WWPS Technology

Just-in-Time Support: We often try to provide teachers, and staff members an opportunity for structured professional development. Although this serves a very important purpose in our district it also means that there are times in which someone doesn't get the help they need when they need it. We often talk about "just-in-time support" as being the most effective form of learning and engagement. We see this play out in the classroom when a teacher provides their student with the very next thing they need to support their learning. Sometimes we describe this phenomena as when the light bulb goes off. We have the tools to provide our educators, administrators and support staff with the same opportunity to provide the just-in-time resources to support their efforts. We can use Google Hangouts to support our "just-in-time" professional development opportunities.  Below you will find a series of short video clips explaining how to initiate a call, or answer a cal...

Our district has made a strong push to getting Chromebooks into the hands of our students this year by combining local, federal and grant funds to purchase a little over 1000 devices for 3,400 students. We have one school, Wakefield Hills Elementary, that is a 1:1 school and several 1:1 pilot programs in each of our four other schools.  +Christopher Allen  and I have been discussing how we could use the tools available for our students to help them with their student led conferences. Chris wants his students to be able to show what they know, and are able to do. It's important that his students are reflective about their learning. This blog showcases three applications, and how to use them to help students provide evidence of their learning. We're using gScholar (  +Ryan Schwartz  from Promevo ), ScreenCastify and Video Not.es  to help us and our students meet our goals for Student Led Conferences (SLC). We're using reading fluency in the example videos posted ...