difficult for children so young to use. Or maybe it's not so much that the tools are difficult to use, but that it seems like they would be very time-consuming to teach to very young children, since they would probably need a lot of help and supervision while using them. Therefore, for my presentation, I am mostly showing teachers some of the tools that they themselves can use to make their lives easier, such as Delicious and TeacherTube. Maybe after teachers get comfortable with a few tools such as these, we could move on to tools that they could use with their students.