Application for Summer 2015 Professional Development program: Integrating Digital Literacies into Instruction

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Remember that no particular experience or expertise in using technologies is required to participate successfully in this program - simply the willingness to try, learn, experiment, and engage with an open mind the key questions that inform our work as classroom teachers of digitally engaged students. The following application questions address some of your experience with technologies in order to gauge the various starting points in the group and plan appropriate supports where possible, not as prerequisites for participation.

Application Deadline: Friday, February 20, at 5 p.m.
Direct questions to Erin McCloskey, emccloskey@andover.edu
For full description of the program, please see Campus news announcement, or Gazette from 2/6/15

Name (Last, First) *

Department or Office *

Are you teaching any of your courses in Canvas? *

Yes, all

Yes, at least one but not all

No, but I plan to begin with at least one course in Spring 2015.

No. I plan to wait until Fall 2015.

Other:

Required

Have you ever required that your students use iPads in or for class? *

Yes, for an e-Text

Yes, for in-class activities

Yes, for assignments out-of-class

No, but my students do use iPads to complete some assignments

No, and my students do not typically use iPads to complete assignments

Other:

Required

Do you assign work or projects that ask or allow your students to create media of some kind (videos, films, tutorials, screencasts, annotated or narrated imagery, etc.)? *

Yes, both individually and collaboratively

Yes, individually

Yes, collaboratively

Not yet, but I'm interested in doing so

Not yet, and truthfully I'm not that keen on the idea

Other:

What percentage of your assignments and activities (across the board, with or without technology) involve students collaborating to produce documents, resources, papers, presentations, problem sets, reports, compositions, creative works, etc.? (Approximately of course!) *

0-10%

11-20%

21-30%

31-40%

41-50%

51-60%

61-70%

71-100%

Given that your goals and plans may change throughout the summer as a result of participating in the professional development program, what goals would you like to reach FOR YOURSELF through this process? Consider technological skills, habits, understandings, dispositions, etc. as well as pedagogical ones. *

Do you teach skills or habits related to learning in an information-, media-, technology-rich world in your courses, either directly or indirectly? If yes, please explain. *

Which literacies, skills, habits of mind, etc. related to learning in an information-, media- and technology-rich world are you most interested in cultivating in your students? *

What methods for sharing with colleagues what you learn and develop would you be willing to participate in or do next year?

Present/share at department meeting

Present/share at a 'show-and-tell' type event

Post what you make for colleagues

Create module in Canvas about what you learned

Other:

Which of the on-campus workshop days can you commit to attending? [Applicants that can commit to all four days are preferred.] *

Thursday, June 10

Friday, June 11

Monday, June 15

Monday, August 31

Required

Given that the group will collectively decide how to schedule the remote participation requirements during the ~2.5 months between June 16 and start-of-school, will you be able to commit to approximately 6 days of remote work including individual/collaborative lesson development and web conference attendance? *

Yes

Not likely

Other:

If you have comments to add about your ability to attend all four days of the on-campus portion, or about the remote participation piece, please add them here:

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