As instructional technologists and integration specialists we are faced with the challenge of making trainings with our teachers meaningful and productive. Here are some lessons I learned from flipping my high school chemistry classes and applying those same principles to training teachers on edtech tools. These are the slides for my Virtual EdTech Rally keynote address.

1. Flipping
Professional
Development
2015 Virtual EdTech Rally
Dan Spencer
Jackson County ISD
@runfardvs
All Resources At
bit.ly/vetrkeynote

2. I’m from here. How about you?

4. Dan Spencer
Educational Technology Consultant - JCISD
Former JH/HS Science Teacher
Contact Info:
dan.spencer@jcisd.org
Twitter: @runfardvs
Website: danielvspencer.org
TeamJXN website: edtech.jcisd.org

5. Is PD ever like this?
YouTube - Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University

6. Compare your “best” PD
experience with your “worst”
Share 3 Adjectives for Each

7. What is the best use of
face-to-face time?

8. The bane of any tech PD is
logging in
(Chromebooks Fiasco)

9. “Can you come in and show
my teachers how to use
Microsoft Office?”
[Local principal, one week before school
started]

10. Put teachers in a PD
situation and we become
our students.

11. Apply what I learned
flipping my chemistry
classroom towards teacher
PD

12. Adult Learning Theory
-Malcolm Knowles
1. Need to know “why”
2. Experience (good or bad) is the foundation for
learning
3. Need to feel responsible for their decisions (choice)
4. Relevance
5. Problem-centered > Content-oriented
6. Intrinsic > Extrinsic Motivation

16. TPACK.org

17. More Than Just Tech . . .
Focus on classroom application
Always provide examples
Give choices - tools, projects, etc
At their own pace - tutorials available
Learn by doing

18. Can you show my teachers how to
use PowerPoint?

19. Instead . . .
Focus on creating engaging
presentations
Choices of tools (PPT, Google Pres,
Haiku Deck or Prezi)
How to screencasts
“Learn by doing” projects for different
levels of learners.

20. Hour Or Less PD

21. Learn-By-Doing Quickfires
Leigh Graves-Wolfe @gravesle
MSU MAET
http://www.leighgraveswolf.com/2009/08/19/quickfires-explained

22. iPad BINGO

23. 5 Picture Story
Digital Storytelling on the iPad
Pic Collage or FrameArtist App
Wes Fryer “Playing With Media”
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/story-in-5-photos/

24. “We have a staff meeting
before school on Friday.
Can you show us how to
use an iPad?”
Scenario #1

25. Half Day / One Day
Trainings

26. edtech.jcisd.org
learnbydoingprojects.weebly.com

27. Example PD
http://bit.ly/flippedpdexample
Formative Assessment for Screencasts
ed.ted.com or Google Forms
Create a flipped TED-Ed video or
embed a YouTube video into a
Google Form

28. iPad Media Camp Example
Brad Wilson inspired by Wes Fryer
http://playingwithmedia.com
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com

29. iPad Media Camp

30. “We had some extra money
and decided to buy some
Chromebooks. Can you
show us how to use them?”
Scenario #2

31. Long Term PD

32. FlippedPD.org
Kristin Daniels @kadaniels
Wayne Feller @fellbop
Stillwater, MN

33. Flipping PD: No Teacher Bored
in the Background

34. Connected Educator
Projects
Kim Powell @kimpowelledtech
Stacey Schuh @sschuhtech
http://bit.ly/jcisdchallenge

35. “We want kids to use their
cell phones in class. Can
you show us how to do
that?”
Scenario #3

37. Contact Info
Email: dan.spencer@jcisd.org
Twitter: @runfardvs
TeamJXN Website: edtech.jcisd.org