Week One- Setting Up

We are going to begin implementing a 1:1 intitiative in Fall of 2009. According to our framework (see right), one of the most important aspects of this initiative is the teacher training. Teachers will recieve their laptops in the spring of 2009 so they can use them all summer. I will be setting up a Moodle website with custom created training modules for teachers to begin utilizing over the summer. At this point, this is the topics that will be covered on the Moodle website:

I. Laptop Support
a. Power
b. Battery
c. Turn On/Off, Sleep, Hibernate
d. Solutions to Common Problems
II.Basic Laptop Functions/Uses
a. Textbook
b. Writing Assignments
c. Internet Searching
d. Database Searching
e. United Streaming
III. Technology Instructional Strategies
a. Webquests
b. Blogs
c. Podcasting
d. Wikis
e. Discussion Boards
f. Instant Messaging