Workshop information

This document has the following information to help you find out more about this workshop:

Registration is open to PYP, MYP and DP teachers

Workshop expectations and engagement

The workshop time commitment will depend on the level of engagement from the participants, however it is expected to be around 4-6 hours per week. In order to help with the extent to which teachers are able to engage with this workshop, we recommend that school leadership considers the impact participation will have on an individual's teaching load and make arrangements accordingly. What these arrangements are will obviously depend upon the local context, but support in terms of hardware/software resources or classroom release are some of the possibilities that may be considered.

The online workshops are mainly asynchronous in nature and so participation can take place at times to suit the local situation. There may be one or two synchronous (live discussion) sessions during the course of the workshop. The times of these will be announced during the course of the workshop and will take into account the timezones and needs of participants wherever possible.

Workshop content

Web 2.0 in the Classroom is designed to guide IB teachers (PYP/MYP/DP) in using a wide range of collaborative learning environments and hands-on activities with web 2.0 tools.

Each of the modules contains information and investigations which will enhance teachers' understanding of what is web 2.0 and how they can create their own Personal Learning Network and collaborative environments for their students .

Module 1: An introduction to the workshop environment

Building a familiarity with the workshop environment and getting to know fellow participants.

Module 2: Establishing a Personal Learning Network

In addition to the Aims and Objectives, the first module will be an introductory unit to help participants become familiar with the online workshop environment and to get to know other workshop participants and the online workshop mentors.

Aims and Objectives:

To build a PLN that provides a method for learning in a sociable professional community
To connect with other like-minded educators and expand your personal circle of learning and current mode of professional development
To explore the use of social bookmarking, micro-blogging and wikis as tools for collecting and sharing resources and ideas
To become aware of the scope of web 2.0 and search for web 2.0 resources that have been created by other PYP, MYP and DP teachers

Module 3: Educational Networking and Collaboration

Aims and Objectives:

To investigate and collaborate in an educational learning community
To be able to use and share online information in a responsible and ethical manner
To contribute to a collaborative online document
To share documents online

Module 4: Blogging in Education

Aims and Objectives:

To investigate the impact of blogs in various situations
To investigate how blogs can be used meaningfully by educators and students
To expand PLN through blogs and blogging
To use RSS

Module 5: Wikis for Educators Part 1

Aims and Objectives:

To use a wiki as a personal publishing media
To collaborate using a wiki
To integrate widgets on a wiki

Module 6: Wikis for Educators Part 2

Aims and Objectives:

To create a wiki for a class
To investigate topics that would work well in collaboration between students in two different situations
To embed photos and video on a wiki

Module 7: Digital Media and Web 2.0 Part 1

Aims and Objectives:

To upload and share photos and videos online
To embed photos and videos in a wiki
To upload and share online documents
To create and share presentations in a wiki

Module 8: Digital Media and Web 2.0 Part 2

Aims and Objectives:

To create and share podcast on a wiki
To integrate narration with photos
To become familiar with copyright-free sources of music
To use and record from VoIP
To use a web-conferencing tool

Technical requirements

Participation in the online workshops offered by the professional development and research division the following minimum computer specification is recommended:

A computer with internet access
An up to date internet browser with cookies enabled (the workshop will not work without cookies enabled)
A headset and microphone for listening to and posting of voice messages to the forums, and for participation in live discussion sessions..
Preferably Java installed on the computer (as is the case automatically with most recent computers)

If you have any queries, please e-mail us at

workshops@ibo.org

or telephone +44 (0)29 2054 7777 and ask for the professional development and research division.

We sincerely hope you can join us.