You’ll know what we did this summer if you join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers at Wednesday 9:00 PM Eastern
Please join us on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers. Let us know what you are learning this summer!
We want to introduce you to an exciting group of New York City teachers. Paul Allison will introduce you to 13 teachers he has been working with in an Open/Advanced Summer Institute of the New York City Writing Project this week and last week.
Since 1999, Paul has worked with many co-facilitators in the New York City Writing Project in 3-week Summer Institutes. These “Advanced/Open” Institutes have focused on building websites, webquests, blogs, wikis, images, VoiceThread, hypertext-stories, video, podcasting, StorySpace, digital poetry, digital stroy-telling, Google docs, Google maps, Google reader, and more! Each year we invite 15 or so teachers from the New York City Writing Project and the New York City schools in general to join us in exploring writing and technology.
This year, Paul has been joined by an old friend and colleague (from when they were teaching at University Heights Secondary School), Shantanu Saha. For the past week and a half, Shantanu and Paul have been working with a great group of 13 New York City teachers. They’re at the mid-point in the Institute, which is described like this:
How can we use technology to put the voices of youth at the center of the curriculum?Please join some of these teachers on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers. This will be the first time on Skype for many of them, so please join them. Welcome them to the EdTechTalk webcasting community! Find out from them what they are learning in a Writing Project Summer Institute focued on writing and technology. Hear their questions as they imagine integrating technology into their classes this fall.
Spend 12 days this summer with other New York City Writing Project teachers who use technology in their classrooms. Share the ways we use the Internet to make student-to-student connections. Learn about a curriculum currently being developed and collaborated on by teachers across the nation. Explore how we use blogs, wikis, images, videos, podcasts, and other tools to inspire young people to do research into their own questions.
—from the NYCWP Youth Voices Group Home Page
Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times
