Rebel U 2014 {Our Attendees}

As our Tech & Media Team is busy preparing for Rebel U 2014, I thought I would take a moment to reflect on the attendees that have registered for our day.  Rebel U is designed by the Godfrey-Lee Technology & Media Team for the staff of Godfrey-Lee Public Schools.  Each year, we have several presenters from outside the district that present and attend sessions throughout the day.  At the conclusion of each Rebel U day, we have all participants complete an evaluation that allows us to gain insight about session offerings, structure of the day, and other information.  Our team truly values the input we receive from teachers and we use the information we gather to structure and plan future technology professional development offerings and Rebel U days.  Our amazing teachers are what makes our Rebel U day amazing for everyone involved!

Below are some charts that share some information about our registered attendees for Rebel U 2014.  This year for registration, we opted to use Google Forms.  In the past, we have used Eventbrite because of the ability to limit the number of registrants per session.  Eventbrite worked great for that reason, but gathering other information and reporting that data out was a little cumbersome.  So this year we chose to use Google Forms with the FormRanger script.  By using this script, we were able to build a simple registration form that was easy for end-users to navigate for registration, limit the number of attendees per session, as well as gather other information that would allow us to aggregate data about our attendees in a variety ways (as exemplified in the charts below!).  This has worked great for us and the data we have been able to pull has been awesome!

The following chart shows the registration across the buildings across our district.
The following chart shows a breakdown of the grade levels taught/roles of our attendees.

The following chart shows a breakdown of the subject areas taught/roles of our attendees.

The following chart shows how many of our attendees are on Twitter.

The following chart shows how many of our attendees have their own teacher website.

One of our main goals with Rebel U is building professional learning opportunities that allow our teachers to self-direct their own learning.  Our team feels that "technology integration professional development" is such a broad term that can be interpreted in so many different ways depending on the structure and environment of ones' job.  By building a learning model that allows teachers (and other attendees) to select their learning topics of interest, we hope that everyone is able to take something away that they can implement into their job, instruction, or student learning process.

The following charts show the breakdown of registration for the breakout sessions throughout the day.   For more information about our sessions and presenters, please check out our agenda here.



Lastly, we have a chart showing the awesome superheroes that are favorites of our attendees.

Rebel U 2014 Celebrates 5 Years! {Presenter Information}

Our Tech & Media Team has been busy preparing for Rebel U 2014 and we are excited about the many things that are in store for the day already.

One thing we have been working on developing over the past couple of years is data collection.  We are working on building a sustainable program that accurately represents our technology professional development as well as celebrates the amazing things our teachers are doing in their classrooms and with their students.  When we open our call for presenters, we ask all presenters (and their co-presenters) to complete a form that lets us know a little bit about them, as well as provides information about their session (to view more information about our presenters, please click here).  The information we gather from presenters not only allows us to share with our teachers about the session offerings for the day, but it also allows our Tech & Media Team to see some of the great implementations that have transpired from teacher initiative and exploration, professional development, student learning needs, and collaboration among staff and students.  We are proud of how our program has developed over the past four years and can't wait to see what year five brings for our staff!

If you are interested in learning a little bit more about how our program has progressed over the past five years, please take a look at some of the charts below.  If you are unable to view the charts or would like to view more detailed information and additional charts, please click here.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, No, It's Rebel U 2014! {Session Information}

Our Tech & Media Team has been busy preparing for Rebel U 2014 and we are excited about the many things that are in store for the day already.

One thing we have been working on developing over the past couple of years is data collection.  We are working on building a sustainable program that accurately represents our technology professional development as well as celebrates the amazing things our teachers are doing in their classrooms and with their students.  When we open our call for presenters, we ask all presenters (and their co-presenters) to complete a form that lets us know a little bit about them, as well as provides information about their session (to view more information about our presenters, please click here).  The information we gather from presenters not only allows us to share with our teachers about the session offerings for the day, but it also allows our Tech & Media Team to see some of the great implementations that have transpired from teacher initiative and exploration, professional development, student learning needs, and collaboration among staff and students.  We are proud of how our program has developed over the past four years and can't wait to see what year five brings for our staff!

If you are interested in learning a little bit about the sessions offered during our day, please take a look at some of the charts below.  If you are unable to view the charts or would like to view more detailed information, please click here.

Rebel U 2014 {All About Our Presenters}

Our Tech & Media Team has been busy preparing for Rebel U 2014 and we are excited about the many things that are in store for the day already.  We have many great presenters who volunteer their time and talent that make our day possible.  Without our presenters, our day would not be a success!

As we continue to work on building a sustainable program that accurately represents our technology professional development offerings as well as celebrates the amazing things our teachers are doing in their classrooms and with their students, we ask all presenters (and their co-presenters) to complete a form that lets us know a little bit about them, as well as provides information about their session (to view more information about our presenters, please click here).  This information that we gather helps us identify information about our program, as well as be able to share with our teachers about the session offerings for the day.  Our presenters never cease to amaze us and we are proud of the teaching and learning going on in our district and how technology has become an integrated part of the instruction and learning.

If you are interested in learning a little bit about the presenters, please take a look at some of the charts below.  If you are unable to view the charts or would like to view more detailed information, please click here.

#MACUL14 Wrap-Up {Erica & Jamie's Take}

MACUL Wrap-Up

This post is one in a series about the MACUL 2014 Conference.  These posts are from those Godfrey-Lee staff members who attended the conference.

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This post was written by Erica Hilliker, District ELL Coordinator.  You can find Erica online at http://ellandsiopresources.weebly.com.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the MACUL conference. One of the presenters I listened to at the conference went through a list of 60 recommended sites for Early Elementary. She now has a Google Doc posted on her blog with links to each of the sites divided by subject area. Here is the link to her blog in case you decide that you want to follow her: 

http://tech4kinders.blogspot.com

Also, here is the link to the google doc. of resources that she created:
https://docs.google.com/a/godfrey-lee.org/file/d/0B1TttYJ7N_LmYlRVVjVlb0VnZXc/edit

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Erica also collaborated with Jamie Bellant, Lee Middle School Special Education teacher, to create a Google Doc that has all of their notes from their time spent at MACUL.  You can find their Google Doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJPI3OAnzl81_AAwiS3KMNUBfHj4u3eq0SmojOkD7yM/edit?usp=sharing.

Kagan Cooperative Learning in Action

Recently, a few members of our Tech & Media helped produce some videos of our middle and high school teachers using Kagan Cooperative Learning structures in their classrooms.  If you would like to learn more about how our teachers are implementing these structures and the learning model in their classroom, please check out the videos below.

Kagan Structure: Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up  
Kagan Structure: Quiz, Quiz, Trade  
Kagan Structure: Round Robin

Tech Integration Idea of the Month: March Madness

Come visit me over at my blog to check out ways technology can be used as a resource in the classroom for some March Madness fun!
Vote on our EdTech Madness 2014 too for your favorite tech tools!