Tracy's Tech-Leadership Turmoil at Tech Matters 2006 (from a writing activity asking us why we attended TM06 and how we would use those resources to build site capacity)
How do I gather a Tech Team? The thing I really want to write is how can I get out of the way responsibly? How can I recapture the joy of discovery in such a way as to include others in that joy and to get them to want to include others? What does RWP's TM07 look like? I need it on the HSU campus. One week. How long are the days? Let's find good reading and post it and read it and respond to it. Let's develop workshops. Let's begin with what we know. Let's think about how we learn. Let's think about what questions we have. Let's plan the year-long (semester-long?) inservice. Let's sell it to schools. Let's coach each other. Let's ask for help before we practice our workshops. Let's find out who is good at what. Let's each commit to try one new thing. It's got to be a time for play, for experimentation, for development that helps us and our future audience.
The Redwood Writing Project sponsored a site leadership retreat, and a night away in a Garberville hotel brought junior and senior TCs into the leadership fold.
Fortified by a modest stipend, our intrepid foursome signed on for a year and began developing individual tech projects. We know that before we can preach, we must practice. We met monthly to share tech readings, successes, challenges, suggestions, dreams, and questions. By January, we were ready to start planning the First Annual Redwood Writing Project Advanced Technology Institute. Following advice shared at the previous year's Annual Meeting, the Tech Team agreed to eschew event publicity, opting, instead, to hand pick our participants. That was the easy part. The hard part involved shaping the ATI itself.
A Tech Institute Is Born--and Reborn--and Born Again
Follow this link to Vicki's BritLit Blog; Harriet's Digital Story Blog; Mauro's Family of Moodles, Wikis, and Blogs; and Tracy's Wiki Project.
On the Horizon
One day, we hope to have gathered enough experience and information for a tech workshop coaching brochure / webpage. In the meantime, the RWP Tech Team has re-upped for another year. And planning for ATI2008 has begun. Stay tuned. . . .
A Tech Institute Is Born--and Reborn--and Born Again
- Iteration #1: One week-long summer session with monthly school-year f2f follow-up sessions; one workshop delivery per participant.
- Iteration #2: Two three-day summer sessions (June and August) with monthly school-year virtual follow-up eSessions; one workshop delivery per participant.
- Iteration #3: The One That Stuck
- Two three-day summer sessions (June and August): June for the tech smorgasbord and August for tech project planning.
- Monthly participant-generated writing prompts.
- One workshop coaching session per participant.
- One in-house practice workshop delivery.
- One "public" workshop delivery: school-site, Spring Conference, Summer Institute, ATI2008, or inservice delivery.
Follow this link to Vicki's BritLit Blog; Harriet's Digital Story Blog; Mauro's Family of Moodles, Wikis, and Blogs; and Tracy's Wiki Project.
On the Horizon
One day, we hope to have gathered enough experience and information for a tech workshop coaching brochure / webpage. In the meantime, the RWP Tech Team has re-upped for another year. And planning for ATI2008 has begun. Stay tuned. . . .
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