PPD+Committee+Page

=Upcoming Meeting Agenda= =Keystones Ideas Discussion= Keystone Ideas
 * Wednesday, May 21 at 9:00 p.m.
 * Update PPD training page - http://keystones.wikispaces.com/PPD+Training+Materials
 * When can we have our training with the summit staff?

DM Go Joe! I think that pretty much sums it up... thanks for listening, thinking and pondering. I'm pretty much tapped out for the week, so here's my to do list... - schedule our PPD training for summit staff - PPD sessions for the summit - We need to meet SEE THE DOODLE [|http://doodle.ch/wbi8a7f28qeh8 grv] In person gatherings JP It is difficult for teachers to get out of the classroom. My suggestion here is to plan regional gatherings in the Fall of each school year at the IU’s. This was done a few years ago when Lance had just headed to Discovery. It was a day for keystones to collaborate, and also a day to share resources – that particular gathering had an emphasis on Discovery Ed. If we planned a gathering for the fall, then we could use PETE&C for a chance to get everyone together in the Spring. And then obviously the Summit is the in person gathering for the summer. I think this is realistic a do-able.

ERIC - This is being done through several events. We just finished up with the IVC events, and we are planning 2 additional conference: an Arts & Technology Conferences to be held in 8 spots across the state (Using the PIL regions) and a SmartClassroom workshop to be held in 12 locations across the state. We have designate money in the budget for four events per year so we could use two additional ideas for events... One we thought of doing was on grant writing that would coincide with the mini-grants we plan to offer. Chris Champion and I are working on doing some regional events for Keystones as well. Being new on the board, the change is slow but I would expect us to get some movement in the fall. One idea we had for mini-grants was through Garmin to do a GPS day with discounted units. I will be working the floor at NECC for possibilities

Webinars JP This is an excellent idea and I am excited to hear what the other Keystones have to offer – starting with Kristin’s session on Google Docs. My suggestion here is to send out an email at the beginning of next school year asking for ideas for webinars and asking for people to head up those webinars. I think one a month is a good number for this. If we get too many, people will get overwhelmed and I think attendance might be low. But monthly webinars would offer enough variety and plenty of opportunities for keystones to share their ideas with the rest of the community. What would the possibility of submitting our webinar presenters and ideas so that they are part of the www.pdewebinars.org <[|http://www.pdewebinars.org]> webinar series. We would get more participation. Plus if our webinars are only offered to keystones – we are spreading the word of keystones amongst ourselves. If we could do this through the pdewebinars then we could reach a much larger audience and spread the keystone name by keystones presenting the webinars.

MB This is an excellent idea and I am excited to hear what the other Keystones have to offer - starting with Kristin's session on Google Docs. My suggestion here is to send out an email at the beginning of next school year asking for ideas for webinars and asking for people to head up those webinars. I think one a month is a good number for this. If we get too many, people will get overwhelmed and I think attendance might be low. But monthly webinars would offer enough variety and plenty of opportunities for keystones to share their ideas with the rest of the community. What would the possibility of submitting our webinar presenters and ideas so that they are part of the www.pdewebinars.org webinar series. We would get more participation. Plus if our webinars are only offered to keystones - we are spreading the word of keystones amongst ourselves. If we could do this through the pdewebinars then we could reach a much larger audience and spread the keystone name by keystones presenting the webinars.

We should start by asking the KTIs what they want. With 3,000+ Keystones, we could offer a training every day and still not burn out our welcome, but we have to create sessions that are requested or presenters that request to present. As for www.pdewebinars.org, I did two webinars under the Keystone name just like Joe mentioned. This is a practice that we need to reinstate.

ERIC - We have two types of webinars – formal (posted to the PDE Webinar site and add-hoc – more spur of the moment type sessions. We have in the past recruted Keystones for both and will continue to do so.

Calendar We obviously need a centralized place for these events. With Edhub being our starting place, I think all of the events such as in person gatherings, webinars, keystone meetings, etc…should be submitted to Eric and then Eric (or whoever he delegates) can post them on the calendar for everyone. I don’t know if we should embed a google calendar on the wiki or not? My fear is that we would end up with people getting confused by which calendar do they follow? Why enter the info twice? Maybe we could try just using the edhub calendar and go from there? If it gets overwhelming for Eric and others then we can re-visit the issue.

I think this teams needs to take advantage of a central calendar, but everything else probably should feed back to EdHub. Can we place all Keystone events on EdHub's calendar or do we need a separate calendar.

The ed hub calendar is for official postings, but if KTIs want to let everyone know of an event they can use the google calender. All we need to do is stipulate on the wiki that this is the “unofficial calendar” and to go to the ed hub for official dates and times....

Domain Name – JP think we should advertise the www.keystonespa.org <[|http://www.keystonespa.org]> domain as much as possible. This should be where all keystones go first….since this takes them to edhub, from there we can link out to other sources like the wiki. I know that with the church site I run I can assign subdomain names also. For example, can subdomain names be created like www.wiki.keystonespa.org <[|http://www.wiki.keystonespa.org]> which would take people to the wiki? This should be possible through whoever hosts our domain name. The subdomain should be able to be pointed to any address I think. If we ever had a blog it could be www.blog.keystonespa.org <[|http://www.blog.keystonespa.org]>. Just another way to advertise our name and keep some consistency.

I noticed that the domain name www.keystonespa.org <[|http://www.keystonespa.org]> now takes you to the edhub home page. Would it be possible to point this domain to the keystones section of edhub….so that when some enters the keystonepa.org address they see the keystones section right away without having to click on keystones?

Also, with edhub. I don’t think the links on the right side are very obvious or noticeable. Can the link section be moved above the contact info?

Also – can the podcasts link go to the podcast section of the wiki instead of directly to the blog server. If we are listing the RSS feeds on the wiki, we want people to see that the wiki is where everything is accessed. From the wiki they can enter the podcast server if needed. Kind of like the professional development link takes you to a section of the wiki.

ERIC - Currently working on these issues....

PPD - JP I kind of feel like this portion of the project has been set aside amidst the want to connect keystones and the need to have a more organized structure in place. We can’t move ahead with PPD much until we decide on a structure like Dave and I have beaten to death. Once we make some of these decisions we need to work on this again. One thing I think we need to make sure is that through these podcasts we don’t just demo different technologies. The original goal of PPD was to emphasize the integration of the technology into the classroom. When we discuss PPD the subject/learning objective/standard for the lesson should be what we say first. Then we can explain how a certain technology is going to help achieve the given learning objective. For example I want my students to learn about different chemical elements on the periodic table. To teach this concept they are going to use the internet and digital storytelling to facilitate the learning of this content.

ERIC - PPD site is up and running. We just need to advertise to the KTIs of it existence and get them set up to create the content you are thinking about. Ed Hub it our tie in and the wiki is our playground so to speak. On the Ed Hub we can create discussions, post docs etc. This is a controlled environment and will have a moderator. Lori and I are still working out the details of “flow” but will have it together soon and are rolling user registration out in a manageable rate so we can handle the processing without delay.

Wiki JP We have literally torn this one apart. I guess we need to look closely at Eric’s brainstorming list on this and make a decision. One thought….if we think it is important to have full control over the wiki and want to host our own, and are worried about server and technical isssues….then why not use a hosting service to host the wiki. You can host a mediawiki on www.godaddy.com <[|http://www.godaddy.com]> for less than $5 a month with plenty of space and bandwidth available. If mediawiki proves to have all of the features we like in wikispaces, then I don’t think it makes sense to pay $1,000 for wikispaces…..when all you get is a domain name.

I know MB discussed being able to offer keystones their own wiki through the keystones wiki. I don’t know how important it is for keystones to have a wikispace from keystones. Many already have a wiki and I doubt they would transfer all their info to a new wiki.

I think we just need a wiki to collaborate on – I don’t see the need for us to worry about individual wikis. The keystones could just post their links to their own wikis if they have one of the who’s who page like some have already done.

ERIC - As mentioned earlier the wiki is the unofficial “playground” MB can you please send me the information on the branding a wikispace for keystones. Lori, Dan and I discussed today and feel it would be best to stick with using wikispaces. We will use the www.keystonespa.org domain as we already own it. I will have Eric Shearer re-point it when ready.

Summit Prep for PPD We could always create keystone wiki badges that keystones could place on their wikis, blogs, and websites to promote the keystones name. This is what discovery does (and eduwiki for you MB!). This would advertise our name, logo, and could link back to the keystones on the edhub or the wiki or both.

JP set up a PPD training page on the wiki a few weeks ago. I posted the training materials that I have already. If anyone else has training materials to post, maybe we can get these posted before our meeting so we have a starting point. http://keystones.wikispaces.com/PPD+Training+Materials

We need to meet next week. Here are some possible times…USE THE DOODLE TO REPLY [|http://doodle.ch/wbi8a7f28qeh8 grv]

ERIC - I feel this is the PPD Teams #1 Priority for right now. Let me know how Lori and I can help... I set up a PPD training page on the wiki a few weeks ago. I posted the training materials that I have already. If anyone else has training materials to post, maybe we can get these posted before our meeting so we have a starting point. http://keystones.wikispaces.com/PPD+Training+Materials Joomla/Drupal/etc… I think at this point we need to get a wiki in place for the summit. However, I think these open source technologies could also benefit us by keeping everything in one place at some point in the future. Discovery uses drupal for their entire site. But we obviously don’t have time to implement something like this in this short amount of time. Plus, maybe edhub will expand features in the future to meet our needs/wants.

We are going to use eduwiki and ed hub for summit. The Link for the 2008 Summit can be found on the main KTI wiki. Lori and I will be sending out information shortly on populating the wiki. eduwiki or keystones wikispaces?

//MB Chris Champion needs to be in on these discussions. He is a Joomla expert.//

Leadership Teams This brings me to my final point. As evidenced by this atrociously long email….the keystones have a lot going on. The 4, 5, 6, or 10 of us can’t handle all of this. I know Eric has been pushing this somewhat – delegation. We need to get more people involved to take on some of these tasks. Again I mention Discovery. They set up leadership councils to organize regional events. I think we need some sort of leadership team, keystones board, something. We need to have people in charge of these various areas. We can’t do it all, and Eric can’t do it all. But together we can. We could have 1-2 people be chairmans for certain areas.

I like this idea and the proposed categories... Lori and I will facilitate/support getting them started...

Some of the positions that I think we could have: PPD team – currently MB, MC, Dave and I.

o This team would focus on the podcasting portion of keystones and that’s it. Making sure that podcast uploading and downloading is set up and runs smoothly.

Wiki administrative team – Group of people who would oversee the basic structure of the wiki. If things get too “messy” they will re-organize it.

Regional Gatherings – we need keystones in regional areas to be the ones to plan the local events with Eric’s guidance.

PETE&C team – I think we have some people who have been organizing the poster sessions. We could have additional people organize the keystone gathering at peteandc.

Webinar team – This group would send out emails and compile emails for people who want to present a webinar. This team would help the presenter make sure everything was set up and would help to notify the rest of the keystones about the opportunity.

MB Carol Teitelman handled these in the past. Could we get her involved or at least help us reconstruct the program?